di a humanitarian situation in the perceived libyan town of sirte where people are dying from a lack of vital supplies amid ongoing fighting between pro and anti kadafi forces. our next interview with no i am chomsky linguist author the mit professor coming your way right now. r t sitting down with for over an ounce scholar at linguist author and mit professor noam chomsky professor chomsky thank you very much for taking time to speak with r.t. glad to be with you the first issue i want to speak with you about is the recent clashes that have taken place on wall street between americans who are turning out to demonstrate and police officers from what i read you recently sent a message to support the activists of this group called occupy wall street you've called them courageous and honorable you can you talk to me about your take on

occupy wall street well as in the wall street is just a short hand for the financial institutions the banks are bigger and really true than before corporate profits are retreating record levels for much of unemployment is about the level of the great depression real unemployment these people are saying no let's blame the institutions behind them so fiscal policies like taxation rules of corporate governance deregulation and so on those set in motion a vicious cycle which is getting worse and worse in new york so walk down the streets you can see it very serious poverty on the other hand phenomenal wealth right side by side the much like a third world country where you see if you go to so if there are enough with the meanwhile infrastructure is collapsing and schools are collapsing and all of that increases the. keeps the cycle going and like rising well

it's about time for some protest what may be in there in the coming year for the two thousand and twelve election is that many including yourself have speculated and assume that campaign spending for the u.s. election two thousand and twelve. well exceed one that we have for each friend to tidy that is that mass will probably be much higher than that and where does that come from well you know basically a lot of it comes from financial institutions like you look at the two thousand and eight election what's one obama what gave him the election was primeau a financial institution contributions they preferred him to make and they expected to be paid back when they were. on the next will be even worse and certainly that's only a part of it in parliamentary systems including our own up to old maybe twenty years ago. positions of influence in a functioning part of

a parliamentary system what's the care of a committee. comes from principle at least from experience seniority. legislative contributions and so on that's gone now they're bought if you if you want to become chair of a committee. in the house or the senate you have to pay off the party have to pay for it and where do you get the money to pay for the same pocket you know so. provides even more influence to the your already overwhelming fluence of concentrated capital so it's harder and harder to distinguish between the elected officials and. economic concentration it never was easy to distinguish i should say this is not something novel but now it's sort of reaching the extreme level but what's left of america's democratic system if this is the process that has been

cemented in place and what is really left if from every angle there's the is that manson for just take a look at public opinion they'll tell you. about two thirds of the public thinks the entire congress would be thrown out. because i mean if it's going to happen no but it means that the system isn't working and the public knows it. the popularity of favor ability rating for congress and single digit president not much higher in the same month across all other institutions it's a very widespread sense that everything is going wrong that tells you the democratic system is just not functioning now in fact i don't want to suggest that this is totally new so you go back a century and you can still predict throughout all this period pretty well the outcome of elections by campaign funding but there are degrees and now it's gotten extreme. the levels to which the u.s.

has departed from other capitalist societies are pretty remarkable you released a book recently. called nine eleven was there an alternative focusing on the u.s. assassination of osama bin laden and that continuity you say between george w. bush and barack obama. killing us on that laudanum interesting case it was done. in such a way as to infuriate the pakistanis which is extremely dangerous that's the most dangerous country in the world go and do it but you have a professional army committed to the sovereignty of pakistan the pakistanis were already. overwhelmingly and he american this shoots through the stratosphere the army is bitterly angry not only a plea invasion of the country and the murder of someone on their soil but also

that they're being pressured forced to take part in an american war in afghanistan some of the conservative military have the lists who wrote about the bin laden assess nation i quoted some of them pointed out quite accurately that there's a shift between bush's policies and obama's and this bush bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought about them. take them to guantanamo or bug rum or some other torture chamber and try to extract some information out of them we know what it was like to describe it obama's policy is just to kill. killing them all over the world targeted assassination camp and you know and kidnapping and torture and you're still in. the bin laden assassination was a case in point it's hard to remember but there used to be a system of justice in the west which said that a person is

a suspect until he's proven guilty of until then he's a suspect he's innocent until proven guilty well that's wrong now you just kill him if you think they're guilty so he was apprehended. no resistance he was alone with his wife but the defense doesn't. highly trained commandos could certainly have apprehended him and they didn't they were under orders to murder him and then toss his body into the ocean acts that are almost designed such a way as to increase. the hatred throughout the muslim world and when anybody has got their eyes open you talk about the obama administration and how the u.s. actions right now could be infuriating the muslim world the arab world the obama administration has supported the tunisians has supported the egyptians has

supported the libyans and the so-called arab spring the palestinians have officially submitted an application for u.n. membership and statehood the u.s. says that they will cast if you go against it if they do because they believe that the record low shisha should take place between house and israel before there's an independent palestine first of all i have to make a qualification of the united states and its western allies did not support the egyptian two museum revolutions they oppose them they sit back to pick them up and turn as it was mostly france it's their call and fix going in egypt was the united states and britain they supported the dictators until the last minute and when. the army turned against them and it was no longer possible to support them then they said ok we want democracy is wonderful and then they moved to try to ensure that the regimes would stay pretty much as they were and cites a very old pattern but putting that aside it's true that the united states

announced that it would test of the press thirty five years the united states and israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported by virtually the entire world the arab league the organization of islamic states which includes iran and hamas supports it almost no relevant party disagrees with except that the united states and israel let it happen how does the fact that egypt right now and turkey have really covered their relations see that's an effect of the arab spring what's happening there are changes in the world what's happening is israel's getting harm or isolated meaning the u.s. is getting for more isolated for example a couple months ago there was a meeting of the the oligarchy people pretty much on the economy they warned the government that they better accept something like this resolution because the other

ones israel will be as they put it south african iced even more isolated you know boycotts refusal of ships and so on and our economy will collapse now it's interesting that israel is reacting too much to it so. if you look back at the history by about one hundred sixty we have the record south african foreign minister called in the american ambassador described this to and said we don't really care as long as you back us because you're the one who matters and that's how it worked right through the nineteen in the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.n. bar the u.n. embargo corporations were pulling out. sanctions all over boycotts they were doing fine. the reagan administration was backing them. as long as the us was supporting them nothing happened then the us withdrew support almost instantly apartheid

collapsed saying it's in israel's best interest and the us still allowed this palestinian un membership stay with us for thirty five years the sensory chamber is now that it's been for almost forty years there's a choice between security and expansion very clear choice israel is like other states is preferred for since the early seventy's it's had a choice between security and expansion can have peace but not with expansion into the territories which incidentally is recognized to be criminal but everyone including israel. they can get away with it as long as the most powerful state in the world backs them and as long as europe goes along europe is remarkably tolerantly them out like this but they don't like to step on the opponent also the masters so they go along so you know it's the court that has backed the united states they picked tony blair you know i don't have to comment on him but then i

might as well stick george bush to it to bring the message you do what the united states tells you to stop this nonsense about statehood and go back to negotiations and that's where we now stand and it's up to the people then just industrial countries to compel the governments to go along with the world that has chomsky thank you very much for your time.

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. hello welcome to the early sunday evening sport and here are the latest headlines top drawer ballots and returns to grab the late equaliser just ten months apart act or two two with leaders in need in sunday's big russia probably clash here in moscow. wallop testing times ireland wales and argentina grabbed quarter final spots the all black star dan carter is out for the tournament the rugby world cup in new zealand. and begin japan dani pedrosa claimed his third win of the season with a dramatic victory at the crash hit the japanese moto g.p. . the first a vocal and substitute valis and returned from his three game ban to snatch the late equaliser ten months drew to two with table toppers and bitter rivals an age

in a thrilling russian premier league clash at luzhniki stadium alexander a new call for the open for the fourth place home side after twenty three minutes but miguel danny unleveled was in need of forty and then with half time looming spotlight in the last day had clashed with alexander cocksure call and went off for a second booking three minutes after the end of all the visitors made the extra man count as cocksure called grassroots sixteen goal of the season but the returning veteran had the last say with ten minutes to go to it finished meanwhile there's got could go level on points with as a need so if they win and who dance in that coffin out of the other call offs will take charge of the country as players coach the backlash at times he looked mighty . well in the early kick off italian defender salvatore bookit to score a second brace twice former champions rubin a two no ring a bottom sign to own one victory all but securing rubin's top eight finish the end of the regular season the teams in the top table want to compete for the title this

year in places while the defeat for two. it was that eight most nine matches. and so on such as they did on my moscow and second after coming back to into on time to class and go get them shipped beats in have put the visitors ahead of the half an hour but for liverpool and i leave because the strike out and they got on and leveled within three minutes. start netted the winner with a which i don't now remaining the moscow scientific now won four of the last five games plus and seven points adrift off a top eight finish. meanwhile there was a losing start for cutbacks new coach stanislav chance of the former spartak moscow manager saw his side lose one spot i know to nineteen year old my commitment to show fired home what proved to be the winner after eighteen minutes. and i was well off stuff and left it late to edge struggling so that off we go some on the thought a great striking up the post with five minutes left you can see i knew that tree.

not near that i was a bitch was back at the helm of arm car after leaving the club three years ago but his side failed to support against paul bettany gritty transfer those teams and sent off the last quarter of an hour. over in england frank lamppost going to have shaken former trotter daniel sturridge netted a first off brace as chelsea regained third spot after a five one tribe the bottom side bolton while under johnson shot and danny murphy spot kick have given full in a two no lead as a q.p.r. in the west london dalby swanzy are looking to preserve their unbeaten home record against stoke and lead one nil through scott sinclair's ninth minute and i'll say and finally tottenham are about to kick off against arsenal in lunch anticipated from north london dalby. then into rugby now and islands have progressed to the quarter finals of the world cup for the fourth time and have set up a clash with wales after thrashing italy thirty six six in pool c.

well it's really put up a. also resistance in the first half that i must go fishing but of that penalty is keep that sword in contention only on its own o'gara scored three penalties for the irish the nice thing for me before the break. this is the second. to three tries me thinks the sense that i'm not just twenty fourth birthday i learned to take part in every sense since i. first saw. the. ice. but that was the best year and it was just to see green everywhere you looked and. our job was to give them something to cheer about and you know got fire and just in spades and i was there was really incredible turn to play here well islands have never made it further than the quarter finals and standing in their way now wiles who thumped d.j. sixty six nailed finished second behind south africa and pulled

a lot argentina defeated georgia twenty five seven to progress because they at the expense of scotland call a win as new zealand finished off with a seventy nine fifteen thrashing of canada so that win was overshadowed by the news all black stars fly half dan carter will miss the rest of the tournament after damaging his point during a practice session on saturday. i just feel for this young fellow he. he's been. up to this world cup probably maybe it wasn't it is it was a vision to ten years ago that certainly over the last few years and it was a big stage for him twenty nine at a peak of his powers and that's been taken away so that's very said. well look at the quarter final draw season eight team line up without scotland for the first time in the world cup as favorites new zealand face argentina south africa take on australia england will play france on a take home wales game is played next weekend. now russia's debut world cup

campaign has ended with the team flying back to moscow on sunday night the bears might not have managed to win again but as richard found poor reports they were warmly received by a very appreciative and sometimes fanatical local support. over the last month or so rusher of made a lot of friends around new zealand the vast majority of the team they have never experienced such a level of interest from the general public if league managers in russia are trying to few hundred spectators it is fairly surprising for the squad similar numbers attending the training sessions for even autograph sessions. we're not really used to this level of attention from the fans in the t.v. . to groups here that have done throughout my life here everyone follows both russian and global rugby it's great it's inspiring and it gives you the motivation to work even harder. this wasn't most of the players' first experience of new zealand the team have been here on

a training camp just after the new year. the squad would take the opportunity to see the sights as well as taking time off to take their minds away from all things rugby. this was by far the biggest events russia's players have ever played in and in terms of experience it will take something special to beat the memories but they have had from this world cup it's been awesome it's really good to be to be here at the heart of the world. being at the world cup stage is just it's just an amazing experience and very welcoming from from from the local people and we've already been to quite a few towns and cities so it's very interesting but sealy did mention that russia had to do plenty of travelling and this was perhaps be only downside of the trip being new boys to rugby's biggest events the bears were given a very tough schedule which would see the team have to travel more than seven times to different locations in less than a month the critics of the russians were hardly ever any complaints and they always

had a smile on their face while they would pick up an army of unexpected followers along the way who went to rather extreme measures to show their dedication to a newly found heroes. who are only zero has got enough support as russia is they they probably are going to have many supporters so. when a bird was there were there for no matter where russia fear so kept a greater and here and there is plenty for russia to build on the over the next four years they will have to find a new head coach after nicholai nero's resigned however at the moment six likely that kingsley jones will take up the reins of the bears on a more official basis before moments for russians can be turned proudly back home in the knowledge that they have played some extra rugby over the last month or so here in new zealand the russians the world cup campaign has come to an end of one experience that has been for the best players over the last month or so i was great a lot of friends around here in new zealand and around the world were very exemplary behavior off a bridge as well but where i am spirit and we are very very rich about what we are

to. that if it rises claimed his third win of the season with victory at the reshape children's dramatic japanese mota g.p.a. it was an action packed race on the first lap to catch his valentino rossi crash task force a. long time as well then challenge indicates the stone started on pole and wasn't fun to rest up brake failure saw him run into the gravel on what for a try set seized his chance to have the field in his wake there was even more drama at the better time being on the take and circuit breaking his collarbone. also hit the tarmac but recovered to the seventh however protests there stayed out of trouble for a victory seven seconds ahead of fellow spaniard tolgay renzo stone managing to finish third a strange championship which comes to forty points firearms with three races in. case you made a mistake and that here is going to beat you know the freeway so i going to

need to. say good and the bike was working going well so that it was not so bad then and we could do a great race. and finally defending his well title doesn't seem to be enough. extreme kayak eskom southern us the daring new zealand already plans to take three crowns from as many attempts next year the extreme kayak while championship took place in austria and something terrific for tell me about still the twenty three year old broke his own course records to retain the coveted piece of silverware and first chance at the moment in qualifying and went on to further lower it in the super final the championship was the run fifty five point eight four seconds sutton was a happy man but in cup trick of titles is what young said we need quite. a pretty happy and well i mean. these are true before i finish my goal

time to work to make stairs then i can celebrate. and that's all this was nice but then.

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the arab spring echoes in america u.s. police use force to disperse antiwar protesters. wall street protests excuse me seven hundred people taking part in the rally put behind bars the momentum is a gaining across the country. also in this week's top stories president if explains his decision not to run for a second term so i think a lot of putin's great popularity at home his comments come in a surprise interview that stirred up debate about the country's political future. the standoff threatening to turn into an armed conflict on serbia's border with northern as nato is attempts to dismantle roadblocks near a disputed checkpoint leave several people injured. and die a humanitarian situation in the besieged libyan town of sirte people are dying from a lack of supply some aid ongoing fighting between pro and anti before.