richmond free. free. free. world free blogging video for your media project a free video darty dot com. it's diagnoses of the year zero 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 emergency summit takes place in brussels it's do or die for the euro because this is not a game of monopoly one wrong move by e.u. leaders could bring down the world's fragile economy. five hundred. thirty years after a journalist was convicted of murder there are still gaping holes in the case and in the u.s.

justice system for that matter all of the back and. questionable conviction. because hillary clinton really would like this to happen and you see it in the relations to other countries where these revolutions benefit big u.s. stirring the pot u.s. officials can't get enough of the arab spring these days some even trying to push it into russia the thing is some say they are twenty years too late to the party. it is friday december ninth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our team. well today is d.-day for the euro as leaders with the european union met in brussels to cut try to come up with a definitive solution to the region's debt crisis now many said a failure to come up with a solution could mean that the failure of the eurozone and could set off dangerous

economic fireworks that may have a widespread negative impact on the global economy as you can imagine this was a scene of high drama when you put leaders from twenty seven countries in one room seventeen of which are members of the eurozone they're going to be some different interests at stake so. the economy of the entire continent and someways the entire world is resting upon what was decided here today so here's what happened twenty six out of twenty seven e.u. leaders agreed to move forward with a plan that includes fiscal austerity and more regulations britain decided not to get on board with british prime minister david cameron saying he rejects some of those regulations that they want to put in place there is still so much that's up in the air and i want to go to our to correspondent tess arcilla who is 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 maybe's 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 at 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 will 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 they're thinking of saying that the credibility of the euro has been regained because of this plan on the other hand euro 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 will have already suffered cuts because of plans imposed by the e.u. so question is 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 that was our tease tess arcilla with the latest from brussels of course there's no doubt that the landscape of the european union is now being redefined and depending on where you look today's agreement is the solution some of been looking for or it's simply a short term solution for a long term problem now writing a couple days ahead of the summit reuters journalists felix salmon wrote quote europe's leaders have set a course which leads directly to a gruesome global recession before we've even recovered from the last one europe can't afford that he says america can't afford that the world can't afford that but the hopes of arriving anywhere else have never been daimler now there is still of course no telling how the markets will react to what to this or what significant changes it will bring about but i do think it's important to dissect it and earlier i spoke to joe weisenthal the deputy editor for business insider to do just that

now that the meeting is said to be final i asked him who are the winners and losers . to be honest it's hard to see any winners right now i mean if the market gets some call because of this than perhaps the banks and investors are winners but we're not really anywhere closer to a solution the fundamental problems that have caused this whole crisis. remain the fact that the e c b is not willing to intervene more aggressively remains so we haven't really accomplished a whole lot the germans probably feels pretty good because she hasn't given too much. david cameron maybe you will you know the fact that he rejected the rest of your might help him politically but seems like we're still a long way from solving things let's talk about the e.c.b. the european central bank its role in all of this i know a lot of people really thought that sort of at the last minute that they would step

in. talk about their role and also talk about the role of the i.m.f. the international monetary fund in this case in terms of what changes now that this deal has been pretty much agreed upon by by most of the number of countries. well one of the hopes was that if the countries agreed to a very strict fiscal compact whereby they couldn't run big deficit and those deficit rules were actually enforced then the e.c.b. would come in and backstop the whole thing but in his press conference on thursday it used to be chief mario draghi basically said no we never promise anything like that we don't know where anyone got this idea it's not our problem it's not our responsibility to solve the deficit problem in europe and still responsibility of the various governments so he kind of you know put that put the kybosh on that and it's not clear when or if they will ever step up. as for the i.m.f. it's hard to say they don't have on limited firepower the countries did agree to

fund the i am give the i.m.f. more money and that might help a little bit but ultimately the i.m.f. can't really fix the structural problems facing europe and so what are the what are the problems to how. the biggest problem in europe is that the countries don't have their own bite because they don't have their own currencies they can't print their own currencies to fund their deficits and they can't do value their currencies to become more competitive so what used to happen before the introduction of the euro was that the weaker less robust economies or greece or italy would devalue their currencies and create a cost competitive advantage that way and so they would basically you know they wouldn't be growing like gangbusters but they would stay that was their method of stink competitive when the euro came they lost that ability because they lost the ability to control their own currency and so they lost they no longer were

competitive with the germans and the french and the core europe and when that happened they started running big trade deficit and so rather than being able to sell goods they started mostly importing a lot of goods from the core countries and that contributed to their impoverishment it is very different. it is very interesting when you think about the seventeen year olds own countries these are countries that are not even close to being the same size both in population and economy and it is interesting what you get when you when you group a bunch of these countries together with very different ways you know doing business i guess you could say in the past i know that there have been some people that have been against the eurozone from the get go and one of those people is that nigel farage the leader of the u.k. independence party and i want to just play again he's been against euro zone from day one so obviously this is sort of a i told you so for him but i do want to show you his reaction to the meetings in

the last twenty four hours and also his prediction for things to come. i think of the next twenty four hours the seventeen politicians not peoples will agree that they are going to push on 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 indeed so joe for people who are sort of against this thing people like nigel farage. what are they thinking right now well i think they have to re pretty vindicated to be honest. the euro skeptics vision and predictions have basically come true the project is not working the the idea that all these different economies different peoples could

be kind of melded into one and harmonized has not worked out there it may be selvedge of all the you know you could have this thing where you have the rich countries transfer money to the poor countries on an ongoing basis the e.c.b. could step up and do much more and you know you can't write the whole thing off yet but this is a very severe crisis that basically infects everyone including the richest countries in the euro zone and this skeptics the people who kept the u.k. out of the euro zone really should be national heroes in. fact as you said rich countries poor countries it also affects non european countries like for example the united states certainly we've seen secretary geithner not only make visits to to meet with some of these leaders but probably do a lot of stuff behind the scenes to i wonder you know what in your opinion has been the role of the united states and is it sort of this u.s. mentality of of bailout bailout that's the answer are they trying to sort of make

the europeans do the same thing. yeah i think so i think gardner's main point the reason he's in europe is basically telling them you know don't mess this don't let a catastrophic event happen we're a country goes bust or a major bank collapses we've fixed we saw what happened in two thousand and eight when basically we saw this train wreck coming for a long time we never did anything in there was a real collapse and that with significant lasting damage to the economy and the governor is telling them the same thing don't you know bite the bullet make some unpopular decisions and don't let a collapse happen because you know you can see it coming from a long long ways away but you're not mr going to do anything if you don't have the political will and he's looking out for you as interest to the fact of the matter is that if there were financial collapse in europe it's very hard to see how the u.s. financial system would get through unscathed so what what's next for the eurozone i mean this was the meeting that was supposed to be the last resort the one last

chance in order for them to solve something what's next. i think is a lot is going to depend on what the markets do you know over the next coming days if. it is stocks collapse and bank shares get hit really hard in the telly and yields start blowing out again like they were the week. or the week of thanksgiving . the european leaders are going to have to come back to the table pretty quickly and do something if markets stay calm for a while then maybe they will you know they'll just sort of work behind the scenes until march when the next leg of the treaty writing process isn't place all right business insider deputy editor joe weisenthal joining us from new york. well today marks thirty years that former journalist movie abu jamal has been behind bars this is a case that has garnered worldwide recognition and it's made movie of himself a hero of sorts just today in london dozens of people gathered outside the u.s.

embassy in a rally for me a tradition that has gone on for years demonstrators say his case is one of worldwide importance laura smith takes a look at the case and the international appeal of movie abu jamal. three decades behind bars for a crime he says he didn't commit it's a dubious anniversary for. a black man who's always maintained he didn't kill the white police officer he's supposed to have shot and what's more hundreds of thousands of people around the world believe him and strongly believe that he said this and that the charges that were laid against it that he suffered an unfair trial was. a campaign really. gets over time because of the person not to execute him because of his political views or for press people who stood up in particular for the african community you know as

a member back home. and he was a man who was against oppression and injustice a former journalist and influential black panther organizer one hundred one prizes for his activism at the time the black panthers were greatly feared by the police in philadelphia and his message that the american system of justice is rotten to its core racist sexist classist was inconvenient the murder conviction his supporters maintain was a way of silencing him but one that failed miserably i think himself is a very charismatic and a vigil i think he's an individual who has a lot of support but i also i think. what maybe hasn't. come out or doesn't come out a lot with other death row cases i think of being a journalist has. continued to speak about his case his cases continue to be in the media he himself has a. prison radio shows and he's written many books whilst in prison he's attracted

a global following he's an honorary citizen of more than twenty cities and this even a street named after him in paris demonstrations for me this is a requirement like this one in london marks the thirtieth anniversary of his past the ration we're. they were also taking place just three days after. the rose. celebration you'll still have to spend. with no possibility as a result of what you and people across the world maintained after the trial it emerged that fifteen of the thirty three police officers who testified with charged with corruption and tampering with evidence supporters have taken up his cause as a political prisoner and he's become a spokes person and poster boy for other oppressed and wronged minorities speaks out on behalf of the disenfranchised or one of these kind of magical reasons that happens every generation or so he's become

a symbol symbolic long struggle centuries long struggle to get. african-americans and other rights in america in the lead up to the thirtieth anniversary of his incarceration was moved off death row now he'll be put into the general prison population but his life's not out of danger we are very concerned that transfer to the general prison population welcome the possibility to be murdered in the in that because there are a lot of reasons and all the forces have to see. is to get rid of him and it will do you some good unfun crazy will do so the demonstrations across the world to free will be a continued successful in their campaign to have him taken off death row they're now demanding a new trial and freedom for the representative of oppressed minorities everywhere you're a smith r.t.

london there are multiple questions surrounding the original case and hundreds have called for a new trial to be given to them all and many others from archbishop desmond tutu to dr cornel west have called for his release all together when we as case has garnered international recognition as you just saw and. nonsupport from thousands of people around the world not just journalists and activists and even actors earlier i spoke to a man that many of you may recognize as army captain b.j. honey cut from the t.v. series mash his name is mike farrell he is now the president of death penalty focus and i asked him what he makes of the decision on wednesday by the philadelphia district attorney to drop the death penalty aspect of this case take a listen it's not a question of how we perceive the case the case has always been perceived by those of us who oppose the execution of me. in this particular situation as a as a travesty of justice the trial was wrong and my argument is the same i think is amnesty international's which is that he needs and deserves

a new trial but from for those of us such as myself who oppose the use of the death penalty under any circumstances it's certainly a step in the right direction and it's a triumph in in some regards but i think the big question really goes back to the people of pennsylvania to look at how many millions of dollars have been wasted over the last almost thirty years in trying to kill this man it's certainly it has brought about a worldwide attention the case of me i would you i'm all from scores of people really all around the world i wonder what i get from your from you what you think it is about this case that has garnered so much support. well i think there are a number of things it is like many other cases in the united states a case where race entered into the prosecution where there are serious questions about the not only the efficacy but the effectiveness and fairness of the trial.

but probably the major difference is the ability of this man mumia abu jamal to articulate his case so extraordinarily well and to articulate along with that the the plight of so many people on death row in our country certainly here he wrote the book live from death row he has done various videos that you can see on you tube he has really kind of fame everywhere but it's not just him as you just said i mean this case i think just like the recent case of troy davis it's brought attention to a much larger part of the story and that is the american judicial system itself do you think that this will continue to shed light on some of the things that are just plain wrong in the judicial system. well one hopes you know that these are all steps along the way the elimination of the death penalty in this case is really only one step and i hope it doesn't mean that he's going to be consigned to

a life without parole and everybody's going to walk away and say ok we won because in fact justice has not been served in this case so i think the case as you mentioned of troy davis the case of cameron todd willingham in texas the case of so many. are today raising questions among the american people to the degree that here in california we now are going to go to the ballot next year to see if we can eliminate the use of the death system in this state because people have come to the understanding that it is simply inefficient that is inappropriate and it is hugely expensive to try to keep killing people when the when the purpose of justice is not to do that for those who have studied this case have monitored it over the many years thirty years now that it that it's been going on that there are different thoughts about what the most compelling argument is as to why i'm lineage is there a new trial what i just want to get your take i mean what is your idea about what

the strongest evidence is about why the first case in the first sentencing process was so flawed. well there are there's a it's on the record now that the judge was biased racially biased it's on the record that the. police corruption in the in the philadelphia police force involved the suborning of perjury and the actual extortion to get witnesses to perjure themselves now these are charges are not proven but they are there on the record now and i think that they in and of themselves tell us that this trial was corrupt from the beginning i don't know if movie about jamal is guilty of killing officer faulkner i don't think anybody knows who wasn't there but what we do know is that the facts and the evidence are trying to refute the complicated and very very. complex to the degree that the case that was so ramrodded through

the system by this judge simply it doesn't stand up to inspection and that's why amnesty and human rights watch and so many other organizations that are not the movie acts that are not the people to just simply say it was all racial racially based in miami a budget should be set free. organizations that say justice must be done and say that you've got to start with a fair trial if you keep the system in place as it is who are the winners and who are the losers. the american people are the losers american people lose economically they lose in my view morally they lose from every perspective the people of pennsylvania have lost as i suggested earlier probably hundreds of millions of their tax dollars that have been wasted first by the lynne abraham administration and now by this new d.a. in continuing to pursue death cases when they are simply not getting the people

executed they're wasting their time and their money and their energy when that money and energy could be better spent doing things that serve our society was winning out that who is responsible for keeping the system in place as it is if there are clearly evidence evidence of so many flaws in it. i think mostly it's political cowardice i think if you look at the polls people now understand that the death penalty and traps innocent people it's only used against the poor that it is hugely. expensive and it's a riddled with police and prosecutorial corruption so everybody understands it but the prosecutors are afraid to be labeled soft on crime which is what happens when the right wing sees somebody who begins to waver on the question they immediately begin to see people as being soft on crime and that can hurt a political career so where we are is a lot of people are running scared and they're simply not willing to stand up to for their principles and for their understanding of the facts but it's changing new

york gave up the death penalty in new jersey gave up the death penalty new mexico gave up the death penalty illinois gave up the death penalty and there will be more states in the near future that would give up the death penalty because primarily because it's untenable economically and certainly it is an all too familiar sound to hear people running for office at any level from the state and local level all the way to the federal level to say i'm tough on crime i support this i support this a lot and a lot of time those are those are words that i don't have to say much more of and people respond to that unfortunately president of death penalty focus mike farrell thanks so much well much as in russia in response to the elections there are being viewed by some foreign observers as a slavic version of the arab spring but analysts inside russia say which has already had its pro-democracy protests twenty years ago and argue this is not a sign of major changes to calm as our season is and i reports one of the people in

the u.s. who sees russia's current government as being potentially overthrown is u.s. senator john mccain. daugherty our dear sky our. 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 actually saw. them all as in all these and they will want to get that. most of the few thousand

out on the streets of moscow after these elections move gone off 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 wolf 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 that 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 all my friend to egypt had 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's now r.t. moscow. well be sure to stay tuned to our team next week for a brand new line up shape up or ship out just one month after occupy oakland protesters shut down a major port groups across the west coast are trying to follow suit and they're asking dock workers to help them make it happen this as police forces across the country conduct raid after raid on occupy protests from san diego to seattle the movement is still going strong despite the cold weather our team is in california and we will bring you the very latest and polling for paul he might not be the republican front runner but ron paul's presidential campaign is certainly gaining ground in iowa among

a demographic that helped elect president obama into office young voters are coming out in droves to support the congressman so will they be able to give his campaign the extra push that it needs to thrust him into the limelight and when will the mainstream media take him seriously and one year six months and three weeks later alleged wiki leak or bradley manning is finally getting his day in court not that we're counting accused of leaking classified documents on iraq and afghanistan wars this twenty three year old private first class has in many ways become the symbol of a movement against government secrecy and torture next we will introduce you to bradley the person and take a look at the hurdles he faces in his upcoming trial those are just a few of the stories that we have in store for you next week along with more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned right here on our t.v. but for now that will do it for more on the stories we covered go to our t. dot com slash usa or check out our you tube page you to.