yes with joel selwood loose the model is us journalists who have lived i believe that over each one hundred died in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. he worried about u.s. fascism in the nineteen in the one nine hundred thirty days and afraid roosevelt a man named bertram gross in the one nine hundred eighty s. wrote a book called friendly fascism he said when it arrives it'll be with a friendly face and he used rather worry you as a fascist prototype smiling well rule izing of destroying us freedoms today bill we have deeply repressive police state laws the most recent was slipped into the national defense authorization act on the last day of two thousand a little he gives the us government to break the military arrest and throw in military dungeons u.s. citizens anywhere in the world chives them leave the in charge give them

a military tribunal trial give them no trial let them rot in prisons forever if that isn't a fascist dictatorship what is right steven is also targeting big business in many ways is he trying to jump on the occupy wall street movement here well he is very upset especially about the federal reserve i am not a ron paul supporter but i absolutely support is up is ition to imperial wars he has got have to the federal reserve yours is a repressive group is privately although operated it isn't federal and it doesn't have reserves is run paul explains is owned by the major bank use may lead to wall street ones and they use money power to create more of it at the public's expense is long as the system goes on this way that in democracy cannot coexist it doesn't and these fast. his bankers are allied with the fascist militarists it

relies on people here through lies and people that own the jets the reality beric and have to wake up to the to understand they need to know the liberties of fast disappearing and all the they only they can change things very dismissive occupy wall street has woken up but we need a mass american awakening to take on this beast is destroyed ok stephen and what way then should you see this massive awakening ron paul is talking about the predictions of future unrest is he actually encouraging unrest in order for the people's views to be heard well i think sooner or later it comes but what happened in. russia in one nine hundred seventeen for pressure severe enough people rules up all the through the dictatorship look what's going on in greece right now furious people in lives are being destroyed in real time i think it's only

a matter of time before they don't just rally installment front of the album but they break into it and they have all these criminal prosecute politicians oh i was screwed in mix and they either put them on trial well they hang them they deserve to be paying it criminals that are serving the people is sold them into deep poverty the same thing is happening across europe it's happening in america will slowly sooner or later when general saluki says is true when people lose everything and have nothing else to lose they lose it they lose it that means of violence it means rising up against or oppress about and what with throwing it and them out of those anthropologist margaret mead once said it doesn't take a lot of people to do this she said never end and never never underestimate the power of a few committed people to chain. the world. as you see all the

way if. indeed it's up to us stephen your words there will stir up a lot of reaction many against and many for your views thank you very much indeed stephen stephen lemon joining us live there radio host and author and stephen was referring to russian politics just a little earlier well it's all happening here of course the candidates standing in the fast approaching russian president election doing all they can to woo the electorate news channels are airing intense debates and controversial t.v. adverts artie's done a pushover has taken a closer look at the tools contenders are using to win support. we were struck this is the video that's called the most uproar so far in the presidential campaigns underway in russia in it one of the candidates version of famously his showmanship and occasional fist fights with fellow paul and terry and claims my god other times when russia symbol was a traditional troika with three day horses and jingle bells these little mantra

donkey has become a symbol of our country the whole country has come to a standstill like the sentiments with less than a month to go the five candidates have plastered the streets with election posters and desolate views with t.v. promos heated discussions on television radio and the internet have become part of everyday life. i don't course in the race billionaire businessman mikhail prokhorov promises their arrival of a new russia with a new president known for his height riches and playboy past he's the only new face on russia's political scene formally editorials party animal his reputation was once dented by an international sex scandal which has come back to haunt him on the web we are vegeta help you with all our body and soul as for the elections will win them any way you can buy anything so you can buy your victory to the remaining candidates are familiar crowd to the voters the unchanging leader of the communist

party good ideas are going to present a fresh image with a campaign featuring a mix of faces from the past as well as the present while his rival from the just russia party still game it on the it's trying to attract the older generation the only clear favorite in the race prime minister vladimir putin has refrained from getting involved in the campaign directly he has controversially refused to take part in any t.v. debates sending his representatives instead and his promos never show his face. on this three politics there are only talk either big meeting. either prop or tin or against porter so if you when he doesn't go to television when he's part of st politics when he's a part of the television coverage of whose job as prime minister he is there is the only one let's say the only kind that with so many resources so much media

attention i think that he wants to show that he's the only real candidate to precisely by not going there and according to the latest opinion polls the level of support keeps on growing across the country despite the wave of opposition protests i think that brought us tend to mobilize his core electorate because when. people like right wing politic politician brought her up are saying that you know the social benefits from the cut that factories that are inefficient because that stage would not interfere so much i think that the message that people gather cross russia is that like we should keep putting election day may only be around the corner but this still plenty of time for the other four would be presidents to try and chip away at this current lead and while some voters rely on traditional t.v. campaigning others are turning to the internet for some comic relief. and then call

himself believe john paul bonhomme of supposedly. has recently become an online sensation with a song praising the virtues of the prime minister all the peat by putin's initials . by alice and while the jury's out on whether it's propaganda or clever hoax aimed at discrediting putin the electoral campaign rolls on with more surprises likely along the way. over party school. some of today's news making headlines now around the world this hour in a world update twenty people have been killed in baghdad after an explosion struck a crowd of recruits outside a police academy no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast which also sort least twenty eight others wounded iraq's police are considered to be the weakest element of the country's security forces which are the target of bombings and shootings almost daily. a prison riot in northern mexico has left at least

forty people dead the unrest started in the city of a darker when a group of soul mates took one of the guards hostage the rock then spread to a second block deadly unrest to mexican prisons is common with gangs often attempting jailbreaks some thirty one inmates died in general a riot in the gulf coast city of ultimate. with two months to go until the french presidential election nicolas sarkozy has held his first major campaign speech in the port city of moore saying the president was met by thousands of cheering supporters this is the latest opinion polls place him behind socialist rival and current front runner hollande france is now facing an unemployment rate nearing ten percent and has been forced to cut spending and raise taxes. on whitney houston is being laid to rest in a private ceremony in new jersey the star was buried next to her father who died in two thousand and three comes a day after an emotional farewell service attend by by some of the biggest names in

music at the church where he stood sang in the choir as a child six time grammy award winner was found dead in the bar for the beverly hills hotel last week. twenty eight minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital i'll be back with a recap of our top stories when just a few minutes in fact two minutes from now they go away.

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this is the weekly live here on out see the news in the week's top stories to iran says it stopped exporting oil to france and britain and the growing pressure on sanctions over iran's nuclear program the country's oil ministry says it will still sell its crude to new customers. u.n. ramps up the pressure on the syrian regime as the general assembly adopts a known funding resolution demanding president assad steps to pressure calls for talks to break the stalemate on damascus promises before. we can get schools out of

the streets once again as lawmakers clear more cuts to secure vital rescue cash which could now be cleared on monday but the rage of a beleaguered population is still at the forefront of greek society. i'll be back out with not the summary for you in about fifteen minutes from now the meantime for some insight into what may be behind the pressure heaped on iran we spoke to brian becker a member of the antiwar coalition and that is next on. thank you for joining us on r.t. thank you but does the united states want from tightening the sanctions i mean there it's even beyond tightening the sanctions now indeed it is the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a.

iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is now threatening its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike iran refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran and so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change they deny that the us denied that it's trying to carry out there was a change in iran right i mean we have to take that with

a very very big grain of salt because we know that since one nine hundred seventy nine the united states refuses to have relations with the islamic republic of iran why is it because iran is a dictatorship well it's actually a democratic government it has democratic features far beyond some of america's most foremost their allies in the middle east such as saudi arabia for instance since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine iran became an independent government before that between one nine hundred fifty three in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine when the shah was there. the shah acted basically as a proxy or a puppet or a client of the american power and so the u.s. says they're not carrying out regime change but in fact everyone who's watching knows that indeed is the u.s. policy to create pressure on iran carry out overt operate covert operations economic sanctions and now these new sanctions are not really even a like the old saying they are saying to the rest of the world if you dare do

business with iran central bank if you buy iranian oil which constitutes half of iran's g.n.p. if you have any business with iran whatsoever you will not have access to american banks to american corporations to the american market this is in fact a blockade something like an economic blockade of iran and by international law in economic blockade is an act of war and so we should understand it just like that so what do you think iran's response is going to be well iran so far has been very prudent even though they said that they would consider closing the strait of hormuz that six mile stretch of the persian arabian gulf where twenty five percent of the world's oil supply goes through. and even though much was made of that in the western media in fact iran has not done anything to give the u.s. . pretext an excuse

a provocation so to speak that would allow the united states or israel to trigger a set of military actions a run i think is also telling its people that we are not panicked we the iranian government are not panicked that they're trying to show that they have a serenity and a calmness and a confidence and that they will weather the storm but in fact economic sanctions are taking a bite on the iranian economy right now there is a lot to see about this israeli possible attack specially israeli. possible attack wall street journal says that the u.s. is planning a plan b. said israel attacked i think the israelis try to pretend that iran constitutes an existential threat to israel i don't think that that in fact is the case even though iran's military has the capability to do great damage to israel in the event of a war even though israel is a nuclear power i think that the israeli government has an a pattern and

a practice of invasion and bombing of its neighbors in the middle east it carried out the bombing of a racks a nuclear facility in one thousand nine hundred one even though that was a permitted by international law and subject to spectrum's in other words a nuclear program for civilian energy purposes israel came and bombed it they did the same to syria in the last few years and they would like to carry out military strikes against the iranian government the americans don't want that right now even though they they're happy to be have iran in a state of tension they don't really want israel to become the main protagonist with the iranian government by carrying out an unprovoked military strike i mean i'm talking about the main sectors in the american establishment because that would then present the crisis death struggle between the islamic republic of iran on one side and the israelis regime on the other and in that case iran will be able to

mobilize mass support throughout the middle east for it the united states has a different tact they want to keep israel sort of in the background lou mean danger in threatening iran in one way keeping iran in the state of tension perhaps militarily but have the economic sanctions do the bulk of the work by carrying out economic and financial isolation against the iranian government they think in the long term that's the easier way the better way or the more effective way to carry out regime. the u.s. has puzzled over israel's intentions so what if israel does decide to strike iran and this is a u.s. official says it's hard to know what's a bluster and what's not with israelis well i think a lot of that is baloney and nonsense the israelis are the recipient the benefactor of three billion dollars a year in u.s. military aid if they do something that's completely contrary to what washington

wants they will be on the very short end of the stick the israelis are not dominating in dictating u.s. policy in this geo strategically they are not they have a big influence in washington they have a strong lobby but when it comes to iran or when it comes to iraq the israelis do not tell the united states what to do it's vice versa if israel strikes no if the conflict is presented that way between the islamic republic and israel the people of the middle east will really to the side of iran the assassination of tehran ian scientists which rick santorum called half and that's where. john bolton of. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations the sanctions that tightening up the sanctions the . coalition that the u.s. is trying to build against iran what is iran going to do with a face all of this pressure well iran has certain allies to iran has russia and it

has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as

a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop nuclear power for peaceful civilian purposes and i think right now the iranian government is trying to weather the storm they're also making it clear that they don't options that they have they have limited options they have limited options and that's the big issue here i think is that. in america right now in the united states nobody feels this issue they don't feel there's a war looming they don't feel the problem of economic sanctions it's the iranians who are feeling it it's the tension the pressure of the economic problems are all one sided this is like a great power the seven hundred pound gorilla who decides to sit wherever it wants to sit and it can create immense tension and pressure and economic suffering somewhere else without having to endure any political price so that that's the big

problem and as a peace activist and as someone who believes in human rights in i think will do will see this more and more in the united states we are starting to concentrate our efforts to expose the fact that the united states government is carrying out through a different set of tactics the same thing that they did in iraq they carried out regime change in iraq not to make iraq more democratic more human rights oriented but to dominate a wreck and i think they they want to do that in iran and we need to have people outside of iran stand up and say iran should not be alone on this that's not presidential elections have any say in what's going on in will and what's going to happen with iran and tens of washington. i think the presidential elections in the united states definitely play a role in u.s. policy towards iran that by the way has been the case ever since the iranian revolution iran has factored into american politics in this case the republican candidates are sort of baiting obama and suggesting that if obama is reelected we

will have a nuclear armed iran someday soon well i might do something just to counter their statements because it's an election year i don't think so i think that it's not out of the question that obama could opportunistically up the ante or even escalate tensions or even allow some sort of limited military attack against iran in order to show how tough he is and how why he's not a liberal. or something like that but i don't think so this is a very big project for the pentagon for the cia for the us establishment i think it goes beyond electoral politics and i think the obama administration and the pentagon are having a carefully calibrated approach that won't again with regime change the republicans and democrats share the same objective one is more demagogic we militant against iran they both share the same objective which is to bring iran back into an american spear of influence and i think the republicans can't move obama that much

because obama actually has the backing of the pentagon in terms of this particular approach the pentagon is bogged down in afghanistan they really were pushed out of iraq they have a lot of a lot of military problems a major full scale war right now which could happen even if they don't intend it by people climb the escalation ladder. designed to keep you close in your own world as a prison. you know usually somebody in there for a couple hours like in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of

building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer two songs would be angel of death and raining blood. going through war coming up here into iraq. trying to pull the body for just a rock n roll band it was fitting for the job we were doing.

the major news in the week's top stories in r.t. tehran says it will stop exporting oil to france and britain amid growing pressure and sanctions over iran's nuclear program but the country's all ministry says it will still sell its crude to new customers and. the u.n. ramps up the pressure on the syrian regime as the general assembly adopts a non-binding resolution demanding president assad steps down but russia calls for talks to break the stalemate while damascus promises reforms. and we can get spilled out in the streets once again as your make is clear more cuts to secure vital rescue cash which could now be cleared on monday but the rage of

a beleaguered population is still at the forefront of greek society. as the top stories this hour dimitris next with all the sports news now but with more news for you in fifteen minutes from now. hello there all the latest from the sporting world on our team in the next eleven minutes or so our top stories this hour. be seeing russia win the european cup here in moscow for the second time in a row. boxing brawl brits david haye and chisora. post-flight press conference as metallic which call retains his w.b.c. heavyweight title. and his european crown twenty five year old golfer from south africa wins the masters in new delhi.

so let's start with boxing where heavyweights world champion metallic leach caus points feature of a british challenger jarrett has been overshadowed by a brawl at the post fight press conference klitschko was celebrating retaining his w.b.c. title with a unanimous points victory over to zorra when the press conference was interrupted by another former heavyweight world champ and david haye. leaving the stage and confronting bemused klitschko what's on his or claimed he was lost by a hair and then said he would shoot his compatriot at one stage i swung a try but his trainer adam booth was left with a bloody face john police detained to store. for his part in the incident. books which is what. there are two stories being accused of three things firstly badly.