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the accused in a case seen by many as a flagrant miscarriage of u.s. justice talks exclusively to our team we have which a mom gives his first t.v. interview after being taken off death row. and as the eleventh hour for the syrian cease fire plan but mutual distrust and suspicion permeated country has both the government and rebels refused to make the first down. and the two years after the polish president's failed plane crash in russia which impacted the turbot of elations between the two countries have rationed are held at the site of the tragedy.
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ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program once a daft row inmate now he's spending life behind bars for shooting and killing a police officer the case of former journalist and black panther mumia abu jamal gained attention around the world he says he's innocent and for decades supporters have rallied behind him and what they see as a quest for justice artie's the first t.v. channel in the world to speak to jamal since he was removed from death row and he gave an exclusive interview to honest as he well here are her impressions. of revolutionary journalist and activist an honorary citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france case is said to be one of the most debated in modern legal history accused of killing a police officer in the one nine hundred eighty s.
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lumia has spent almost thirty years on death row this january he was taken off death row and is now serving life behind bars without parole and for the first time since his transfer he spoke to us here at r t he gave us an exclusive interview and one of the first things i asked who mia was what is it like to be on death row for that long. post of yours if i like are going to grow to hate. it my own mind. if back. for countless of his supporters all over the world many a good year mall has really come to represent a symbol of a flawed justice system in the united states and in our interview we talked about whether nia thinks and has any faith left that the justice system in america can still be free and fair this is what he had to say there are puerto rico prisoners
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in california go home you. literally talk about ok people are free to buy. it takes an industrial complex bitter. and it showed. better level of mass incarceration and. an effect on the outer caucasian of fear among generation having been part of the black panther movement to me i'm woodrum i was actually watched by the f.b.i. since he was fourteen years old and i asked him when the laws such as the n.d.a. which allows officials to watch the teen and hold people in the united states whether the media things that big brother has officially shown his face in america take a listen to what he had to say the so-called patriot act has made everything that was cool back to the mighty and sixty's and nineteen fifties or seventy eight remember it greedily legalized the very thing that their p.r. agent good administrator was credible back then that means they can look at your
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mail carrier your phone it was what we live in is a national security state where great brother is. going to lie rationalize money abu jamal take on occupy wall street the us elections as well as his dreams and much more in our exclusive interview with him here at r.t. and see churkin are reporting from new york now more of the me up to jamal's revelations coming up in his first t.v. interview since his death penalty was commuted to life in prison and that's about half an hour from now here in our. home for prize winner. convicted and controversial. after thirty years on death row. in new york the judge speaks to our chief. the clock is ticking for syria was tuesday the last day and last chance for an internationally brokered cease fire plan to be put in place but from the rebels refusal to commit to ending hostilities
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to the syrian government suspicion towards them hopes are quickly fading artie's peter all over has more for us. well we got a situation of mutual distrust in syria at the moment just a day before ceasefire is g. to come in place in order for that cease fire to come into place which was part of the six point plan laid out by peace envoy kofi annan the syrian government as opposed to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from areas within the country now they're saying i'll only do that if they receive a written guarantee from the rebels something which the rebels are refusing to give them so therefore the syrian army is saying that they will remove their troops out and basically neither side trusts the other they both think that the other side will either break the cease fire or merely use it as an opportunity to rearm and reequip their forces all the syrian foreign minister is in moscow on choose they will be chatting with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov as they try and find
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out how they can salvage this peace plan put forward by kofi annan to stop it really calling it the first hurdle for the syrian foreign minister is also expected to list the achievements that the syrian government to have made in order to try and put this peace plan into place now the situation in syria still very very complex we're seeing the syrian rebels growing in confidence to to support that they're receiving from the west also extra funding that they're receiving from groups like the friends of syria and as sara first now reports there's also the situation whereby syrian rebels see a safe haven across the border in turkey from which they could launch attacks against the government walking a fine line as kansas thousands of refugees have crossed the syrian border into turkey keeping the peace here has not been easy and now the violence is still day they are saying gunfire reaching across the border and into a refugee camp as government forces has ceased being members of the free syrian
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army take he started talking of setting up above is saying to ensure the security of its southern border and to take civilians fleeing from the. and syria has also raised serious concerns that that could undermine diplomatic efforts to end the conflict by setting the stage for fully fledged foreign military intervention well serious questions will be raised about just why a refugee camp was located so close to a conflict area even louder voices want to know why the rebels are being allowed to use the camp as a safe haven before turning back into syria to continue their fight. either across the border or yeah maybe. the army. some people come but you know this will work with. both sides of the border across the border to syria. and the many of the free syrian army people here
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there are people here and they're operating there inside you know. let him go on by foot as well as a civilian refugee camp taking the military army defectors and the man considered the head of the f.s.a. in the country the camp where they stays closely guarded and they take a short stories he's make it extremely hard tack this information here we managed to speak to one member of the free syrian army about what they're wanting from the turkish government. is not just the f.s.a. the turkey supporting it recently played host to the friends of syria conference where many countries including gulf states qatar and saudi arabia agree to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army it was
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a move to some country stores undermining diplomatic efforts to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long. linus' setbacks for these efforts to be realized the syrian refugees here skeptical that a solution is place at hand thousands of people who made the journey across the border can say here that they read the economy like this one in fact they found cases it is the be miles from their home for the day when i pick up it's for the log unable to. pay perhaps i pop in from the border. asking about a ceasefire pepe escobar correspondent for the asia times believes that their rebels unconditional backers are the greatest obstacle to the peace effort in syria there being assisted by foreign powers special forces very forces speak by the house of south by sheiks from the sunni sheiks from iraq or sunni sheiks
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from the gulf they are salafi jihadism the middle with an al-qaeda or strains of hokkaido connection and we also have british and french special forces on the ground here clark of the u.n. security council so it's crazy because you're trying to implement you in plan where you have two members of the u.n. security council. the opposition they are fighting the government along side the opposition so obviously how can you prove that guarantees to the government that this is going to stop this is in fact only normal school over story because there's a shadow war going on for months and indeed all the. still to come here in our tea in just a few minutes. in any democracy people will be prevented put into the country because of. or express. that israel has banned their nobel prize
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winning german rider from visiting italy's country for expressing his views in a poem. now it's two years since polish president lech kaczynski died in a plane crash near the russian city of small and scant both countries are preparing to hold the morial services marches like here shots he joins us now was more on the commemoration of events and their tragic bad ground like see you there so can you bring us the mood from where you are and specifically how will those who died be honored. well the kind of ration events are only due to start in about two hours' time from now we understand that the delegations from both poland and russia will be here to attend the services where they stand also that the representation of the highest authorities of the two states will be a little more or less profile than last year the president and the prime ministers will not be here but still it will be a very emotional scene here with almost two hundred relatives will come here for the services or relatives of those who died in the plane crash of the ninety six
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high profile passages of the presidential air force one which crashed two years exactly two years ago at the very same place where i'm standing right now in western russia now certainly hundreds of thousands will also be mourning in poland just as it was two years ago i was there in warsaw and in krakow at the presidential funeral and saw the grief which was filling the streets of the polish cities the same will be today at the vigils across the country and it is it remains certainly a very emotional day for poland despite that two years on the pole seems to have admitted that it was war so to blame for the plane crash with both the flight crew being responsible with making so there'd be mistakes during this landing and the bad weather as well the latest from the polish authorities is that this plane was actually should not have been bound for this particular airport at all according to the procedure should have landed at a different one way and then the highest high profile people to have been delivered
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here by helicopter or buses from a different airfield in my report i did a little earlier i get the background and the more details on how cold it is feeling about this plane crash two years on. it was destined to become a new era in turbulent ties between moscow and warsaw a high profile polish delegation was flying to western russia to commemorate twenty or thousand post offices killed by soviet troops at katyn village in one thousand nine hundred forty but it never reached its destination. my look we saw a plane descending as usual i heard a loud noise and it shows didn't pay attention to it i just thought it was under. a plane crash killed all ninety six passengers on board including the president and first lady and most of the country's political elite separate investigations by both moscow and warsaw blamed for bad weather and dubious decisions by the crew
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they were warned of heavy fog and low visibility were told to choose a different one way but for whatever reason decided to land anyway. there was a very clear piece of guidance from traffic controllers that no conditions existed to land it seems to me that the pilot in command should have taken. the sensible decision to divert to another airfield but of course we have the president on board. the head of the publisher force on board. various of the dignitaries were going to a specific event in smolensk and area. you know an awful lot of pressure was put on this guy's shoulders. such a huge loss was hard to take as hundreds of thousands grieved across poland but for
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some accepting the truth was even harder despite lots of evidence and eye witness accounts supporting the investigation some political forces in poland have been pointing the finger at moscow kaczynski is twin brother get also believes the crash was orchestrated. poland is subject to a process of force the meijer concerning this money is going crash which increasingly looks like a terrorist act if there were explosions on board if this catastrophe looks increasingly like a sense a nation then this means there's a new development in international affairs. polish right wing parties tried to use the smolensk crash to score points in presidential and parliamentary complaints which followed the tragedy but their failure to win votes with and side russian rhetoric say experts proves warsaw's line wasn't in tune with the thinking of the polish people and that a new page in relations has after all been turned despite it happening in the most tragic of ways the wreckage of the polish presidential plane is still here just
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eighteen kilometers from the site of the katyn massacre and in many ways this is the reminder that the smolensk plane crash was a tragedy inside another tragedy and while the katyn massacre had scored the relations for many decades the events of two years ago have eventually brought that so countries close in both the common grief and in the sand to find the truth. see reporting from smolensk in western russia now we've been following the whole story and you can track it all on our website r.t. dot com just one more for you on the line including. the family a russian man stabbed to death three home invaders have found assaulting his seven month baby. plus rising expanses britain's most costly military project to add verb makes london reconsider its pricey partnership with the u.s. .
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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew. you don't know i'm sorry parker is a big issue. for . you to be soon which crisis if you move from phones to pressure. new food starts on t.v. don't comb.
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what you are to you know is really writers have called on the global literary community to disassociate themselves from german ellabella prize winning poet gunter grass the author has been declared persona non grata in israel for denouncing the country's and tehran battery and a recent poll one but they only have a columnist for israeli newspaper ha'aretz says the reaction is absurdly exaggerated. the reaction of rose before potion aggressive and really stupid and ridiculous to be clear. as opposed to the norm only because of his view in any democracy people will be prevented to enter the country because of anything they say or express their reason to sympathies and in the world no nobel to voting for but there is so much critiques on israel and so much justified critical of israel and the sway your
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phone or is it taking anyone who cares through it to rethink this as israel as it. is really is not efficient and is fine in the cold too productive because the world will hold by. russian frame job position leaders have joined a hunger strike the protest is a show of solidarity for former candidate for the mayor of russian city auster hind leg shane says he lost the election as a result of foul play citing an official exit polls that placed them just ahead of israel i've only shane and his followers have already been on hunger strike for twenty five days and some have been hospitalized among those joining the hunger strike are representatives of the radical left as well as two parliamentary deputies. and a quick look now at some other stories from around the world britain's prime minister is in japan to negotiate a possible arms deal after
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a ban on japanese weapons experts was lifted way late last year david cameron will meet his counterpart here she can order was talks on north korea's planned rocket launch also expected to take place both countries believe the launch is a cover for a long range missile test which has tonight. at least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded after two suicide bombers rammed their cars into a government building in western afghanistan the blast struck as local businessmen were gathering for a meeting with officials it taks a major blow for the security of western afghanistan that's been considered relatively peaceful with terrorists concentrating on the south and east. president of a new york brokerage firm has pleaded guilty to a sixty six million dollar mortgage fraud scheme gerrard canadian o.o. admitted creating mortgages that were never going to be repaid the charges against him carry a maximum penalty of thirty years behind bars this case comes in the wake of
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president barack obama's campaign against financial fraud which started in two thousand and nine. and coming out for you next hour r.t. is kaiser reports reveals even bigger economic frauds as a brings you in alice's from the cockroach world of global finance here's a taste. that ended the day life masters is not going to go down into a mine and go mining press silver provided by me let us be clear about something they have the vast resources of the market as you just expressed they have near zero percent interest rates and they have the backstop of the central bank and they use this to commit fraud and any time they make a mistake they put a gun to the head of government and say either give us another bail out or going to kill the economy i'm saying put an end to that cycle if you takes over the five hundred dollars and you take people's give them the chance to own real financial independence as opposed to being de pendant on the fed and on the government
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and being a slave being in do a pen did the declaration of independence you remember those words. now across to the world of business words michigan has video has got all the latest for us well hello again to you to miter as the day's unfolding here in russia russian market is just open so what's going on there well it was pretty expected that the russian markets would go down and that's what they did pretty much what we're seeing right now is the r.t.s. and my stakes in the seas in the first minutes of trade declining around five percent not that bad actually if we take a look at the main movers let me just tell you that energy shares like a gas problem are seeing a decline of more than one percent some of the biggest losers among blue chips and in financial stocks we are seeing as burbank's preferred shares going up around one fifth of a percent and the ruble has started the trading with the with the strengthening
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against the dollar and a bit of a weakening versus the euro well we're seeing that the euro is gaining against. that's pretty much in line. in other stories the world's the largest titanium producer vs m.p.o. smoke could be partly on sale on a sunday newspaper says the miners main shareholders the corporation rushing technologies aims to sell forty five percent of the company for almost one billion dollars analysts say russian technology was the shares in the great tanian company on credit and is currently unable to deal with the burden. of what's going on in the car in the commodities at the moment we are seeing at the klein in the light sweet and brent's is pretty also expect there's a seven week low and that's on hopes that international talks will reduce the odds of potential military action with iran. moving on now to to asia i presume yes that's right and the nikkei as moved back into positive
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territory is up point one percent that's out of the bank of japan has announced it's keeping rates unchanged whereas china is seeing a decline of more than one percent on the back of well trade surplus coming back in but growth rates for imports and exports indicating that there's a possibility of a hard landing. and now let's move over to the u.s. markets where a lot of negative sentiment actually is coming from on the global markets after those jobs figures coming out actually on friday and the dow jones the nasdaq declined more than one percent now making news on the nasdaq is facebook hasn't actually tricked started trading yet since i p o is yet to come in a couple of weeks and it's making its largest acquisition to date social network says it will buy the maker of a popular mobile application called instagram the free app allows users to take
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a picture easily modify it with different filters and then share it with friends now the service was founded less than two years ago and will be sold for one billion dollars in cash and stock. and that's the way the markets look this hour mary all right here thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very a latest which will be here at next hour but if you can't wait as long as always keep an eye on the business activity on our web site r.t. dot com slash business.
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your mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a wife with a was a bit always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side effects.
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