regards to you live from moscow where it's four thirty pm to have behinds reports on fresh shelling in syria if you want observers are set to enter the war torn country because the un security council first resolution on the conflict which allows the servers to oversee the shaky truce came into force on thursday. as there is of explosions gunfire and rocket shakes the afghan capital of foreign embassies and nato bases the focus of a large scale alabama attack military airport after all about in the east of the

country has also been targeted violence and through the reported two other provinces. and the two main challengers to the french presidency rally last minute support ahead of next sunday's ballot the socialist candidate from spots in poland is ahead in the polls president sarkozy has joined her charge to the right using immigration and terrorism fears to sway voters. now the man accused in a case seen by many as a flagrant miscarriage of u.s. justice will talk exclusively to me. a former journalist and black panther serving a life sentence behind bars he gave us his first interview after being taken off death row for missing. 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 it is near who has spent almost three decades on death row in general 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 to 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 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 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 and 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 the south africa which would be a. logical first choice but wherever people are fighting for freedom you

know that what's my appetite and it gets my attention and moves my gosh you turn fifty eight 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 you. 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 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. in other parts of the world because i did so mentally you know 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 us law 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 in 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 left in that system at all considering you are obviously so much part of part of it and your life has been so much that. when i was a teenager and i was in the back of a party i remember going to downtown manhattan and protesting against the. political imprisonment and incarceration and the threats facing angela white papers . and i remember you know of course like many other pastors reading her works. and. finding when she attacks the prison system she talked about

the perhaps two hundred fifty thousand or three hundred thousand people in prison all throughout the united states. not just big problems 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 the united states but in california alone exceeds that of france of belgium of england and perhaps you'd like me for five other 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 the social and communal consciousness way and the implication of fear among generations so it's at a level and 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 see one of those aspects jeans which one would you pick what do you wish to happen in the united there's never one thing i mean it's the second question and i understand it and i will address it the point is because the

system is a system of interconnected 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 all things i think if anything that's one of the lessons of the like because the civil rights movement was talking about 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. basically they live and spend their hours and their days in 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 x. rays. the great 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 my kids i'm going to grant you 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 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 that can equal well i was i would rephrase that american schools and many of the black and latino communities are not a tragedy they are a crime they were monitored by the f.b.i. at the age of fourteen and i want to ask you now was was because of the past in the

united states where people are watched a teen and can be held that's become easier than ever do you think big brother has officially show his face in this country at this point all this 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 that the 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 do you gotta do it and you bet i could cause because if you get caught you go to jail it will act like we are on your own but it happened in the last twenty thirty years not just. with the so-called patriot act has made everything that was illegal back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and one nine hundred fifty s. and one 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 they could 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 but they do it nonetheless what we live in today is a national security state where big brother is. legalized legal rationalize you described politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to honest prostitutes so i want to ask you to lessons even in the united states right now people trust would you vote for. 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 of. reasonable. wish to return

to being as of your the one nine hundred fifty s. or they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire and serialist 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 of voting for their son the board daughter or father or mother for that matter to become a member of the armed forces and become. a mass murderer bomber or very orbison's we have this effect and i just want to ask you lastly you think open doors the occupy wall street movement that has sprung up all over the united states . is this the type of uprising 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 be addressed issues that are touching on the lives of poor and working. class people i

think it is a waste but i think it's a damn good kicking i just wish it was bigger and angrier since our time is running out some 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. in the orthopod me to re-organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for me now let's fight to get to the free thank you so much for your time today thank you for talking with us the best of luck thank you thank you you thank. the close up team has been to the spirit last legion. where blacksmithing has developed from a craft into an industry. now archie goes far north. where returns to good roads and rail are

a battle against the elements where helicopter is the only transport for medics to reach those in need. and where ranger and fish are treasures for the people will come to the. autonomy area russia close up on our t.v. . there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source material is one hopes he journalism if. we want to present. something up. if. we need to use it secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't join about anything

since mission to teach creation why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com. parties top stories reports of selling in syria if you want to observers are said to enter the war torn country that follows the un security council's first resolution on the conflict which allows observers and to oversee the shaky truce became its fourth birthday. a series of explosions gunfire and rocket shaped the afghan capital with foreign embassies and nato bases being the focus of a large scale taliban attack on the military airport after a while about in the east of the country has also been targeted violence has been reported into another province of. the two main challengers for the french

presidency rally last minute support ahead of next sunday's ballot socialist candidate plug on his head in the polls rob president sarkozy has joined the charts to the right using immigration and terrorism fears to sway voters. more news for you at the top of the hour both here next weekend. so welcome to the world of sports here's what we've got coming up a grand feeling in the one hundred eleventh race of his career in the city's nico rosberg wins his maiden romper as he leads from start to finish in china. almost the. whole way from retaining their russian premier league title to beijing says call moscow chill and some features a. tragedy on the pitch. more to see me suffer as

a place. during a sorry b. box which. starts with germany's nico has won the chinese grom for the mercedes driver from pole just below his first career when it was a dominant. it was never really challenged from start to finish his team mate michael schumacher who also started on the front row retired after twelve laps into a real problem for mclaren gio jenson button it was hamilton came second and third respectively are now the top two in the drivers' championship the red bull pair of mark webber and sebastian vettel completed the top five dollars a day for ferrari with fernando alonso finishing ninth and philippe massa thirty while rushing brittle patter of eighty. now to football and then in some places but are just one win away from retaining their russian premier league title that's after a two no victory over second place as car must go on saturday two men are being their goal tally this season only perfect time for their eight thirty maybe throw

off second half header but the home side won a lot in the sixty fourth minute. final moments of the game i was on the critical scrubs found on brioche i've been in the area to secure the points with an excellent strike in the eighty ninth minute the victory means an eight now fourteen points clear with the top we're going to play for. meanwhile bottom side squad are now jacob ended a run of six straight defeats with a comprehensive of three when i was told on sunday the games when sparta moscow and rubin is just over half an hour old it's currently goals for spots that would take them second above test car and into the champions league places and later on sunday angie entertain the man or. claim all over england manchester united can open up a five point gap for manchester city at the top of the premier league with a win at home to aston villa on sunday on saturday city close to go back to two points with a six one minute knowledge. three more later on sunday tournament chelsea go head

to head at wembley in the second f.a. cup semifinal win it will play liverpool after that's who won when i was at everton on saturday. now some sad news from italy where lavon i met fielder and former. italian under twenty one international pm earlier mala seanie has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a sorry big game against pescado the twenty five year old signed online for it in a.z. collapsed in the thirty first minutes what a scene he was unconscious and taken to hospital after medical staff tried to revive the player on the pitch with a defibrillator he was pronounced dead on arrival is there comes less than a month after the english premier league player fabrice muamba suffered a heart attack in an f.a. cup fixture the bolt of one resident field is continuing his recovery. now i saw the way he could go in cup finals are perfectly poised following a game to start the now moscow beat up and are two one on sunday to level the series one one the visitors would single out at the end of the first period comes

to goals from their scope of their color of alexander put a joke in for them back in the final period but it was too little too late the next two games take place in moscow. now to go for louis west hays in his bronze plaque from his second place masters finish last weekend and in style for south african cruising in kuala lumpur to win the malays you know put in by a three stroke margin the two thousand and ten british open winner rebounding swiftly from the playoff loss to bubba watson at all got stuck in an excellent approach of the thirteenth hole resulting one of his five least a twenty nine year old comfortably beating scot skaven gallagher by three shots to make his pick european tour title in south africa winning his second piece of silverware this year after he successfully defended his africa open title earlier in january. now to boxing and probably the most famous voice in the schools i'm talking about the man who is known throughout the world for his catchphrases and let's get ready to rumble we're going to answer michael buffer has been speaking

exclusively to r.t. . it's a great evolution and it says as they say going to sports that. you know that a lot of eastern europeans and many russians dominated in the olympics for the last quarter century and now the fruits of all the labor of people training any other men boxing and train chickens that now it's all coming to their like he says evolved in the states has to get lonely worthy of the attention to have i think a lot of the world champions from the russian the arenas in our first class arenas said which is great and there you have the world championship freighters and now the real chickenshit events televised around the world thousands of people go to see the thing out recognize the fighters and it's it's a really great environment for fox if.

that's. the reason it started it because there was a period more where in it still exists that the ring announcer has to introduce all the officials before the fighters and still you've had a moment with the fighters on the brain the music and the lights and it's very exciting and then. the ring announcer and the speech. he kills the atmosphere that electricity that he created by the fighters making their entrance to the right so i wanted something that would ignite the crowd that would bring them back to the point where thing now you're going to meet the stars of the show you know i tried man your battle stations and it fasten your seat belts it didn't work the great muhammad of used to say that he was ready to rumble and so i find to me that you know what you hear today that's

a good. you know i never got a chance to introduce mama dolly as a ring announcer later in your thirty years of charity events you have gotten no friends but. one of my all time favorite sports beat not only. a fighter when i was there for you at the end of his career was a great sugar ray robinson probably the greatest writer of all it's a big fan of his and lately. mayweather. you gotta give credit to klitschko the colonnade and the heavyweight division. such a popular kid i think many of the skates in germany you know he was promoted by so military might now easy to be a heavyweight champion so he's a favorite of mine sometimes it's emotional sometimes i'm introducing. to fight just that i know that i know their families that i love them both then they have to

fight each other and. so you're happy for the winner and you're brokenhearted for the loser on the same night. now so boscobel way in the n.b.a. the memphis grizzlies are playing their seventh straight home victory with a one hundred three ninety eight when i have the utah jazz man sitting tenth in the western conference one level with the host during the first two quarters and then by a solitary point out the break then rookie gordon hayward did not catch a three pointer to extending charlie four points late in the first month is found a way to respond is o.j. mayo still seventeen of his twenty points during the final quarter of the ice edge of our four hundred ninety eight and may fifth in the conference so. now finally die thinking russia has won the men's three meters synchronized events on the final day of competition for the world series on the fourth medal to russia's tally here in moscow the top office that he settles. three metre springboard

synchronised men's was the biggest intrigue of the final day with the usually dominant team china not competing in the discipline you'd lead to an open competition but the russian pair of you get off and he has 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 and could beijing's the however we try to ensure best despite their absence. it's a pity the china team didn't take part in this event expected to compete with them as thoroughly as competition. after this when the russian do you will travel to the final stage of the world series in mexico next week and they're allowed to skip the domestic championship which means they have both 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 other events on the night the trainees won all the gold medals head c. and took it for us two places in three metre springboard knew where get the highest score in the man's ten meter platform and one enchant joleen wonder woman smear a towel they cheney's diaries called 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 because they about are both. well that's all the sports news for now i'll be back in a little under two hours to enjoy. the it.

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