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well the. technology innovation all these developments around russia. the future. four thirty pm on tuesday here in moscow here you see headlines rushers foreign minister says the assad regime should be more active in implementing the u.n. brokered cease fire plan in syria just two days before the final deadline. was also called supporting the opposition pressure on the factions who are sabotaging peace efforts. the british prime minister seeks to seal an historic weapons deal with japan and to agree on
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a possible royal navy submarine deployment in the region many see the move as mirroring washington's recent drive to military presence in the asia pacific. and russia and poland remember the victims of the tragic plane crash that killed the polish president most of the country's political elite two years ago separate investigations by both moscow and was concluded. by the crew it was a blame the catastrophe. those are the headlines now the man accused in a case seen by many as a flagrant miscarriage of u.s. justice exclusively to r.t. . a former journalist and. serving a life sentence behind bars gives his first interview after being taken off death row exclusive interview here on alt. a revolutionary journalist and activist an honorary award holding citizen in over
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twenty cities with a street named after him in france his case is said to be one of the most abated in modern legal history accused of killing a police officer in the eighty's movie near would your model has 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 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 one was called international studies i've paid attention to what's happening in other parts of the world and as an internationalist i'm. thinking about life lived by other
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people all around the world of course as an african-american i would love to spend some time in project africa but it's also true that i have many friends and loved ones and friends and i would really like to. bring my family my wife and my kids to come see our street. money i was wondering the high bard 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 at south africa because of course while that was south africa it was also global because it was the touch point of white supremacy versus the freedom and dignity of african people the south africa which it may be a. logical first choice but wherever people are fighting for freedom you
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know that kind of what's my appetite and it gets my attention and moves my gosh you turn at the end of the month which means you will have spent more than half of your life behind bars and most people can't even begin to imagine that what is it like how does it change your. the point of fact i spent most of my life. the bigger percentage of my life on death row and i cannot have had a profound effect on consciousness and 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. at other parts of the world because i did so mentally but mental can only take you so far. the truth of the matter is i spent most of my living years in my life on death row
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so in many ways even to this day in my own mind. it's not in fact i'm still on your story has really become a symbol for many of our flawed justice system do you personally have any faith left in a fair and free justice system you've described in your work the prison system the united states of the war on the poor our 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 a part of it in your life have been so much affected by this 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 incarceration and the threats facing angela why dave. and i remember you know of course like many other pastors reaching for works and.
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and. finding when she attacked the prison system she talked about the perhaps two hundred fifty thousand or three hundred thousand people in prisons all throughout the united states that is not just a problem that need to be dealt with but. a crisis situation that bordered on fascism well fast forward thirty forty years to the present there are more than three hundred thousand prisoners in 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 belgium of england and perhaps you 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 monstrous when you really look at what's
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happening there you can literally talk about millions of people being part of that is the 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 our community not just among families but in a social and communal consciousness way and again caucasian fear among generations so it's at a level and at a depth that many of us could not even fathom which reminds 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 aspects genes which one would you pick what you wish you could happen in the united there's never one thing i mean it's a sexy question and i understand it and i will address it with the point is because
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the system is a system of interconnectedness and because one part of the system impacts the other part of the system and because what antonio crunchy called jimminy the ideological system impacts other parts of the system you can't change one thing that will impact all things i think if anything that's one of the lessons of the like because the civil rights movement was talking about a great shared this and that in changing the schools in point of fact if you look at the vast majority of working class and poor black kids in american schools today they really they live and spend their hours and days in 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 in fact race. great jonathan consul who has researched american education for forty years
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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 and my kids and even the grandkids that the schools that my grandchildren go to are worst in the schools i went to when i was in my minor years and in my teenage years that's a condemnation of the 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 say 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.
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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 a teen and can be held that's become easier than ever do you think they grow other has officially shown his faith in this country at this point but 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 the agents were taught and trained how to break into places how to do what they call black bag jobs and that kind of stuff how to commit crimes but this is what they were also to do 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 under oath has happened in the last twenty thirty years well not just the but the so-called patriot act has made everything that was illegal back in the one nine hundred sixty s.
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and one nine hundred fifty s. and nineteen seventies. they legalized they realized they legalized the very things that f.b.i. agents and administrators knew was criminal back then that means faith you can look in 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 it nonetheless what we live in today is a national security state with big brother is. legalized legal rationalize you described politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to honest prostitutes and i want to ask you it's a lesson in the united states right now people trust who would you vote for somebody frankly i mean i have let me put it this way i have seen no one that i could in good conscience vote for day. because most of the people that are out there of the two major political parties and when they talk it all i hear is
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a kind of at least. a reasonable. wish to return to days of yore the one nine hundred fifty s. where they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire imperialist i mean what is difficult for many people consciously when they go to the polls are voting for imperialism or falling for more war 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 a very organised since we have fifty thousand and i just want to ask you lastly you seem to have endorsed the occupy wall street movement that has sprung up all over the united states. is this proposal talk rising that you think could change america and do good for the united states i think it's beginning of a kind of a project because it has to be deeper it has to be broader it has to address issues
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that are touching on the lives of poor and working. class of people i think it's a waste but i think it's a damn good beginning i just wish it was bigger and. sometimes i was running out of money and can i ask you you're the voice of the voiceless what is your message to your supporters today right now while listening to you. or if you want to re-organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for me tell it like to get to be free thank you so much for your time today thank you for talking with us best of luck thank you thank you you thank
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the headlines on our t.v. rushers foreign minister says the assad regime should be given more active in implementing the un brokered cease fire plan in syria this just two days before the final deadline but senator levin off has also called on those supporting the opposition to pile pressure on the factions who a separate peace efforts. the british prime minister seeks to seal an historic reckons deal with japan and to agree on a possible war oil navy submarine deployment in the region many see the move is nearing washington's recent drive to boost its military presence in the asia pacific. russia and poland remember the pick. the tragic plane crash near small
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killed the polish president and most of the country's political elite that was now two years ago separate investigations by both moscow and warsaw concluded bad weather and mistakes by the crew of play. time now for sports. hello welcome to the latest poll this tuesday and here the headlines. european and asian chelsea and talk them slip up in the race for champions league football next season as rivals newcastle keep up the pressure on the top for. the us mission possible holders barcelona agency to cut the gap to leaders realm agreed to a single point as they host make table top eight like the spanish title. under all
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the saw it twice former champions russia fall out of the top ten in the davis cup rankings of the miserable year in world tennis. but says the football and chelsea caretaker manager roberto di matteo still believes his team can grab their last champions league spot for next season despite being held to a late george near by for them in the english premier league a frank lampard rousing have the blues ahead by half time but the kynge dempsey's late head that saw them share the spoils to stay six two points of course a place which is still held by tottenham despite their two one defeat at a time to nourish newcastle a fierce and level on points with spurs off great to nil they went into struggling goals and one elsewhere evidence from sunderland and it was long long in the midlands are between upton villa and started. so after those easter monday games and this is the top of the table looks manchester united at talk now eight points clear of manager of the cities but then there's a real scramble third and fourth between also top the new cars and chelsea with
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four points separating goes for all clubs so the gunners still have a game in hand. and elsewhere under fire manchester city striker mario balotelli says he's sorry for the disappointment the second week sending off of the season has caused his club the twenty one year old italian picked up a second yellow card for nasty tackle on alexander and see if he's one of the beaches are still on sunday passes. fence and raised mileage out of it and i'm cheating he said politically could go at the end of the season and he's unlikely to play until then i literally has scored seventeen goals in thirty one games so far wants to talk to the club about the future at the end of the season. meanwhile over in spain holders barcelona could move to within a point of lead israel madrid with a victory at home to play this wednesday evening or even just to say just two weeks ago the cattle side were ten points behind way out what seemed like an almost impossible task to pull back the deficit that's way out could only produce a goal as towards home to balance the on sunday and basso have crept back into
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contention with seven matches left. still regards his team more of the dogs. but i think that your case and what i feel today is a bit well much renewables are four point advantage over us so they're a bit favorites and four points are awarded because they can fail any day but we can't because if we do the warning so the difficulty is we will face now it will be much bigger than the ones we had when we were ten points behind them so it will be the difficulties we will face in each game individual because we have to be aware that we need to look well within ourselves and what we have to do in a game and so fans you are in favor each game at the stadium because it is easy to see their matches as a very tough much ours to. me while here in russia as an eight extended their lead at the top of the premier league to eleven points with five games to go after saturday's one zero win what i want safe and in case you missed any of the action
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a new coach to leave them on their return to the next season carolina hurricanes assistant coach tom rowe is the man chosen to lead the three time russian champions back into europe elite competition in september and seeing how things are beating in the lead below the only chelsea a squad of young players and loan signings since the disaster on september seventh last year fifty five year old row was the first american to score more than thirty goals in an n.h.l. season previous coaching experience at the bulls in the river rats and the monster is. now tennis the former champions russia have dropped out of the top ten in the davis cup rankings they're actually down to fourteenth well this decline follows the country's surprise defeat to austria in february germany replaced russia in the top ten the russians have won the davis cup twice the runners up three times and suffered in recent months with injuries to form stars spain remain at the top of the standings followed by argentina. action now from the n.b.a.
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where oklahoma city have returned to the top of the. in conference after easing past the bugs one hundred nine points to eighty nine in milwaukee dominating the contest hands plays never trailed in the first quarter kevin durant's signed a three point shot to give the visitors and ten point advantage. while the clock was ticking down for the end of the first half russell westbrook landed another three point shot as the buzzer sounded to extend a round of lead to sixty one forty seven top scored on the night through twenty six zero in the fourth quarter tarboro supper last shot made a highlight doesn't stretch oklahoma's advantage to nineteen points and eventually by twenty targets tops even in the western conference. which was god it's. hard but. now it's not just the athletes who are preparing for the london olympics this summer a team of one hundred fifty scientists are also gearing up to test six thousand
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contractors in a bid to patch drug cheats they'll be based at this new laboratory just outside london it covers an area as large as seven tennis courts and all the samples taken from the athletes will be brought here experts say the technology used to catch apprentice is improving all the time and great strides have been made since the last olympics in beijing which saw eighteen things disqualified for doping. four years ago change the very thing olympic and the science is advancing very rapidly rematch spectrometers that we use the very sophisticated instruments will actually tell us the components that must sample be blood or urine are very specific and there are far more sensitive and they were in very sharing and very can actually work far more rapidly and make it. now how does the idea of competing in a two hundred fifty one kilometer race sound probably pretty scary to most people but imagine doing it in the heat of the sahara desert which is exactly what the
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competitors are doing at the marathon based sub the madison of the sounders as it translates is an annual race in southern iraq we can bet it does have six days to complete the ultramarathon the longest stage ninety two kilometers long anyone taking part must carry all of personal belongings out of food for the entire event in their backpacks although water tends to be supplied by the organizers defending champion element of beauty is aiming for a second successive title while russians lately checked salt in the record holder in south africa's comrades american nation the first stage in fifty. four we want to stark contrast some runners have been braving the ultimate cold of the arctic ice thirty five competitors from seventeen countries took part in the annual north pole marathon last week and temperatures plummeted below minus twenty six degrees celsius so it's not all nothing but the organizers promote the run as the world's coolest marathon but there were no britons andrew murray not to be
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