this is r.t. from moscow it's kevin owen here tonight with the top stories for you in the first u.s. marines reach the strayer as america's military moves in on the age of pacific region challenge china's growing influence. against arming the syrian rebels with peace efforts underway saying they can present the sad and lonely lead to carnage. also the hague rejection of palestinian requests to investigate alleged israeli war crimes of territory frozen foods and partiality. promise that makes the potential

president you've probably never heard of these jerry white running for the white says even though the race is dominated by a stale two party system which he says most americans are fed up with. parties sitting down with jerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate for the upcoming twenty twelve election that's right thank you very much for joining our team so i thank you very much well according to a gallup poll a record number of americans now identify themselves as independents absent more than those who identify themselves as democrats or republicans what do you think that says about american politics really central question is for years social opposition has always been channeled back into the democratic party which is presented itself as the people's party right so you had huge protests for example against the iraq war in two thousand and three but then the leadership of those

protests quickly put that movement behind first the john kerry campaign then finally the obama campaign. you had the occupy wall street protests an expression initial expression of enormous anger over social inequality the domination of big money over the government the imperviousness of the government to the needs of the population but again the leadership of these movements in one way or another channel that behind the democratic party made via the trade unions which. you know the argument being that somehow the democratic party is really a people's party but it has always been a capitalist party it is the second cat party of american capitalism and so it has functioned primarily to channel social opposition completely behind

a copy of this program a bush war program workers face governments which are completely controlled by the world bank so that oligarchs are the corporate elites and in every country the working class needs a. political program and our program isn't based just on slogans or media conjuncture of the events it's based on an understanding of history in the long struggle by the socialist movement and such figures as leon trotsky is no national solution for american workers or greek workers we're confronting a huge multinational corporations but no where in the world does a presidential election receive an garner the type of financial donations that contributions as interaction in the united states. u.s. president barack obama is expected to raise a billion dollars or more for his reelection campaign this year and i'm sure whatever republican oppose this him. will have

a large amount of money too is there any way in the future that every predicate presidential candidate runs in the same amount of money by can it be an equal playing field or candidates are actually working to get votes from citizens rather than getting money from citizens and corporations but it's the best government that money can buy in the united states and it's a good it's a government that serves those money and i need interests i mean the you're correct to say that some one of the most undemocratic ballot access laws for instance even get on the ballot requires tens of thousands of signatures which and then scrutinized by the democrats and republicans to exclude any independent parties even once you get ballot access as you noted the media generally excludes any oppositional voices so i think that the question of a broadening of

a democratic. electoral process is bound up with a political awakening in the political struggle of the working class you can't have genuine democracy when one percent of the population control such vast wealth and carries out policies which is so antithetical to the interests of society as a whole they can't do it democratically they have to use more and more authoritarian methods of repression there is opposition to the war in this country in afghanistan and iraq yet they're preparing for another war are there nations whose leaders in your opinion truly represents the people's agenda or represent what you see. no no one nation no not at all in this world none of them and it all so you're saying there's no democracy there's no genuine joy or sorrow anywhere because genuine democracy is bound up with social equality it means that the most

important decisions of a society not simply choosing between two represent is the three representatives of big business but the most important decisions how societies resources allocated peace or war these decisions have to be made by the working population which is the vast majority of the population in every country how would you say u.s. foreign policy could or would change if what americans wanted was represented by the american major well i mean clearly the american population just as the working people around the world have no interest in slaughtering one another in battles over the interests of huge energy conglomerates and so forth. we we are fighting to give voice to the sentiments and the needs of the american working class and i want to stress that our campaign is not simply an american

campaign we are fighting to unify the working class internationally. against the dangers of a new war. the type of crimes that have recently emerged as as in the massacre in afghanistan these aren't simply the issue of stretched out soldiers as as abuse these soldiers are themselves the american soldiers are but it's the very character of these types of wars that are being carried out wars of occupation wars to subjugate entire populations including the recent war in libya which was carried out in the name of human rights it was a war as iraq as afghanistan. the reemergence of colonialism of imperialism and the working class in america has no interest in that and the working class around the world has no interest in that we see the struggle for genuine peace as a struggle for socialism

a struggle for the working class to take economic and political power in its own hands it is almost always a republican and a democratic candidate romney presidential elections in the united states if americans had to choose between your two models of cars or two types of cereals they would they would like it they would want more choices more variety so why are americans ok with just having this combination of your two party system well it isn't the choice of americans the ordinary americans that you have a monopoly of two corporate back parties i mean the the it is in the interests of those two corporate back parties to exclude it anyway says that challenge the political monopoly of the financial elite over society. no none of the major decisions that affect the lives of millions of people are ever put forth before the

population no one asked the american people whether or not an invasion of iraq in two thousand and three. we should go ahead no one asked the american people in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine should trillions of dollars be handed out to the reckless financier's on wall street that destroyed the economy if they were asked they would clearly say no that money should go to schools should go to jobs it should go to health care the basic needs of the population so the political monopoly that exists isn't because of there is a a general consensus in the population for that it is it is if it is a monopoly against genuine democracy against union markets and serious amy america's leaders don't represent the people and if they say they are going to get votes i can't say that they don't get what i mean the decay of american democracy has been going on you know consistently for decades and decades you have the stolen

election of two thousand and two thousand you had the explain the events of two thousand and one nine eleven which were utilized to more and more attack the most basic democratic rights you now have a president obama was declaring that he has the right to assassinate u.s. citizens anywhere in the world without genuine due process millions voted for obama for example in two thousand and eight because they wanted an end to what bush represented and obama has gone even further in the tax on wages and living standards and social programs than the republicans ever did any critics believe that the so called american style or of political theater is replicated in many other democratic countries like france for example thank you for that course it's a crying shame you know the degradation of of politics is being brought that

everything has to do with celebrity everything you do is slogans and appealing certainly not. two to reason and through reasoned argument but the crassest appeals and so on but that's also an indication of how distant the french government is from the masses of working of working people you know you have this tragedy and to lose the other day and of of course that was it was an incredible crime but however the french government's engaged in wars it's banning birth the burka it's using anti immigrant in anti arab chauvinism in france these it's horrible tragedies are an inevitability into those conditions and what is politics in every part of the world blaming immigrants for the problems of unemployment while the political figures hand over trillions to the banks they blame immigrants for unemployment or for taking slots in school so everywhere bush will have politics is is is

a decaying to such crass appeals you know you contrast that for instance in that in the period where american political life during the american revolution or lincoln when he came to cooper union here in new york before engaging in his election campaign they actually spoke in an intelligent fashion they made arguments they explain with what slavery rise they explain the incapacity of society moving forward on such a basis they made an appeal to reason to deep democratic small d democratic sentiments in the population what can what can obama do except claim to the population that i feel your pain i'm really on your side while he's getting busy you know myth is a dollars from wall street so course the level of politician politics is so degraded but these are deep social forces the breakdown of capitalism around the

world the incredible levels of social inequality imperviousness of the political establishment is giving. rise to the emergence of a powerful movement of the working class gerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate thank you very much for saying partly thank you very much. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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the top stories tonight the first u.s. marines reach a stray layer as america's military moves in on the asia pacific region the challenge china's growing influence. russia warns against amin the syrian rebels with peace efforts underway saying they can't tell for president assad to know me lead to carnage. on the hague's rejection of palestinian requests to investigate alleged israeli war crimes on the territory throws doubt over the course and cause jealousy. this is r.t.d. and now kate maines spall.

thank you like every other welcome to the once a small round up it like a partridge and here are the top stories chelsea challenge reverser the retailer otis is pleased to be cautious despite holding a one no lead against benfica ahead of the home leg of the charges the quarterfinals. while one win away out on bad beats regular season champions yet again one foot in their maiden kit are in cup finals. and the lessons learned world number two worry mark toroid once last year's final day now down to spurring to victory as the masses prepares to get underway at augustana. let's kick off european football and chelsea are aiming to set of a champions league semifinal with holders barcelona but have to hold off portuguese transparency in the second leg of their last eight time at stamford bridge this wednesday night the blues hold a one nil away goal advantage after some clues seventy fifth minute strike in there's been an for west london side have hit

a rich vein of form under caretaker manager roberto di matteo but the italian remains cautious. in the i mean this ties for after a lot. of sporting overweight although in this champions league season so we know that a difficult task ahead fausta more than i. would have to approach this game like like an upper league. so benfica need a victory but only twice in champions league history has a team recovered from losing the first leg at home to win the tie but the portuguese side have lost only once away this campaign and will take the game to selsey. you still feel for it to a few years of course there were a google search warrant and we're going to approach this game by being. obviously we need to play as a team we need to score to prove. there's more groups like and said we're going to play an offensive game taking game and i'm sure we can take the game to chelsea.

but in the meantime only a disaster could prevent gray on the dread from reaching the last full the one time european champions host minnows after well after winning three nil in cyprus in the first leg the legal leaders have only conceded three goals in a match twice this season against arch rivals are slower but same rhenium still targets victory. to the champions this is a champions much we had a very good result and not everybody can expect to win here and burn a book but football is football we have to respect football we have to respect our fans who want a good game so i'm going to make very few changes we're going to play with a really strong gene. and try alcohol on course to meet by a new leaf after the fourth time champions wantin l a times and last say if it's only for twice to ensure the german giants goes through for help on either guessing what lionel messi scored two controversial penalties as barcelona beat ac milan three one though boss

a coach says the referees got his decisions right. on the spot they were penalties it happened to us during the first leg on t.v. it looked like him since i can see little else about it when a player catches you in the penalty and the referee blows the whistle that's it people sometimes they don't have it but when a player is holding the surety of an important time in the area he must be sanctioned. now not every russian football fan can go to poland and ukraine the summer to watch euro twenty twelve so for the first time in a decade big screens will go up across the country to show all the games found zones will be set up in moscow st petersburg and five other cities where supporters can watch every game at the championships the zones will also be placed with the london olympics well in a day they'll be sporting activities begins during the evening not years they'll be beer on sale for the adults and for the russian we've still got alexis murphy in the zones will have a great atmosphere among the non travelling fans as much of the fan wants to watch

a good match we want to go with friends can't. recommend supporters country fans are suited to stand and feel like the class of reaction i think it's regrettable chanted to actually being in poland and ukraine. now into ice hockey and hair gel playoffs where our own gods are just one win away from the guardian cup finals after beating regular season winners tractor three one on the i go there in alexey i usually netted a goal each other and asked to no luck really way through the match but there was a dramatic ending to the game jacked up pulled one back from the kingpin with less than a minute to go and the visitors then replace their goaltender with an outfield player parts this last ditch remedy was of no avail as the manchurian cat nailed a late empty netter album guards to their straight victory the hawks go three one off in this past of seven contest the series now moves to climb to the city of chile of its. out whoever prevails in the series will face red hot drama moscow in

the garden path finals the capital plus steamrollers garson petersburg six one on tuesday to beat a surprise series want wash the nice net in a cracker after just five minutes to get the capacity home ground luzhniki stadium on their beat and i double dare leave midway through the opening period and you see it on a power play and just five minutes later. it came out of stunned. stepanek yet again for a short go home tended the skull go off and asked but the substitution didn't help thinking that he coughed and then again a nice in school within three minutes of each other for anything completed trick to give the host and six mil lead in the second period. of the consolation for scar while two men up but it's not known who breeze into their maiden final which they believe will be tough because of this play. both teams are extremely strong on the way to great season they have a believable way good series that baby needs to open arms in

a previous round so. does a little bit of. hours ago and with less than a day to go until the start of the year's first major the masters well number two rory mcilroy has been out on the orchestra course where he suffered a not macca lapse in the fan around last year that's what the two year old northern irishman blew a four shot lead on the final day and says he's learned from that bitter experience well after that meltdown he went on to win the u.s. open and thinks his new found mental toughness will give him a real chance to win the green jacket on sunday. said it was just great to be back obviously here the first time at five o'clock last week you know obviously there's no reason to come back and very that you probably don't want to. it's fine you know i got i got that all out of the way and you know just looking forward to this week and looking forward to trying to put myself in contention the try and win this thing and luke donald though he's the current world number one the englishman is

still waiting for his first major but thinks the depth of talent at the masters will inspire him to do well. certainly you know it's great when you have. talent like rory you know playing extremely well and pushing you to work harder you know those guys challenge me to work harder to try and find that next level and it's no different with rory really targeted phil i mean you know when great players are playing great it's inspired me to work harder while talking of tiger woods the american has regained top form and is the favorites to clinch is fifteenth major title and first since the u.s. open in two thousand and eight the thirty six year old ended his thirty month barren streak on the p.g.a. tour last month winning the arnold palmer invitation or by five strides to break back into the world's top ten i want says it was deserved. but i wasn't like it was easy in the scores were pretty high and. to go out there with the lead and.

increase the lead. was it was a good feeling the way i got one part although it was you know i felt like i went out there and earn the win. and finally russia is restless getting the prices up along the memphis and the recent freestyles investment championships here in moscow right songwriter describing. convergence reports. this year russia's freestyle wrestling championship held a special importance the results of this competition along with the other major events will provide the basis for team russia to select the country schools for the summer's olympic games in london and despite the fact russia still has a goal to limit licenses into weight that's a grease out of the for the coaching staff confidence the situation is going to change before too long and yes the last night i don't think there's a real threat that we won't have our athletes in any weight divisions moreover in london we're going to fight for the silverware in all possible categories on the former sister of the events in the mostly region russia's new champions and olympic

weights were determined taking full advantage of the team leader larissa or jack's absence the under forty eight killers class so young talent stepped into the pool as a result twenty year old the father of a claim her first domestic goal but out. in the final the undefeated part keyless title holder was contested by some of the strongest competitors around at the moment. malaria who's yet to turn twenty was facing the two time european girls medalist maria who are on the youngsters triumph in straight rounds was no talk len expected but her german and so was a little bit surprising me there so it was very hard to win here to be honest to have played for here but when you take part in such a tournament you can hundred the difference if there's an if it's part of a limp again so next time i am to sixty three k. category twenty eleven runner up is this year gretchen christie sean murphy and

jennifer mentor as she claimed the first two rounds of the finals in called for the fashion world the most highly. dissipated balance of the day was the one between a roll championship silver medalist bitter in a book and i did three time youth world champion matter liver appeal and this and the seventy two kilograms final lead up to expectation where do most aggressive style and early leads in the opening round how well that it didn't last to school and that's your opponent will spin to the net much to the liberation of this dictates is your first and not at all as i didn't expect the final to go do we did it explicitly and you know very very happy to mean here just by the fact that the names of the athletes who will represent russia at the twenty twelve olympics are not known yet the country is told this wrestlers step into the final part of the operations but the only thing is already certain everybody is home an aim will be

to perform at the limits of their abilities in london in four months time i juggle to dance at sea. i think it's. filmmaking. and i. believe didn't run. the director's cut of real life in prison on charges he told the new. warnings today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are only day.

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