you're just joining us it's half past the hour. and these are your headlines international envoy on syria kofi anon says there's still time for the u.n. peace plan to end the bloodshed in the country and to work out skepticism in western and arab states over the wings of mind russia's foreign minister has urged pressure on the opposition to implement the cease fire. the british prime minister and his japanese counterpart agreed to expire and collaboration on defense

equipment many see the move as mirroring washington's recent drive to boost its military presence in the asia pacific. and russia and poland remember the victims of the tragic plane crash near smiley that killed the polish president and most stuff with close reese political elite two years ago separate investigations by both moscow and warsaw concluded bad weather conditions are in the states of the crew or to blame for the catastrophe. now the man accused in a case seen by many as a flagrant miscarriage of u.s. justice talks exclusively to our g. o a former journalist on black panther who is serving a life sentence behind bars gets his first interview after being taken off death row. a revolutionary journalist an 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 to be did in modern legal history accused of killing a police officer in the edis 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 all he's speaking exclusively with r t 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 were 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 sent from my earliest years what one would call international that is i pay attention to what's happening in other parts of the world and as an international as i'm. thinking about

life lived 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 and i was really like to. bring my family my wife and my kids to come see our street. money i was wondering being 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 to south africa which would be a. logical first choice but wherever people are fighting for freedom you

know that kind of what's my appetite to get my attention and move my passion you turn to each of 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've 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 interact 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. 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 lifetime on death

row so in many ways even to this day in my own mind. if not in fact i'm still 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 just tried in your work the prison system in united states as the war on the poor prison 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 it . when i was a teenager and i was in the back of the party i remember going to downtown manhattan and protesting against the. political imprisonment and incarceration and the threats facing angela why davis. and i remember you know of course like many other 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 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 into 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 of belgium of abel and perhaps you could i could name four or five other countries combined so we could not proceed back then what it would become and. you know so it's it's monstrous when you really look at what's happening today you can literally talk about millions of people being

a part that is being coarser rated 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 that just among families but in a social and commuter consciousness way and in caucasian a fear among generations 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 aspects chines 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 separate 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 the another part of the system and because what antonio crunchie called jimminy the ideological system impacts other parts of the system you can't change one thing that will impact things i think if anything that's one of the lessons of the lighting because the civil rights movement was talking about faith integration and this and that and 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 in their days at a system profoundly as segregated as that of their grandparents but it's not segregated by race or segregated by race and class formally class which impacts race. jonathan consul who has researched 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 and my kids and even the grandkids that the schools that my grandchildren go to the worst in the schools i went to when i was in my mind are years into my teenage years that's a condemnation of the system because for 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 recall well i would start with rephrase that american schools in many of the black and latino communities are not a tragedy they are a crime so are monitored by the f.b.i. at the age of fourteen and i want to ask you now was was such as the end being

passed in the united states where people are watched teen and can be held that's become easier than ever do you think big brother has officially shown his face in 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 call black bag jobs and that kind of stuff how to commit crimes but this is what they were also to do with and you bet i could cause because if you get caught you're going to jail it will act like we'll go under oath which 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 one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred fifty s. and nine hundred seventy s.

. they legalized legalized 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 that they do with in the name of national security but they do with nonetheless what we live in today is a national security state with big brother is. realized. rational you've described politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to honest prostitutes so i want to ask you what celestion season in the united states right now if you will trust who would you vote for somebody frankly i mean you 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 of the two page are political parties and when they talk it all i hear is a kind of that. i'm not

a reasonable. wish to return to days of yore the nineteen fifties or they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire and korea was like i mean what is there to vote for how many people consciously when they go to the polls are voting for imperialism or voting for more 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 are you very or because we have this effect and i just want to ask you lastly you could have been divorced the occupy wall street movement that has sprung up all over the united states. in the cycles uprising that you think could change america and good for the united states i think it's the beginning of the 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. christ people i think that's a waste but i think it's a damn good because i just wish it was bigger. so time is running out so me and can i ask you you are the voice of the voiceless what is your message to your supporters today right now who are listening to you. in the work upon me to re-organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for writing for me now let's write together for thank you so much for your time today thank you for talking with us best of luck thank you thank you thank you.

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world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are the day. the cuckoo. international envoy in syria kofi annan long says there's still time for the u.n. peace plan and the bloodshed in the country to work on it loud skepticism in western and arab states over the looming deadline as russia's foreign minister has urged the knowledge of pressure on the opposition to implement a cease fire. the british prime minister and his japanese counterpart agreed to expand collaboration on defense equipment many see the move as mirroring washington's recent drive to boost its military presence in the asia pacific. and russia and poland remember the victims of the tragic plane crash near smolensk that

killed the polish president most of the country's political elite two years ago separate investigations pandolfo moscow and warsaw included bad weather conditions and the stakes by the crew were to blame for the catastrophe. those are the headlines here on our team next up it's the latest from the world of sport with kate. i would thank you for joining me for the tuesday sports roundup and here's what's coming up. european dreams up to chelsea and talking slick talk in the race for champions league football after sons never pulled out a struggling butler this tuesday evening. while mission impossible told his boss alone aims to cut the gap to leave israel madrid to a single point as they hope to take off the cuff played by the spanish title. fighting to boxing's bad boy derek just saw talked about punching punditry and

parquet out as the balance fighter speaks exclusively to r.t. . but first a football and third got some black one hundred eight plays liverpool in the english premier league this cheers the evening with both sides looking to end losing streaks all writers have lost three in a row over all the europe hunting reds of last six of the last eight league games part of the pressure of manager kenny dalglish ahead of saturday's f.a. cup semifinal against merseyside rivals overturned a lot of the point breakers tonight can see the move out of the box and three grown meanwhile chelsea caretaker manager that he might say are still believes his team can grab the last child is the expected next season despite being helped with a one one draw at nearby follow on easter monday to stay six two points of fourth place she still held by tottenham despite their two one defeat at home to norrish well newcastle are faced and level on points with spurs on play to no i when i was struggling bolton one elsewhere everton dropped sunderland four nil and it was one

one in the middle and down between aston villa and the start. so after a lot of this is how the top of the table looks manchester united are top now eight points clear of manchester city but then there's a real scramble for certain ports which we asked an old thought the really costly and chelsea we've bought for in separating those fourth loves the gunners they still have a game in town and. one elsewhere under for. manchester city striker mario balotelli says he's sorry for the disappointment his second the sending off of the season has caused his cast twenty one year old italian picked up a second yellow tie for nasty tackle alex song in city's one nil defeat but also on sunday for that offense enraged manager never mind changing said balla teles likely to be sold at the end of the season streit has scored seventeen goals in thirty one games for city so far and wants to talk to the top about his future at the end of this campaign. meanwhile over in spain holders barcelona could move to within a point of leaders rail madrid with a victory in time to play this tuesday evening just two weeks ago the afghan side

were ten points behind way out with what seemed almost impossible task to claw about the deficit. only produced a goal to store here on sunday and pass a have crept back into contention of the seven churches left although coached by guardiola storytellers his team as the underdogs. but they did york as it would if you were to be real madrid was at four point advantage over us so there have been favorites and four points are a lot to overcome because they can fail any do we can't because if we do the warning so difficult yes we will face now it 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 indeed it would have to be aware that we need to look well within ourselves what we have to do a major game and you are still favor each game of the stadium because it is easy to see their matches has a very much ours for the. meanwhile here in russia is

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action from the n.b.a. where oklahoma city have returned to the top of the western conference after easing dos the bucs one hundred nine points to eighty nine in milwaukee oklahoma dominated the contest coming never trailed in the first quarter look at the run signed a three point shot give the visitors a ten point advantage and i need help while the clock was ticking down for the end of the russell westbrook landing another three point drop as that doesn't sound like an extended funders easy to sixty one forty seven in the top scored on a night with twenty six result then in the fourth quarter the charge of the second lockout a time like going to church by time is accounted to ninety points which would explain how she went on to greet the location i try and see if they target top seeding in the western conference that are still there for the show. that 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

competitors in a bid to catch drug cheats well they'll be based at this new laboratory just outside london it covers an area as large as seven tennis courts and all the softballs taken from the athletes we brought here. experts say the technology used to catch offenders is improving all the time and great strides have been made since the previous olympics which saw eighteen athletes disqualified. for years have gone since the beijing olympics and the science is advancing very rapidly the mass spectrometers that we use the very sophisticated instruments will actually tell us the components for. blood or urine are very special and they are far more sensitive than they were in beijing and they can actually work far more rapidly and make it and finally that brings us to one of the most controversial one in boxing. the british heavyweights license was withdrawn in march after his public brawl with david haye there's little chance we'll see him in the ring again so robert ford on

caught up with him we must. study the local. i think he's sure he's boxing skills in the ring becoming the british heavyweight champion in twenty jan but more recently we've seen him out of control out of the ring calling his controversial pretty quiet slip of the telly. and spitting in the young brother space the mitchell the sports bad boy has caused there to soar on his career the twenty eight year old had his professional license withdrawn by the bridge boxing board of control this march last straw for his press conference brawl with david haye still what made you do it all with two zero isn't pressure all rounder from hope. i don't know where you qualified it does for me. because i enjoy my

motion. unfortunately stories no longer allowed king george being a professional boxer for fan might be the first here in your role of books an analyst. i'm going for oil kill for. my. powerful part of your being everybody is in front of us your plans for the moon for up to be for the bust and for smaller guys. still. on skillful skills that. are the same. and while many still wonder why one of the most anticipated belts of recent years

mayweather versus black you know he's yet to happen just stories sure white know will. because they make more money when they fly with people to fight each other and one of the movie was so it's pointless. artsy. on us all the stuff i think.

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