following incumbent nicolas sarkozy and rival from swallowing face off in from says presidential election the end of a bitter battle that could redefine the country's role on the world stage other stories a leading human rights activist from bahrain is arrested days before the party is to wear its interview with julian assange to which he spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in his home country you can keep abreast of everything that's happening in moscow of course as i mentioned there we go the live feed of what's happening now a square at r.t. dot com we're continuing to feature those pictures from that camera that vantage point ok no next we explore the connection between big bucks and the revolutionary drive across the globe as we talk to author war correspondent chris hedges for the next few minutes. 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 about 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 vise. in which there is no escape the system of globalization of unfettered unregulated corporate capitalism doesn't work for the ordinary citizen and that if

we are seen ignite popular protest and i think that's the main reason why occupy wall street began in new york emplaced throughout not just the nation but the world what does the occupy movement lack to become a real politic factor in the us 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 wall 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. overcover well the the not only are we not in a recovery i mean the 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 bed against 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 walking 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 the republican candidates are now battling one another for the opportunity to oppose for iraq 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 and 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 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

well let's imagine how this sells 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 is father 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. pm 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 in syria we'll have to leave it right there mr hedges thank you for your time and for speaking with r.t. thanks.

the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are limits there. this we're just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take

another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search we have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course but helps the country and for the stakes and even if they come this way at least from patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other.

breaking news this hour protesters throw smoke grenades and fireworks in clashes with riot police in was. government rally with a number of opposition leaders the rest of the last hour after apparently inciting crowds of five police orders to move day you see two gentlemen the legs see me. off being arrested little bit earlier on. other top stories today incumbent nicolas sarkozy and rival francois alarm face off in france's presidential election the end of a bitter battle that could redefine the country's role in the world stage. a leading human rights activists from bahrain was arrested just days before he is to where is an interview with julian assange which he spoke of a violent crackdown on protesters in his home country more details and all those stories include the breaking news of course we'll bring you the latest on what's

happening in moscow in fifteen minutes time for the sport with kate next. thank you for joining me for the latest on the action packed sunday the top story is. the europhiles ten months apart sucking ravens in these parades as the russian champion loses three to incent peters but do not want to do with the forty in the final battle for european football. while looking at manchester city how one hundred the english premier league trophy hunting with him champions league chasing a new console manchester united are about to kick off i just want to say. i'm the ring back rory mcilroy because a good round sixty six it. remains on course to a little holding absent donald regained the world number one spot. but has kicked

off with russian premier league football where ten month spot at moscow spoiled the celebrations of newly crowned champions and eight after they won three to incent petersburg to go second into the last champions league spot while the need to look to finish ahead and campaign in smiled when the top scorer alexander golf put them in front of twenty three minutes but the game turned on its head in the final twenty minutes of the first day i'll be at the no of levels response time then as it needs were awarded a penalty and that is to not just beat the goalkeeper to make it to one but to just two minutes later emmanuel ever need to put sponsor level again and then immediately saw red for an obscene gesture however despite that last rafael trujillo slotted him spohn talks went off in the eighty ninth minute to ensure they leap frog has got into a second loss and still celebrated retaining their ties to the manji all facing routine with both targeting you wrote for the places and at the bottom involved i'll back in to avoid the relegation play offs that you take on i'm come.

of elsewhere did i must go miss. the chance to go second despite snatching a last gasp two two draw at home to lock my teeth. open for loko off to twenty seven minutes twenty nine he's made premier league go but kevin karami levelled straight after the end for a cracking kick at the germans formica however with ten minutes to go denise who should go ahead and make it will be instant cross to put the visitors back in front . range strike in form there's some of it in the last minute it ended to all and i'm on the trail so prices down by a point but have a one game left to play the army men have to. be all over england leaders manchester city have moved one step closer to their first top flight cranston's nine hundred sixty eight after winning two nil at newcastle in the premier league yacht or a scored twice in the last twenty minutes to ensure safety go top by three points

ahead of much of the ninety's were about to kick off and i'm just wondering well elsewhere were in the dying minutes talking could leave for example into third with a win at struggling after the love that they had down the row sent off in the forty ninth minute and at the other end of the table to third bottom bolton and full force from q.p.r. both need victories to reason that relegation fears a discourse on your screen there. and in the meantime chelsea captain john terry says his team deserved to lift the f.a. cup for the seventh time after they beat liverpool to one in the final at wembley ramirez open for the blues after eleven minutes beating goalkeeper pepe reina has never post and then only in the second half didier drogba who's always scored when he played at wembley made it to no however andy carroll came off the bench for the reds and called a goal back in the sixty fourth minute and then seven minutes from time the striker thought he'd had a little pull level but the goal wasn't given which replay showing the ball didn't appear to fully cross the line and chelsea hung on to change their first piece of

silverware for two years. i don't like the process so for those that were going to me it was when i become one of those no it wasn't supposed to be great so i've actually to keep him out but for most of the gramophone we don't even deserve to win however the job he's only holds done as far as chelsea are concerned in a fortnight travel to buy in munich for the champions league final now in the hope of winning a unique double. there are two crucial week for us he won the first time. for fifteen in fifteen days we have another returns to another to build the most important in europe. and we are all looking forward to play this game. it's going to ice hockey and after coming back to cruise paul's latvia russia looking to make it two ins from two as they take on norway at the world championships while gold in the semi on by off is once again between the times for russia after producing twenty four saves five to nothing or where all the

norwegians lost their match to sweden and the other big much of the day defending champions finland taking on slovakia. now to boxing in floyd mayweather jr has kept his unbeaten record intact but only just following one of the toughest fights of his career against miguel cotto in las vegas well it was billed as the fight of the year and mayweather had to work hard for his forty third overall victory holding off a tireless conflict before looking him in the twelfth rounds to claim the w.p.a. light middleweight belt the judges made him the clear winner with a unanimous points decision and afterwards made with that was full of respect for his opponents it was also a massive payday thirty five year old who picks up a thirty two million dollars before starting his three month jail sentence domestic abuse. is a top competitor i knew i had dedicate my so. good this was going to be easy fight

i don't look to look into going into this fight expected the easy fight like i said before to me. was an undefeated fighter he fought one guy at a catch weight he fought another guy who was cheating the sport he brought his best maybe bite down a fight or. well the match up that everyone can't wait to see is mayweather taking on money as the filipino congressman nussle arrived in america but he's preparing to defend his w b o welterweight title against lesser known if i don't timothy bradley there's a month to go before the to square off on a spite against the thirty three year old child who is already deep in preparation to take on a man responsibility to the. green hearted with the very public that are fired because i'm fighting with the. younger guys i'm very hard to win. defending moto g.p. champion casey starting to has trained his second straight victory by winning the portuguese to go top of the overall standings historian started on paul and storm

to wait for him to block victory he held off the challenge of former champion for going the rounds i would but over a second in estoril stone i was on the team right down to the drive so i came. down the hall you know so and cow. so not now leaves the standings by a single point from the inside but american culture that woods is set to undergo surgery on monday after fracturing his left collar by in qualifying. boscobel and defending n.b.a. champions the dallas mavericks have been knocked out of the playoffs in the first round they were swept four nil by oklahoma city to rally for a one hundred three points two ninety seven victory in dallas and elsewhere the los angeles clippers all to one up in their best of seven series against memphis a single point victory san antonio now needs just one more win against after that one hundred ninety to ninety trick then three no luck overall indiana also on the

brink of progressing on track to orlando to go three one up in that contest but. very very proud of our guys. are showing a great deal of resiliency in the face of a furious comeback by the magic obviously give credit to. all their players and coaching staff for just really fighting down the stretch and making it a heck of a basketball game. a lot of fun out there good good end up on the plus side of the game like that. let's turn to golf now where a local man webb simpson has reclaimed the lead at the wells fargo championships though welcomed so remarkable roy produced the most eye catching performance of the surge around here is the twenty three year old on the far right in the fifth the northern irishman could return to the top of the world rankings this week if he produces a top seven finish a hollow body and find an alternate round of sixty six two shots off the lead

against the long with american nick watney but it's simpson who's out in front his rival sixty nine sent him back to the top of the leaderboard and a shot ahead of the eight points and one more. house where sprinting you saying bolt has posted the fastest time of the season in the one hundred meters destro down the gauntlet ahead of this summer's london olympics the world and olympic champion was running for the first time this year and in his native jamaica where he had to endure a couple of false starts from his competitors watch the twenty five year old kept his cool to blow away the field nine point eight two seconds a sterling effort but still slower than his own world record of nine point five eight seconds however baltar said he's targeting an amazing nine point four in london so watch this space. and also peaking at the right time is he was the one hundred ten meters that is champion from the t.v. for lympics announces the chinese star east to victory in japan and designing the

top dog in london especially after failing to deliver its native facing four years ago. and that's where the support for this bill is an r.v. back in just under two hours with another update he's joining. well. science technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got the future covered. join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to a place is hidden from the tourist he's going to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. .

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clashes day in moscow as opposition protesters begin as they did not far from the kremlin just a day before the inauguration of light senior police say a peaceful protest was hijacked by provocation since doing many now might live from the media. here also focusing on france as well incumbent nicolas sarkozy and rival francois facing off from france's presidential election the end of a bitter battle that could redefine the country's role on the world stage gold report. and a leading human rights activist from bahrain is arrested just days before i see his interview with julian assange when she spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in these home countries.