that is a lure for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance. here with our live from moscow breaking news this hour coming in from afghanistan the capital has been struck by at least a dozen large explosions in what seems to be a coordinated attack on the three different magic area rockets were reportedly fired at the afghan parliament and the russian embassy in kabul when this is also saying a rocket propelled grenade has hit the british ambassador's residence and the smoke was seen rising from the german embassy also

a turkish base on the outskirts of kabul is also thought to be under attack from mortar fire turkish and greek forces are responding with heavy caliber machine gun fire and the taliban has said that it is behind these attacks we'll keep you updated as we can as this information keeps coming in i want to happening in kabul here on r t let's take a look at some other stories that we're covering for you this sunday for you when it sets the stage to send observers to syria with its first resolution on the conflict designed to prop up the shaky cease fire and advance team of thirty monitors will pave the way for hundreds more. egypt shortens the list of presidential candidates as former mubarak sidekicks are booted out of the running thousands of islamists rallied in cairo in support of a new law preventing former regime officials from entering the grades. it's the final push for francis top job as voters lurch to the extremes with concerns over

immigration identity and imposing a new election rivals nicolas sarkozy and francois the nazis will hold sunday rallies in. you're retired so you live from moscow we have our interview program coming up this now the man accused in the case seen by many as a miscarriage of u.s. justice talks exclusively to our t.v. media a boojum all a former journalist who's serving a life sentence behind bars gives us his first interview after being taken off that promise. 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 movie 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 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 my earliest years what one would call in international studies pay attention to what's happening in other parts of the world and as an internationalist 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. me i was wondering why 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 and south africa 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 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 and it gets my attention and 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 can't even begin to imagine that was it light how does it change you. the 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 and on. the way one feeds 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. in other parts of the world because i get 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 so in many ways even to this day in my own mind.

if not in back i'm still looking for your story has really become a symbol for many of our flawed justice system do you personally have any faith left in is there and for you justice systems you've described in your work the prison system the united states as the war on the poor or prisons being built to get rid of the broken the homeless do you have any faith rocked or not at all considering you are obviously so much part of part of it and your life has been so much rested 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 incarceration and the threats facing angela y. papers. and i remember you know of course like many other pastors reading her works and. 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 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 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 this monstrous when you really look at what's happening there you can literally talk about millions of people being part that is incarcerated by the prison industrial complex today men women

and children and that level of mass incarceration really mass repression has to have an immense impact and effect on the outer community not just among families but in a social and community colleges way in caucasian a fear among generations so it's at a level and of 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. you have a dream today if you could be one of those that genes which one would you pick what 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 what antonio promptly called. jimminy of the

ideological system impacts other parts of the system you can't change one thing that will impact things i think everything that's one of the lessons of life and six because the civil rights movement was talking about faith gratian there's a knack of 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. basically 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 as segregated by race and class formally class which in fact raised. the great job of council who was researching 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 grant you that the schools that my grandchildren go to the worst in the schools i went to but i was in my minor years and in my teenage years that's a condemnation of the system but because former generations only concentrated on one thing or one side of the father the problems really got worse and worse and worse and while there is a lot of rhetoric about schools. american schools are a tragedy if you only think of the problem i would start with 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 want to ask you now was the laws such as the being passed in the united states where people are watched seen 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. 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 talking 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 too you're going to 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 when it's happened in the last twenty thirty years well not just. the so-called patriot act has made everything that was the glue equal back in the nine hundred sixty s. and nineteen fifties 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 that but they do it in the name of national security what they do with less what we live in today is a national security state where big brother is. legalized legalized rationalize you've described politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to honest prostitutes so i want to ask you would selection even in the united states right now people trust her would you vote for her but 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 of the two major political parties and when they saw it all i hear is a kind if that's. not a reasonable. wish to return to days of yore the one

thing they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire imperialist like i mean what is there to vote for how many people consciously want to go to the polls are voting for imperialism or voting for more war going 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 or bomber or very orbison's we have the second i just want to ask you lastly you think of the doors the occupy wall street movement that has sprung up all over the united states this is the part of uprising that you think could change america and do good for the united states i think it's beginning of the kind of uprising because it has to be deeper it has to be broader it has to be addressed issues that are touching on the lives of poor and working. class people i think it's a waste but i think it's a damn good pick i just wish it was bigger and angrier so time is running out i

mean can i ask you you are the voice of the voiceless what is your message to your supporters today right now while listening to you. in the course of i want to re-organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for me now looks like you've got to be free thank you so much for your time today thank you for talking with us best of luck thank you thank you thank you leon. yeah. the elan. school. to lose to elizabeth to the bullets

few ill. the set. it was r t live from moscow let's try and bring you more on the breaking news coming out of the afghan capital it seems kabul's diplomatic quarter is under militant been barred meant but at least twelve explosions and heavy gunfire the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack we have to wreak who you do it was a reporter in kabul on the line with us live from kabul you can hear some of that firing behind him three tell us what is happening in the afghan capital now where you've seen i understand you're in the diplomatic quarter. i want to yes say i want to pack where i'm staying is the oldest. and he would be diplomatic

corps and it was i was in the orchestra and my rule monday you hear a couple of huge explosion it's hard. to hold them things and ask a few minutes later we. found the he is there only to go and you get a promotion of ours. i would scold would you. do explosions continued for more than an hour. taking a sip from time to time i could into ritually recalled how many were. for six explosions occurred. measurement the os told. it to leap for the kitchen ins it was when i reached the basement we had another explosion which. is still the situation so far

it's good and. execute a few people and it will be told at the end of this mission to be going to be. around. and we are needed to be talked into see if you go look at the i've jumped in i did talk to t. and d. are. on there so if the situation is still very pretty in fact and if you. just try to mention in the beginning you're curious and use the body behind the response but eighty. i could say he found it. creates i mean some for not being from germany and promoted countries but. basically it's a new hotel and it's never been conducted. fortitude to curse try and get people to go on. what i tell you but it's what is mentioning here also that this area is

there not only in your from diplomatic corps but also on your from the ministry and b.b. prevention. area is quite. frequently the targets of study get straight to you alright be safe there it sounds pretty quiet well of course it will continue to monitor that situation in the afghan capital as it is very clear that as a diplomatic green section of the city is under attack up next here on r.t. we'll get the latest from sport stay with us and we have more of course at the top of the ox. but other sports and marquee thanks for joining us. and first our top story.

almost champions the needs are one of a throw away from retaining their russian premier league title after beating say star in saying it is sue nailed it. first in diving video of you going to consult and to be as a high of security team russia gold in the men's primitive synchronized event at the world seriously in moscow. and more tragedy on the plate italian football and more as any dies from the heart attack during a seriously match in italy. but it's always start with formula one where nichols because germany has just won the chinese grand prix them said his driver needed one hundred and eleven races to claim his first victory was their one pole position the day before was the lady throughout the major part of the race meaning his triumph was no accident his teammates my fortune also started their front row. to retire after twelve letters you say will problem. in the form of junction box and loose

hamilton came second and third respectively brushes with other drove drove to the eighteenth sports. just one win away from retaining their russian premier league title that's. victory over second place on saturday night two men opening their gold telly this season just in time for the meet with a good second half strike putting the one mill up in the sixty fourth minute in the final moments of the game because of course it was found shot in the area who closed out the game with an x. on strike in the eighty ninth minute victory means and out fourteen points at the top with only fifteen to play for. miss a chance to move third after they were one zero away it's one both teams created

plenty of chances in the first half but despite that it was goalless at half time signing a remarkable change to finally breaking the deadlock for the muscovites in the sixty first minute the thirty year old was substituted limited to the following the effort marcus levelled matters for the hosts in the seventy fourth minute with a brilliant strike one of the final school there in the us another. three games are shuttled for sunday west who could go second if they'd been luzhniki stadium. visit and could move up to third if they'd come away with a victory at the other end of the table rock bottom spots are not sure how to fall go do it later score there is one nil to acknowledge in the current side after forty five minutes of play. over in english. mench the city have blown the title race wide open once more with

a big victory at norwich they are now just two points behind leaders makes united boss well remain after the goalless draw at sunderland but still just one place above them falling and free no loss at swansea q.p.r. are two points at the bottom of drugs due to one male defeat present west brom. in the first f.a. cup semifinal when billy liverpool came from behind to beat my side rivals never to see one nikolay garbage people to talk things out in the twenty four minutes but second half goals from luis suarez and the kind of soften it wishes meant fruits of that second to max a cup final appearance of the season. and chelsea go head to head in the other symphonic. moans over the top we know he has a job to do to get him out of. the world celebrations or anything more about. it's not supposed to look. now very sad news from a to the world of all the midfielder

and former under twenty one per morrison has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a serious became against this car the twenty five year old signed on loan from wooden as a collapse in the thirty first minutes whereas it was taken to hospital unconscious after medical staff tried to revive the player on the pitch with a different relator but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital is death consulate's than an hour after english premier league player for a brief one but suffered a heart attack and afaik can't fixture the bolton wondrous midfielder survived and is making slow but steady recovery. two possible now where in the n.b.a. the memphis grizzlies have claimed seven straight home victory by uta just men sitting in the western part with a house during the first two quarters leading by a new one point break then called how would not a three pointer to extend to four points late in the third but memphis found

a way to respond as a sports seventeen of his twenty during the final quarter. and how hard would have been three to ninety eight remaining fifth in the conference. and i so here they go a cup finals between i one got only an hour more school have resumed game two is probably taking place in homes. starts after the opening period remember this one up in the best of seven series. game three will take place in the russian capital on tuesday. and finally in diving team russia has won the men's for me to synchronize event our move final day of competition at the world series adding a fourth medal to russia's tally here in moscow because of it put up with all the details. the three metre springboard synchronise nancy was the biggest

intrigue of the final day with the usually dominant team china not competing in the disappointing it lead to an open competition but the russian pair of you get off and then as a her lead from the first round to secure the gold with a solid performance while the u.s. team or second and ukraine third yes. i think the chinese divers decided to take a pause and have some rest we also didn't compete who could be showing stage however we try to short past despite their hobson's might but it's a pity to china team didn't take part in this event expected to compete with them as we required turley for this competition after this when the russian and you will travel to the final stage of the world serious in mexico next week and they're allowed to skip the domestic championship which means they have both booked their place for the national team at the london olympics. thank you i don't

know yet i haven't talked with the head coach but it seems yes we are going to lympics however in our events on the night the chinese won all the gold medals head c. and the room took the forest to places in three meter springboard and the new air got a higher score in the man's ten meter platform and one hole and she enjoyed wonder woman's mirror tower there cheney's diaries hold undisputable leadership in the sport and will be hoping to add a few more medals at the final stop of the serious in mexico next week as a mother of party. ok that's all for me for today more sports news from around the globe in size time head r.t. where my colleague paul scored.

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