which on the big league doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to teach creation why you should care about humans in green this is why you should care only dog gone. with our team with me at half past the hour and i have your headlines protesters throw smoke grenades and fireworks in clashes with riot police in moscow at an anti-government rally with a number of opposition leaders arrested parentline and signing crowds to defy police orders to move. incumbent nicolas sarkozy and rival france while down face off and france's presidential election the end of a better battle that could it redefine the country's role on the world stage. and

a leading human rights activist from bahrain is arrested days before r.t.d. is to air his interview with john wayne of solace in which he spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters and his home country. next up we explore the connection between big bucks on the revolutionary drive across the globe as we talk to author and war correspondent chris hedges. 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 that 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 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 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 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 and 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 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 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 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 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 according to 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 our 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 that 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 was there under is farther 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 assad's 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 in syria we'll have to leave it right there mr hedges thank you for your time and for speaking with r.t. thanks.

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protesters in the road smoke grenades and fireworks and clashes with riot police in moscow at a time government rally with a number of opposition leaders arrested after apparently inciting the crowds to defer police orders to the old. incumbent nicolas sarkozy and probably france while in the base song the friends presidential election the end of a bitter battle that could really define the country's war on the world stage. a leading the line talk to us from bahrain as arrested days before are to use to air his interview with the song and which he spoke about the fall of the crackdown on protesters in his home country. will bring you the latest action from the world

of sports up next. hello welcome to the top of the top stories. the europhiles ten mins fox operating on the needs parade as the moscow side wins three to the russian champions to go second was an homage or two so we look at the teeth in the final bottles for european football. fans looking up not just if you have one hundred on the trophy operating to kneel at newcastle while one just united lead swanzy in a crunch premier league. mean of red machine russia beat norway for two in stockholm to make it to inspire to the ice hockey world championships. but first let's kick off with a russian premier league football where ten months spartak moscow spoiled the

celebrations of newly crowned champions and days after they won three two in some petersburg to go second and into the last champions league spot wells and look to finish their home campaign in some star when i was on the course you go put them in front after twenty three minutes before a strike that knocks you down from the end of the medical procedures process to not jockeys one hundred go but the game turned on its head in the final twenty minutes first three of the most of the level of response it was the russian midfielders first goal for the red white and joining from everton in the going to them is an intruder the penalty is that this amount just be the goalkeeper to make it to one but just chill with it later on most emmanuel and many spot at level again. and then immediately story controversial red card what the referee wound was an obscene gesture. despite that loss rafael. timespan top twenty in the eighty ninth minute to ensure they leapt from to stop in to second at least to

choose to meet the league trophy. celebrated title defense. well seven am i must have missed the chance to go second despite snatching a last gasp to draw a time to look at what if maximilian have opened the locker after twenty seven minutes the twenty year old letting his maiden premier league goal but having granny level straight after the interval a cracking overhead kick by the german striker. ten minutes to go that has been shut off headed home to richard dawkins his cross to put the visitors back in front . but eight long range strike from inform those that serve each in the last minute and showed it ended to all drama now on trial for a place to stand by a point with only one game have to play all the army men have to. run in the meantime he came from behind to beat remains three one and will play in

the europa league next season while at the bottom defeated by the same scoreline dust off edge ten month old got one nil to boost a bit of or all of the relegation play offs so gay ben's was sent off after sixty six minutes and the educator change that netted the when after ten minutes later. while over in england leaders manchester city have moved one step closer to their first top flight crown since nine hundred sixty eight after winning two millenia costal in the premier league ja tories scored twice in the last twenty minutes to ensure the title is city's to lose with one game left to go man should not go will stay level on points with city but with an inferior goal difference if they wrap a victory against one is a ten montauk the missed the chance to go third after coming back to draw one more than struggling aston villa substitute you will see say boo to q.p.r. survival hopes for the eighty ninth minute winner against stoke the bolton chances of avoiding the drop were dented after west brom came from two goals down to draw two two late on his dempsey scored his twenty's a goal this season has fallen be subtle into one and already relegated wall street

nil nil points in four. as it turned out well meanwhile chelsea captain john terry says his team deserved to lift the f.a. cup for the seventh time after they beat liverpool two one in the final at wembley on saturday ramirez open for the blues after eleven minutes beating goalkeeper pepe reina at his native post and then early in the second on didier drogba who was a school plays at wembley made it to no however andy carroll came off the bench for the reds and pulled a go back in the sixty fourth minute and then seven minutes from the time a strike i thought he headed liverpool levelled out the goal wasn't given a free play showing the ball didn't fully cross the line and chelsea hung on to clinch their first piece of silver west the two years if you don't like the phone so far so for that was the agreement it was when i become on it was mostly because it's good to be made a great side actually to keep him out but for most of the government we don't even deserve to win however the job is only half done as far as chelsea are concerned in

a fortnight's travel to buy in munich for the champions league final now in the hope of winning a unique double. where there are two crucial week for us we want to first find out . for the fifteen you fifteen days we have been over and over good terms to win another to two of the most important in europe. and we are all looking forward to play this game now into ice hockey and russia have outclassed norway for two to make it two wins from two at the world championships install co pavel datsyuk open for the red machine early in the second period and the funny song soon doubled their lead box the norseman twice pulled themselves to within a goal impression packed second frame for example but a shell game netted russia's fourth and last on my point after the second break and before that match reigning champions and co-host finland. one mill in helsinki. as a 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 it was billed as the fight of the year. mayweather had to work hard for his book he said overall victory holding a timeless spotlight in the twelfth round kind of light middleweight belts the judges made him the clear winner with a unanimous points decision in its way whether it was full of respect to his opponent he was also a massive payday for the thirty five year old pics of a thirty two million dollars pass before starting history month jail sentence for the rest of his means. there's a tough competitor i knew i had dedicate myself by because this was going to be easy fight i don't look i don't look into going to satisfy i expected an 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 cheat in a sport he brought his best and maybe bite down a fight or. well the match up that everyone can't wait to see is mayweather taking on money how can the filipino congressman hunter arrived in america that is

preparing to defend his w b o welterweight title against lesser known opponent timothy bradley there's a month to go before the to square off in las vegas though the city's three year old champion is already deep in preparation to take on the man who is five years his junior. but i have the green hearted book with a very. vital because fighting with. younger guys. by the way. descending mota g.p. champion casey stonehouse claimed his second straight victory by winning the portuguese groan prix to go top of the overall standings the australian started on pole and stormed to a five to fly victory as he held off the challenge of former champion hold a wren's to win by over a second in estoril standards on the teammate down a third ahead of young and they are the physio so cal crutchlow mustonen now leads the standings by a single point from the renzo but american colin edwards is set to undergo surgery

on monday after fracturing his left kuala by qualifying. we didn't feel good i didn't feel confident to push. trying to get it from match on the bike to try and get back working a little better on the exit so we didn't chatter so much and you know i found a certain way to ride i found a little bit different way to ride so for the last ten laps i started feeling a little better with the bike and i'm a little less chatter and then for those last few laps we were trying to push a little bit more. now on to also people in defending n.b.a. champions the dallas mavericks to be knocked out of the playoffs in the first round they were swept for the all by oklahoma city who rallied for a one hundred three points to ninety seven victory in dallas where the los angeles clippers all two one up in their best of seven series against memphis to offer a single point victory some inside you know now needed just one more win against utah for their one hundred ninety two ninety victories but that three nil up over old indiana also on the brink of progressing off the edge in orlando to go three one of the a contest all right topsy turvy. very very proud of our guys. 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 not good good end up on the plus side of the game like that. now let's turn to go for local man webb simpson has reclaimed the lead at the wells fargo championship the world number two rory mcilroy produced the most eye catching performance of the third round here's a twenty three year old on the far right in a bunker after the fifth the northern irishman could return to the top of the world rankings this week if he produces a top seven finish not quail followed and the target a fine pronouncement round of sixty six to put into shots off the lead tied in third along with american nick watney but simpson who's out in front of his round

of sixty nine sent him back to the top of the leaderboard and a shot ahead of points and brian will. how elsewhere sprint can use same bolt has posted the fastest time of the season in the one hundred meters to stroll down the gauntlet ahead of this summer's london olympics the world and olympic champion was running for the first time this year in his native jamaica to do well a full stance from his competitors but the twenty five year old kept his cool to throw away the field in nine point eight two seconds a stunning effort but still slower than his own world record of nine point five eight seconds however bolt has said he is targeting an amazing nine point four in london so watch this space. but also being at the right time is new zhang he was the one hundred ten metres hurdles childproof on the two thousand and ten or lympics announces the chinese star he's devic tree in japan and he's either the top gong in london especially after failing to deliver in his native beijing four years ago and that's always what this person.

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