this street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal. the some good folks on our team. for the morning if you just joined us is midnight thirty here in moscow the top stories from our team now reports of fresh shelling in syria as u.n. observers a said to enter the board's own country it follows the u.n. security council first resolution on the conflict which allows them now the world to see the shaking troops that came into force on thursday. a series of explosions gunfire and rocket shake the afghan capital with the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases being the focus of a large scale taliban attack militants claim they were a retaliation for a u.s.

soldier massacring afghan civilians and burning copies of the qur'an at an american military base. and foreign activists arrive in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people but meet a tough response from the israeli police dozens of activists who were part of an international campaign dubbed welcome to palestine a barred from entering the country and israeli activists have also been arrested. now the man accused in a case seen by many as a flagrant miscarriage of u.s. justice talks exclusively to us when there are a former journalist and black panther serving a life sentence but gives us his first interview of the been 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 book use of killing

a police officer in the eighty's near ramallah 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 and he's speaking exclusively with our 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 my earliest years what one would call international that is i pay attention to what's happening in other parts of the world. 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 st. louis i was wondering do you hide far 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 with south africa it was also global because it was the touch point of white supremacy versus the freedom and dignity of african people so south africa which would be a. logical first choice but wherever people are fighting for freedom you know that's kind of what's my appetite and it gets my attention and moves my

passion you turn of the end of the month which means you will have times 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. 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 i have on. the way one sees and interacts with the world. i like to tell myself that i 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 ill can only take you so far. the truth of the matter is i spent most of my living years in my lifetime. so in many ways even to this day in my own mind. if not in fact

i'm still on your story has really become a symbol for many 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 in 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 part of it and your life has been so much affected by. when i was a teenager and i was in the black with party i remember going to downtown manhattan and protesting against the. political imprisonment and incarceration and the threats facing angela davis. and i remember you know of course like many other pastors reading her works. and. our findings 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 and this is not just a problem that need to be got 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 being 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 i could name four 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 out 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 our community not just among families but in a social and communal consciousness way and in caucasian a 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. you have a dream today if you could be one of those aspects genes which one would you pick what do you wish you could see happen in the. number 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 antonio crunch you call a chimney 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 lighting sector because the civil rights movement was talking about saying integration 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 believe they live and spend their hours in the days of the 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 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 family you know talking to my wife my kids and even the grandkids that the schools that my grandchildren go to or worse than the schools i went to when i was in my mine or yours 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 the only thing they can be called i would start would rephrase american schools and 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 the laws such as the 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 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 the 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 better get caught because if you get caught you go to jail it will act like we'll tell you. what is happened in the last twenty thirty years well not just. with the so-called patriot act has made everything that was illegal back in the one thousand nine hundred fifty nine hundred fifty s. and nine hundred seventy s. . legalized legalized 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 and they certainly can read your e-mail they kept your phones they do all of that so they do it in the name of that actual security but they do with nonetheless what we live in today is a national security state with big brother is. legalized legalized rationalize you described politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to honest prostitutes so i want to ask you this election season in the united states right now people trust would you vote for somebody 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 days of yore the nineteen fifties or they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire imperialist i mean what is there to hope for how many people consciously want to go to the polls are voting for imperialism or 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 are you very or because we have the second i just want to ask you lastly you seem to have indorsed the occupy wall street movement that has sprung up all over the united states. in the battles uprising that you think could change america and do 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. quest because i think it's a waste but i think it's a damn good i just wish it was bigger. since our time is running out so money a

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 horrific want 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. this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in the condition where it had become

a source of pollution and the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading. will continue to be more than hundred thousand people in. groups looking in effect to children see their children to be identified as more likely to be born with birth defects in children in recent times . during the scene as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong. and. unpunished.

stories from our reports of fresh shelling in syria. told country it follows the un security council's first resolution on the conflict which allows. the shaky troops that came to force on. a series of explosions and gunfire and rocket shake the afghan capital with the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases big focus of a large scale taliban attack militants claimed they were retaliation for a u.s. soldier of massacring afghans of them and burning copies of the qur'an to american military. and foreign activists arrive in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people but meet a response from the israeli police dozens of activists who were part of an

international campaign welcome to palestine are barred from entering the country and nine israeli activists have also been arrested. but next world sport. hello welcome along to the world of sport here's what we've got coming up top flight action spot on moscow every second in the russian premier lake at the leaving it late next week the winner of a rebate. i primed feeling is one hundred and eleven for a second his career mercedes nico rosberg is his first ever grand prix is even from start to finish in china. and all square i do not know moscow level the garden cup finals without him god after to want to weigh in on this series is now perfectly

poised at one one heading into game three. but starting with football in the russian from a league spot i must go have moved up to second place on the all important champions league sports following that you know when i've really been on sunday following sas cause to think it's an eight yesterday valerie carpetbag new second spot was up for grabs the wayside made life difficult for the hosts who had to wait until the seventy fourth minute to break the deadlock in front of the helm for arms when it suits you finding himself in the right place at the right time to explore emmanuel i mean ek then secured the points with a header eight minutes later the victory of spots are two points clear of serious problems and drama in the race of champions league football next season. world renown or themselves have moved up the un process problem for us after the one zero two sitting side have now failed to score in their last three matches and went down in this one thanks to getting near right off deflected first half goal so

i think it was man in our piece in the last four much it's. meanwhile possible side spot analogy and a run of six straight defeats with a comprehensive free to win over volga the home team would gifted at charts in the first half when i. xander scene was filed in the area. considine of promptly converting the thirty seventh minute penalty for a one millimeter. might make three ships double the advantage surely after the break old a keeper early hour by of couldn't keep out his no shot at the near post. and a terrible defensive lapse by vulgar then allowed daniel with radio to slot home and seal the points seventy six minutes three know the score i wouldn't start their . success. now in england manchester united have reestablished their five point lead at the top of the premier league after a four no win over aston villa to wayne rooney goals post warnings from danny welbeck and nani silva constable briggs. now in formula one journeys nico rosberg

has won the chinese grand prix and the series driver led from pole to secure his first career when it was it done in just played by rosberg who was not a really challenge from start to finish his teammate michael schumacher who also started on the front right retired after twelve lapsed into a real problem. joey jenson button lewis hamilton came in second and third respectively hamilton now leads the drivers' championship from his teammate the record player mark webber and sebastian vettel completed the top five russian business petroff was eighteen. when i saw in the garden cup finals a perfectly poised following game two but started in a moscow beat on guard to run on sunday to level the series one one the visitors started brightly encircling after just eight minutes begins to look at it and despite losing the first game of the series in arms found themselves two goals to get at the end of the first period when leo called it off i did

a second clean always shied. alexander had a jug and pulled one back in final period to ensure there would be a nervy final few minutes there was no grandstand finishes the filibuster so i held out for the spirit when which things the level to see. mary's place two games take place. to go for louis west days in advance but for his second place masters finish last week and in some style the south african cruising in kuala lumpur to win the malays you know print by a three stroke knowledge in the two thousand and seven british open winner rebounding swiftly from the playoff loss to brother watson adult guster and excellence approach on the thirteenth hole resulting in one of his five birdies the twenty nine year old country beat and score stephen gallagher by three shots to lift his pick european tour title the south african winning his second piece of silverware this year after successfully defending his africa open title in january . now to boxing and probably the most famous voice in the sports i'm talking about

a man who's known throughout the world for his catchphrase let's get ready to run gold ring announcer michael buffer has been speaking exclusively to r.t. . it's a great evolution and it says it's like 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 believe it the fruits of all the labor of the people to frame it because men seem strange. now so coming to. see the sea while the straits has to hit only really essential to have a lot of the world champions from. the arenas in our first class of arenas which is great because here you have the world championships later this analysis will chickenshit dance televised around the thousands of people go to see it

they've played now recognize the fighters and it's it's a really great environment for votes. and it started it because there was a period where you know it's still exists that the ring announcer has the interviews all the officials have before the fighters and so you've had a moment with the fighters on the brain and music played for them 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 playing with things and now you're going to meet the stars of the show you know i tried man your battle stations say that fasten your seat belts

it didn't work the great muhammad ali used to say that he was ready to rumble and so i find him in bed so you know what you heard today that's a good. you know i never got a chance to introduce mohammed ali as a ring announcer as a writer for thirty years a charity events got it no friends but. one of my all time favorite sports people are looking for. a fighter when i was a boy at the end of his career was a great sugar ray robinson probably the greatest player of all time is a big fan of his and they believe. mayweather. got to give credit to the show's dominating the heavyweight division. such a preview i think many of the states in germany. he was the most our most in but now i'm going to be a heavyweight champion so it's

a favorite of mine sometimes it's emotional sometimes i'm introducing. two fighters that i've known 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 to basketball away in the n.b.a. the memphis grizzlies have claimed their seventh straight home victory with a one hundred three ninety eight when i have a utah jazz man sitting tenth in the western conference will never want to host jimmy cross to quarters and that's one point to the break when rookie gordon hayward did not stay three points or two extending jostling to four points late in the third and then first found a way to respond is o.j. mayo school seventeen of his twenty points during the final quarter the host edge of much one hundred three ninety eight women face in the comforts. and finally in diving same russia has won the men's three meter synchronized event

on the final day of competition for the world series adding a fourth medal to russia's tally here in moscow as constantine put top off reports . three metre springboard synchronise nance was the biggest and to ignore the point all 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 there was a herd of lead from the tourists wound 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 be asians the however we try to assure best despite their absence. that it's a pity the china team didn't take part in this event expected to compete with them fairly for this competition after this when the russian due to 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 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 the olympics however in our events on the night the chinese won all the gold medals head c. and room and took the forest two places in three metre springboard knew where get the highest score in the man's ten meter platform and one hole and chan joleen wonder woman's mirror tower they cheney's diaries hold undisputable leadership in the sport and will be hoping to hear if you medals at the final stop of the serious in mexico next week as a matter of. well that's all a sport about plenty more later here on twenty four hour r.t. .

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