welcome back you're watching r.t.m. to hear the headlines the u.s. prepares to sentence a russian businessman big to boot for conspiring to smuggle arms and kill americans and protest his innocence and vows to pill who'd faces life behind bars a case in the sense crane's was hugely influenced by a biased u.s. media coverage. balance erupts in central athens and testers clashing with riot police after a retired pensioner shoots himself in front of us in a suicide note the retired pharmacist l'engle stoney cuts introduced by the greek

government reducing his pension to nothing. just defense contractors why not a business as india makes plans to modernize and military hit by corruption scandals and claims it's one of the part that countries are prepared to spend a hundred billion dollars and weapons in the next ten years. and next we focus a lot of a growing number of americans see as a major flaw of u.s. politics a two party system and frank interview on the matter now with jerry white the socialist equality party candidate that's coming right up. in the. arts he's sitting down with jerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate for the upcoming twenty twelve election mr right thank you very much for joining our teacher thank you very much bill according to our gallup poll a record number of americans now identify themselves as independents that's

actually 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 has 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 party of american capitalism and so it has functioned primarily to channel social opposition completely behind a cap of this program of bush what program workers face governments which are completely controlled by the world bank so that oligarchs or 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 a live event 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 nowhere in the world does

a presidential election receive an garner the type of financial to the nation's a contributions as an election in the united states. and 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 opposes him. will have a large amount of money too is there any way in the future that every president presidential candidate runs on the same amount of money why 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 moneyed interests i mean the and you're

correct to say it's one of the most undemocratic ballot access laws for instance even get on the ballot requires tens of thousands of signatures which are 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. now is that now one nation no not at all in this war none of them at all so you're saying there's no democracy there's no genuine jailers see 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 society's resources are 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 leader 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 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 has 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 be clued in to the recent war in libya which was carried out in the name of human rights it was a war as iraq as afghanistan. of 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 the struggle for socialism the 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 that will dominate the presidential elections in the united states if americans had to choose between are two models of cars or two types of cereals they would they wouldn't like it they would not more choices more variety so why are americans ok with just having this combination of two party system well it isn't the choice of americans the ordinary americans that you have

a monopoly of to corporate back part of us mean that the it is in the interests of those two corporate back parties to exclude any voices 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 before before the population and no one asked the american people whether or not an invasion of iraq in two thousand and. 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 a general consensus in the population for that it is it is if it is

a monopoly against genuine democracy against genuine democracy and serious amy america's leaders don't represent the people they say it's obvious that they are going to get votes you can't say that they don't get what i mean that's the decay of american democracy as we're going on you know consistently for decades and decades yet the stolen election of two thousand and in two thousand you had the explain the events of two thousand and one nine eleven which we utilize to more and more attack the most basic democratic rights you now have a president obama who is the clarion that he has the right to assassinate u.s. citizens anywhere in the world without genuine due process the 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 for leave that are in the so called american style of political theater is replicated in many other democratic countries like france for example do you agree that of course it's a crying shame you know the degradation of of politics is being brought it everything has to do with celebrity everything you do is slogans and appealing certainly not. to to reason and 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 in and of course that was that was an incredible crime but however the french governments in gaijin wars it's banning birth the burka it's using anti immigrant an anti arab chauvinism in france he's horrible

tragedies are an inevitability under 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 what politics is is is a decaying to such crass appeals you know you contrast that for instance in the in the period where american political life there in the american revolution or lincoln when he came to complete a 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 rus they explained the incapacity of society moving forward on such a basis they made an appeal to reason to deep democratic smell of the democratic

sentiments in the population but can work in obama do except claim to the population and i feel your pain i'm really on your side while he's getting you know millions of 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 kerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate thank you very much for sitting down for to thank you very much.

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see. the u.s. prepares to sentence a russian basement group to boot for conspiring to smoke alarms and kill americans as a protest his innocence and vows to appeal to places like the garden for hours in a case of defense claims was hugely influenced by biased u.s. media coverage. balance erupts in central athens with protesters clashing with riot police after a retired pensioner shoots himself in front of the greek parliament in a suicide they're going to have on a system blamed for security costs introduced by the government reducing his engine to nothing. plus defense contractors lined up for business again via makes plans to

nothing or as a military hit by corruption scandals claims it's falling apart the country had to spend hundred billion dollars on weapons over the next ten years. we'll talk after look at what's going on in the world the stalled. welcome to the sports roundup and here's a taste of bodies coming up one win away album god tell you seen on the garden cup final after another victory over struck gold. club chelsea in real madrid charging to the semifinals of the champions league. and looking crazy way down its lead but it will surely call the panties w.b.i. title in the style. of the start i would. have been guarded just don't win away from the garden cup finals after beating regular season when his track there were three one on how you minds. getting the flu but i've been here.

before i let some pollution put the sights erupts midway through the match. but the most dramatic ends this gangplank did manage to pull one back through and pull in the last of the many guys. and they then replace they go out and give it a night for the play to try to snatch a late equaliser but it was a romantic banker who took advantage of the late and on the floor three once out on guard when i think one of the best of seven series and one more words from jordan are more in the final. i thought chelsea have reached a champions league semifinal for a two one win over time and then fakers stamford bridge that sent the london side three three one and i get to set up a showdown with barcelona. called white to face them. would be exciting to play two games against. one of the best teams in the world.

we will find a strategy that will suit our players and no team to face. on the tail really has been garcia had come to that prize ramparts first half strike with five minutes to go before marie left popped up with the winner that day in contrast round three crease into the semi for the five two well to go three eight over old. man will face by green is next although he doesn't think his team of the favorites for the title. of the most of it was worse alone is not fever it was a super achiever but we have a semifinal against bahrain and i hope to be very bad. for someone who's not favorite a super favorite when we have a semi final against biron but i hope to be very balanced we are two good chunk seems they are playing well byron has an extra motivation of playing the final at home real madrid has been two consecutive years in semifinals years and that is

normal does we also have the extra motivation of trying to reach the final of the second time when we couldn't reach it was time for that you know for stay with football and twenty eighteen world cup host russia are set to receive seven hundred million dollars from faith to help the country prepare for the world's biggest football tournament the cash injection would provide them a. your part of the world cup budget according to russian sports instead of the tally pro the remaining one hundred million dollars would come from sponsors however these funds. would be monitored by a special new body called arena twenty eight team currently thirteen russian cities appearing to be among the eleven which will host the matches and inspections of those will take place over the next few months. or in april we're getting down to selected all the news and they will all be named in september we have decided that it's going to be twelve stadiums below in cities so more likely to all the cheeriness. now not every russian football fan can go to poland and

ukraine this summer to watch you're a twenty twelve so for the first time in a decade big screens will go up across the country to show the games fan zones will be set up in moscow simply in five other cities where supporters can watch every game at the championships the zones were also be in place for the london olympics in the day they won't be sporting activities for kids and during the evening matches that will be on sale for the adults and former russian midfielder elections things the zones will have a great atmosphere among the non travelling fans. much of what a fan wants to watch a football match they want to get with friends normally to a pub a can cheer on it seems as though this summer i'd recommend supporters come to fan zone sit in the stands and feel like a possible action and i think this is the best alternatives why should being in poland ukraine. now russia's women's football team of have a year a twenty eight thirteen qualification high percentage that after they lost sale at

home to great native. as the story. board by resoundingly win over macedonia last weekend russia's women were in the mood for results against group leaders italy but that prospect was never going to be easy the italians won all of the previous five group games including a comfortable two nil win over russia in italy and there was also the small matter of the story not conceding a single goal in the process while registering twenty three but russia's group record of only one defeat in five meant they seemed well prepared for the challenge however from the get go it was clear russia was in for a tough ninety minutes just a few seconds in the italian should have scored and this ily opportunity set the tone for the remainder of the hof eight minutes on and italy went ahead through veteran patricia penney call who headed home from a deflect across a goal down early on russia failed to get their rhythm when they did get forward it was brief and ineffective but they did manage to keep the italians at bay going

into half time trailing by that solitary goal despite it being a weak day over five thousand people were on hand to give the russian team their focus towards the second half started with a flurry with both sides coming close to scoring but if that was a sign of things to come it flattered to deceive the game became weary with the russians running out of ideas and italy content to sit on their lead but when it looked like russia was finally step up their game there once again caught on the break and found themselves to nail down. this result of course suited the italians . and even though the russian side huffed and puffed until the final whistle the results remained unchanged despite his team's dominance italy's coach had considered russia then named group rivals and said the difference between the two sides was simply confidence we are the same but. even now as he needs to be. more confident about the game russia's coach was understandably

disappointed but adamant his team would still qualify for next year's european championships we must think that we could do it and thought me i have. in my head no questions and no negative think that we can do it it's impossible we must be so complacent that we go to sweden russia remains second after the defeat two points ahead of poland while having played the same amount of games when a win would have set them up well in the fight with italy over first sports they will now surely have to settle for runners up position which is still far from guaranteed in the end it was too much for the arsenal of national football team. winning to nail on the day but it was a fantastic day of call ball sun is shining with all the good performances from both sides and now for the russian team it's up to them to secure the runners up

place to qualify for next year's european championships and not start with greece on the sixteenth of june martin franco r.t. moscow region switch to boxing like dennis lebedev has defended his w.p.a. interim title in style in front of his home crowd in moscow the russian not that shaun cox early in the second round level is a clear favorite for life this was the first offensive is to be a title he was looking to continue winning streak after beating tee box in legends will change kenya in james chaney early this year although cox real solid in the end he lifted the lid of a knockout punch in the second and is already looking forward to defending his crime again. much of mother yet as soon as they start moving better on my feet i took the edge he was still throwing punches but he can land and lost confidence you can be the judges swear he was the world important for me i just did my best and i will do them better in the next because it's

a little when you started the first of the second round i was sure that you would knock knock him out because it was obvious that first of all he. he found a hole in his defense and it was a matter of channel fifteen seconds if you didn't land this konstanz he would have learned it fifteen seconds later. because first major of the year the u.s. masters gets underway on thursday and there's good news and bad news for public harrington and jonathan byrd they were the joint when is of the traditional pass three curtain raiser this is bird here the pair talk the leaderboard five under par one play was canceled because of lightning but unfortunately no winner at the event has ever gone on to win the masters and the all sixteen of them how did it become so good inherent in harrington here i would have to break that curse so much people know i had one of the shots of the day this is the seventy fourth hole in one in the tournament fifty two. and it didn't go in the hole i promise you that is

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