the world's most well known death row inmate for almost thirty years gives his first interview since his sentence in the u.s. was commuted to life imprisonment our correspondent shares details of her talk with will be. syrian troops in jeopardy opposition forces refused to guarantee a halt to violence a new demand the government says is crucial for a troop pull out ahead of a u.n. deadline. controversy surrounding u.s. gun laws gains momentum with the latest killing of an unarmed teenager triggering accusations that was lax legislation has led to the homicide rate soaring in some states. and reports suggest the deadly plane crash in western siberia

a week ago was caused by the cruise decision not to ice the plane the issue of training professional pilots in russia put under scrutiny. eleven pm in moscow i matter as i could tell you with us here on our cheek he used to be the world's most well known death row prisoner having spent thirty years in a u.s. jail for killing a police officer now we serving a life sentence with no chance of parole but hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide continue calling him a poster boy for an imperfect justice system and racial tensions in the u.s. r.t. spoke exclusively with libya in his first interview since his transfer from death row that's good more on this from art he's honest r.c. a churkin. so you said the talk was rather sincere what struck you the most about

your conversation with him. well you know national guard from the fact that this is obviously the first interview that movie of jamal is giving since being transferred from death row after being on death row for almost three decades this is the first time he is speaking and it's really anybody who watches his listens to his weekly commentary that he gives on prison radio knows that this is a very well read well educated person who has been following world affairs maybe even closer than most people walking the streets free these days and it was quite interesting to get his takes take on all of those sorts of things from the occupy wall street movement that's been taking place in the united states over the last year to the u.s. justice system to the election season unraveling in the united states most importantly it was interesting to get a personal feel of what it's like to be somebody who has been on death row for such a long time and who media shared with me that he mentally feels that he has been on

a trip around the world he tried to transform transform himself and learn about everything that goes on outside his prison cell this entire time although sadly he says his steel he still feels even though he's been taken off death row like he still is. now one of versions where you were with after a conversation. but you know it wasn't interesting to hear some of his really i asked him about his dreams and the kind of change he wants to see in this country and it's interesting that somebody who has been in jail for that long still has so many important social and economic and political issues that he follows but what's more important is what kind of impression he will leave for our viewers and of course we'll be bringing this interview in full for our viewers to listen to what we need had to tell us and during the interview i did ask him about the kind of message that he has like you mentioned he has countless supporters all around

the world and this is what he said he wants to pass along to the people following him today. the work required me to re-organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for writing let's write together. and of course money is fights concini is going to have to wait and see how his story develops it's been a long battle which is bound to continue and we're glad we're able to bring our viewers some information and some context of what this person is like and how his life in prison continues today all right art he's on a star situation a life for us from new york don't forget you can watch that interview with him all the first since his death or a sentence was commuted throughout the day on tuesday. third prize winner. convicted of controversial.

after thirty years on death row. i'll be just speaks to our chief. the internationally brokered ceasefire in syria scheduled for thursday could be dead on arrival opposition forces refusing to give written guarantees they'll stop fighting which is the regime's precondition for withdrawing its troops from cities and towns there's also reports of continued violence out of the truce in the latest incident a clash between rebels and troops spilled over the border into turkey with a number of people injured a turkish refugee camp our correspondent in the region sarra firth has the latest. on the syrian government forces were firing on the free syrian army men is as they try to meet barry state with a number of the refugees across the border into turkey an extremely close see this refugee camp in place my own is there a point between turkey and syria that has also been very serious questions that have been all about the return of a lot of the free syrian army back across into syria and we would be in that area

just last week and we were speaking to some of the refugees and they fully admit that the turkish authorities he turned a blind eye to the f.s.a. crossing back and forth in the country working. on across the border i was again among them but would the would. come could be maybe the. the army i took a show me cochairman. along has some people come back you know this people walk with me. beside the border or across the border to syria i stood beside the border and in many of the free syrian army people here there are people here and they're operating still there inside. the government. lets him go on back to fight and unfortunately you have seen as

a result of that the escalation of these clashes and violence in this area. the worst time is caused. by that with all of the peaks and tanks from some of these conflict areas upon a third forty eight hours after that of course the space to have this take the cease but take the announced piece but this is now the only card on the table that the syrian government evolves for the racing guarantees that the opposition is saying that really as the mediator needs to be provided not from the opposition side that is really very very important that there is some way now that people can find some me for rather than just simply add that section thirty six seems to be writing off this peace plan altogether for more of this i'm joined by hype on our sabbahi a member of the u.k. based syrian social club. well let's start with the incident of the turkish refugee camp which is also were international envoy kofi annan will be heading tuesday do you think it's a coincidence the timing of. no actually. i was

watching this is life i mean i heard some of the syrians people and accounts there were really discussed it was brotherly own there were discuss it was the n.c. the s.n.c. and they were saying things like some summer fiji's they want to go back to the syrian border they want to head to the army and this is not the only group there there is something going on and that camp. i don't know of some civilians being forced into some sort of or. to is kill of the situation to try to push them to the border so the syrian army or syrian soldiers fire them i don't know why the third. of all o.t. and the turkish police don't take action and stop anybody going near the syrian border or somebody want to go back issues should be organized an organized properly but the this is the incident is just to focus the media on it is just to

show like the syrian army is this collating the stories and really is committed to the contrary the row one so-called rebels or free syrian army or some of this. slamming fundamentalists they are escalating the situation inside syria and they are trying to gain ground but of course this is. so impossible or next to impossible the syrian government asking for the government here and that's why they're asking for guarantee they want or thirty like the turkish government until his or saudi to seal those borders so no arms being supplied the logistics to supply to turkey and they can cross the border inside syria just to purely to kill. and cause a hover and. destroy the infrastructure of the country the opposition says its pledge to the international community to end the violence is enough so why are they

so reluctant to give written guarantees do you think. well the syrian government asked for the letting go and please as we know the. there are different groups there are thirty three different groups so they don't have a command center so we want to see what from those guarantees i'm getting there and this is kofi annan which was the which group is the language i mean there is all sorts of grows some goes back by saudi arabia somebody backed by the libyan means some by captors and by turkey some by united states and so so we want to see those guarantees one day come in and the security discern security forces in syria will check of those i am sure the security forces has a lot of information and they want to see kofi annan talking to everybody dealing with everybody and getting everybody on board not to cause only fighting afterwards

this is the go on thing we want as the syrians we want to political process to go we want to dialogue to to go away hey we want to peaceful. means to solve this crisis but if there is some will go on board another one go syrian security forces has to know this and this is there will know on only by by those guarantees not to by a word of mouth we don't want of a gunman on the ground in syria say i'll strike i'm sorry you know but i want to ask one more question we don't have much time how do you assess the government's commitment to the peace plan do you think they are sincere. yes of course we get we mean the government there give a coffee and learn the benefit of the doubt the government under people who see they i mean the people who supported the government for the last thirteen months they want to finish but they are concerned some of the people concerned like of who's on the other layers of the army pull out those guns one come back and.

use their ears again and then wanted the syrian forces were in there the heavy tanks and equipment if you will not to create a vacuum for those all measurements to come and i don't know because i have again. i'm also by the member of the u.k. the syrian social club thanks for your time thank you controversial u.s. gun laws coming under increased public scrutiny the latest outrage at lax legislate legislation sparked by the killing of an unarmed teenager in florida critics say the right to bear arms and shoot in the name of self-defense or go well beyond personal safety instead serving the interest of those making and selling the weapons or he's worried a porton i reports. if the second amendment to the u.s. constitution had a soundtrack. the right to bear arms would best be recognized by gunfire. the land of the free is the most heavily armed nation in the world with

two hundred ninety four million firearms floating around america hi i'm chuck norris. and some progress into my home i could use my roundhouse kick for a look down the barrel of my guy since two thousand and five the freedom for gun owners to point shoot in the name of self defense has widened under controversial legislation known as the your ground law experts say it allows gun owners to use deadly force to protect themselves in public essentially phillip wearing a license to kill it tells people you know what if you're in a confrontation on the street with someone or getting into an argument or there's a physical altercation even if you could safely retreat from that just walk away and go home you don't have to we're going to let you shoot and potentially kill another human being and then the law will not only provide you with proper immunity from criminal prosecution but also immunity from any future civil litigations that

stand your ground first became law in florida but recently received national attention following the deadly shooting of seventeen year old trayvon martin the unarmed student was carrying candy and iced tea when he was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer police released the gunman george zimmerman without charges on was our son but trayvon is your son. a lot of people can relate to our situation. and it breaks their heart just like you breaks and i. will continue to fight for justice for since stand your ground took effect the number of so-called justifiable homicides in florida have tripled as martin's parents mourn the loss of their son he was gun laws remain historically loose in many states citizens with criminal records and prior restraining orders are still able to perceive gun permits. critics say easy access comes courtesy of the

national rifle association or n.r.a. a gun rights organization and the tory sleep powerful us lobbying group that reportedly spent more than seven million dollars on political ads during the two thousand and ten u.s. midterm elections paid for by everything that the n.r.a. pushes at the state and federal level is designed to sell more weapons that's what this is about there's a lot of money thrown around whether it's an or a campaign contributions to florida politicians or corporate money that can be spread around a number of different ways since two thousand and five and stand your ground law has been i doctored in twenty five states throughout america just like the six year bobby kennedy herself there were some other people in our culture here i think you do the gun violence murder and so you know as the most powerful nation on the planet the purchase nation is some people's minds most democratic nation by this clearly something before you can she have people should each other all of south

americans since nine eleven u.s. civil liberties and freedom have suffered in the name of national security while new gun laws up some ulterior nicely made it easier for americans to arm themselves leaving the land of liberty locked and loaded up or die of artsy new york. coming up later this hour football in freefall. is built just as. by their football teams face a whole new game is the sport feels the pinch alongside the country's edu debt. but first it's been a week since the deadly plane crash in russia siberia left more than thirty dead technical failure listed as the probable cause of the incident with a crew reportedly choosing not to di ice the plane before takeoff or he's carrying taraji looks into the problems facing russia's future in flight. captain sergei

ansen died the day before his twenty eighth birthday his copilot nikita chin who was only twenty four years old woman area investigations into the crash of flight one twenty say one possible reason may have been a failure to delist the plane prior to takeoff it's a decision typically made by the captain of the aircraft before the problems that we have today in aviation come down to the system that prepares and manufactures planes as well as those who train the pilots and flight personnel with only a handful of certified aviation schools across russia and the industry rapidly growing there simply aren't enough pilots in the seventy's it took only two years to become an aviator now it's a college degree and a specialized program that could take up to eight hears to complete opening just last year once all is attempting to turn back the clock and address the issue the primary goal of the aeroflot aviation school here in moscow is to fix the shortage of professionals in the russian aviation industry bad weather horrible equipment

and even older models of planes have been to blame of recent crashes in russia however here the primary focus is on the human factor the idea that privates and copilot should be able to handle levels of stress in order to land a plane safely on the ground or in the water but even at this school it's painfully obvious that simply turning over pilots at a faster rate won't be enough russian airlines need at least eight hundred new pilots yearly while here it takes twenty four months to graduate just a fifth of that number of these state of the art computer based programs and simulators may fall short when competing with actual flight experience with you nowadays a pilot acts only as the operator of a plane where he basically pushes buttons turning them on and off with the exception of takeoff and landing older more experienced pilots have this knowledge and also have skills that help them in other. unconventional circumstance and some

new skills like those of pilots who perform miracle landings in two thousand and ten an electrical failure crippled a plane traveling from siberia to moscow achieve middle aged russian pilots on that flight safely landed the aircraft on an abandoned military airfield against the odds all eighty one people on board survived. thirteen planes crashed in russia last year eight of which resulted in fate tallit e.-s. and those three were due to pilot error and loss tragic can you trust level which killed all but one of the forty five people on board karen r t moscow the full picture of the disaster in siberia log on to our website r.t. dot com there you'll find a remarkable story of one passenger aboard the fated flight dimitris days in a hospital identified before his relatives realized his name had wrongly been placed on the list of those killed in the crash for more on his dramatic ordeal over dorothy dot com. a prominent german a writer

a nobel prize winner has been declared persona non grata by israel following harsh criticism for his new poem it was new poem published last week and his latest work germany's most famous living author accused israel of in danger and world peace in its standoff with iran his work was condemned at home and in israel gideon levy a columnist for israeli newspaper ha'aretz says televisa response to the poem was over the top. the reaction of israel was out of propulsion aggressive and really stupid and ridiculous. to declare. a right as a persona non grata only because of his views is as extreme as they may be israelis. using too much the sequestration of being anti semitic so there is and to some it is them in the world no no doubt

about it but there are so many critics of israel who are even genuine friends of israel and there is so much legitimate critics on israel and so much justified critical of israel and this way of always attacking anyone who dares to critique criticize israel as an anti semitic is really is not efficient and is finally counterproductive because the world will buy it i'd rather see free route this isn't about israel and a constructive reaction to it rather than threatening and preventing intellectuals into israel. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe former k.g.b. hazily a need to be a lot has won the presidential runoff in south he gained fifty four percent of the votes overcoming his rival a human rights commissioner who got forty three percent russia and several other countries recognize the state is independent almost four years ago this after the

two thousand eight hundred day war after georgia launch a military offensive against russian peacekeepers in the south us eighteen capital sin. as many as thirty have died in southern yemen during a firefight between the military and suspected al-qaeda militants before our exchange broke out when armed men attacked an army barracks fighters have taken advantage of yemen's political turmoil which started last year to seize control of parts of the country's south and east. spanish football teams have found themselves sucked into the nation's debt spiral in a country widely seen as the next recipient of bailout cash hundreds of millions of euros in dead and under constant criticism abroad all the troubles seen on a larger scale now reflected in the country's most popular sport or he's jacob riis reports from madrid. you list for many of them the full game off the field you know great top flight spanish clubs

a struggling with massive debt the sense of who you are teams of the bankrupt but based in spain and i think i'm going to have woman both of them are presently to premier league clubs read a bankruptcy will have bankruptcy and this is a terrible results the clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they have invested and you go to many. it is not just the sports it's actually not nation but as with many other aspects as banish the only thing financial needs of the e.u. and eurozone the nation's sports minister recently said spanish clubs maybe it would help it. the form of debt restructuring or refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked into touch with one n.d.p. calling the move a threat to competition and asking german clubs to speak out i find it unthinkable

we're paying hundreds of millions of dollars to help them recover from the situation and clubs are trying to avoid paying their debts you can order one might miss the repos who has since been dropped but the problem persists as spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes. is one such club in administration its struggle to pay all its players wages. i think the springs players were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious that spanish football is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something effecting many clubs last year prompting players the strike wages are only part of the problem is spending to met the world's greatest talents amounting to four hundred million euros little league and those who lead teams from the boardrooms think something drastic needs to change the now spanish football and the spanish economy need investments from abroad it's not only about football but also spain as

a whole off the pitch a similar scenario is being played out like an uncompetitive economy is not yielding many positive results and more some accuse football clubs of taking their eyes of course ball many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to greaves literate spain. and marina's joining us now with our latest business news so give us the latest on the markets. the u.s. markets have not one single better still in there and but they are well shares i go higher and higher and i'll tell you why after this short break.

ok so as i mentioned earlier the u.s. markets are still posting losses and that's after the disappoints in job saida we saw on friday markets were closed for good friday in the u.s. so the investors are reacting to this right now and let's take a look at the latest figures we see that both the dow and the eyes that are losing over a half a percent this hour are not a side of things that they all well as

a major gains and that's after it agreed to sell around eight hundred patents to microsoft now why is microsoft interested in that well that's because it can insulate its partner facebook from potential attacks that these patents helped create and the deal is worth on a billion dollars of course we see a low shares rise about forty three percent but let's move on and take a look at the exchange rates there would go the dollar is an illusion against the euro now and it's a similar picture with the ruble because it's losing against both the greenback and they've euro itself and since i mentioned the ruble not as well as i look at the closing picture for the russian markets they made a dramatic turn in the last hour of the trading session if we can look at the russian markets and basically what happened was in the last part of the trading session they made. gains both the r.t.s. and the my six added over a half a percent now trade has been pretty much a slow in the past couple of weeks but we are going in signs that that might pick

up and that's because the government has now given that final push was probably as i say from programming even though we've heard this many times the deputy prime minister even saval has said that it will be finalized over the next two months now the sale includes companies such as we see these for a bank two of moscow's airports and many more all right now let's continue to other news cars in particular here sales jumped nineteen percent in the first quarter making a total of about six hundred thousand vehicles let's have the best seller models who are all produced over the top on being a lot. but on this some models came in second place. also there could be trouble ahead for and that's a firm stone saw and any there were also the journal says u.s. and libya prosecutors are investigating the french and italian companies for possible corruption and he says this relates to payments to the regime led by more and more of gadhafi and if things violations are proved the companies may face

difficulties expanded in africa's most oil rich country and he and sellers are partners of russia's gas crunch and number of projects. and that's how business looks the south will have another update for you to choose their morning the headlines are next. wealthy british science. class.