to the be. that greca nomics it's causing violence spilled over into the streets of athens so what does this mean not only for the e.u. but the global economy as well and some say to us is also showing signs of societal collapse. and one of those signs of problems chicago will take you to the windy city where it's an example of the worst things get to come from this case between the u.s. and cuba is not fair because her son's cause was very noble. and the cuban five sent to the u.s. to prevent terrorism in cuba so why is

a man they were watching now receiving the key to the city of miami while they are in prison. that afternoon it's wednesday june fifteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and your watching r.t. now as united states lawmakers are still trying to come to an agreement on the country's debt problem and also decide to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling which you'll recall the u.s. has already blown through in greece protesters are taking to the streets in opposition to their government solutions to their debt crisis greek police have fired tear gas at protesters they were trying to block the parliament building more than twenty thousand of them trying to prevent members of parliament from voting on new austerity measures so that the country can get more bailout cash well arty's own sara for it has been on the ground and here is her report. the clashes between

the police on the protesters still got to see some of the cast of the state you can head to a building in the crowd you can see the destruction is being cut along the sides larry that was killed at a time. people hey i was saying that he was going to go to the game of the police trying to find out the pilots still breaking out no if i see still if i love the people on the street the next the protest and like the gas masks on they really don't want anyone to feel that it's been said that the people who are the fire chief are baking the police the people still moving back on such a state and they can have a cigar things such as by the place they turned out to protest against the proposals that i think i said there i guess about the economic situation has been happening in that country and they would. know we had a really good book the place has turned violent and still believe that you can see the sales happening help in pakistan right at this very moment that is absolutely

chaos on the streets the police call it the place. lines of credit take out something that's all i can tell you is not a pleasant experience you absolutely cannot break up the numbers of people who could. really put their. people. with a great time to menace a pretty much see saw people getting oh it's a place i love the most the life that. you can see right now that the police need to get a guy like us to be done going to be another man to take us up to speed up today. was you know i want to tell nothing else that. is something so you still sending.

robots to filming take a. rhona they see right now it's very hard to tell the kids even the plate of their head they want to see this to say to somebody on the streets i know we got to fight but hey you got to take us right here you got to take us out. of the place i said now that's a good debate in the last number of these people actually provoking the police he conceded. like he phones and the other ones he tried to stop a scumbag. thinks it's a lemon. and then take up next the guy off right we say get the right. to take up a lot as we feed the prices at a place still passing out the good but very hard to breed love the people who provide didn't even want to see philly. save us. right in the middle of that scene was our correspondent sara firth on the ground in the midst of protest in

athens now while we may not be seeing a mass of violent protests right here on the streets of washington d.c. in response to u.s. economic struggles there are still signs of the stress all around and while u.s. president barack obama is likely enjoying a not too shabby life at the premier home in america the white house right here just a few blocks away what is he left behind in his hometown of chicago well you may be surprised archies anastasio turkana visited and discover that for a while now it appears the city has been largely forgotten take a look. chicago at first glance a picture perfect city. what happens when a sneak peek behind a facade and a flip up this postcard the gap between the rich and poor in chicago is extremely visible well off neighborhoods such as this one are just a hop and skip away from places where struggle is dance in the atmosphere. this is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in chicago filled with countless

streets like this one where rules and rules of devastated homes pull thousands of people for whom every single day is a struggle. with children live here is whole most people think that is all of chicago and that's gorgeous chicago but it's still an eighty five percent of the city that they had. one and raised in chicago so much he works several jobs to keep the city falling to its knees is a personal pain for him this is a neighborhood that was full of factories and industry and once industry died so did this neighborhood how did seem in much of illinois in the last decade over two hundred thousand jobs in manufacturing went down the drain because especially for chicago's black community one in three african-american men in their early twenty's unemployed men like chris. overall african-american joblessness in chicago is over twenty percent more than twice the

white rate there's no you know i don't care what any education you get some people just don't have to camp i mean anything. over on the other side of the tracks is a lot of drugs and a lot of people turn to drugs a lot of a lot of people turn to selling drugs locals explain it's done here to get by robbery is also what a peep rather than go. on good morning. anyway. for many it's a vicious circle. having paid for his crimes six months out of jail darryl batts is back where he started fighting for a job the government is. just a simple. service. so. they say one thing. what is there are when you use and record high binge drinking chicago bulls the top spot in the u.s.

. food pantries are working nonstop as hunger intensify it supplies a short my goodness this almost sort of core was unexplainable what is. an increase of the manner of food for hunger in chicago because of the economy being the way it is the number of families living in poverty now stands at in the standing forty five percent almost half the population many of those going hungry are kids one in three children in chicago are said to live below the poverty line i'm quite sure they are almost children ability. staff if they are not over the last year in common rates here have dropped by more than ten percent making it harder for entire generations of families to stay afloat. and there are store you know it's i'm proud to speak of stars from the kids and it goes all the way up to our seniors you know and they have the same issues from young to old the hometown

of the american president is filled with starro that's already too deep to ignore mr archie chicago illinois. they're known as the cuban five imprisoned serving life sentences in the united states accused of committing espionage conspiracy according to those five though their mission was to stop terrorism against cuba monitoring the actions of miami based terrorism groups actions of men like this luis posada could release a cia agent some though would call him a terrorist he was accused of bombing several cuban hotels and the mastermind of the downing of a cuba bound flight back in one nine hundred seventy six made you recall it killed seventy three people yet he roams free and he's actually being celebrated in america he got the key to the city of miami while one mother of a cuban five prisoner antonio goto who are interviewed she is pleading for her son's release still and joining us now for more right here in the studio is lawyer

jose. they do that right and he's going to try me and saying he is very familiar with the case he worked on trying to get extradited to venezuela he represented the country the government of venezuela he joins us now to kind of give us some information on the context of all of this my first question to you you know the united states in a case where there was a u.s. citizen that was arrested and convicted in cuba alan gross they want him released he was convicted of actions against the independence and territorial integrity of the state of cuba while he was working for usa id allegedly funding a program seeking regime change in cuba the u.s. has ruled out trading him for the cuban five why do you think that is. well that's of course of the the you really have to ask the niceness government when they refuse to do this really the united states should do this should exchange. the cuban five for all and rules because you see all of this animosity between the two

countries is really a relic of the cold war and the cold war is now over it is time to move. president obama has said so in many speeches of years given. and cuba has said as much to president raul castro has said the same thing and the only way that both countries can move on is for the prisoners of each country to be released and sent back to their native countries i'm sure that until you have it was mother was pleading for us and miss him very much she hasn't seen him for over twelve years and i'm sure gross's family misses him very much so it's time to just return prisoners and get on with life here is that it does in fact miss him very much and there are many claims that the conviction was bogus and that these cuban five are wrongfully convicted i want to play her claim her account. let's listen to what she had to say but they said the most painful thing was what the judge told my son when she handed down her sentence she said i have no proof i can't provide any evidence because i

don't have any however i'm finding you guilty regardless because i know you still have the intent of committing the crime you may have physically done nothing but you still have the intent of breaking the law. so why do you think that the cuban five were convicted they sit in prison meanwhile you know pathetic. and is celebrated you know in the case of the cuban five they were convicted for conspiracy to commit espionage yet they have most classified documents on them there was no evidence they tried to get classified documents and the only case where folks have been convicted on a conspiracy to commit espionage throat were not classified documents so i really think that is why are they you know why are they not being treated right and are being let out why is the united states not budging on this one who are in miami in miami the rules of life are involved and you have terrorists law books i read reviews or faded as heroes in miami given in the heat of the city of hialeah and

other people who should be considered to be heroes people who risked their lives which was the key point for you to stop the kind of terrorism that's been waged against you for over fifty years from u.s. shores those folks are in prison and it makes absolutely no sense except that for political reasons u.s. politicians are loath to go against the extremist exiles in miami who have money and political clout you know there are parts of there are quite a lot of powerful lobby very powerful aside from that you know kind of backing up to what you said that the united states you know despite all of this despite all these maybe political stern concerns that they should be released why do you think the united states you mentioned the cold war you mentioned that we're past the cold war you know another country that the united states is you know still fine and mending to tensions with over the decades is of course russia and we saw the united states and russia negotiate

a swap of agents when that whole scandal according to some broke a while back and they swapped agents you know the u.s. and russia it's a guy could they negotiate up but not this because there is. nor comparative political lobby of exiled russians who would oppose that as there is in the case of cuba you don't have a political block because you know it's not just that they have money and political clout it's that miami plays a pivotal role in the presidential election need to win the state of florida if you're going to be nominated president then presidents are two to go against would some would think is the prevailing public opinion in miami even though that's a red herring because we know that president obama was elected president carried the state of florida this fair to the cubans of book form so then is it not political perhaps desired to do with the united states perception of being lenient

in these kind of cases is there maybe a fear that leniency is a sign of weakness you know i think the president and people of this administration need to show that they have the political courage to do what is right is leniently is seen as a sign of weakness. and you know i don't think it is leniency to exchange prisoners and i think it would be a sign of courage on the part of the president i think people would respond with that if only he tribal there are so many things this president could try and sort far as i landed i love a lot on is less than a lot of people think you know you are the problem and they are they able to deliver on i do you want to you know you pointed to the difference in the way that kind of the subjectivity of terrorism you know one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist and i want to play you what antonio guterres mother got out oh excuse me had to say about that that's quite interesting let's hear what she said. we're asking people to read out the cat involved and really learn about this

injustice this case between the u.s. and cuba is not fair because her son's cause was very noble they want to fight against terrorism and today terrorism is threatening to end humanity that's no secret we all know that so why is it that. they have to pay such a high price but one of the things i want to ask and she says why did after place that's such a high price they were fighting against terrorism. why do you think that they are are there other reasons besides political because some of the analysis has been that the mainstream media very much sides against men like the cuban five do you think that plays a role no i don't think the mainstream media player plays against cuba i just don't think the mainstream media plays them any mind it's almost as if they didn't exist the problem has been the cuban five have been imprisoned so they don't have the human failings to show the american people and the american people of you to know we ask people american students in cuba who just arrived in cuba who are the cuban bought their home with

a clue will do maybe they think that they may be part of some sound so bad so the awareness that that you know this cuban matter is calling for may not even be possible with you know the amount of attention that across this country pays to a case like this we're paying attention to it here though and i want to thank you for giving us your insight that thank you lawyer as a path to sierra. don't go away phil ahead right here on our team from cuba to libya just how bad are nato strikes one thousand nine hundred bad enough she would rather take her own life than live through constant bombings up next here how nato airstrikes are affecting innocent civilians. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. easy to understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realized everything you saw. our culture is a big issue.

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the new website which twenty four seven lives screaming newtown what to do about the ongoing financial crisis unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you may never find remove. the political. question more on our t.v. . today. it seems the conflict in libya is showing no signs of letting up and in fact president barack obama says that he believes that he is complying with the war powers act and united states' involvement with nato now meanwhile colonel gadhafi claims that civilian death tolls are climbing due to increasing nato coalition aggression over thirty deaths this week alone r.t. correspondent mary if a notion i spoke to some of those caught in the crossfire take a look. saddam has been we've been has. the doctors have

performed any a miracle on the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me i'm going to do it myself. but who wants to cuba teenager. summer's native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night forms have been fully on the city with a population around a million no one can ever say when or where the next one would land. this week in the most intensive air raid yet there have been sixty eight slides in just ten hours attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future has frequently claim success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians with the libyan government has

repeatedly protested that innocent civilians have been among the dad the claims have not been independently very fond of one thing is clear since march nineteenth the life wouldn't really be ins has changed forever son was mother will never forget the day when her daughter prefer death to this new life my girl told me before that she saw death as a good thing when i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere i could hardly see what happened but i realized immediately was something terrible this is not fanning told us they want a no fly zone you never sat there we're going to bonus you promised to protect us but instead they scare us talking about who they are have a back your son his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives will need storage wars and always intervenes in other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave

it on september. from the skies were out of nato as opposed to targets gadhafi its military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover. tripoli. and while that continues to happen in libya nato continues that operation there there is a very different approach to other countries let's take for example by offering i want to show you a little bit about what has been happening between the united states and offering to the crown prince was in washington d.c. last week and here was the outcome of that meeting with secretary of state hillary clinton here is what they said. it is. for.

sure there's a fire. and leave the rain is harder. to vary we're going to you know it's case. we are supporting a small guy ok in the car and so. important. we're going to the crown prince has been doing his nation a lot of talk about moving forward with reform and talking to the opposition however reports from bahraini say that this is far from the case joining me now to talk more about this is michelle's shoes to go ski he is director of the center for research on globalization i want to thank you so much for being with us now you know i want to start we hear continuing reports about the united states his role in libya we hear people rattling the saber over syria we have seen united nations take

issue with that we have seen it here in the united states comments from lawmakers such as senator lindsey graham call for intervention or some kind of action in syria but in bahrain we see this with the crown prince visiting the white house talking about reforms talking about moving forward to discussing this with the opposition however on the same note you have reports that political prisoners are being sentenced to death from what i understand this is extremely uncommon in bahrain someone i spoke to said that the last time they can remember that happening was for the rape of a child and now they're sentencing political prisoners to death and there are members of parliament that remain in prison and there are allegations that they are not getting a fair trial that they're not getting a trial that they're being tortured so why it is the white house coming out saying that things are moving forward with reform i guess there is such conflicting reports coming from bahrain. well essentially for. us

puppet state this these killings. approved by the white house. for the practice of. most of the world atrocities are. done with the drone attacks that's why there is killing so there is. committed to being committed. career and then the needs of this should come as no surprise the united states. terrorism terrorism a different policy one of the. humanitarian short humanitarian mandates which in fact is also because you do not come to the rescue of millions with the two still follows french. let's

talk about some of the interest in bahrain because as hillary clinton secretary of state clinton clinton made no secret bahrain is seen as a very important partner and one of the reasons why that is that there is a naval base there the u.s. fifth fleet is stationed there and from what i hear from basra needs by looking at the construction they believe that the u.s. is expanding its naval base there that it's growing that they're building upon it and they also say that the united states used a u.k. air force base in bahrain to fly planes out of and used that base so i want to ask you if you did see those as being some of the largest interests in the region. well absolutely the whole if you look at it from the geopolitical perspective with objectives of the united states that this. is militarized. militarizing

big time middle east in the persian gulf. and there's no exception there's a mess for deployment of u.s. military much throughout the region and. the gulf states of posters in this so i think of course with saudi arabia. to get info i didn't see. we we had indications although no evidence that saudi arabia is also doing this in syria. that's another i mention of this of this geopolitical sure will. cause any kind of humanitarian still humanitarian operation waged on syria that whole region which is there all of the eastern mediterranean right through buckers so as the chinese border without all that there is so much at stake and one thing

i'm curious do you think how many think yemen is because from what i understand from sources saudi arabia is perceived as having the power to stabilize yemen which is something that the united states obviously have a lot of security concerns with yemen they've you know reportedly had many concerns over al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and yemen we saw the united states try to target and the cleric in the lead to be in charge of that the u.s. the descent and yemen so do you think that is one of the reasons why the united states is is not getting into not intervening in bahrain because bahrain is very important to saudi arabia and saudi arabia does not want unrest there whether they want to look at it from which a political perspective yemen is also variable but it's sort of a strategy. it was a way of sort of the red sea. as the military base a lot of the subculture which is by far the united states and. i suspect the

military presence in the region is well what the united states most established at this point to this global it flows through the regional agenda of the war agenda which extends from north africa through the basically right asia is very dangerous really quickly i want to ask you because one of the reasons the united states has said that they have to allow kind of the crackdown that we saw in bahrain with because of the wrong they were worried that iran is influencing the region i want to ask if you buy that because someone i spoke to said that offering is much more interested in a more moderate government that they don't identify with the shiite fundamentalism in iran do you agree with that well i think we should follow a minority group. and what is happening is a crisis but i so i think.