looking back you know whether it's a reminder of the top stories you want to service in syria urged both sides to lay down their arms and make reports of fresh lashes despite the united nations' peace plan while an ethnic group the kurds called on president assad to go long before the empress are choosing peace or world war. two pro dialogue voices struggle to be heard above the work force in the u.s. congress will struggle to run still firmly on the agenda as critics accuse arms merchants of directors of driving the debate. and terrorist planning to attack london during the olympics could be fired on from residential rooftops hosting

state of the art missiles officials say the rockets would be a last resort but people are alarmed that they could be on targets for terrorists. next we sit down with chris hedges author and u.s. war correspondent to ask where he sings washington is heading when it comes to its domestic and global policies. chris hedges is an american author journalist former war correspondent and respected expert on middle east politics the pulitzer prize winner is also a man who is suing the us president and secretary of defense will be talking about that and a range of other issues as mr hedges joins me now for a one on one interview thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. sure we have seen a lot of violence and instability over the past couple of years the arab spring foreign intervention in libya uncontrollable debt problems and riots in the u.s.

and throughout europe threats of global recession how do you think these political and economic crises feed off of one another and keep the momentum going well it's all the same crisis which is the collapse of globalization it doesn't work anymore and it manifests itself through the rise of commodity prices forty seven million americans live in poverty they're not spending half of their income on food but they're now spending about thirty five percent. when you see a rise in gasoline prices. which are going up words in the united states and in oil projections will continue to rise up words above four dollars a gallon maybe five dollars a gallon so. we have created a kind of global oligarchy elite which is super national it owes no loyalty to any particular country it has reduced the working class within the united states within the developing world. to

a level of almost subsistence existence it tells workers that they have to be competitive on a global marketplace which means they have to be competitive with sweatshop workers in bangladesh or prison labor in china so we are it's a reconfiguration by corporations of a global economy where the working and and beleaguered middle class are increasingly caught in a vice. in which there is no escape the system of globalization of unfettered unregulated corporate capitalism doesn't work for the ordinary citizen and that we are seen ignite popular protests and i think that's the main reason why occupy wall street began in new york emplaced not just the nation but the world what does the occupy movement lack to become a real politic factor in the us and throughout the world right i mean the other

thing about the occupy movement is that it had the right target which is wall street at this point washington is an appendage of wall street well street is where power lies both economic and political and so it it it was a powerful movement because it articulated these two truths. you know the idea of the one percent the economic inequality coupled with a targeting of where actual power lies the occupy movement has now. felt the full wrath of the state they've been their encampments have been physically eradicated. without question they have been heavily infiltrated the power of the occupy movement was that it spoke for the mainstream and the state's goal is to sever the occupy movement from the mainstream so the occupy movement has got to build walls it's got to develop a kind of self-discipline it's got to set standards which do not allow internal

movements within the occupy. organization to sever itself from the mainstream of the threat of the occupy movement in zuccotti park and you were there was that on weekends you had mothers from new jersey with their kids with strollers this terrified so the occupy movement they have to form agreements by which they can operate and the second thing is that they have to begin to organize around very specific issues i think if the occupy movement organizes around raising the minimum wage from seven dollars twenty five cents an hour which is the federal minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. it can galvanize around an issue seventy percent of americans by the way support a rise of the minimum wage in order to keep labor with it it has to latch on to issues such as the raising the minimum wage that will bring labor out into the street and keep the main stream keep it as the kind of vanguard movement of the mainstream whether it can do that or not i don't know we'll have to see what role

do you see for u.s. banks and u.s. corporations how else if not through them can the economy get. overcovered well the the not only are we not in a recovery i mean the the banks are playing some very dirty game the fact that we've not regulated the banks the fact that we bailed out firms like goldman sachs and are in essence lending them free money what's the big zero one percent interest or something means they're all back to the speculative games and that's what they are games they don't produce anything they bet against things i mean one of the reasons the price of petrol is rising is because they're buying up futures and hoarding which is what they do with commodity prices you know basic staples of food rice and everything else and we are headed for another implosion and some of our most respected financial reporters gretchen morgenson and others at the new york times are smoking around saying this we've done nothing to curb them we have

permitted the largest transference of wealth upwards in american history the looting of the u.s. treasury or the tragedy is that the government when the banks were on its knees didn't step in instead of for instance creating taking ten billion dollars. or one hundred billion dollars in creating regional banks capitalizing those banks leveraging them ten to one loaning you know refinancing mortgages i mean there were all sorts of ways we could to use this kind of money constructively we handed it off to a criminal class and speaking of government where in the u.s. currently in an election year a republican candidates are now battling one another for the opportunity to oppose barack obama come november however skeptics view both parties as more similar than different because we've seen military invasions corporate bailouts and breaks for the wealthiest under both democrats and republicans how can

a new political force start to grow in america if it's sort of that the same type of cycle every four years well that's the problem and it's gotten worse because after citizens united in two thousand and ten with the creation of these super pacs and obama broke a campaign promise by. reaching out to a super pac of his own i mean in a way he has no choice because this money rules and it has a pernicious effect not only on elections but on the process of legislation because if you are an elected official and you do anything. that angers corporate lobbyists and corporate power then you know that the weight of that super pac will sweep you out of office and not only that but that when you are under attack you won't have a super pac to appeal to so it is essentially destroyed i mean it's all political theater i mean look at what the republican debate is what's it about

colonies supporting the newt gingrich and when thirteen thousand people live on the moon they can apply to be a state you know. the fact is the personal narratives and personal pinions of political candidates do not matter there is no way to vote in this country against the interests of goldman sachs obama is a more appealing political candidate because he's sane but power i mean look the obama administration has carried out the policies of the george w. bush administration whether in terms of wall street imperial projects a failure to address the suffering of the working class. address the long term unemployment crisis we have cities now filing for bankruptcy states that are talking about filing for bankruptcy in the federal government is doing nothing except squandering four trillion dollars on wars that we're going to lose we're losing and handing money over to

a class on wall street that is complicitous in a centrally hollowing the country out from the inside you are plaintiffs in the case are suing us president barack obama and secretary of defense leon panetta over the national defense authorization act from what i read. in other activists have now joined you in that lawsuit you're scheduled to appear in court at the end of this month what do you what do you realistically aiming for well the laws clearly unconstitutional i mean i don't think you need to be a legal scholar figured out you don't but it was still signed into law yes it was and. at the. lower level there are certainly judges unfortunately we may not have been handed one but there are judges that i think would would find the courage to rule that the problem is that if it got to the supreme court given the composition of the court it seems very likely that we would not win. however i think it does

raise public consciousness it creates an awareness of this law. it gives us a focal point by which we can carry out public demonstrations to oppose the law so it's an effort but i don't think we're naive about about the corruption within the judiciary the u.s. claims to promote democracy within america and throughout the world when it comes to syria the u.s. is calling essentially for regime change sovereign state the u.s. says that syrians deserve democratic transition but when you mention countries like iraq afghanistan and libya shouldn't the u.s. and in some ways learn some lessons before trying to teach more countries about the let let's imagine how this so those in the middle east where we were mubarak's great supporter. you know i don't think anyone in the muslim world thinks that we care much about human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war

planted military base some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria. that said the assad regime and i was there under saddam is a pretty repugnant and horrible regime my feeling on syria and i'm not on the ground and as a reporter you know i i think that finally for one to make those kinds of judgments have to be on the ground but my feeling. is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a cease fire because in cities like cities like homes at this point aside from the murderous showing and everything else you really have a situation where it will can't eat and there's no water and and so rather than pass a resolution that calls for a removal or resolution. that you know calls for intervention or anything else

i would rather see them work more incrementally if that doesn't happen do you think there's any chance of european military intervention i don't think so i think the u.s. is so overextended and i think that the situation in syria is so messy there is you know there's no real formal opposition. you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya months and months of hard time believing they do it again and syria will have to leave it right there mr hedges thank you for your time and for speaking with r.t. thanks.

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fifty. fifty fifty fifty. fifty . u.n. observers in syria urged both sides to lay down their arms amid reports of fresh questions despite the united nations peace plan group the kurds called on president assad to go long before you are choosing peace over war. i fear pro dialogue voices struggle to be heard above the war chorus in the u.s. congress with a strike on iran still firmly on the agenda as critics accuse arms merchants of driving the debate. and terrorist planning to attack london during the olympics could be fired on from residential rooftops hosting state of the art missiles officials say the rockets will be a last resort but people are alarmed that they could become targets for terrorists . top stories here in our team sports next with kate.

hello welcome to the sports and these other top stories. six of the best fernando torres scores a hot trick as it is called chelsea's trash q.p.r. six one in west london darby paul taught them to be quite going to go in english premier league. while i hope snooty crowned champions the needs in petersburg set their sights on a new experience excess counterclaim in a second straight russian prime yearly title. lucky maria sharapova breaks her jinx in stuttgart over powering world number one victoria azarenka in their third finally encounter of the year. but first a football and fernando torres scored his first chelsea how the blues thrashed

q.p.r. six one at stamford bridge in the west london darby to boost their hopes of a top four finish in the english premier league well fresh from their champions league triumph over boss alone on the home side scored four goals in a blistering first twenty five minutes daniel sturridge opens off in just forty five seconds skipper john terry then headed in from a corner before torres ran to goalkeeper party candidate and then capitalized on the defensive mix up to make it four nil he had hit his third after running clear in the sixty four as minutes substitute flo miller added the six forty rule see stays late consolation rangers and now above the drop zone only on goal difference chelsea stay six but only a point be going to be when full through they to know when it's time to second bottom block when thanks to a goalie neutral on the balls and calm will. call on monday all eyes are on one just as second place city host leaders united in what could prove to be a title deciding dobby a look at the table shows if roberto mancini's side when they will leapfrog united

and go top on goal difference in two games remaining but if united win then they will be. six points clear and all but change the title all city are going for their first top flight trying since nine hundred sixty eight united program called twentieth cheney thinks united other favorites. if we can happen but it's not being as they say i think that. more chance than i was because. we should be in the end after we should play against newcastle that would be to go for game and after we stared united would play against swansea sound in that for them would be too easy game. meanwhile here in russia as in it's in petersburg are now setting their sights on european success after becoming russian champions for the third time in five years with a two one win in time to deny moscow the host lead off the hoff enough to see another shot off the right but he may be strong and

a penalty which is top scorer and exam the closure call of duty converted but almost immediately alexander who they only pulled one back for deny and then ten minutes after the break as any concert in the city on off sent off however they held on until one it finished and then the celebrations began. well the fan saluted their team's achievement and as the champagne flowed honest polity praised his team's mental toughness over a long eighteen month season italian also claim to meet wanted to become one of europe's top ten size what to invest in new players over the summer to boost the sport's chances in the champions league but in the meantime the players enjoyed their moment of domestic success which show the launcher off of got his teammates to sign his shirt in memory of their latest title while the fun's also made sure they didn't go home empty handed. now into tennis and it was a case of third time lucky for maria sharapova as the russian second seed

overpowered top ranked victoria azarenka in the final of the stuttgart grown prix while shop of that was in terrific form conceding just one game in the first set and she unleashed a balaji win as belatedly seconds to take that six for almost an hour and a half the russian hit a total of eight aces and faced his one breakups which he saved drop of a secures her first title of the season avenging her two recent defeats to his aren't that in the finals of this body and i've been an indian wells. while in the men's game refound it all how strange he suddenly was alone right then so i thought the world number two outlasted fellow spaniard gabby farah in two thousand and fourteen minutes the dark side of five set points to win the opening set on a tiebreaker. before prevailing in the sea soar second set to seventy five the king of play becomes the first man in the open era to capture to eighteen tour events at least seven times off the ceiling his eighth straight monte carlo title last week.

now i saw here in russia have relinquished their euro hockey tour title to the czech republic following a two one defeat in bern though russia needed to win to become champions again and it did take the need to get up early in the second period but the czechs struck twice within two minutes to win it to want to finish top of the overall standings while swedenborg at the wooden spoon following a four one defeat by reigning world champions finland games on the last major tournament ahead of next month's world championships which will be jointly held sinky don't stop time. now on to motor sports and reigning my g.p. well champion casey stoner has taken his first ever victory at the spanish grown grey to poll the pressure on standings leader jorge lorenzo well after winning the season opening race in cattle earlier this month the reds are also starting from pole in head death but he was swiftly overtaken by fellow spine dani pedrosa before stoner also stepped up to give a lot in front of just two laps obvious straight and it was troubled by the run so

throughout. the local favorite by less than a second and it was a sweet victory for stoner the still not enough to catch lorenzo at the top of the standings points now separate the two drivers that came third hand account crunch live and breath of the it was. as far as you know no one had before it doesn't really matter you know it is now the traction award you know you haven't won there's always a first time but just the fact that you know we sort of turned it around again overnight yes it wasn't looking good for us and you know we were different struggle a little bit with the set up so we had to find some for the race today and i'm fortunate that was where we we took a gamble for the race and you know it to be worked out. now over in the u.s. chicago bulls star player derrick rose is out of the n.b.a. playoffs after picking up a knee injury and his side's postseason opening victory of the philadelphia the bulls run at one hundred three points to ninety one victories over the seventy six

is again one of the eastern conference meeting in chicago and last season's and deeply rose was a top scorer recording twenty three points and nine assists it's like three pointer opened up a twenty point lead in the fourth quarter but then with about a minute left in the game he fell to the ground telling the anterior attrition ligament in his left knee which will rule him out for the rest of the season. but elsewhere defending champions the dallas mavericks lost by one point nine nine hundred ninety eight of the oklahoma city thunder and lanny hate auburn early series late against the new york knicks after the bron james had thirty two points to land a magic into the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. finally russia's middleweight boxing champion dmitri paid all says he's prepared for everything his next opponent has to throw at him however the thirty one year old didn't reveal his master plan for the bat during his open training session here in moscow but all will defend his w b o belt against the japanese challenger noble hero issued on choose day during

the russian public holiday having unbeaten holder is the overwhelming favorite to win but he expects a tough and interesting fight roberts well the man caught up with the defending champion. boxing's middleweight vision this week sport of this board where wires like light weights and points like heavy weights russia is number one in this class you need to put all the winning w.b. you champion these styles combining pierston bungee ball work with old school indulgence just one of the numerous reasons that you need it has been truly audiences for years now washing your brain is what some. times i do things to disturb my opponent in the ring to confuse him with him but i don't have a plan it happens spontaneously the crowd loves such things and at the same time my opponent loses confidence because he can't get me if sometimes i try some old

boxing tricks like raising one hand and punching with the other professional boxing is not only a sport now it's a spectacle a performance which needs to be a great show too not just a boxing match. getting one's head right he's also an essential part of the game particularly adept in this regard both in and out of the ring. i prefer isolation ahead of a fight i need to be on my own with my coaches without phone calls or any type of communication i focus on building up my energy even when i'm not training i'm thinking of boxing rehearsing in my mind but i believe there should be anger inside of you some positive anger you're able to control i'm not driven by it and i never get driven by a crowd or going for a knockout when i feel the opponent is still dangerous. the thirty one year old's attitude to boxing is no less special that his skills there are constantly seeking

the chance to face the cream of his class that bizarre government not by love or money but by the sport itself. there's nothing wrong with winning titles it's great reflects your achievements and skills it builds confidence but when you get a title you realise it's not the most important thing they come and go although some hold on to that titles just to earn more money i never worried about earning money through boxing i just enjoy it and because of that it will grow as a sportsman and as a person. he can reach an ounce of this world level i really soon is becoming twice as good as he is now and sums of dedication and intensive training it's all up to him his potential including great physical characteristics they're still plenty of room to develop in the ring in doing so need to get over his every chance to bowl in the footsteps of course to do the only russian to be crowned

undisputed boxing champion of the world it would take a brave person to bet against him. r.t. . and that salesforce by sea. well into the front room science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've dumped those huge earth covered. me fifty feet. into the.