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

the global economic collapse of the foreseeable future. good evening it's monday april ninth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching r t well today is the first day directors of the world bank begin meeting candidates to become president of the world bank absolutely whoever is nominated by the u.s. is chosen there have been eleven world bank presidents and they've all been amount americans well things might be changing this year there are three candidates and only one of them is american it's dartmouth college president dr jim yong kim who also co-founded a non-governmental organization that focuses on getting a hiv and aids treatment to some of the world's poorest people he was nominated by president obama last month there's also jose antonio account but a professor at columbia university and the former minister of finance in colombia

the dominican republic formally nominated him for this world bank position. and then there's in goes your condo your whale or finance minister for nigeria she has already been an energy director at the world bank and if chosen she would be the bank's first female president now there are five quite a few countries who believe that the sun should finally set on having an american always to head the world bank there has been i have spoken about this from leaders especially from the brics countries and one of those leaders was in town today the president of brazil the rousseff research is in many ways seen as kind of an ambassador a bastard to projects so this has all of this i was going earlier by robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy and i asked him if he thought the other brics countries would agree with south africa's candidate decision to back a candidate from nigeria and here's his take well i just. actually expect other countries to follow suit i think it's

a signal that there are already that there are two dog country candy it's a little comical was in the form of the nominee of the jamaican republic it was brazil that it first. who wished forward his candidacy so would be sort of so brazil is sort of what we're positioned now to get you can't go on and support the new jury candy and this is a powder that we need to develop which is that the students we complain about you know. but then when it comes time to put aside their differences in you know you're around a common platform behind. or to do rather than the leaders from these countries have said you know we want to we want to back a candidate we want to do so as a group and it might not be about backing the candidate we now thoroughly think is going to win even be right at. well i think partly it's.

you know there's a long standing demand not so much the origins of rodin not being american but the european or being a merit based process. we don't care about the nationality and you care about the process that produces the president that it should be your position that everyone should disappear and really the underlying fundamental issue is not what passport the president of the world bank with the i.m.f. is. holding it's the selection process the selection process and one thing only for the heads of these two institutions has. a closed door process that's gone united states in europe solicitors the nationality of the person it's a new position so nationally of the people making the decision. and the exclusion of other countries from the process it is interesting too especially when you

consider that most of those former president have also been bankers in the world bank is an institution that really lends money to some of the poor countries that's what scares robert let's talk us sort of about the current relationship between the u.s. and brazil we have tell rousseff in town today and a lot of people are wondering about this lack of red carpet treatment here no state dinner no big celebration there hasn't really been a public statement on that but i want to get your take what do you think this is all about well it's been presented as you know this is a business meeting not a show meeting so i don't know that i would necessarily infer anything. you know brazil and the u.s. has very proper relations for duration that has been for some time actually one of the better relationships that the u.s. and the region certainly combined or geology with you. we'll use the mean

konami power in the region other countries in the region to forward some stand. forward on latin america latin american agendas were alone in the clashes. they are the biggest and will be over you know who's going to get was contracting of hydrogen. you know this isn't going to be headline. not going to be headline news yeah it is interesting though when you look at brazil as a country right now i mean the development over the last ten years has been pretty massive crime is way down and the president was that has a seventy seven percent approval rating hard to imagine that any president could ever get that. in some ways that you know you think of president obama maybe would pick her brain would ask for advice on how she's accomplished that major things i know her predecessor lula. was to thank for that in part as well what do you think

you know this country stands to benefit or to learn from brazil. well i think he secret of the political success of book don't win unless not hard to find a majority of resilience think that the government has delivered from them. in economic terms. the particularly coming out of a period where governments were considered to be tremendously under sponsor to the needs of the majority and economic questions are in significant growth and job creation there's also been aggressive government social spending through the balsa familiar to access to education and basic services which are already have their population this is jewish of little bit different in the sense that we in fact it's important to get one sense that you know in much of the world it is the public

services that we take for granted in the united states people are not yet able to a program that in part of the revolution in place and much of latin america over the last twenty years is the revolution that took place in the. thirty's and with the new deal government becoming accountable to the majority of the population so we did it for granted that we had to receive we were sledge occasionally had aids but that's not true. that's not true in in much of the world it was obscured sometimes basic social service not everything's wonderful we have certain basics that many people in many parts of the war don't have the brazilian government and select the roosevelt administration had states in the subsea to stab in the liver and the majority population when there is tremendous but probably tremendous and economic justification saw the government turn around now having said that you know there is an analogy we get have financial crisis in a state you know a recession and many people united states are asking you know where's the barak

obama in two thousand and eight and we still have you know eight point two percent measure unemployment. similar to what it was when president obama came into office we're you know was the decent term to cover the action to what people should know i think that is you know a relevant question is. what amount to another thing that perhaps brazil might like from the u.s. i haven't heard any talk about this. brazil wants to become a permanent member of the u.n. security council the u.s. back to india another bric countries brics country but doesn't seem there doesn't seem to be any talk about them backing brazil in this do you think that this is going to be up for discussion at all. well i was then would bring it up i would suspect so one would not need to commit he has spoken to the issue in the past and generally knowing the brazilian aspirations it's

a complicated issue because there are number of claimants personal india. so that africa zero one if brazil one hundred fifteen or so it's a complicated question in terms of the relationships between the different middle middle income countries but the us probably has supported result not a greater role and us pushed through the g twenty rather than the two seventy again become the nina for discussion of international financial issues there a lot to do with promoting and accepting the role of percent so i think they were this is generally perceived in brazil to be simple some of the some would say that it did not dismissive of brazil's aspiration for a global leadership so you know the security council that's a fairly specific implementation right. now and that's harder for us to embrace

because of all the complicated issue thirdly so much that i'm not in the world right now and it's hard to find any country that agrees on every matter with us keep our eyes on it robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy. well let's turn now to the latest case dealing with companies using the internet to try to make money but then punishing those who have figured out a way to get out of paying for its service its service in this case is pornography and the case is called hard drive productions versus does one ninety three here's what happened a company hard drive productions spent two months monitoring illegal downloads of their triple x. rated movie it's a porn production house the movie is called amateur or become an event took the ip addresses of those they believed who were illegally downloading they asked the courts to give the company the names linked to those internet i.d.'s the judge said no judge howard lloyd said the court realizes that this decision may frustrate plaintiffs and other copyright holders who quite understandably wish to curtail

online infringement of their work so unfortunately it would appear that the technology that enables copyright infringement. pardon me has outpaced technology that prevents it earlier i spoke to aaron swartz executive director and founder of demand progress i asked him if this ruling meant it california residents were free to download whatever they want here's his response. i don't think it's quite that broad but what it is is one of a number of cases where companies have been trying to use the law to go on fishing expeditions to take a whole series of ip addresses that they collected you know somewhat mysterious and unknown ways and they say are allegedly infringing copyright and they asked the government and they asked the courts to use those ip addresses to get all sorts of private information about people without any real showing of evidence that those people have done anything wrong and what we've seen is a number of courts this being the most prominent example shutting that down and saying you know the law doesn't work that way and it's good to see courts upholding

people's rights like this yeah it's interesting it's almost as if this company and others want to have the same rights as police who gain warrants after collecting evidence and as you say babbitt isn't always there in this case the thickly the judge said that he thought the company hard drive productions where it was trying to use the courts that it had no intention of actually litigating i instead wanted to pursue an ax traditional business plan in other words they wanted some of these possible infringers to just pay them to settle break this down and terms of what hard drive productions was trying to do in the eyes of judge lloyd. yeah i mean this is something we've seen a whole bunch of companies do which is you know they collect some sketchy evidence that maybe certain people are involved in copyright infringement they use the courts for them get their names and addresses and then they send them legal threats they say look you know we'll see you for millions of dollars of copyright infringement because we have this proof that you're guilty or you can just pay us

one hundred dollars and we'll go away and what this is is it's just an abuse of the court system i mean everybody is afraid of being at the wrong end of a lawsuit it's terrifying to be pulled into the courts especially if you've never done it before and it's much easier to say ok even if this is totally invalid i'll just pay one hundred dollars to let them go away yeah i mean we invented agent thing is that in some cases i think a lot of people say. it well i guess i know that i'm doing something i maybe i'm not supposed to be doing and so i think you're right i think that some of these larger companies use that as a way to then have those people settle. and especially with pornography companies often it's a sort of full form of blackmail right it's like you look will tell your family it'll be in the press that you're downloading pornography you know won't that be an embarrassing mark against your name when you do a google search going to be so much easier to settle this out of court and just pay us a couple hundred dollars i think it's a good point but even despite the results of this case the ruling in this case

there is still a way to prosecute illegal downloading it seems to me based on what the judge said here they just have to do it sort of on an individual basis so that would be certainly a lot more work for some of these companies to take each one to gather the evidence what do you think is going to come out of this aspect of the case. yeah i mean this is something you know we've said consistently and a lot of other groups have said consistently which is that you know the law is hurt justice system was designed to make sure we got the right result not to make it easy to you know drug bunch of people into jail and so what the judge is saying yes if you want to pursue a case you have to pursue a case against each individual person and how can put together the evidence against each individual person and that is time consuming and expensive but it's also what justice requires that's what due process of the constitution means and now this was seen as a victory for those who believe that the internet should you know be free and open society we saw with the stop online piracy act people stood up they took notice and

they started speaking out against what they saw as harsh way to stringent rules however aaron and this case it is not by any means the end of cases like this talk a little bit about what else is out there right now that people should be wary about. yeah i mean there's enormous number of issues coming up at the biggest one right now and people can find out more demand progress dot org is this cyber security bills that congress is currently considering so these are bills that senators like joe lieberman have cooked up which they say will protect the internet against hackers but they don't actually have anything in there that will make the internet more secure instead what they do is they provide new warrantless ways of getting information from telephone companies internet service providers and passing it to the government without a warrant or any of the sort of legal process that currently exists so this is something really worrying that we're looking closely and i think you and i spoke about this last week and sort of what's going on it's not just in this country but

other countries sort of trying to look for ways to deal with the grandiosity i guess you could say of what people are capable of finding and downloading on the internet but we see in the u.k. right now there's a proposed plan that were most likely passed that's going to give the sick national security agency their power to basically watch everyone not necessarily get into their e-mail content or their telephone content but they will be able to monitor how often they speak to somebody for how long. a little bit about this trend and why it's still gaining speed in here in the u.s. and in the u.k. . we talk about the bill in britain last week there's also similar laws in canada and across europe there's the infamous act a treaty and what we're seeing is this push by you know the legacy entertainment industry and other people who don't like you know like things on the internet to try and prop up their business model by changing the law and i think what we need

to do is we need to take a step back and say ok why do we have copyright law in the first place it's not so that a handful of people could be extra multimillionaires it's because we want to promote the progress of science and useful arts as a constitution says and when that law was made when the constitution was written it made sense to. though out there people making copies because they had to have printing presses there were just a handful of them and regulating them was the obvious and reasonable thing to do now that everyone has the equivalent of a printing press in their home or in their pocket i think we need to rethink some of how these laws are written and find a way to compensate artists and promote the progress of the arts without turning everyone in the country into a criminal yes certainly a lot of a lot of different cases to be made here on either side because certainly a lot of these record companies these motion picture companies angry because they feel like they've spent the money and they don't think people should get it for free but there's just so much gray area when we talk about the internet even today and two thousand and twelve aaron swartz executive director and founder of demand

progress all right guys now let's turn to a study that is both groundbreaking and controversial it was written by some researchers that mit massachusetts institute of technology and what it doesn't use this computer models to come up with potential future scenarios for example human beings continue to consume resources like oil fresh water food at the same rate or an increased rate basically outlines how that would impact the population in terms of global wealth famine and disease and it predicts that the breaking point will come in twenty thirty that's pretty soon and earlier i spoke with radio host alex jones about this and what it means take a listen. the the club of rome team at mit in one thousand seven hundred published the limits to growth it was given huge fanfare by life magazine she b s news is that by the year two thousand our entire industrial society would collapse and we'd see 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 or the earth will basically collapse and then will die but really if you study what the club of rome un and others have promoted more a strong ted turner is artificially cutting off our resources to 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 the capitalist free market system that kurdish 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 feudal 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 hear during the club of rome a connected some of the larger corporations and they actually have. it to their benefit that people continue to cut back and frankly that the end of the world is coming i want to know that it is. yeah that's it goldman sachs and others the big six banks have created one point five trillion they've gotten our 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 dead not the great people same thing in ireland same thing in iceland but they said no same thing in our country it's just the all of arc's club of rome actually writes that

they want to bring in a political system 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 a post industrial world maurice strong who started all this with the rockefeller foundation has set on record they want to destroy our society make us poor i mean 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 that 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 if not really shocking to me i don't really know much about the club of rome and it's not talking that certain think tanks have things that benefit them and their funders encounters 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 are it's just an ethical knuckle craze and the more the population grows and the more they think they're used i mean are you sort of downplaying if i could it is in fact a problem. a leitz since the time of plato two thousand three hundred years ago have said the world's over populated the great philosopher so they need to start killing the poor people as they were overpopulated and crushing the breast of mother earth was the quote by 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 of what is actually being produced inside the crust in

a mammal of the earth we've got enough coal to run the united states for several thousand years they have clean burning says dems and the elites themselves it's a good point you make go 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 this is the monopoly man waging war against the free market and creating artificial scarcity through the un agenda twenty one system. that was alex jones host of the alex jones show. what movie abu jamal has been behind bars since the early one nine hundred eighty s. he was convicted of murdering philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner and originally sentenced to death but a few months ago the philadelphia district attorney dropped abu jamal his death sentence his case has in many ways come to symbolize the flaws of the court system here in the u.s. and really himself has actually published several books and commentaries including

live from death row well r.t. got an exclusive interview with movie abu jamal his first t.v. interview since getting off of death row r.t. correspondent on a starter churkin i conducted that interview which airs tomorrow and earlier she joined me to give us a preview but first she started with a look back on why munoz case is so famous in the first place take a look. christina you know many of your model 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 monitored 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 e a supporter 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 the media 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 weaving to die in jail however as you mention in january this year he was taken off death row and transferred to a general population prison and 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 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 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 son we did get an opportunity to touch upon several word of a 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 many 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 phone call from a prison so we will hear

a little bit of a break in terms of our conversation being listen to take a listen i think. broader issue whether or not you want to live report working class people. everywhere you go. but i think it would be getting. well 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 real briefly looking ahead what does and we hope to focus on now that he's no longer on death row. well you know chris 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 and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for

you know let's work together for. well chrissy someone you continues to plans to continue fighting for his freedom he is dubbed the voice of the voiceless and our viewers will get a chance to listen to everything he had to say to us. and we will look forward to that certainly a good get for an interview artie correspondent on of the a church in new york. and that's going to do it for the news for this evening but be sure to stick around the big picture is coming up at the top of the hour and tonight host tom hartman will tell you why republicans might be crashing the american economy for political gain and loss the author of conscientious equity how long we can stay on this trajectory plus what's the best way to bring manufacturing jobs back home it might be as simple as changing a product label to say something other than made in china or at least something more than want to know why the answers coming up and a half hour.