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two countries attempt to turn the page in their relations some politicians in warsaw try to ride it the wave of grief into. the accused in a case is seen by many as a flagrant miscarriage of u.s. justice talks exclusively to us here at r.t. . a former journalist and. spending life behind bars gives his first t.v. interview after being taken off death row. a revolutionary journalist and activist an honorary award holding citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france his case is said to be one of the most of beaded in modern legal history accused of killing a police officer in the eighty's in nearby jamal who spent almost three decades on death row in january he was taken off death row and is now serving life behind bars

without parole for the first time since his transfer and he's speaking exclusively with our teeth from jail. thank you so much for speaking with us today my first question to you is after almost thirty years on death row and now serving a life sentence without parole if you weren't behind bars right now if you could be anywhere else in the world where do you think you would be and what would you be doing. i've always been since my earliest years what one would call international that is science pay attention to what's happening in other parts of the world and as an internationalist i am. thinking about life by other people all around the world of course as an african-american i would love to spend some time in parts of africa but it's also true that i have many friends and loved ones and friends i would really like to. bring my family my wife and my kids to

come see our street. me i was wondering behind bars you seem to be watching world affairs much closer than most people who are free to walk the streets and i want to ask you which events of the last thirty years would you really want to be a part of if you could i think first would probably be the anti-apartheid movement in south africa because of course that was south africa was also global because it was the touch point of white supremacy versus the freedom and dignity of african people so south africa which wouldn't be a. logical first choice but wherever people are fighting for freedom you know that's what's my avatar it gets my attention and moves my passion you turn fifty eight at the end of the month which means you will have spent more than half of your life behind bars and most people said even begin to imagine that what is it

like how to change your. point of fact i've spent most of my life. the bigger percentage of my life. and i cannot have had a profound effect on consciousness had on. the way one sees and interacts with the world. i like to tell myself that i've actually spent a lot of the time. on the bars and in other countries and you know. the parts of the world because i get so mentally but you know mental can only take you so far. the truth of the matter is i spent most of my living years in my lifetime on death row so in many ways even to this day in my own mind. if not in fact. your story has really become a symbol for many of us law justice system do you personally have any faith left

and is there and justice systems you've described in your work the prison system the united states as the war on the poor are prisons being built to get rid of the broken the homeless do you have any faith left in that system at all considering you are obviously so much part of part of it and your life has been so much affected by. when i was a teenager and i was in the black at a party i remember going to downtown manhattan and protesting against the. political imprisonment and of course the regime and the threats facing angela why davis. and i remember you know of course like many of the pastors reading her works . and. finding when she attacked the prison system she talked about the perhaps two hundred fifty thousand or three hundred thousand people in prison all throughout the united states that is not just

a problem that needs to be dealt with but. a crisis situation that bordered on fetches well fast forward thirty forty years into the present there are more than three hundred thousand prisoners california alone one state out of fifty the imprisonment in california notice i'm not talking about united states but in california alone exceeds that of france of belgium of able and perhaps you i could name four five of the countries combined so we could not perceive back then of what it would become and. you know so it's it's monstrous when you really look at what's happening there you can literally talk about millions of people being part of that is incarcerated by the prison industrial complex today men women and children and that level of mass incarceration really mass repression have to

have an immense impact and effect on the outer community not just among families but in a social intramural consciousness way and again caucasian a fear generation so it's at a level at a depth that many of us could not even fathom or dream of today you know i can't help but wonder you talk about so many important social and economic issues in your work. do you have a dream today if you could be one of those that's genes which one would you pick what do you wish you could see happen in the united there's never one thing i mean it's a second question and i understand it and i will address it but the point is because the system is a system of interconnectedness and because one part of the system impacts another part of the system and because. until you cross you called jimminy the ideological system impacts other parts of the system you can't change one thing

petal impact things i think if anything that's one of the lessons of the liking because the civil rights movement was talking about a gracious there's a nap and changing the schools and point of fact if you look at the vast majority of working class and poor black kids in american schools today. they believe they live and spend their hours and their days at a system profoundly as segregated as that of their grandparents but it's not segregated by race is segregated by race and class formally class which impacts race the great jonathan consul whose research american education for forty years has written in one of his most recent books that the american educational system is an apartheid system i know from my personal interaction with my own family you know talking to my wife my kids and even to granted that the schools that my

grandchildren go to the worst in the schools i went through when i was in my minor years and in my teenage years that's a condemnation of a system because former generations only concentrated on one thing or one side of the problem the problems really got worse and worse and worse and while there is a lot of rhetoric about schools. american schools are a tragedy that's the only thing they can be called i would i would rephrase that american schools and many of the black and latino communities are not a tragedy they are a crime were monitored by the f.b.i. at the age of fourteen and i was asking now was laws such as the being passed in the united states where people are watched kenan can be held that's become easier than ever do you think big brother has officially shown his face in this country at this point. well let's look at it this way if you look back at the cointelpro era

what is clear is that the f.b.i. and their leaders and their agents knew that everything they did was illegal and f.b.i. agents were taught and trained how to break into places how to do what they called black bag jobs and that kind of stuff how to commit crimes but this is what they were also to you better do it and you bet i could cause because if you get caught you're going to jail it will act like we are on your own which is happened in the last twenty thirty years not just the n.b.a. but the so-called patriot act has made everything that was illegal back in the might hundred sixty thousand nine hundred fifty s. and nine hundred seventy s. . they legalized they realized they legalized the very things that f.b.i. agents and administrators knew was criminal back then that means they can look at your mail they certainly can read your e-mail they cap your phones they do all of

that but they do it in the name of national security but they do with nonetheless what we live in today is a national security state where big brother is. legalized legalized rationalize you describe politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to honest prostitutes so i want to ask you would selection in the united states right now people trust her would you vote for somebody frankly i mean if i have let me put it this way i have seen no one that i could in good conscience vote for today. because most of the people that are out there are the two major political parties and when they talk it all i hear is a kind of that's not reasonable. to wish to return to days of yore the one nine hundred fifty s. where they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire imperialist by god i

mean what is there to vote for how many people consciously want to go to the polls for voting for purely for voting for more war the voting for their son or daughter or father or mother for that matter to become a member of the armed forces and become. a mass murderer bomber or use our organs we have the second i just want to ask you lastly you can have indorsed the occupy wall street movement that has sprung up all over the united states. in this proposal the rising that you think could change america and do good for the united states i think it's the beginning of a kind of uprising because it has to be deeper it has to be broader it has to address issues that are touching on the lives of poor and working. class people i think that's a waste but i think it's a damn good character i just wish it was. some sort of time is running out so me it can i ask you you're the voice of the voiceless what is your message to your supporters today right now who are listening to you. are worth

a quarter to re-organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for me now let's fight together for thank you so much for your time today thank you for talking with us the best of luck thank you thank you thank you. wealthy british scientists are. time to. market find out. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into this report on our t.v.

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are next it's. hello there you're watching the sport here on r.t. and this is what is coming up in tottenham slip up in the race for champions league football next season his rivals newcastle keep up the pressure. last weekend possible bastareaud now have the chance to cut the gap on leaders real madrid for a single point is the fight for the spanish title what's up and going down former champions russia will fall out of the top ten in the davis cup rankings for a miserable start to be here. but first chelsea manager reverted imitate still believes his team can grab the last champions league spot for next season or the blues conceded a lady equaliser against full on last night but is still just two points off fourth

place frank lampard penalty had put the blues ahead at the halfway stage but clint dempsey's late header saw them share the spoils at craven cottage and that leaves chelsea in sixth place although just two points behind top know who cling on to the final champions league spot despite the two one loss to nor each new class a level with spurs after two more defeat of bolton and in other games on easter monday everton thrashed sunderland four nil i'm feeling against don't finish one apiece so this is how the top of the table is looking managed to ninety day player of man city there that then there is a real scramble for the third and fourth champions league sports currently held by arsenal and tottenham and although they've got newcastle and chelsea breathing down their necks. spain the rates for the league title is hotting up barcelona could move to within a point seven hundred with victory over qatar three deceiving because the lands were ten points behind reality just two weeks ago when it seemed an impossible task

to claw their way back but after reale could only draw with valencia at the weekend pass to have crept back into contention with seven matches left leg coach. guardiola still regards his team as the underdogs. but they've got us in what i feel today is that real madrid holds a four point advantage over us so they're the favorites and four points are a lot to overcome because they can fail any day we can't because if we do the warm so the difficulties we will face now will be much bigger than the ones we had when we were ten points behind them so they will be the difficulties we will face in each game individually it would have to be aware that we need to look well within ourselves on what we have to do we need to game characters and don't fancy us in favor each game of the stadium because it is easy to see that matches their trail much where it has a very tough hours or two well isn't it remain the runaway leaders in the russian

premier league with five games to go in case you missed any of the action from the weekend it is now your chance to catch up hereis. live . live. live. live. live

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. now let's turn to ice hockey where the rebuilding process at lokomotiv jaroslav will continue it's been seven months since their entire squad was killed in

a plane crash and they've now announced a new coach to lead them on their return to the k h l next season carolina hurricanes assistant tom rose a man chosen to lead the three time rushing champions back into europe's elite competition in september the team have been competing in the league below the n.h.l. with a squad of players and loan signings since the disaster fifty five year old row was the first american to score thirty or more goals than that h.l. season is also previously coached at the alvin he reveals rats and global rock monsters. and tennis russia have dropped out of the top ten in the davis cup rankings it follows their surprise defeat to australia in february germany replaced the russians in the top ten russia have won the davis cup team times and have been runners up three times but have suffered in recent months with injuries and out of form stars spain remain top of the standings followed by argentina. actually now from the n.b.a. where oklahoma city are back on top of the western conference after beating the

milwaukee bucks one hundred nine points to eighty nine dominate the majority of this contest in fact never trail throughout the match and in the first quarter kevin durant made a three point shot to give it his inside the temple defiantly which when the clock ticked away the end of the first half russell westbrook made a three point shot as the buzzer sounded and made it sixty one forty seven he did top score on the nightly twenty six and in the fourth quarter several last year made a highlight gun to give the thunder a nineteen point two draw and would eventually be a walking by twenty as they look to take the first see place in the western conference. another news now it's not just the athletes who are preparing for the london games this summer a team of one hundred fifty scientists gearing up to test six thousand competitors is in a bid to catch drug cheats will be based at this new board tree in essex it covers an area as big a seven tennis courts and all the samples taken from the athletes will be bought

brought right here experts say the technology used to catch offenders is improving all the time and great strides have been made since their last summer olympics which saw eighteen athletes disqualified the day. four years have gone since the beijing olympics and besides ranching very rapidly the mass spectrometers that we use the very sophisticated instruments. the components for. blood or urine are very specific and there are far more sensitive. and they can actually work far more rapidly and make it funny how does the idea of competing in a two hundred fifty one kilometer race stand will pretty horrible expect to most people but imagine doing it in the heat of the it's a hard day as it will that is exactly what is going on at the moment in american this saga of the marathon of the stans as it translates as an annual race instead of morocco competitors have six days to complete the ultra marathon with the

longest stage fifty seven miles long everyone taking part miss carry all personal belongings and food for the entire event in their backpack all their water and tents are kindly supplied by the organizers defending champion like he. is after a second successive title and rushes leaner shifts of the record holder has called race a marathon finish the first stage in fifteenth. so that's the sport for the moment sir kate will be here throughout the rest of the day to be updated. the official. touch from the. launch

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