alosi has always been a staunch supporter of the l g b t community a strong advocate of marriage equality is urging the democratic party to include marriage rights for gays and lesbians in its official twenty twelve party platform that the democrats would then become the first political party to adopt such a policy palosi supported the effort comes after the marriage equality group freedom to marry called on the democratic party to officially adopt such a policy during the two thousand and eight election cycle the party officially opposed the defense of marriage act but did not address the issue of marriage equality democratic party added marriage equality to its official platform if they did it may happen sooner rather than later there are at least ninety one democrats in the house twenty three in the senate and twelve democratic governors who openly support for marriage equality rights kudo's to representative pelosi and the democratic party for standing up for the rights of thousands millions of americans the bad g.o.p. t.v.'s the five the infamous new fox so-called news panel show took the war on

birth control to new extremes yesterday arguing that the fight for contraception coverage is actually as seen by democrats and the left to eliminate poor people to listen to what greg gutfeld had to say. the left is making this about availability to the poor it's more about getting rid of the poor. maybe mr gutfeld the rest of the gang at the five take a look at the mirror conservatives are the only people who like to pretend poverty doesn't exist in the squad at the idea of sharing the wealth and the very very ugly congressman allen west in a floor speech last night congressman west started to talk about the republican party's excellent record of defending personal freedoms over the past hundred fifty years however somehow he shifted gears and turned the subject to the democratic party's perceived dislike of equality saying the democrats support for a social safety net is the most insidious for most. lavery remaining in the world

today first congressman west is completely ignorant to the fact that actual slavery is still a human and tremendous human. in the world today with an estimated twelve point three million forced labors around the world secondly of democrats dislike equality so much where they are the ones who propose programs like universal health care and tax equality which create greater equality between the poor the wealthy elite regardless west's vitriolic rhetoric and its complete ignorance towards the true global human rights prices have no place in washington you know very very of late. this week marks the one year anniversary of the wisconsin uprising when hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets to fight back against governor scott

walker's war on unions activism turned a local issue into a national issue and awakened the labor movement across america and since then a lot as happened to walker's buddies in the senate were recalled and well over a million signatures were collected last month to recall walker himself from office not to mention the occupy wall street movement started and you can trace its roots back to those cold days in february in madison. so this is a week to look back and be proud of what progressives have accomplished in wisconsin but while we've all been focusing there elsewhere around the nation in a much quieter fashion and without the attention of the of the mainstream media the right wing assault on the middle class and working people continues like in indiana this month indiana became the twenty third state in the nation to pass a right to work for less law which will do more harm to working people and scott walker's anti-union agenda without strong union protections workers in indiana are

likely to see their wages benefits and workplace conditions plummet americans in right to work for less states make on average five thousand dollars less than a non right to work states and also get injured or killed in the workplace fifty one percent more often but there were hundreds of thousands of people in the streets there were a few thousand and not in the same sort of national attention in indianapolis aside from the super bowl of course and then there's what's going on in my home state of michigan that's where radical governor rick snyder we has dismantled local democracy with this financial managers law snyder is taking over cities put in place unelected crony dictators to fire local elected officials break union contracts rewrite local budgets and sell off parts of the commons to transnational corporations we've covered this story a lot on the show including hearing from people who are being most affected by this law. life is horrible this is a state takeover of the city of detroit flint didn't harbor the evil does not

count it's not in void i mean we voted for our mayor we voted for city council we voted for city commissioners and now our vote doesn't count what's it like to live under tyranny what's it like to live under a dictatorship no police officers about limited firefighters about taking streetlights out of cities so that people are in the dark from five pm to roughly about eighteen oh how about living with low morale in despair we're standing in line but the mainstream media hasn't picked up the story either and governor snyder is already drawing up plans to put one of his little dictators in charge of michigan's biggest city detroit we look across the ocean to see what's going on in greece where unlike the technocrats are shoving austerity measures down the throats of the people and we think what a mess that is there are newsflash the exact same thing is going on right now in michigan which is not getting the headlines and the ongoing movement the wolverine

state to repeal this law and recall governor snyder is also not getting the sort of national attention that it deserves and that was wisconsin has received and then there's what's going on in minnesota right now. there's there are some of minnesota's wealthiest residents are pulling resources together to create a giant lobbying group known as minnesota forward that is fighting for lower corporate taxes less government spending and funneling huge amounts of money into republican candidates to pass strict new voter id laws the democratic governor of minnesota mark dayton vetoed a voter id law last year but the millionaires and billionaires are trying to get it passed as a ballot measure now in november if successful minnesota will join eight other states that have passed or strengthened voter id laws in just the last year from kansas to mississippi to rhode island to wisconsin to alabama to south carolina to tennessee to texas to the brennan center for justice more than five million

eligible voters will be disenfranchised this november thanks to just these new laws and these are mostly minorities the poor the elderly and college students who will be just for disenfranchised mostly people who vote for democrats and support stronger middle class policies five million people wiped off the voter rolls this is an all out assault on our democracy and it's all happening under the radar of the mainstream media oh and one more thing in five of the states that have passed these voter id laws the co-sponsor of the law was a member of the right wing think tank known as the american legislative exchange council or alec which gets much of its funding from the koch brothers the koch brothers who diverted enormous amounts of their billions of dollars to right wing causes like alec the tea party and oil industry anti climate change pseudo science they themselves have operated under the radar of the mainstream media despite being some of the most influential operatives in the republican party so while we look

back on what grassroots activism is capable of in wisconsin the silent war continues whether it's radical anti immigration laws and arab zona alabama and tennessee or requiring the unemployed to take drug tests in florida or selling off state owned prisons to for profit corporations like c.c.a. in ohio and a half a dozen other states there are still a lot of troubling events unfolding all across america. so let's not think of the uprising in wisconsin as a victory let's think of it as a stepping stone we still have a hell of a lot more work to do from coast to coast to protect the middle class from this relentless and very expensive assault from republican politicians and the one percent. who are funding them so get involved in your state and join forces with independent media on the internet and on television channels like free speech t.v. to get the message out we're on the verge of winning in wisconsin let's make it the first in

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says no to regime change in syria and votes against what it calls an unbalanced un resolution that fails to address the dangers posed by insurgents. fuelling until iran the rhetoric israel accuses the islamic state of targeting it's different parts of the top police link a group of arabians two explosions and one called. as heroes only does decide the terms of the next bailout package for embattled greece the report on some of the countries i mentioned to avoid the worst of eurozone crisis. and in business to

future of portugal's economy is being decided by ear officials and offer you know the details on how the global stock market biggest boy in about twenty minutes time . you're watching our t.v. world news twenty four hours a day welcome to the program the majority of the u.n. general assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution that piles more pressure on the syrian president to step down russia was among those who voted against the motion moscow maintains the conflict should be solved through a gradual political transition led by the syrian people are in a has the latest now from new york. this is very much a symbolic kind of message on the part of the international stage because you have an overwhelming majority of the u.n. members in the general assembly supporting

a resolution that essentially endorses the arab league plan which calls for syrian president bashar al assad to step down it also condemns syrian authorities for violating human rights fundamental freedoms and using force against civilians it also calls for u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon to appoint an envoy to syria this text resolution condemns syrian authorities now the reason for all countries did not support this resolution is because they argue it's on balance most of those now with particular order to resolve the syrian crisis. which no one seems to object to the violence must be stopped by all sides and this series solutions can only be found through an inclusive political led by the syrians themselves today's arab league draft resolution on the situation in the syrian arab republic does not meet these criteria. to a large extent it reflects the worrying trend that causes concern to attempt to

isolate the syrian leader should reject contact with it and impose an external formula for a political settlement but. russia has in the past of course offered to facilitate a dialogue between a syrian officials and representatives of the opposition groups to host those negotiations in moscow but now where you see the majority of the international community today ending behind a plan that calls for president assad to step down the opposition groups most likely not be running to a negotiation table. but in syria violence is getting worse nearly a year off the first that up the government troops doing all they can to crush the insurgency both sides accusing each other of committing atrocities but the facts to come to the restrictions on foreign media activity on t.v. correspondents vary from national has the latest from the conflict torn country.

damascus one day two funerals the men in both coffins were killed falling victim to the ongoing crisis in syria but at the hands of different sides was. a shake up might said dick thirty seven reportedly received five bullets to his chest and his head has become the first religious leader slain in the capital for process for announcements those who knew him say the mom had tried to stay in the middle of the present crisis but couldn't help condemning the armed and to government forces that he blamed for bloodshed in his country meaning that i would like to go back a few months ago we then heard people talking with words like freedom and peaceful there is freedom and they simply kill all those against them is this to freedom they want to see. a brutal irony that shaikh said dick himself was gunned down by

those whose filas he'd put himself against or not i would feel he was killed because he was calling for reform and the end of clashes did it no you want chaos and death is that is we all this is the message to all islamic leaders the word of truth may cost your life would be to you try to defend your country or stop the violence or stop bloodshed you are not safe if you are saying the truth you money people pay the price for truth he was one of them in. malta for some a traitor for others an internet page of the opposition news network sham is a chilling picture of the hatreds driving conflict in syria he was killed on his soul was sent to hell this is what he deserves there is no armed people. there is no believe violence as a tool to change the political situation in syria people don't have political

issues and on any side it is really a very deep crisis very very assertive and you will see me turn to a demonstration or a protest was that exactly what happened at this funeral procession. the those who gathered to pay tribute to. shot dead during an anti-government protest have not only brought flowers and greet but also political slogans and demands my think her afraid for our children and people and brothers and sisters. assad is killing us security forces were firing at the mosque but people inside didn't do anything wrong. witnesses say the pull the to quote the young boy at the threshold of the mosque where his body fell inside we have in islam. for respect shin wave for respect with holy mosques and we believe we have to

avoid any kind of violence in mosques but unfortunately with this kind of crimes with this kind of dodgy the situation there is no hole in this for any doctor i have asked from the islamic studies center says there is a frightening symmetry both believe. war. as a reaction to the very government like said that and the opposition said the same. but with holland's causing even more violence syria seems to find itself in a vicious circle with little hope of finding a way out by any fashion r.t. damascus syria. well the syrian insurgency is being aided by foreign powers pursuing their own agendas in the region that's the view of award winning investigative journalist. we're seeing

a similar pattern to what we saw in libya and that is this the western countries clearly want bashar assad out just as much as they wanted khadafi out and we are seeing this introduction of tremendous amounts of force very skilled sophisticated operations like the assassination of that cleric like the assassination of a general the other day in damascus very skilled operatives are bringing this battle right. to assad and that it's not the song of a traditional peaceful uprising that's not to say that there are not a large number of people in syria who would like to get rid of assad but i think that that sentiment a part of the population is being dramatically helped along by outside forces well so ahead for you this hour in the program a yeah the uprising against gadhafi ongoing violence and claims of torture and the constant don't shine on the country's unadventurous integrations. and the foreign media has

a new dolly the russian longer an anti corruption activist who has more radical and aggressive. type police have detained a group of iranian suspects the targeting to israeli diplomats of explosions in bangkok to iran will be under enormous international pressure of its nuclear program denies accusations it was behind the attack but of the school reports. seems like the battle drones are growing louder and louder with israel continuing to this really harsh rhetoric towards iran accusing them essentially of terrorizing the entire world community there was a harsh statement from tel aviv which called to impose paralyzing sanctions on tehran all this while iran has just made it clear that they are indeed ready to sit down for talks to continue talks on its nuclear program but the prime minister of israel has made a statement saying that iranian aggression should be stopped so there of course

that brings forth many theories that the military confrontation with iran is imminent and nowhere are these fears more prominent than in israel according to the latest polls less than fifty percent of the israelis support the idea of going to war with iran most of them believe that israel has enough problems of its own already already existing and they don't really need another confrontation with iran there is of course the issue of palestine which never really completely goes off the table then there is the rather strained relations with lebanon which some fear may escalate into a renewed conflict and the latest of those concerns of course is the issue of egypt where the muslim brotherhood said that they might reconsider a peace accord which they do have with israel in response to us pressure in regards to the scandal so a lot of people in israel primarily are thinking that perhaps israel should stop

the rhetoric it does carry on right now and focus on its internal problems and the problems on its borders rather than really push forth with aggressive rhetoric towards iran. but we're closely following developments surrounding around online log on to r.t. dot com to get all the way to stop very very can start sort of iran is hardening despite recent evidence is that the chance the slavic states will start any kind of military action against the country. and the top end inspections. but in there putin puts russia's brand new international track to the test as he takes the seat of a sleep problems. in . russia a blogger alexei enough only has been heaped on global praise for his anti

corruption campaigning being compared by some to wiki leaks during the sons but back home he's just as well known for his radical nationalist views on immigration side of the can explore the broad. way reports. he's the anti corruption crusader making waves in and outside of russia for his push for transparency and exposing a multi-billion dollar holes in state projects for political phenomenon blow good opposition dolling alexei devalued the often gets glossy coverage and is rarely asked tough questions by international media whether comparing the value need to julian assange or calling him one of the most influential new political figures he's hardly challenge to prominently praised and very present they used a small print production of what is the very basis of the political system which would involve go for these not just point when speaking at rallies which is then after their biggest numbers in tech gates. it's got to tell.

him. this is a good time for the stakeout he's a pretty good sense gambler really don't because it's just the money's popularity in major cities and on the web soars in comparison with the rest of russia it's good when you've got your foreign media coverage it won't make him any more popular they keep writing about the file name but his recognition race in russia is only some three percent many russians who do no know what our names do for his sometimes shocking nationalism. what if it was the words that dressed up as a dentist here he compares migrant workers to wotton teeth that need pulling out the i remember all that but that would be what i see and hear non russian intruders to congress which is smiling you'll need more than an hour to kill them. and all

the construction going to come to this but inside russia you find much more criticism of the blogger and his questionable connections to radicalism then abroad where it's usually buried barely mentioned or brushed. off as a larger russian problem we tried calling contacting and finally caught up with not guard me but to no avail i didn't see it but i know. because i do you. know what you know it's not. seconds later he did find time to tell russia's real news agency he's ignored by much of the russian press so that's what. we're going to be a political liability system where he is not the only seemingly more ready just baker ironically to non-rational channels countries corruption problems and criticize them just want to put forward real solutions rather than how to make sure

russia is for russia and he said now i r t moscow. libya is marking the first anniversary of the start of its nato backed up rising which brought down common market darfield to a brutal civil war not sure a transitional council which took charge is still struggling to control the country but i must international recently accuse the entity so you're failing to protect the rights thousands of supporters. inside the former rebels are locked in the power struggle since rain and the economy is crumbling dependent journalist have events and. the outcome was predictable. there is actually no government in libya at the moment the n.c.c. is nothing more than a meteor show that there are hundreds of militias that control different parts of the country and this. gadhafi and the former libyan government always warned that

this would happen so we are we are seeing that anybody who doesn't agree with this state of affairs by the west rebels is systematically persecuted as you mentioned. we have. have done a report showing that there is a systematic people who support about the not least the former permanent representative of the united nations. human rights watch did a report on you basically say that he's been tortured from within an inch of his life and they called for him to either be caught or released immediately so you very important i think is going to bring him right to bear philosophers and just because they don't support the nato intervention in that country they have also been tortured if they are being detained we actually don't know that state that. well we're always interested in your opinion today we're asking what is revolution made of libya well going to r.t. dot com to participate our latest global web pope has taken the numbers as they stand right now so far close to half of you believe the beer is now boiled tell the

western powers and most of the. eyes of the country torn apart by civil war and sixteen percent say it's no hotbed for its newest radicals and a few of you said that it's. democracy will die and have your say. or some world using before you know this hour the leaders of britain and france plan to discuss an increase in practical help for syrian rebels which could involve giving the military advice david cameron nicolas sarkozy will hold a summit in paris to talk about what more can be done to aid the free syrian army and also sign a major deal which would see the two nations work closely with civil nuclear technology. gunmen from the radical islamists who. are in prison freeing a hundred nineteen inmates one guard was killed in the ensuing gun fight.