the culture is the only transport for medics to reach those in need. and where reindeer and fish are treasures for the. locals of the. autonomy area of russia close up on our t.v. . we're doing the latest news in the week's top stories here on r t it's four thirty am the first u.n. monitors arrived in syria following saturday's unanimous security council vote for an observer mission arrives damascus warns it will retaliate if attacks by armed groups continue amid reports of fresh confrontations between demonstrators and security forces in. a series of attacks shake the afghan capital with a presidential palace and western embassies and nato bases the focus of a large scale taliban assault those in say it's in retaliation for recent actions

in killings by u.s. troops in afghanistan. and foreign activists arrived in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people but needed tough response from israeli police dozens of activists were part of an international campaign dubbed welcome to palestine barred from entering the country nine israeli activists also arrested. coming up next a man convicted of killing a us police officer in a case seen by many as a miscarriage of justice speaks with r t m m e abu jamal a former journalist and black panther who's now serving a life sentence in prison because this is first interview since being taken off death row. 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 and 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 and 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 said of 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 go see our st. louis 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 was asking 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 and 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 would be a. logical first choice but wherever people are fighting for freedom you know that kind of website appetite and it gets my attention and moves my passion

you turn sixty 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 to change your. the point of fact i've spent most of my life. bigger percentage of my life on the road 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 actually spent a lot of the time. on the bars and in other countries and you know. 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 us law justice system do you personally have any faith left in a fair and free justice system you've just pride in your work the prison system in united states as the war on the poor are 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 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 y. 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 prison all throughout the united states this is not just a problem that need to be 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 could i could name for five of the 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 today you can literally talk about millions of people being part. of the raid 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 our community that just among families but in the social incommunicado just this way and the enculturation 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 be one of those aspects genes which one would you pick what do you wish you could see happen in the. one thing i mean it's a question 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 prompts you call. germany 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 like six because the civil rights movement was talking about faith and aggression and this and that and changing the schools in point of fact if you look at the vast majority of working class poor black kids in american schools today. basically 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 as 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 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 when i was in my mind for 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 they can be called well i would start would rephrase american schools and many of the black and latino communities are not a tragedy they are crimes they were monitored by the f.b.i. at the age of fourteen and i want to ask you now was was 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 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 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 better 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 which 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. in nineteen fifties and nineteen seventies. they legalized big 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 pay serving you 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 with nonetheless what we live in today is a national security state where big brother is. legalized we can rationalize you described politicians once as prostitutes in suits giving your apologies to on as prostitutes so i want to ask you would selections even 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 kind of that. reasonable. wish to return to days of yore the one nine hundred fifty s.

or 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 for voting for imperialism or voting for more war of voting for their son or daughter or father or mother or for that matter to become a member of the armed forces and become. a mass murderer bomber or organizations we have the second i just want to ask you lastly you can talk indoors 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 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. class people i think it's a waste but i think it's a damn again i just wish it was bigger and. since our time is running out of money

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 words of mommy to re organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for writing for me tell us why together for thank you so much for your time today thank you for talking with us the best of luck to you thank you you thank.

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the latest news in the week's top stories on our team but first u.n. monitors arrive in syria after saturday's unanimous security council vote for an observer mission they arrive as damascus warns it will retaliate if attacks by on groups can. new amid reports of pressure confrontations between demonstrators and security forces. a series of attacks shake the afghan capital with the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases the focus of a large scale taliban assault the militants say it's retaliating for recent actions and killings by u.s. troops in afghanistan. foreign activists arrive in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people put me to tough response from

israeli police dozens of activists who are part of an international campaign to welcome the palestine barred from entering the country nine israeli activists also arrested. sports next with paul stay with us. howard welcome along to the world of sport here's what we've got coming up top flight action spot on moscow bridge second in the russian premier league after leaving a late next to no winner of a rebate. a grand feeling in his one hundred and eleven brace of his career mercedes nico rosberg has his first ever grand prix as he leads from start to finish in china. and all squared the knot of moscow level the garden cup finals without him guard after two want to lie within arms the series is now perfectly poised for one one heading into game three. but starting with football in

the russian premier league spot i must go have moved up to second place on the all important champions league spots following eternal reign over rubin on sunday following says carr's defeat accident yesterday valery carter has made a new second spot was up for grabs the wayside made life difficult for the hosts who had to wait until the seventy proof minute to break the deadlock in front of the home fans products in chief running self in the right place at the right time to explore emmanuel and the nikkei then secure the points with a header eight minutes later the victorious spots are two points clear of underground eye in the race for champions league football next season. world there are no themselves have moved up the side and pushed harder for us after the one. who sitting side have now failed to score in the last three matches and one down in this one thanks to getting near i cough deflected first half goal so i sent king's men an hour beaten in the last four matches. meanwhile cost of side

spot analogy ended a run of six straight defeats with a comprehensive three no win over rolled up the home team with gifted charts in the first half an hour. xander sin was filed in the area. it's a dialogue frankly converts in the thirty seventh minute penalty for a one nearly. three shefford double the advantage surely after the break well good bye of couldn't keep out his low shot at the near post. a terrible defensive lapse by vulgar then allowed daniel to throw a go to slot home and seal the points in the seventy six minutes through no the school are winning star. general success. now in england manchester united have reestablished their five point lead at the top of the premier league after a four when i asked in villa to wayne rooney goals for us warnings from danny welbeck and nani sealed the constable way. back in formula one germany's nico

rosberg has won the chinese grand prix and the city's driver lead from pole to secure his first career when it was a double just played by ross burkett was that a really challenging start finish his teammate michael schumacher who also started on the front row retired after twelve laps to to a real problem. joey jenson button lewis hamilton came home second and third respectively until now leads the drivers' championship from his teammates the record mark webber and sebastian vettel completed the top five crushing defeat at four was eighteen. when i saw king in the garden cup finals a perfectly poised following game two but after the now my mask a bit on guard to run on sunday to level the series at one one the visitors started brightly uncirculated after just eight minutes but then spoke at length and despite losing the first game of the series in almost unanimous on themselves two goals to get at the end of the first period when leo a couple of years i did

a second nuclear waste. on the collision problem back in the final period to ensure there would be a nervy final few minutes so there was to be no grandstand finish is the problem especially i held out for the true way in which things the level to see. aries connects two gangs takes place in moscow. to go from louis west hasan is grounds back for his second place master's finish last week and in some style the south african cruising in kuala lumpur to win the malays you know you can buy a three stroke margin but two thousand and ten british open winner rebounding swiftly from that playoff loss to bubba watson idle gusto and excellence approach on the thirteenth hole resulting in one of his five birdies twenty like year old comfortably beating the score stephen gallagher by three shots. european tour title in south africa where his second piece of silverware this year after successfully defending his africa open title in january. now it's a boxing and probably the most famous voice in the sports i'm talking about the man

who's known throughout the world for his catchphrase let's get ready to rumble ring announcer nigel botha has been speaking exclusively to r.t. . it's a great evolution and it says it's taken a sport that. you know that a lot of eastern europeans and many russians dominated in the olympics for the last quarter century and analyse believe it the fruits of all the labors of the people premium and boxing and training. else will come in. and see the seed ball to the spread so as to get more money for the potential to have a lot of the world champions for. the arenas in our first sabrina said it was great it was here you have the world championships later and now we'll check in with the fence televised around the thousands of people go to see if they've

played now recognize the fighters and it's really great environment for bonds. and it started it because there was a period where and it still exists that the ring announcer has to be introduced all the officials have to be for the fighter the security and so we've had a moment with the fighters on the brain and music being played for them it's very safe and then. to bring an answer and the speech. he kills the atmosphere that electricity that he created by the fighters making their entrance to the ring so i wanted something that would ignite the crowd that would bring them back to playing with things now you're going to meet the stars of the show you know i tried man your battle stations said bit fasten your seat belts it

didn't worry me a great hobbit of used to say that he was ready to run for it and so i fine tuning better to what you hear it today let's get it up. you know i never got a chance to introduce mama dolly as a ring announcer later on or through the years of charity events you got got to know friends but. one of my all time favorites of course the motley crew. a fighter when i was there for you at the end of his career was a great sugar ray robinson probably the greatest writer is a big fan of his and they believe. me whether they're putting their to give credit to put shows a fairly dominating the heavyweight division. such a poor fit in i think many of the states in germany because of course our military might now easy to be a heavyweight champ and still is

a favorite of mine sometimes it's emotional sometimes i'm introducing the two fighters that i've known better i know their families and i love them both and they have to fight each other and. so you're fighting for the winner and you're brokenhearted for the loser on the same night. now two basketball away in the n.b.a. the memphis grizzlies have playing their seventh straight home victory with a one hundred forty nine when i have a utah jazz man sitting tenth in the western conference were never with the host to recross two quarters and that's one point to the break then rookie gordon hayward not a three pointer to extending charles ling to four points late in the third and then faced found a way to respond is o.j. mayo school seventeen of his twenty points during the final pool to the hostages much one hundred three ninety eight in memphis in the conference. and finally in diving saying russia has won the men's free me to synchronize events on the final day of competition or the world series adding

a fourth medal to russia's tally here in moscow as company top of reports. the three metre springboard synchronise nancy rand was the biggest intrigue of the point of day with the usually dominant team china not competing in the display it led to an open competition but the russian pair of you gained in the lead as a her lead from the tourists wound to secure the gold with a solid performance while the u.s. team or second and ukraine third. i think the chinese divers decided to take a pause and have some rest we also didn't compete at the beijing stage however we try to assure best despite their absence. well it's a pity the china team didn't take part in this event expected to compete with them a little early for this competition. after this win 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 both moved 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 woman c i took the first two places in three meter springboard and he knew where to get a higher score in the man's ten meter platform and one hole in changi wonder woman's meter tower they cheney's diaries hold undisputable leadership in the sport and will be hoping to end if you medals at the final stop of the serious in mexico next week as a mother both party. well that's all a sport without plenty more later here on twenty four hour r.t. .

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