they don't cheer that. much they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you get the answer and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. that you didn't even know was easy is that the euro which should inspire confidence is not inspiring this confidence if there is no deal on friday there will be no second chance as yet another interview emergency summit takes place in brussels it's do or die for the euro because this isn't a game of monopoly and one wrong move by the e.u. leaders could bring down the world's fragile economy. five hundred five percent of the wife. and thirty years after a journalist was convicted of murder there are still a gaping holes in the case and in the u.s.

justice system for that matter will look back and let me abu jamal is questionable conviction. the case that hillary clinton really would like this to happen and if you see it in their relations to other countries where these revolutions benefit us stirring the pot u.s. officials can't get enough of the arab spring these days even trying to push it into russia the thing is about twenty years too late to the party. all right it is friday december ninth four pm here in washington d.c. and christine for you watching our team. well today is the day for the euro as leaders with the european union meet in brussels to try to find a definitive solution to the region's debt crisis a failure to come up with a solution say many could mean the failure of the eurozone and could set off dangerous economic fireworks and may have

a widespread negative impact on the global economy as you can imagine this is a scene of high drama after all people leaders from twenty seven countries in one room seventeen of which are members of the eurozone there are going to be some different interests at stake the economy of the entire continent in some ways the entire world is resting upon what is decided here here's what's going on so far twenty six of twenty seven e.u. leaders have agreed they want to move forward with a plan that includes fiscal discipline and more regulations britain has decided not to get on board with british prime minister david cameron saying he rejects some of those new regulations put in place now there is still so much that's put on that still so much that's up in the air so i want to go now to our two correspondents has our cilia who's in brussels with the latest. with the decisions that came out what we're going to see is a two speed europe essentially those who are on board the a franco german push for more fiscal integration stricter rules and harsher

punishments more supervision and those who aren't now as it stands there are twenty three yeses three maybes including sweden hungary and the czech republic you have to check with a problem and get back with an answer and a note coming from the u.k. you know that no it's not very surprising because david cameron before getting into the summit had already said that if he doesn't get the guarantees that he needs to protect british interests the sticking point being the financial transactions tax and labor laws then he's going to use his veto to avoid that sweeping e.u. treaty that's exactly what happens in the u.k. is going it alone now from german chancellor angela merkel's point of view it is a breakthrough a success looking at what germany had wanted to achieve going into the summit and what they're getting out of it yes it would be fair to say that it is a success from their point of view now merkel also said that far as the u.k. is concerned she didn't think david cameron was ever at the table with them to begin with anyway well now the next step is how are they going to go about doing

all of this this new agreement among the twenty six e.u. commissioner also had said it would have been less of a headache if all twenty seven were on board from a legal institutional point of view but he also thinks it's a possibility that there could be an intergovernmental agreement among the twenty six provided that the three maybe become a yes but it will be interesting to see how these leaders will have to go home and present the plan to their citizens and explain to their people exactly how these plans will affect the ordinary guy on the street bureaucrats here would be would be considering the successor saying that they're actually very glad at the speed with which this agreement had been reach or this plan had been reached considering that the lisbon treaty took eight years to negotiate so there they're thinking of saying that the credibility of the euro has been regained because of this plan on the other hand you're of skeptics are still voicing out their concerns saying this. this need for speed mean a sacrifice in democratic processes and what will it mean for countries like italy and greece who have already suffered cuts because of plans imposed by the e.u.

so question still there and the big question that journalists have been asking readers here is does it mean that the euro is saved now and the most conclusive answer we can get at this point is we hope so and that was artie's has arcilla with the latest from brussels now no doubt the landscape of the european union has now been redefined and depending on where you look today's agreement is the solution some have been looking for or it's simply a short term solution for a very long term problem now writing ahead of the summit where there's journalist felix salmon wrote this he said europe's leaders have set a course which leads directly to a gruesome global recession before we even even recovered from the last one europe can't afford that america can't afford that the world can't afford that but the hopes of arriving anywhere else have never been dimmer there is still no telling how the markets will react to what is going on in brussels or what significant changes will be brought about but i think it's important to dissect this and i've

got joe weisenthal the deputy and editor for business insider to health hey there joe. what are you seeing here i mean does this mean the european debt crisis is coming to an end. no unfortunately it doesn't if this doesn't really result you know before the crisis we identified several of the problems if we were to go back would say the the lack of the e.c.b. is a lender of last resort the fact that countries still aren't competitive the fact that they can't control their own currencies and so on the back of the right here you just trade imbalances with each other and identify those big problems and this latest agreement which is barely even agreement it's more like an agreement to agree to something else doesn't solve anything we've got austerity for two years now in greece and elsewhere and it doesn't austerity is not a path to fixing debt crises in fact it makes deficits go up because the economy shrinks so it's hard to see what in there people could be could be happy about.

the prior to this will you know prior to yesterday there was this hope that if the country's agreed to a fiscal compact then perhaps the e.c.b. would step in and backstop the whole thing but mario draghi has made it clear that's not part of the bill or he certainly hasn't promised to do that yet so it's going to be dicey for a while still and certainly when you talk about there are people who have thought that this would be dicey from the beginning i know earlier r.t. interviewed nigel farage the leader of the u.k. independence party he has been against the euro zone from the start but i want to show you his reaction and also his prediction for things to come i think in the next twenty four hours the seventeen politicians not peoples will agree that they are going to push on the they are going to give incredible dictatorial powers to i'm elected bureaucrats based in brussels the markets will remain extremely nervous and remember that even the package that talking about today will take until march

to implement and i think in the meantime the eurozone in particular the mediterranean countries are extremely vulnerable invade. all right joe couple questions here on number one the fact that this won't even be implemented tell march in some ways when you talk about the economy that is a long way off and i also want to ask you i mean a lot of the countries that did sort of sign on to this they're still very wary of this loss of sovereignty so what does this all mean. i think that sums it right merge seems march is a long time from now. in terms of you know what how fast markets are moving these days how fast the contagion has moved so i would be surprised if they could just kind of come back and revisit this in march and everything is still fine then i think they're going to have to move very fast and we haven't seen the last of these emergency meetings by any means and the loss of sovereignty is certainly a real thing but the fact of the matter is the new agreement would leave clinton

with almost no ability to stimulate their economy or do anything in a recession the rules regarding deficits are very direct kone and says something like a country can only have a zero point five percent deficit or a tiny surplus that's not going to be realistic in many cases so yeah. it is hard to see countries winning the germans basically will like this because it really preserves the status quo it preserves their model everyone will kind of live the sort of miserable austere life that perhaps the germans think they live but i don't see this being particular effective or certainly not very popular you're talking about germany i want to show you something that's kind of fun this is an advertisement for english language classes but this is a video that's going viral right now on the internet. thank you. ok. thank you we thank you with our i know.

this is one calls gone. thank you. what's are you seeing a ball it's. got a funny there. but very in some ways relative to what's going on in the eurozone right now what is your reaction to this funny little after the video is hilarious and it's just sort of this something that people discovered is like them too does six from a language school and but no this is exactly right this sort of german continued gives the the attitude along german leaders has been that there is no euro zone crisis there are there are specific issues in one country or another so for example greece got too much debt italy had a political crisis ireland had a banking crisis and so they see it is one of the issues that can be fixed with just more discipline and less corrupt governance and it's not that it's actually

a fundamental flaw in how the euro is destructive and the ability of countries to finance themselves so the german leadership continues to insist basically that there isn't really a euro crisis but because they're wrong they're just completely out of step with how urgent the situation is and i'm sure you've heard a lot of people calling the euro zone you know the united states of europe. now the u.s. the united states of america leaders here have been tuning in to everything that's been going on of course they're worried as they should be but it turns out our president joe biden it was actually joking about this a little bit recently in athens greece of course knocks down by massive debt but while visiting with greek leaders the vice president said while introducing a member of the treasury department he said quote this man represents the treasury department brought he's. not hundreds of millions of dollars with him. you know kind of all in good fun and the vice president did get some laughs from this but a lot of people found this to be very insensitive is this just you know the u.s.

trying to make light the vice president trying to make light or as maybe a little clueless here would simply go it does seem like a classic biden move so there's that but beyond that this is becoming a more more politically charged issue domestically and republicans have been pushing laws that would prevent the u.s. from taking part in any further i.m.f. action to be honest i figure it's almost no chance that u.s. taxpayers are going to be owning up more dollars for europe there's zero political appetite for that no obama would never stick his neck out for that perfect you know so we might see more stuff like the fed to swap lines to lower the cost of borrowing dollars but nothing you know we're not going to contribute more to the i.m.f. sophist but yet it's clearly you know this sort of plays in very nicely to the republicans is what can happen if we don't get our own spending under control so you know this is becoming a more salient political issue and the economics are obvious you're posing

a recession is going to be hard for us to avoid one and if you're goes into something worse about you know a financial collapse a banking panic then that really will have ramifications just real quick one sense or last what are you still looking for out of this meeting in brussels. i think he you know i still kind of think the e.c.b. will eventually come in with a save of some sort and everyone will be miserable but they'll hang together but still maybe perhaps that's wishful thinking now arrive business insider deputy editor joe weisenthal. with some good insight there thanks so much. well today marks thirty years that former journalist mooney abu jamal has been behind bars this is a case that has garnered worldwide attention and it's made movie of himself a hero of sorts and i want to walk you through a little bit of a timeline just highlight some of the things that have happened in the case over the last thirty years december ninth one thousand nine hundred one officer daniel

faulkner was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop me abu jamal charged with first degree murder the next year he was found guilty and sentenced to death now over the next several years move petitioned for rehearing and that was denied in one thousand nine hundred one then in april on april sixth two thousand and nine the u.s. supreme court refuses to hear. appeal and finally just a couple days ago december seventh of this year the philadelphia district attorney seth williams announced that his office would no longer pursue the death penalty so now mia has life behind bars multiple questions though surrounding this original case hundreds thousands even have called for a new case to be given to abu jamal and many others from archbishop desmond tutu to dr cornel west they've called for a movie is released all together now i want to first take a look at the case itself with a report by our two correspondent honest. so. all

rise the case of me a boojum all forces america's justice system fine. this is. really. one of the most debated battles in modern legal history. accused of killing a police officer in the eighty's fifty seven year old mumia has spent thirty years of his life behind bars in the u.s. on death row this was a police frame up against a revolutionary journalist and activist very well known organizer in philadelphia outspoken against police abuse and honorary award holding citizen in over twenty cities a street named after him in france dubbed the voice of the voiceless by human rights activists. his work translated into several languages and distributed across the world his analysis is

a revolutionary announce that this ystem is rotten to its core that its races classes six is evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. domination of the world while the us claims to not hold political prisoners media has become one of the most well known in the world he's more well known outside of the view of the you're not a of the united states than inside because of the propaganda against him and. his supporters say it was me as views and involvement in the black panther movement not murder that landed him in jail this is someone who has been political since the time he was sixteen years old from the time he was sixteen years old he was targeted by the f.b.i. cointelpro me a maintains his innocence many argue his case was fraught with reese's and from the getgo. we're going to help him i'm going to help.

the defense has cited a lack of a fair trial they say a new one is needed to set the facts straight they claim that mia shot down officer walker and met him at least three times in the cement but there are no holes in the pavement the crime scene photos show that those kind of remarks simply are not there fifteen of the police officers involved in collecting evidence in miami as trial were later charged with corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction fifteen of the thirty three money is fight against the us justice system has been shedding bright light on to its discrepancies the u.s. criminal justice system has become at long last an embarrassment to the united states his case embody 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. while calls for a new investigation have been loud and clear they have gone unnoticed by the u.s. president and justice department and there's tons of evidence to show in a three thirty years in just two days before the thirtieth anniversary of mumia abu jamal is incarceration his death penalty was commuted to life in prison without parole his supporters say they will keep on fighting to set him free and says he sure can r.t. new york. and in honor of the thirty year anniversary tonight thousands of people are expected to gather in philadelphia to talk about this you're going to hear from people like immortal technique dr cornel west desmond tutu they're all gathering together to talk about the implications of what this all means one of the people also expected with a lot of knowledge on this really is professor and filmmaker dr johana fernandez i want to thank you for joining us dr fernandez talk to me just

a little bit first about tonight's event and what is supposed to is supposed to happen there well we're gathering at the national constitution center which is quite purpose given that the supreme court has essentially ruled that for thirty years mia has been sitting on death row and it constitutionally and unlawfully this is a huge victory for us given that the courts have finally approved what we've been saying for thirty years but this is a half victory because we really need released because he's innocent we're gathering here at the national constitution center at seven o'clock and you've already outlined the speakers for this evening we have a sold out house and in many ways the decision of the supreme court but also the announcement on the part of the d.a. that he would not seek the death penalty once more has really put when the

wind under our sails and we're we're prepared to free move me and in in the near future why is it that you and so many others are calling a form of media to be free to be released without even a new trial well. archbishop desmond tutu put it perfectly he essentially said that life in prison without parole is another form of death sentence the courts the highest court has essentially told us that the state made a mistake that for thirty years was tortured on death row unconstitutionally now you tell me what is proper compensation for that pretty horrific mistake i would say that his release his immediate release from prison is proper compensation just compensation but he should be released because he's

innocent one of the things that is not known about this case is that there was a fourth person at the scene of the crime by the name of kenneth bream the presence of that person at the scene of the crime who was identified in a lineup as the shooter was concealed at trial by prosecutor what interest with the prosecutor have in concealing the presence of this fourth person because i think this is an important this isn't something that's often talked about in regards to them in the u.k. as well it would be very important to ask the prosecutor and in fact what's fascinating about this very important detail is that the presence of a fourth person at the scene of the crime was acknowledged in a case that was going on concurrently with move mia's in billy cook's trial which was happening at the same time the same prosecutor joe mcgill talking about the same crime scene to the same witnesses acknowledged the fourth person at the scene

at the crime in billy cook's trial but tonight the presence of the fourth person in . me a boojum all's case that is a situation of perjury and in fact if we were. nation of law prosecutor mcgill would be essentially incarcerated for perjury so i would like to ask you and the world certainly the d.a. of philadelphia why exactly was it that this fourth person who was identified as the shooter that very important piece of information was concealed at trial dr fernandez there are so many details surrounding this case and you know it in some light it's important to bring them about but i want to talk now about the bigger picture of all this a movie as certainly has now a world of supporters really for not just in the u.s. for really from around the world but what about the bigger picture here what about the attention of this case has brought to the u.s.

justice system itself well all of the violations in minas case prosecutorial misconduct such as the one i discussed judicial bias the fact that albert sable the precise judge was overheard saying i'm going to help them fry the nigger referring to how he was going to instruct the jury tampering with evidence on the part of the police with chain of conviction and. discrimination in jury selection all of these issues are not particular to me as case they are responsible for the mass incarceration of african-americans and latinos in the post civil rights era making the mass incarceration of blacks and latinos black and latino males in particular the most important civil rights problem of our time and new media has been the voice of the voiceless he has given voice to a small nation essentially over two point three million americans disproportionately poor disproportionately black disproportionately latino an increasing number of immigrants mexican immigrants behind bars mooney

a captures the imagination of the world of young people because he has to find because the state has tried to silence him and they failed terribly what about this decision just two days ago by district attorney and philadelphia to drop the death penalty aspect of this case i mean certainly throughout my entire lifetime this case has been talked about and it's been talked about in such a way that the death penalty should not be part of it will now the death penalty isn't a part of it so i'm wondering how this changes the discussion about the movie a case going forward well the da has essentially been forced to throw in the towel but i tell you what if he thought that he could execute that he could recent and sam and when he would do so but we're living in the post choy davis world and he knows that it is impossible for him to actually get a modern day jury to vote unanimously for death and that's why he's throwing the towel in i think that this turn of events is actually strengthening our side all

right unfortunately we are out of time but thank you so much professor and filmmaker dr joe had a fernando's good luck with that event tonight thank you very much thank you for having us. so it is now foreign observers are viewing russia's post-election protests as a slog version of the arab spring but domestic analysts say russia had its pro-democracy protests twenty years ago and the middle class they assured in is in no hurry to see a repeat as our season is now a report some of those and this is russia's current government being overthrown is a us senator senator john mccain. talking to your dear sky. u.s. senator john mccain tweets dear vlad the arab spring coming to a neighborhood near you but is it seems russia's so-called slavic spring came and went twenty years ago. mccain and hillary clinton really would like this to happen

and you see it in their relations to other countries where these revolutions benefit the u.s. and of course they're pushing for this but don't think it will happen there we're talking here like protests during the collapse of the soviet union hundreds of thousands were out on the streets. people who. always and. they will never. get. most of the few thousand out on the streets of moscow after these elections look young enough to either not remember or be unable to compare some of this though it is funny how it worked out the middle class that exists today does so because of the politics of this government if they rebuilt the country four years ago it was a much smaller middle class if any. a middle class egyptians would dream of its revolution praised as democracy by the west saw the military take over.

we have only one demand that the military council and the army go back to their barracks and start protecting the country they've demonstrated they're incapable of leading the country over the last nine months. to here certainly proved twitter and facebook are fierce tools when planning protests some thirty thousand have already signed up for a moscow meet on the weekend but russia should have been no mustn't to egypt but to rebuild from scratch can take decades tens of thousands of young people are preparing to come out onto the streets and voice discontent and that means millions won't it's a safe bet many of them remember all too well the turbulent ninety's what chaos means for such a large country and aren't willing to go back and start over and he said now r.t. moscow well that's going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa also check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash r t america

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