she's got approval ratings most politicians only dream up and she leads one of the fastest growing economies in the world so maybe president obama should take notes we'll tell you why some are advising u.s. leaders to take brazilian president dilma rousseff seriously straight ahead. a california judge has a blocked attempts to prosecute some people who illegally download so as a line between copyrights and wrongs and lawyers does this mean we can all download music and movies that will explode. was it could be the end of the world as we know it at least that's according to a new mit study to show you all the factors that can and many argue will lead to

a global economic collapse in the foreseeable future. it's monday april ninth seven pm in washington d.c. my name is christine from and you're watching our t.v. well the president of brazil dilma rousseff was in town today and she comes at a time of a changing geopolitical landscape brazil has now overtaken the u.k. as the world's sixty six the largest economy and along with the other brics countries russia india china and south africa has set in motion a movement of backing away from things like the dollar as the world currency and also making decisions independent of the west. reserve is in many ways seen as the embassador of bricks and this is also the first day directors of the world bank begin meeting candidates who will who want to become the president of the world bank typically whoever is nominated by the united states is chosen they have been

eleven world bank presidents and they've all been americans but this year things might be changing president obama did nominate an american dartmouth college president dr jim yong kim who also co-founded a non-governmental organization that focuses on getting hiv aids treatments to some of the world's poorest people but there's also jose antonio compass for a professor at columbia university and the former minister of finance in colombia the dominican republic formally nominated him for the world bank position and then there's an goes away lot the finance minister for it nigeria she was a managing director at the world bank already and if chosen should be the world bank's first female president and south africa has already declared it would be backing her for more about all of these items i spoke a little bit ago with eva golinger a lawyer and author with expertise on some of these issues and i first asked her if the other great countries would back off africa's nigeria nominee and what may be

the group that the message wants to give his her take. well certainly they're going to most likely back a candidate that's not a u.s. candidate and in large part that's that's to break away from what's been u.s. domination over the world economy but also over their whole political environment and we've seen this growing movement of what some call multi-polar polar as i'm going around the world and where there is no longer one country that's going to answer to the united states who's setting the agenda for everybody else but rather countries are making decisions on a more respectful basis where there is consensus and where there's agreement amongst nations that everyone have some kind of participation and cooperation in what's going on so i think there will certainly seem. nominee from what some would consider the other nations even though they're not honestly so other nations but and the emerging economies in the shins that are becoming more powerful around the

world and the u.s. is going to have to really make a decision here whether or not they want to become an equal player in world affairs are do they want to maintain this sort of imperialist agenda and keep trying to impose their will against others and let's talk about this current relationship between the u.s. and brazil a whole lot of people are wondering sort of about the lack of red carpet treatment here for president was that there was no state dinner no big celebration and what do you think this is all about. it could be a mix of factors what i mean it could be a decision made on this i don't washington for some reason and that they're not giving the same type of treatment to the brazilian president but i would actually have to say that part of it could be made a request mean on behalf of the brazilian president. is a very low key humble person who doesn't like anything and fair and every place she's visited she's always asked for it just really minimal treatment whatsoever

and no fancy dinners or hotels or big deals made out of her visit in that sense but rather getting down to the dirty work of what needs to get done at the same time i mean this is also you have to remember the delmas visit to the united states comes after she's visited several other countries in latin america and some of those being adversaries of the united states such as venezuela or at least political adversaries and the united states was not on account of her gender whereas on the other hand brazil was on the top of obama's agenda and he visited last year in march and one of his first visit to latin america it was his first stop so i mean there could be some stuff going on here in terms of getting back in retaliation against the brazilian government because they have any relationship with the united states a priority certainly a lot of people are looking at that and saying pointing out what you pointed out which is that visit to venezuela pointing out the visit to cuba also kind of

looking at what happened back in two thousand and ten brazil did join with turkey to vote against sanctions for iran at the u.n. certainly that was another thing that u.s. leaders weren't necessarily happy with but there are other people and let's talk about this really quickly about i mean in what ways are has that relationship improved over the last few years. their relationship with the united states is hanging out in faith and where there are well i mean it's improved it's always been a pretty good relationship i think there even during the time of a previous president released last year that it was a relationship that was very cordial was still a strong relationship at the same time brazil has been growing as a power not just in one america but around the world as you were pointing out before and so it's trying to distance itself from sort of being underneath the power of the united states the relationship continues to grow in terms of cooperation are there if you presidents are discussing all kinds of stuff in the

area of science and technology cooperation spatial cooperation economic cooperation social issues that we cooperate in on education reducing poverty things like that and the same time brazil has a specific agenda demaris there has been very insistent she will this visit continue to require the united states back results move to get a seat on the united nations security council and a permanent seat at that and the united states the obama administration has given no sign whatsoever that they're going to back rozelle and that is where as they have been in the case of india for example so there are some issues that are very tense between the two countries and then there is a relationship brazil has had with iran there was a relationship brazil that has in that region as being a member of you know sure of being a member of say lackies new emerging entities in latin america cooperation amongst nations without which the united states is completely excluded so i think that you

know another issue that's going on there and at the same time this is actually a more important visit for president obama than it is for president rousseff because next weekend is the summit of the americas it takes place in colombia and the u.s. is really on the outs in latin america and nobody wants to be meeting with in these types of meetings any more with the united states where they're excluding kind. but just to boast of readiness these are still making a way to try to gain relation during creature relations with countries like brazil that have a serious influence over others in the region the say hey we're there we're still there friend we should be your friend i think it's interesting about that you pointed out the desire by brazil to have a permanent seat on the u.n. security council the u.s. again did back india in that and it's interesting because we did to see the brics countries need to i think it was last week maybe we can have a go not sure. not to too much came out of the one day meeting but i do know that

they sort of stood firm on a lot of things together one of which they say they oppose any sort of outside intervention in the situation in syria and so it's really a tough time right now and i'm wondering what you think i mean is this something because this desire for a permanent seat on the u.n. security council is something that could be used you know as a bartering tool to sort of. get that relationship together sort of new fresh my back i'll scratch yours but so far like i said before washington has given no sign whatsoever that it would even consider backing brazil for a permanent seat on the victory council and brazil has opposed the intervention against syria or the aggression against syria the resolutions the u.s. has been trying to push and it also had it. in the case of libya. and what had was vocally opposed to the war in libya and what the u.s. was engaging in against the government could obviously we've seen some of these

different issues come up over the last few years where brazil taking a stance on international issues that goes against your agenda why would the united states want to country like to have a permanent role on the g twenty times are there already battling against russia and china so they want maybe they want to countries like india because they think for some reason that they can get india under their arm india would be more likely to take their side just real quick i want. just take a look at brazil right now development there over the last ten years has been massive crime is way down from what i understand with about the that many thousand percent approval rating. from what do you think maybe president obama would you know say come to talk to me give me some advice how are you doing this i mean do you think that that's going on at all well it would be hard to imagine a united states president asking for advice on how to govern from a latin american leader that would be a great game i think for world affairs and particularly for us latin american relations where that to happen but certainly brazil does not allow to keep the

united states as other than american countries do and and the brazilian government under which is a continuation of the previous government terms of their social policy used has been hitting extraordinary results in poverty reduction crime reduction as you were saying in overall well being for the country and and progress and doing so in a way where it's not jeopardizing or compromising the social values of the country and social programs like what's happening in the united states they're not going back on social programs they're not cutting back on workers' benefits they're making sure all of those are still in place because those are very important issues in terms of overall well being of the nation and prosperity not just economic but also for the people of the country and certainly one reason probably why she has been so popular appreciate your insight on this in new york city eva golinger a lawyer and author. only as i feel about the latest case dealing with companies using the internet to make money but then trying to punish those who have figured

a way out figured out a way of paying for getting out of paying for its service in this case the service i'm talking about is pornography and the case is called hard drive productions and verses it does one ninety so here's what happened the company hard drive production spent two months monitoring illegal downloads of their triple x. rated movie amateur a work the company then took those ip addresses of those who they believed illegally downloaded and then they asked the courts to give them the names that links to those numerical internet i.d.'s the judge said no judge howard lloyd said the court realizes this decision may frustrate plaintiffs and other copyright holders who understandably wish to curtail online infringement of their works unfortunately it would appear that the technology that enables copyright infringement has outpaced technology that prevents it. i talked a little more about this ruling with andrew blake our own r t r t web writer and i asked him if this means people can download whatever they want here's his response

i mean for never really been able to download it we want it's certainly a good step in the right direction but i would even go as far as to say that it's good news it's more of just not bad news and when you say a step in the right direction obviously it's not a step in the right direction for music companies and movie companies important companies who want to keep their products you know for say oh yeah instead they're just going to keep getting their products distributed to a wider and wider audience and usually people are going to in turn go and purchase those and still drive their profit so. they're looking for a payoff in the immediate future judge in california saying i don't think so he's saying that a lot of these alleged shares of copyrighted material. were not that not sure is a copyrighted material and so what it's doing is it's making the internet more open for a lot of people to go ahead and do what they want but i would feel that there could be prosecuted for crimes that they didn't actually commit judge seems to think that if production's is given the ip addresses and identities of these people there is going to go ahead and try to get them to settle out of court which if history is

any precedent is what always happens in these cases where they're trying there are very good let's say on this case for a second and also to talk about the broader implications of the judge as you said he said that he believed the company hard drive productions was trying to use the courts that it had no desire to actually litigate but instead wanted to pursue. you know an extra judicial you just sort of business and i think if that were again things possible infringers to break this down for me from what i understand the company would still be able to sort of individually go after some of these people but they won't it's way too much work for them if the judge realize that what usually happens in this case is whether it's porn or music or any sort of corporate material is that the copyright holder goes after the iowa state internet service provider who in turn goes after the customer and what the attorneys do for the. in the end they say hey we're going to take you to court and it's going to really stink but if you give us a few thousand dollars will go away and we're going to settle most people's i mean

the internet's been around long enough now but still most people don't really know how to handle these cases because not everyone gets faced with copyright infringement lawsuit because once people know that what they're doing is wrong. they just don't expect. most people will go get the cheapest or you can find three fees spend another three grand settling with some major billion dollar corporation and then they won't use your internet ever again because they're going to be scared very very very scared and. that's what they thought was going to happen there's a saying well you're going to take these people and you're not going to take them to court you're not going to bother you're just going to get some money out of them right now and you can't prove that these are the people who did it and it looks fantastic for anyone with an internet connection but there's so much stuff that you're saying is going on right now oh yeah that's right i mean this case in california was seen as a victory for those who believe you know that the internet should be free and open society but you know we sort of got us with by the stop island online piracy act people took notice of this case spoke out against it but this is not by any means

the end of cases like this talk a little bit about some the other things are still out there right now when there was the whole sopa and pipa backlash from late two thousand and eleven it's really this year before those bills were eventually just laid to rest people were terrified that they were actually going to be enacted they're going to be authorized the internet as we knew it was just going to be just right but the spirit. of freedom that we enjoy doing it absolutely absolutely retailed mean and arranger and there was such tremendous backlash that all these congressmen change their stance the company has backed off their support and two months later and they seem to think that the internet forgot that it was threatened versus along and already this new legislations are being proposed we're going to be way more harsh and not so good so what they do what are some of the biggest ones out there are just. who is going to be the biggest on they're looking at right now congress looking at a bunch of cyber security legislation that will more or less let the government do

whatever they want with the internet now if they can't already what it's going to it's going to it's going to cover their ass a little bit more it's going to say oh yes you can get away with doing that yes i'm doing that terrible thing and if if it becomes a reality it's going to just destroy a lot of the freedoms of the internet as with the case that sokol and play book people were prepared enough to go out there and really against them hold protests hold the whole online blackout with various facts and then they were within days soap and paper it's completely gone but people kind of forgot about it. it's been months into the future and things are already can come back up under different names so while this case in california a long hard drive productions are going to be left crying a little bit and so going to be able to download or feel like they're ok with letting other people download from their internet connections that's that's great news but really it's just it's just a small victory really in the grand scheme of things because there's still a lot of things that anyone uses the internet in america yet we should point out

not only is it about the ability to do these things there's also sort of the notion of what we're seeing for example in great britain where they they're about to pass a law that's going to allow their security agencies to sort of spy on and it's also a matter of privacy and those are issues that are certainly a big deal something to watch out for we appreciate your insight into the problem sometimes it's hard to understand all this stuff to be answered like our t. web writer and if you want to read more about this attempt to prosecute alleged downloads of copyrighted material and you wrote an article about it on our website just go to our dot com slash usa for all the details. so i had on our t. countdown to catastrophe and mit report says a global economic collapse isn't just imminent imminent it's coming sooner than you think that's story coming up next. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through

that sort of if you have made who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism school sessions when nobody terrorists asked we do our t. question more. r g is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. all right let's talk about a study that is both groundbreaking and controversial it was written by some researchers at mit massachusetts institute of technology and uses computer models

to come up with potential future scenarios so if for example human beings continue to consume resources like oil food and fresh water at the same rate or increase tree rate it outlines how that would impact things like population global wealth famine and disease it predicts that a breaking point and twenty thirty earlier i spoke with radio host alex jones about the study and what it means take a listen. the club of rome team at mit in one nine hundred seventy published the limits to growth it was given huge fanfare by life magazine sheedy s news that by the year two thousand our entire industrial society would collapse and we'd seen in the next decade an eighty percent population reduction if you look at the graph they have three different future scenarios that run from sixty five percent population reduction to over ninety percent so it runs from bad

to worse and it's the very same group of eugenicist promoting the fact that the big government has to come in and clamp down on resources and basically return us to a feudal state where the earth will basically collapse and then will die but really if you study what the club of rome un and others are promoted maurice strong ted turner is artificially cutting off our resources through artificial scarcity and what they've been billing and pushing as austerity to make us poor is a political tool of controls what they're not telling us they tried to break a capitalist free market system that produced more wealth than any other system in history no one denies that now they've got a crony capitalist model goldman sachs and others that finance the club of rome they want to sell us on being their fuel slaves kind of like the hunger games for real and so they're getting us ready for the collapse of the economy and claiming

it's our fault when really they're engineering it they are saying the club of rome is connected some of the large oil corporations and they actually have. it to their benefit that people continue to cut back and think that the end of the world is coming a lot sooner than it is. yeah that's it goldman sachs and others the big six banks have created one point five quadrillion that got their governments to sign on to their over a thousand trillion in fake garbage fake paper and now everywhere they're saying greece you've got to raise your taxes cut your benefits to pay your debts and ninety two percent of the greek debt it turns out is other people's debt not the great people same thing in ireland same thing in iceland that they said no same thing in our country it's just the all a dark cloud of rome actually writes that they want to bring in a political system of feudalism so we're so poor underneath feudalism that we can't even. finance our own lives so that we're basically slaves to these elites so they

want to post industrial world we're strong we started all this with the rockefeller foundation has set on record they want to destroy our society make us poor and if i go to whole foods in downtown austin they've got magazines everywhere saying it's trendy to be poor it's wonderful they say that depression is good for our carbon footprint to make it smaller it's wonderful that all this is happening i mean in the club of rome documents they say then they need to have shock treatment to destroy the economies of third world nations and old world nations to make them adopt population control measures well it's it's it's not really shocking to me i don't really know much about the club of rome and it's not shocking that certain think tanks have things that benefit them and their funders and founders more than others but the fact is when you talk about you know the you think of resources of fresh water of oil these are things that a it's just a simple math equation the more the population grows and the more the thing they're

used i mean are you thought of downplaying the fact that this is in fact a problem. elites since the time of plato two thousand three hundred years ago have said the world's over populated the great philosophers so they need to start killing the poor people to their overpopulated and crushing the breast of mother earth was the quote but plato and we heard the same thing two hundred fifty years ago by malthus hitler said the same thing they're telling us fresh water is not renewable that's not true fresh water is renewable in some areas people build in the desert they run out like phoenix sure they say trees aren't renewable they are a noble oil it's now showing it is in a most cases not coming from dinosaur you know oil or blood it but is actually being produced inside the crust of the mantle of the earth we've got enough coal to run the united states for several thousand years they have clean burning says limbs and the elites themselves it's a good point you make though they are suppressing the development of clean and free

energy systems to keep us on their fossil fuel system then they want to create artificial scarcity and planned obsolescence to enslave us so this is the monopoly in waging war against the free market and creating artificial scarcity through the un agenda twenty one system and that was alex jones host of the alex jones. well mad would you all has been behind bars since the early one nine hundred eighty he was convicted of murdering a philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner and he was originally sentenced to death but a few months ago the philadelphia district attorney dropped a death sentence his case has come to symbolize some of the flaws in our court system and we himself has even published several books and commentaries including one called live from death row well our team got an exclusive interview with mumia abu jamal his first interview since getting off of death row r.c. correspond with author turk and i conducted that interview which airs tomorrow and earlier she joined me to give us a preview first started with

a look back on why many a case is so famous in the first place to look. well christine you know me up to jamal has so many different names to him he's known for so many things some people of course there are those that do see him guilty in this murder but he has countless supporters all over the world not just in the united states but in europe he has a street named after him in france he's an honorary award holding member and citizen in over twenty cities he is he's always been a revolutionary journalist an activist he was a member of the black panther movement in his youth we know that he was not injured by the f.b.i. since the age of fourteen and his case is really one of those debated ones in modern legal history because of so many controversies surrounding some of the details of what actually went down many of whom your supporters say he's an innocent man and that he never killed the police officer in question daniel

faulkner but as we know of course back in the ninety's this episode did take place in new york was charged with murdering this police officer and he has been on death row for twenty nine years of his life that's more than half of his life spent behind bars waiting to die in jail however as you mention in january this year he was taken off death row and transferred to general population president he's currently serving a life sentence without parole and this was in fact the first interview since he was taken off death row with news outlet and he spoke with us earlier today and i thought there he is not a normal prisoner and this is a man who seems very aware of things going on outside of his prison cell he seemed well read talked just a little bit about your interview. well that's absolutely true christina you know of course in the media has weekly commentary radio publications and addresses that

he posts every week his written six books those have been translated into nine languages. hundreds of thousands of copies of his books published all over the world and. he is a very well educated and well spoken person some we did get an opportunity to touch upon several word of world events taking place around us and we spoke about the u.s. justice system we spoke about the mass incarceration rates in the united states one of the things we also touched upon was the occupy wall street movement because me and i actually did. endorse this movement and this is what he had to say about it take a listen let's send former viewers that there are some interruptions in the interview because this was a quick phone call from a prison so we will hear a little bit of a break in in terms of our conversation being listen to take a listen i think if you get your copy approach your group activity perhaps broader issues better but you're more of

a live report working class people everywhere you go. but i think it damn. well was certainly a lot of different topics touched upon in that interview and of course we'll be bringing all our details and that interview in more detail in its in its entirety to our viewers tomorrow and i'm just. looking ahead what does and we hope to focus on now that he's no longer on death row. well you know he's continuing his fight he hopes to be released one day and he was pretty expressive about and about this i asked him what his message to his countless supporters would be right now speaking to us and this is what he had to say take a listen organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for you and i would like to get. well kristie someone new continues to plans to continue fighting for his freedom he is dubbed the voice of the voiceless and.