this week's top stories now. the president. and the army. of democracy. the events. claims responsibility for more deadly. attacks in the country security. legal limbo waiting to see if he'll be extradited from london to face questions or of a sex crime allegations and supporters claim it's washington's. reporter

. talks to the american political activist and. about public anger at the extent of the u.s. government's control over many. special interview next. actually sitting down with m. one from underground political hip hop duo dead prez and one thanks so much for joining us today thank you i want to get started with a topic that you touched upon a lot in your lyrics and that's corporate ownership of the media in the united

states for three arise how does that affect what american see on t.v. and why is that a bad thing often it's on because the people who have the most interest and or the people who are the corporate ownership itself their interest. conflict directly with where the reality of the majority of the masses of the people are so you have this very popular song called propaganda and there's a sentence in there that reads you can't fool all of the people all of the time but if you fool the right ones the rest will fall behind yeah i want to ask you has that happened and who was fooling the people i bet if you if you read in propaganda one o one you know media one o one these words are probably ingrained in stone because this seems to be the montra you know by which you know media was born in this country out of a kind of the steps in the line that has the interest of the ruling class once again the bottom line media. and they mean for the people would mean big

government who has an interest in making sure that even though bomb to being dropped and in many other countries in the interest of well in dollars and and control that we may maintain focus on a soap opera type relationship between people who lives are pretty trivial when it boils down to basic needs of food clothes i sell to every day well whose interests . are the media more interested in representing in their news coverage is it the corporations is it the government is it who is it who is the main kind of and shitty the media sleeps well let's be clear you know the media is the right hand of the ruling class it is the voice of the ruling class in this particular country of which we would say less than ten percent own ninety percent of the wealth and resources so this arm this propaganda arm of the ruling class does represent corporation it does represent government if there can be government because the

so-called democracy is run by dollars you know it is the political campaigns where they spend millions upon millions of dollars i mean almost if you think about it wastefully so it is the ruling class interest that the media represents in the name of the corporations in america being going to the biggest corporations when one of your songs you say the democrats and the republicans are two sides of the same coin does that mean. you think that obama is just a continuation of george bush obama. representing capitalism being just a continuation of george bush isn't understood. you have a system which was built of the slave of african people to reverse the birth of this economy it gave birth to not only what's happening here domestically but around the world which is what we call today including george bush was only a colleague in the ending you have. hussein obama as also a cogged meaning

a small part of the machinery that works the system the same old kind of a rule that happen across the country is still happening in the same or way but represented by a face more familiar face that is usually associated with the or pressed and poor people so it is important to maintain the kind of programs in campaigns that continuation of even more spending on war was what obama's doing then what bush has done in his previous presidency in his tenure we have more. empty promises to the poor oppressed people especially the mexican people who along the borders are being hunted down brutally like animals against even the basic human rights these are promises that barack obama and george bush were able to make to these people in an empty way and not come up with any solutions and yet still the same practice

happens today if not in a more exacerbated fashion when you talked about the events in egypt the poverty of the people that led to these uprisings do you think the u.s. political elite should be fearful that something similar could come here i think the conditions are ripe. for there to be uprisings in the same manner because the same set of conditions that existed in cairo exist in new york city exist in miami florida they exist in los angeles you have a ruling class with abuse of power i was recently in cairo. and i was there on a humanitarian aid mission to help the people in gaza in order for us to get to gaza we had to jump through so much bureaucracy and we began to understand that not only did egypt's government what was it controlled by bureaucratic politicians in egypt but israel had a huge stake in making sure that the state of egypt was the way that it was

maintained. and that is definitely the situation in the streets look at what we have inside the united states we have young african black and brown subjects community colonial subject being sat down in the street and an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty shots laying on our stomach in our back as we run or as we walk or flee in retreat from the scene this is an abuse of power which is a powder keg upon which we sit in on and we've discussed our already the jobless rate we've discussed already the idea that there's a crisis even in the ideology of america and who would be the next to lead so there isn't a competition about that happening as well and people are are charged people are charged and are waiting to jump into action i want to talk to you about you mentioned a little bit of the issue of police brutality how big is the scope for your police terror is an estimate of the state used to coerce young people is

a fear mechanism but the police state is the control of the resources. control of health care the stifling of education the. current situation of of the economy. the government the legislation and us not being able to put policy real policy that's meaningful into people's lives and make it make fits so that we could have daily lives are affected this is police state and the police are just instruments and coersion of the state so there's the military play the poor play a part there are so many ways that the police state is implemented you've said that the ruling elite is one of the bigger problems as to why you know the working classes in trouble and really struggling right now and you have a song called know your enemy who is the main enemy of the common american people a main enemy is ignorance not a proper political education this is the enemy of our people because once we can

understand diagnosed. what we are living under all human beings who recognize that me and you have human rights will fight for the rights of human beings the way we are being governmental treats a good sector of our people less than human. less than human in this country nothing short of revolution but there's so many steps this so many steps and empowerment of our people and the enemy out of this particular time that we're in is lack of information and political education i want to switch gears actually a little bit and ask you about the way the united states interacts with other countries do you think the u.s. has too much power over other countries or tries to have too much power and really getting in the affairs in the businesses of other nations out there who deserve to make their own decisions what's your take on this kind of foreign policy exchange that goes on oh it is power is he who controls imperialism the belly of

imperialism is born at the birth of capitalism in this country through the inflaming of africa and its resources which are still being siphoned out of africa and into the world today despite the world media tirade against africa put it as this third world place to be this has been the number one place that people have been siphoning resources from for five hundred years power comes from the bow barrel of a gun and so as many bombs as they can point at whatever foreign country that it plans to control is is reading this and willingness to take this area i don't know care for us iran iraq afghanistan. palestine. so malia darfur darfur south africa. venezuela colombia many places in mexico we see the same tentacles of u.s.

domination because of its ability to have its power base here the birth of its strength and capitalism and then the defense of it using military might around the world and one thank you for your time with us thank you. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemical city whether it's sonic boom city factory mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for planning purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva

conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. wealthy british style sign it's time to write. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports.

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top stories this hour the military dissolved the previous parliament and suspends the constitution after president mubarak steps down and hand part of the army for the west hills it is a triumph of democracy analysts wonder if an external agenda could be behind the events. russia's most wanted terrorist. claims responsibility for moscow's deadly blast in january exposed napster's in the country's security a major transport home. due to the soldiers in legal limbo waiting to see if you will be extradited from london to stockholm to face questions over sex crime allegations that supporters claim it's washington's attempt to snare him. all those stories in detail to come at the top of the hour but first let's cross to

kate on the sports. now i gather it's been a disappointing night for russia's ice hockey team tell us more yes well that's right well just a little bit disappointing but it wasn't totally unexpected russia did beat the czech republic but needed finland to beat sweden by at least nine goals what happens that's coming up next. hello welcome to the thank you for joining me and here's what we have coming up. on calling brazil's walls cup star of call ups is on the verge of joining southern russian. top flight striker white really healthy. as the best of his career while bolton his former club everton in the english premier league. spain talking plasters loses the paris open final in straight sets to patrick will still be named world number one on monday. and. russia's

mixed martial art supremely. news this time taking a sobering e.j. . and considers retiring. to start with local i'm brazil's veteran defender about to call us is reportedly on the verge of moving to the russian premier league the two thousand and two world cup winner is expected to sign a two and a half year deal with. on monday the thirty seven year old broke his contract with brazilian side corinthians earlier this month and is reportedly set to end with thirteen million dollars for his spell in the southern russian club if the signing goes ahead promise to be eligible to make his debut if they break the twenty eight in the russian cup game against this left back became world star all playing for the spanish giants round madrid spain who won the champions league three times. i was doing the premier league football now where in the dying minutes of the reebok stadium as eight plays bolton the currently taking on adverts in his thirteenth the home side lost five of the last seven league games and the win for the visitors

today would mean david moyes men would leapfrog bolton in the table with a defeat would leave them just three points above the relegation zone and this quote the reebok in stoppage time is too narrow to vault and gary cahill put in the home side ahead after ten minutes and daniel sturridge in his second off to sixty seven in the dying minutes that. i mean while wayne rooney says he's won the gold at one lunch to darvish united on saturday was the best of his career the overhead volley ensured united beat city to want to stay four points to the top of the table elsewhere second place all small state in the title hunt with a two no when i will waltz birmingham beat start one black girl against newcastle fringe goalless blackpool through one one with ten men aston villa little forward hells will one one draw by wigan condemn football's price helped west ham come on three goals down to draw three three at west brom and finally tottenham went fourth on the back to into one of sunderland. and monday's west london davi completes this

weekend's english top flight program a simple and welcome chelsea are looking for victory to regain full spots. and in the dutch championship leaders p.s.p. one for nowadays it is. to stay ahead of it depends on goal difference it appears to be just eight minutes to break the deadlock. bury the rebound to the back of the net. is that almost found a response shortly after that steam shows i first saw this except. the businesses double bellied at the half hour mark just haven't found a strike to make it to know. and then made it a price in the second half after another piece of individual skill i came to second as a match victory for p.s.p. the swedish strike at tommy his runs of affection for. so for now is the final school i bring to tennis where i came close as has come up short of climbing whole first time little in a new status of world number one the belgian losing in straight sets to patrick

fitter that in the paris open final was a straight final appearance because today she after getting down to lead not in the sydney decider but then claiming how full of grand slam of history and i think last month however there was little she could do against the informed critic on the check right times to five times being rude to a comprehensive six four six three when she becomes only play only two cycles on the head outside this season on elsewhere robin sidling has successfully defended his title in rotterdam after beating james wilkie tsonga in three sets the sweet womanly open a six three. but then lost the second to the same school however so to think when time to wrap up the decider also six three twenty second if you think this period. this is the first time in my career on defending a title that it's not any title that i think if you look at the video there there's there's all the good players are also the players you know so it was extremely

tough and i really had to fight but i'm very happy the way i played this week that it's a mixed martial arts where russians feel do you believe says it might be time for him to retire. after the lost and lost on turn your silver in new jersey on saturday night the last was the second in a row thirty four year old whose record now stands at thirty one wins and three defeats on the he was beaten by another brazilian for brazil voted him some people young girls said saturday's fights didn't go his way from the very beginning he felt the turning around the russian added that the fight could be his last one and that he'd had a great career. golf and has been a surprise winner at the dubai desert classic a spaniard shot a hole in one for picking the big names to claim the biggest trophy of his career tiger woods was among the twenty players within three shots of the leaders going into the final day that's what for about world number one a double bogey the eighteenth has yet to win since his return to the greens last year eventually champion quit also hit

a triple bogey seven on the ice after losing his ball of a palm tree and also signed can eagle at the powerful second along with four birdies and the turning point came on the past three eleventh's there was a scene from almost a hundred fifty metres to set up when he called it an eleven on the. ground straight ahead of the stands kingston understands an after market. i saw in our russia had to settle for second place at the l.g. hockey games despite beating the czech republic for two in stockholm the russian one nil down to seven minutes but managed to come back after two goals for the next exhibit to get a slot because men went on to wrap up victory however they then relied on an unlikely result hoping finland beat sweden by nine goals or more sometimes all that much but that game was three two on penalties the way the hosts sweden the other winners of this one russia still points to the top of us tour standings and next

and last stop the czech republic in april. in the n.b.a. to fame as goals had six points and five rebounds on the night as the new york knicks overcame the new jersey nets the next had to do without their all star lara stoudemire who sat out with a sprained toe and new york struggled offensively early on his new jersey went ahead by five points on this layout in devin harris who scored twenty two points i will but the knicks gained control in the second quarter thanks to some three pointers and fast breaks however new jersey fought back to manage to tie the game to go. the final course out gets the next kept their composure. should a victory to this point play to say it finished one hundred five to ninety five the next taking victory. moving to the slopes now where american emily cook and cushion are from belarus have won the most go stage of the freestyle skiing world cup the event held at gorky park is unique and that corresponds lamont also have told us

why. before we answer the question as to why moscow stage of the world cup is like no other in the world let's recap on the action starting with the women who are american emily power to only her second ever world cup stage win and she must read a short trips to moscow her first win took place here two three years ago crazy here in moscow so much fun and you know going as it did a great job and making straight and not to let us have all like they need to have hot and everything is out and out the athletes may say. they're really had to be in the air over on the men's side russian who are all finished in sixth place which turned out to be the best result of the season for the home team third place went to china's. and second to stanislav grof from the ukraine but it was the bella russian anton kush near who added the seventh world cup victory and now the garland in an already illustrious career you know you could but it is the competition here

in moscow is very different from the rest of the world cup stages because it's the only place where we compete on a ramp in the center of a huge city it's psychologically very difficult so it's a very special victory. russian freestyle skiers might not be among the sport's elite just yet however their country is one of the leaders in making this spectacular show a favorite for the fans it was the third time that moscow has hosted the world cup stage no easy thing given that the russian capital sits on almost entirely flat terrain you can't move mountains but in organizational terms that's what happened with the construction of a huge ramp right in gorky park in the city center and it's certainly ramped up the interest among spectators with thousands flocking to the venue it's incredible it's impressive what they've been able to do you know the manpower and everything just building up a sado. scaffold they were on the council they were taking

a little rickety elevator all the way up to the top that everybody just lay. thank you no. it's it's it's pretty impressive the russian stage of the freestyle skiing world cup remains the only intercity venue of this competition organizers hope that the temporary ramp will become permanent and that skiing events in central moscow will become as regular an event as the city's winter snow muscovites and guests of the russian capital are truly lucky when it comes to sporting spectacles whether it's summer or awards a sport that you fancy you will always find something to your liking including american ski events in one of the largest cities on earth koester of artsy moscow. and just to confirm its finish to nil at the reebok stadium paulson. calls coming from gary cahill off to ten minutes and danielle sorry to sixty seven. sports news for this one isn't but i'll be back with more news in just under two hours have to

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