this is r t and here are this week's top stories the official report of last april's plane crash that killed poland's president and scores of the country's political and military elite blames pilot error there's been a political reaction and warsaw however with accusations the investigation is complete but another probe being launched there won't find anything new say western aviation experts. two of the world's energy giants joined forces as russia as the peace swap with billions of dollars worth of shares in the deal to jointly explore the vast undiscovered oil and gas riches of the russian arctic while the

partnership plan was welcome to both in moscow and london but criticized by environmentalists over his involvement in the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster of last year. plus the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington nears final approval as russia's parliament passes the agreement in the second of three readings the deal which would cut russian and american nuclear arsenals by your third was given the green light privately with the senate just before christmas and after months of wrangling. well one band is rising up against guantanamo bay and protesting against its music being used during torture we talked to grab the award winning guitarist tom morello of rage against the machine wants to bring about social change through his art 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. march 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 slaves 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 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 i've written regularly be pulled over by the cops even recently a couple years ago just 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 what sounds trite does is we were asked by. denies there's within arizona who are fighting us as pretend seventy to lend our names to the international boycott which

goes beyond music it's 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 had 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 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 the machines or 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 last year and previously you travel military 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 it's a democrat you know it's like he does the things you expect democrats to do you

know the u.s. government 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 go 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 as a 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 and i one day wearing their yellow jumpsuits and black hoods it will be the music of rage against the machine that is pumped in 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 or what would you believe the machine 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 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 back 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 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 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're all the same dunkin donuts the same benetton shops you know capitalism it's 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 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 there's a there's. there's a balance to that and you look at the progressive change that happen 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 could 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 the 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 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 is it's as that's a virus spread through 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 has 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 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 you . where jams are coming to show in your and also 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 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 that musicians to do not have a social conscious but adopt one because i suggested 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 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 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 here tom morello member of the st super social club an international activist it was great to have you thanks so much thanks very much for having. me we're told is filled with joy. with parades and marches. inspiring people we didn't use yes it. was everything really that good and was the last few to speak out. though she shared her thoughts only with her diary. it all became evidence in the trial for counter-revolutionary activity. the

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this week's top stories on our t.v. the official report on last april's plane crash that killed poland's president and the supporters of the country's political and military elite blames a pilot error or there's been an angry political reaction of war so where are the accusations the investigation is incomplete but another probe being launched there won't find anything new you say western aviation experts. two of the world's energy giants join forces as russia's ross nafta the peace billions of dollars worth of shares in a deal to jointly explore the vast undiscovered oil and gas riches of the russian arctic partnership plan was world going to build in moscow and london criticized by vyvanse was so over b.p.'s involvement in the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster

last year. plus the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington nearest final approval as russia's parliament passes the agreement in the second of three meetings while the deal which would have american nuclear arsenals by a third was given the green light by the u.s. senate just before christmas after months of wrangling. well up next all the latest sports highlights with natasha. hello welcome to the sport news and here is what's coming up in the program. wins a record breaking seventh colorado in the truck section while nasra like marco must secure the car and crowns respectively. 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 victor 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 the top spot in the premier league despite drawing sunday's clash with told him to work out the man after all filed a civil sound off in the seventy fourth minute but they managed to hold spurs to goalless draw with united cross-town rivals amounts to both sit on forty five points all through the week and bought the red devils have two games in hand elsewhere a close match up and filled liverpool and detained everton the county dells the show's home game in charge everton were two one off made way 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 loli see the game and aston villa want one. and 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 iranians seeing all of north korea by a single goal in their last group bean counter a minority of the man finished off a lightning move just off the. one nil the finals in the wrong end of the last eight. iraq voided and then 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 the default of the asian cup at the first round. abbas own go right to the death left iraq to fight another day. that was becoming almost predictable now but nonetheless an amazing achievement of the blood 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 lives second down third respectively and it's also a town gold for team come odds. so gratian time as well for now for all i hear the full much clay pigeon shooting early in ben not showing his best a car title behind the will a great event or a false walk and with the german manufacturer sweeping the podium here will second while stage wind and loss is champion carlos science finished third spot and then the bikes mark o'mara claimed this win in five years after seeing all of abba present rivals a real depressed by fifteen minutes overall. mean basketball says moscow have moved to the top of the p.b.s. standings along with or next following and they're a victory over the mighty of the former european 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 so to day's action in the b.b.l. was looking mighty from close to their abuses in the seventeen time russian champions. and local count the same record entering the pre-birth least the no one expected in the zero line and there is the gist of the match just to find their expectations. desperate in defense getting fives. 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'm going to shift 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 cost us fail to make a shot into 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 level the game in a.d.h. after these three point play jack for them then through 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 or failing to pass it out of bounds mrs scarborough of the game to win hands more concentrated all for a minutes and. it's impossible. to stop ever though by a sole wrist a little bitch from the big guys from their shot and what they made those shots all . the game was tight all four of five minutes so it was

a tough one i mean we played hard we played good played 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 played well both teams as a didn't want him to win eighty nine to eighty seven in cards in week three of what say a scot who seem to be starting to stamp their birdie on the domestic league but a mr rock hard. of a deal with the sports now at all says andras cough likely does for. world cup win of the season at the large hail ski jumping in support of the twenty seven year old completing one hundred thirty one and a hundred and thirty two point five meters for a total score two hundred thirty two point nine points to be severed freud the german who dominated said today's event for his maiden victory had to settle for second with his world cup leader thomas mortgage then a. elsewhere even suggest continued his divination of the

slopes posting in korea world cup win now but fifteen in the man small in the croats keeping marcel here for him to second with his second drawn while gianbattista clinched the bruins castello also extending his small and overall world cup played in the pros as. peer to peer in and one of the big areas and 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 will do the silver due to the highest single jump mark. and freestyle canadian skiers both girls in the world deal moguls at their home stage gabriele alexander below door out the home to everyone in the men's event while sixteen year old just steamed up land claimed the first victory coming and only her world cup performance in the women's. that's now in the

cage shall words in a moscow sell for the town's defeat in a row losing this time to say to rival spartak constantin but out of reports. the friends of sport i can you know i didn't have to wait for another course she did battle just him days before the written words beat their wives wife this marriage was the move from known to the season in general were still one with up in the opening period both teams were thinking of defense for. until stephan mukesh disputes his way president i was defensemen 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 knees by the door spouse will select i do nothing by the end of the first . do not i still short of players because of injury and signed 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 spock seemed to be a little overconfident in the second wasting scoring opportunities and then you come out of the dinner my chance to get back into the spotlight failed to score in the poll play and the twenty three year old forward who had just left the penalty box found himself on mark and pull 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 the political lines 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 will get to the playoffs and we'll be able to be home wells of 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 party. elsewhere in the cage challenge and i'm a man squared so good for several styles they belorussians edging out their opponents free want. and skoll st petersburg came from two bills down to be denominated in the last man capital. to the greens finally work out successfully defended his job open title seeing off overnight leaders and fellow south africans golfball roy and tom was a can of also 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 birdie of the eighteenth to finish four shots ahead i'm

already taken benchley settled for an eleventh korea victory for she volatile who will be looking for more success in twenty eleven after joining the p.g.a. tour for this season. and that's if you can 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.

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