soon which crisis if you believe the sun from months to. come. the twenty twelve race to the white house is gone and ron paul is the latest g.o.p. candidates and sort of frayed but with many republicans now echoing his antiwar spending and anti fed message could ron paul's third bid for the white house be the charm. and today marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the german oval crisis the world's worst nuclear disaster that is until japan's fukushima crisis came along the border of a century later what is to be learned. and he's one of the best known death row inmates around the world for me abu jamal put a turn of events in court today brings hope but what does his case mean for justice

in america. good evening it's tuesday april twenty sixth four pm here in washington d.c. and was the captain of any watching party well he's at it again republican congressman ron paul is setting his sights on the white house for the third time announcing today his bid for the twenty twelve republican presidential nomination now ron paul's outspoken anti and fed antiwar views have made amends with something of a libertarian icon and while money bombs in a gun basket following have earned him much attention in two thousand and eight fortunately that's important never translated into votes for the lawmaker now it is unclear just how much of a shock congressman paul has this time around but with war fatigue and a faltering economy and wearing out u.s. voters we asked whether ron paul's third time could be the charm but the answer i'm joined by an unlikely. gentleman from miami florida just this morning he's

a brown paul supporter behind the scenes from two thousand and eight and you're with us now from miami florida thank you. let's let's start by talking about sort of your personal experience with ron paul you've never voted you know you've never contributed to political candidates before a certain political events namely the war in iraq led you to ron paul and eventually you went on to collect millions for his campaign through the internet. but what is it about ron paul who by the way is a seventy five year old congressman twelve term congressman that resonates with folks like yourself and other younger voters well i think it's a stance on the principles of what makes america great you basically experience the constitution. and you know with those principles you have a rule book that rule book was written by the founders of this nation off of the experience of tyranny in other nations and really i see it as a kind of anti tyranny and book and we're seeing the government get larger and

larger become more and more impressive oppressive become more and more of an empire and and it's alarming and we need to do something about it in the constitution is the answer and ron paul has been in office for about thirty years and always voted in line with the constitution so unlike other candidates who say one thing and do another as we've seen time and time again i think barack obama is no exception ron paul does. what he says he'll do and i think that's extremely important one of the main things that attracted me to the server in terms that are coming out of their mouth right there talk about small government you talk about less spending talking about competition i mean these are all expressions in terms that we're hearing from the tea party which has really risen over the past two years what makes ron paul different from the kind of rhetoric that we're hearing from the liberal candidates right now with by the way a very very similar to his ideas. well he puts it all the way through he continues not only in domestic policy but in foreign policy and i think that's really the you

know the definer between man and other candidates on the republican side today say they believe in small government but they'll go ahead and expand government so that we can cover the world with our military on the other hand and that's not you know that's big government and big spending and then also they also get weak on things like education they've expanded the department of education you know so they've expanded the government there they've expanded pharmaceuticals so you know again ron paul is very consistent he does what he says he has a guidebook any never he never goes against you always know what you're going to get so if you believe in the constitution you know he's the right guy. right i mean regardless of the support that ron paul has among his back with. that is very very strong support by the mainstream media by the mainstream political analysts has never really seen as a viable candidate always sort of a fringe guy now that we've seen the political rhetoric in america or at least among the republican party sort of shift to to be more aligned really with with some of the ideas that ron paul has been pushing do you think this country could be

ready or that that iran talk of seeing more of a realistic success in the mainstream this time around absolutely since his two thousand and eight campaign has been the opportunity to be on talk show after talk show after talk show i would say hundreds of times possibly. and i think in that time coupled with the fact that the economy is doing worse. the wars are not ending and they're only expanding and they're not succeeding you know there's no we really we don't even know what those are. people with all these issues and problems and you know with the fact that he has solutions i think he's got a great chance this time around but it let's be real here i mean realistically at the lodging in this n.b.c. if you're watching fox news if you're watching c.n.n. you know listening to the radio i mean these mainstream media corporations these mainstream political analysts are not really taking him seriously and i thought i'm going to ask you why you think that is why the guy who seems to have sort of the

the the least amount of corruption associated with the name i mean he doesn't have any major scandals that we can think of he doesn't have any overt ties to sort of the elites establishment that have been pointed out by anyone why do you think that you've been pigeonholed into this fringe category. well i mean you know i mean i know exactly but i think that those people are more a part of the system that has brought us to where we are now and change is difficult real change you know we can all pay lip service if we like but to really make real change it takes some guts you have to be honest with yourself you have to recognize your mistakes and i think that's what ron paul offers and a lot of people have a hard time going that way you know. big government big money for all kinds of special interests and so on that's been the path so far and this is something different and it's kind of like going on a diet you know you've got to be really honest with yourself and tough on yourself in order to achieve results do you want in we want to get america back to

prosperity we're going to have to do those things so it's just a matter of you know do people want to take that tough road do the right things that are going to be necessary to have better results or do we want the same old same old certainly again i think people who are arguing for what they're arguing and don't come around his ideas are the ones that got us here so i really don't people suffer to suppress back all that those people are also very very well funded and whether you like it or not whatever president you may have about it and us politics it takes a lot of money to run and win office obama is looking at a war chest of something like a billion dollars this coming election what are you going to do or how do you think that ross also be able to stand up for that. well i guess we're just going to try our best you know we we're going to continue to build on what we did in the last election cycle and hope that more people are willing to take the take the mass you know the take the medicine so that we can fix our problems if you no matter how

much money on the side is again it's the same it's the same old same old that brought us to where we are now and i think everybody in our country knows we have a lot of problems so we need to be very honest with our we got here and you know i think from all is consistency his message back to liberty brings people together these things are what we have to win for us and what can lead us to victory ok well we'll see if that message resonates with the means you with out this month this time around thank you so much for your time that was the activist and ron paul supporter trouble learning now is exactly twenty five years since the world was shocked and shaken by the worst civil nuclear catastrophe in history the deadly explosion at the chernobyl power plant spew the radioactive cloud across several continents once a long lasting human and environmental consequences of the disaster continues to haunt the now abandoned town of pripyat which was built to help those working at the chernobyl power plant artie's alex they are such a visitor to go sound report on china we'll talk. twenty five years ago the

town of the plateau was a place any soviet person could dream of high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure and restricted town for the employees of the chernobyl nuclear power plant treat it was regarded as the pride as the pearl of the soviet union it was not only constructed to look like a perfect socialist city but the people who live here were also the best of the best the best musicians sports man the best professionals the nuclear energy all of them lived here all of that changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands which will both react it was almost completely out of control in april twenty fifth and it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of the experiment personal hesitated and were reluctant to eventually couldn't go against the authorities wielding of the reason old radio meanwhile the

town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying an unusually sunny saturday outdoors all of them were i mean my friend we ran away from school the polluted beach we returned to normal covered in mud and my mother asked me where i had been i lied when we were cleaning the school yard and she was shocked as she had already heard rumors of some action in the nuclear solution. that short was easy to understand ambulances with sirens had a large population of this small town in the middle of the night they delivered the severely injured plant workers and firefighters to the hospital but it really put her in different directions rooms and radiation most of them had food or fourth degree radiation burns one of them going to instantly the others had to wait twenty four hours to be evacuated to a hospital in moscow ironically those were the lucky ones others stayed in the town exposing themselves to deadly goes of radiation many died or suffered radiation sickness afterwords nowadays people it is described as

a dead. nobody lives here and never will again the fall out period of many nuclear cells reaches twenty thousand years this has not been a steer from up there on the company i'm going to throw in here straight after the u.s.s.r. collapsed we gave me a flat on the pension and found it impossible to sit idly back in the queue here and have a council and a grow every clean creation yes there is a little here but you don't find a place without us anywhere we are not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the word noble echoed again world wide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis put the nuclear energy issue through serious debate but the former journal liquidators say they are ready to fly heart away across the planet to help japan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like your mobile and fukushima never happen again let's see risky artsy reporting from chernobyl and

kiev in ukraine. now u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has urged the world to prepare for even more nuclear accidents on the scale of chernobyl and who shima and he called for greater international cooperation in nuclear safety measures and so they russian president dmitri meta data of actually offered a proposal to do just that now the plan would expand safety conditions mandated by the international atomic energy agency russia has submitted the support of proposals to the i ate the g eight as well as brics and c.i.s. countries but that's not it states what is it that this country should learn from the two noble in the fukushima disasters should we have our power be abandoned simply because of the potential dangers and is it really the energy source of the problem or perhaps the companies on the regulators who are tasked with keeping it safe while here with me to help me answer this question from new york is investigative journalist and author wrecked palace thank you so much for being here we'd love to have you on the program as always now what do you think i mean is it is it these these energy sources nuclear power while you've you've investigated so

many catastrophic abuses of power when it comes to the oil industry or is it the companies responsible for producing that and the regulators who are there to keep these sources and track. well i would say that it's the companies that we should be very very excellent before i was an investigative reporter i was an investigator and rick did the racketeering investigation against the builders of the short nuclear plant here in new york where reporting from and in our investigation we found that the that's a diesel generators which are supposed to see acquired in case of emergency and the diesel generator test were shaped that the earthquake proofing of the plant was faked it wasn't just one plant our we were uncovering was it in gimmick problem of thought throughout the industry and i should say that why is this you know this is . a track evil people were intent on burning all their neighbors up. you know it's

a cost billions and billions of dollars to build a plant and any time you find a mistake like in the case i'm sure you found of the earthquake proofing kesavan state. it would be billions of dollars to make even a simple fix in a nuclear plant and now we have in the u.s. obama's push plans for several more nuclear plants most of them will be built by a company shah construction whose nuclear building unit stone webster was the company that was found liable for racketeering and fraud and fake those tests so the same guys you know if you had a drug driver so much of it get drunk driving you wouldn't give them a license to operate a bus but we would give a license to build a nuclear project to company convicted of lying about safety this is one of the problems we have is that there are no reliable builders and operators that we can absolutely trust but it is true that the problem is you don't need drunk drivers

and frankly there's plenty of people in this country who can drink and drive and probably get in trouble and you need technology you need energy power and energy power is expensive it's difficult to develop it takes certain specialties and expertise so how do you get around that if the point that you're making if i mention any correctly is that there's so much money invested into these power sources that it's just too expensive for them to correct any sort of wrongdoing that profit becomes the goal how do you get around that with the butt out that are now turning into china and mandating some sorts of power sources that that private industry doesn't take on a financial part of the market well we do that i mean this same company that's building the south kicks this nuclear plant at the moment the proposal to build two nuclear plants in south texas and we built using this question will company shock construction with a bad record and guiding it destruction will be tokyo electric power given just after fukushima hardly seem like the experts we should be calling on the same

company however it's already so. when power in texas at six cents per kilowatt hour nuclear power is going to cost at least twice that so it's actually cheaper accused you know safer forms of electricity now i suppose you can harm different wind if a wind towers fell on you but i've never heard of you know unit evacuate thirty or forty miles around because she doesn't want to be making us what's that i mean it's not really something maybe cheaper to see when once those power sources are satisfied it's a very expensive to build it's very expensive to switch over so what's preventing the sort of change well and you could power is way too expensive for anyone to build such a plant so what we're doing is subsidizing it with absolutely no nuclear power plant puzzle today anywhere in the world without massive subsidies in the case of the south texas nuclear project the obama administration's offering four billion dollars in government guarantees to the project now if you are offered four billion

dollars for wind power you get even you get more and cheaper you offered four billion dollars for solar power or simply four billion dollars for conservation or even gas plants i mean after all we are we have gas coming our ears right now in the united states and russia it doesn't make a lot of sense to be fooling around with something it's only dangerous but incredibly incredibly expensive it would not nuclear power wouldn't come out of the crypt if it were drawn out by subsidies so you don't think that crises like her noble like the casino might sort of help us wean we know country off of more dangerous sources of power like where well you know obviously chernobyl didn't stop us from building the fukushima plants which has caused me a great improvement here we are now we're told there's going to be more improvements in the next generation of plants and when they go up we'll be told once again well we've we fixed that problem i think that we have to make

a decision. there there is no reason to subsidize this incredibly costly incredibly risky form of power in fact one way to end a subsidy in seafoods if these guys really believe it see is to remove the light bill he kept right now if you have a nuclear accident united states become pretty only have to pay seventy five million dollars that's prolly one percent going to be expected cost of damage if these guys think it's safe let's remove the seventy five million dollar cap and say something goes wrong guys you pay for it you will see a mediately that every single nuclear project we pull off the table it won't exist welcome call me a psychic but something tells me that they're not exactly going to go for that thank you so much for your kind of thread palace that's a good parallel strings from the ark thank you. he is one of the best known death row inmates around the globe we have all has been on death row for nearly three

decades sentenced to execution after being convicted of killing a white police man but they brought new hope for the former black panther activist as a u.s. court ordered a new sentencing hearing for mia in the next six months and their decision however does not give me a new trial and his conviction unfortunately does remain in effect at the moment artie's honesty. has more on this case so. we cannot justice or system flourishing with fraud and flaws but the united states essentially illegitimate this is prisoner mania. is. seen as a political prisoner all over the world an honorary citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france on death row in the us for almost thirty years even to change the life of me forever took place of this intersection in philadelphia almost three decades ago back in one thousand nine hundred one when

a police officer was shot and killed me and himself was wounded and had to spend the night at a hospital a prostitute and the cab driver testified against him hundreds of thousands of supporters including mumia himself maintained his innocence to this day. i was charged with first degree murder in a case many see was fabricated and fraught with racism the prostitute none of the other witnesses ever saw her there had been with a cab driver when you look at the police crime scene photos you don't see his cab anywhere they remove tampering he should get a new trial dragging on for years will be a struggle for freedom has been shedding light on flaws of the u.s. justice system fifteen of the police officers involved in collecting evidence in mistrial were later charged with corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a. action fifteen of the thirty three a former journalist and black panther organizer me as work is translated into

several languages and distributed all over the world but his analysis is a revolutionary analysis that this ystem is rotten to its core that it's racist class is sexist evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. domination of the world and they want people to hear that. he won't be us government denies holding political prisoners. the countless human rights activists from all over the planet money are the boys of the whistler's it's overdue that we believe simple. he's an innocent man he's trying. to put the joke was like a circus the man who didn't cry is work monitored by the f.b.i. since it was fourteen years old to some he has become one of many fallen victim to a police state it's not a question of whether or not he's on the death penalty it's not even a question of guilt or innocence it's a question. of the united states to its apparatuses another

state federal local agencies targeting surveilling attacking a political activist. move people into targeting them for their political work when washington is a journalist closely watching the case since trials kicked off in the eighty's in his case in body so much of what's wrong with the course and that's why people have gravitated to this case and maybe than a symbol for their outrage. that they're caught in the between what america says it is a country founded on justice and one that perpetuates injustice and in this case extraordinarily over a thirty year period already having gone through countless appeals the case is still expected to drag on for years right yet is so tragic here after almost thirty years. we're not talking about a new. we're not talking about all the evidence that has come forth the racism the

racism of the original drudge all of the things that should have read a long time ago the us is a record fourteen country of jewels overflowing with prisoners including thousands on death row who are overwhelmingly african-american today there are over two million prisoners in the united states that's the size of san francisco you know you were present colonial power. and while those in power continue to keep their eyes shut to the flaws the system is down to remain the scene with the rest of the world watching. artsy little. but the case of mumia abu jamal does not stand alone there are powerless similar stories including the case of troy davis a georgia man also black who is facing execution next month despite an overwhelming body of evidence pointing to his innocence for more on this story let's head to los angeles where i am joined by deidre he's the founder and executive director of

innocence matters peter thanks so much for being with us it was good for our viewers a little bit of background in the case of troy davis and explain to us why why this case has also become symbolic and a very similar way along side with. thank you thank you for having me and i'm really honored to be able to give some information about troy davis case you may recall that this was an incident that occurred in the parking lot where the best red coals started to progress towards year and he said to the homeless man to me if you get me if you don't know me i'll shoot you and the homeless man throws friends saw red coals reaching to sway span well that was gone and or whether they were young a homeless man back and later officer macphail came around the corner and he was shot the most logical person to have done a shooting. and yet troy davis is aren't natural for a crime that people got from it. like when your cases got

a great deal of attention because people in perpetual years teachers activists have all rallied around the case to try and. do justice in this and the fabric galloping trying was arrested in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and today in two thousand and eleven we are sure to be true and tories about facing another execution a yet to be sad but. what about the case of troy davis teaching you about the u.s. justice system and the role that racism may or may not play in the u.s. justice system. it says everything there is to say about it i think this is. poor minorities are expendable when there is this well of emotion around prime minister hariri. people's lives are lost as a result of somebody committing a shooting and it becomes less about it and less about the search for truth and

more about holding someone accountable and because. people are africans and minorities and people don't have money. or it doesn't matter if you get to the truth. and untruth you. know go ahead go ahead try to have this case where they're going to do this is his we have a person the most logical person who did the shooting actually confessed to shooting her number of times or if you. know were children exploration or ignoring evidence. so what is the situation for trading us at the moment i mean is he pretty much set to be executed next month or are there some other options to sort of try to prevent this from taking place where there is no execution date yet right now georgia are. going to battle moratorium due to.

speak not being able. to carry out the execution once that mission which we expect there are a number of dates that injuries will be going to change but then i read something to you and i'm sorry to interrupt there but it almost speaks volumes to me that this man cannot be executed because they don't have enough of the drug to execute him well if i mean britain has banned exports of us the legal the execution drug to the united states this is seen as as quite barbaric by many many countries across the globe. but what's your reaction to that i mean the fact that we don't have the execution happen is almost more significant than than the case. well yes and i think i think what i connect most with your power to do is to make a difference where we have people in our that we expect to honor justice is honored with truth and they're turning a blind eye to it and yeah uplift thus far in this case and in other high profile

cases has been able to capture the attention. and not just stop the execution and we just have to keep doing what we and you. wanting to rajib and the truth and facts of the case to show that this is not a person should be executed at the very most you can save up to is that there's a fifty fifty chance that the shooter. and most people will just not ever challenged you have the evidence recently confirmed that. she was sure do you think that now that we have all of this technology and sort of better ways for law enforcement to be able to to track sources of crimes and d.n.a. testing and all of the stuff that really wasn't available back then neither for me and nor troy troy davis do you feel like that's sort of changed the the the the system that the unfairness in the system or do you feel that the initial problems like racism and whatever else continue to remain today. well i think i think it has

helped and so in those cases we do require logic whatever to work through the evidence that are amenable to scientific testing in the palaces and that's wonderful because we're aware of that really by intuition but the vast majority of cases i don't think something like ninety percent of our minds do not have that kind of trace evidence available or biological evidence or other and second has stated and. we have. asked for it we have to. that will not and the. police. prosecution. taking office are writing well there's a drum part of caught you off but we will have to stay in touch with you and you have to keep us updated on the case of troy davis personally broad of time but thank you so much so much for your time deidre conner.