arrested days before r.t.d. is to air his interview with julia assault and when she spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in this country. next up we explore the connection between big box and the revolutionary drive across the globe as we talk to alter 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 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 we are seen ignite popular protests 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 u.s. 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 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. 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 for 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 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 they were republican debate is what's that

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 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 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 you last summer 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. they've escaped this inside g.e. to careen the room. to grow spinach. make to fool.

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and i welcome to this cause yet another headline. files ten spots on great owns a meat parade as the moscow side wins three two with a newly crowned champions to go second while the number draws to two with all parties in the final battle for european football. d.-day and manchester city have one hand on the english premier league trophy off to baby newcastle but not just two dollars it also defeats one of the to ensure the title race goes down to the final day. doesn't mean a red machine or russia beat norway full two in stockholm to make it to as far to the ice hockey world championships. but let's kick off with the russian premier league football where ten months spartak moscow spoiled the celebrations of newly crowned champions and eight after they won three two in some petersburg to go

second and into the last champions league spells well the need to look to finish their hometown paid in style and i examined golf put them in front of twenty three minutes for free scoring strikeout matching until the end of the medico can shoot those cross to not just his one hundred premier league goal but the game turned on its head in the final twenty minutes first really that being over the level of response i thought it was the russian wakefield the first goal for the red white and twenty competitive in the winter and then is an eight were awarded a penalty and so to get them out just to be the goalkeeper to make it to one odds just two minutes later and on moment in money. but spots act level again and then immediately saw a controversial red card for what the referee was an absolute gesture however despite their loss rafael slow to time spawn tax winner in the eighty ninth minute to ensure they leapfrog into second. at least until cheese day was an age where war

did the league trophy and celebrated that title defense. while elsewhere dinamo moscow missed the chance to go second despite snatching a last gasp two two draw your time to look a motif maximillian open for last go off to twenty seven minutes the twenty year old met in his maiden premier league old but kevin to ronnie level straight after the interval a cracking overhead kick by the german strike out however with ten minutes to go denise you should go ahead and have dimitri talk when skis crossed to the visitors back in front but a long range strike from inform those than in a sim of each in the last minute ensured it ended to all do not now trail so close to scout by a point that has only one game left to play while the army men have to. run

in the meantime angie came from behind to beat rubin three one and will play in the europa league next season said gay dubba dubba read directed alan carr say it's cross to school for the visitors less than me this is about it was all angie after that mobocracy said equalised after fourteen minutes of being should have defended better and then only out when designing christopher samba nodded in from a corner and the two one late. and the sun and so was this only speciate can we strike at starting a beauty for the tie time though just over a minute to go there sittings men up to this and we're heading to europe we're being turned there's so much to the russian come the final will face did i'm on victory day this wednesday. while in the bottom half of the table i'll stop edged ten month old got one nil to boost their hopes of avoiding the relegation playoffs so they gave ben's were sent off off to sixty six minutes and made three key. that netted the winner ten minutes later the nation's defense

experts asked him if i cut you off. and that i could beat three one in grozny via i've made the most of a goalkeeping but i'm not to get the ball rolling for the chechen team seven minutes in however it took the white side just a couple of minutes to equalize marco glass which firing home from long range. that's a wee boost pulled back in front midway through the first time off. today netted his second and that picks thirty five minutes left capitalizing on some more dreadful defending and the visitors and now just a point behind tenth place and both are above the playoffs. while over england leaders manchester city have moved one step closer to their first top flight crown since nine hundred sixty eight after winning two nil at newcastle in the premier league ya toure a scored twice in the last twenty minutes to ensure the title is city's to lose with one game left to go while manchester united beats one's you two nil to stay

level on points with city but with an eighth goal inferior goal difference and elsewhere ten man top ten missed the chance to go third off to coming back to draw one wanted struggling after the last substitute give bill c. savings to q.p.r. survival hopes with a late winner against stoke bolton's chances of avoiding the drop were dented after west brom came from two goals down to draw two to beat sunderland two one and already relegated wall street mill now within form habits and. while fresh from winning the f.a. cup final on saturday chelsea's thoughts are turning towards the champions league the blues one of the come for the seventh time after they beat liverpool to want to wembley however in a fortnight they'll travel to buy in munich for the european final now in the hope of winning a unique double and one which would see them qualify for next year champions league i mean only the top three in england would join them. to cry.

for us we want to first try and. for fifteen years fifteen days we have another kind of returns to and another to two of the most important in europe. and we are all looking forward to play this game. now on two eyes and russia have outclassed norway for two to make it two ins from two at the world championships in stockholm but all that's opened for the red machine in the second period and the next in the soon doubles their lead fonts the northmen twice pulled themselves to within a goal in an action packed second frame for alexander's but i shall get nothing russia's fourth and last on the night right after the second for a while before that much reigning champions and co-host finland edged slovakia one male in helsinki. out of boxing in floyd mayweather jr has kept his unbeaten record intact but only just following one of the toughest fights of his career against. us it was billed as the fight of the year and may without have to work hard for

victory number forty three he held off a tireless call time before rocking him in the twelfth round playing with the w.p.a. light and little white belt the judges made him the clip went out with a unanimous points decision and optimism a word that was full of respect for his opponent it was also a massive payday for the thirty five year old who picks up a thirty two million dollars before starting this three month jail sentence that mistaken peace. was a tough competitor. dedicate more so. that this was going to be easy fight i don't look to look into going into this fight i expected an easy fight like i said before to me. was an undefeated fighter he fought one guy. he fought another guy who was cheat in 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 pacquiao and the filipino congressman was arrived in america but is preparing to defend his w b o welterweight title against lesser known opponent

timothy bradley has a month to go before the to square off in las vegas to such a three year old champion is already deep in preparation to take on the man for his five years his junior. but i have the dream hearted with that it's very difficult that a fighter because i'm fighting with. younger guys i'm very hard to do we are. i'm just defending my to g.p. champion casey stone that has trained his second straight victory by winning the portuguese grand prix to go top of the overall standings the australian started on home and stormed to a fine victory this week held off the challenge of former champion wholegrain iran's eye to win over a second industrial zone as honda teammate dani pedrosa came good head of yamaha but i had the physio so much like stone that now leads the standings by a single point from the runs i thought american puppet edwards is set to undergo surgery on monday fracturing his left shoulder by qualifying. we didn't feel good i

didn't feel confident to push. trying to look at it from match on the bike to try and get it back working a little better on the exit so we didn't try to say 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 so now i'm a little less chatter and then for those last few laps we were trying to push a little bit more. on to basketball and descending n.b.a. champions the dallas mavericks to being knocked out of the playoffs in the first round they were swept for nobody oklahoma city we rallied for a one hundred twenty points ninety seven victory in dallas elsewhere the los angeles clippers to one off in that best of seven series against memphis off a single one victory san antonio now needs just one more win against utah off the bat one hundred two to ninety victory for them through. indiana also on the brink of progressing regine orlando to go three one up in that contest often topsy-turvy

. 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 a game like that. finally sprinting you saying bolt has posted the fastest time of the season in the one hundred meters to strike down the gauntlet ahead of this summer's london olympics the world and olympic champion was running for the first time this year ending 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 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's targeting an amazing nine point four in

london. and also peaking at the right time is unusual he was the one hundred ten metres hurdles champion from two thousand and four and if it's enough and the chinese star is to victory in japan and his i'm the top dog in london especially off the sailing to deliver in beijing four years ago. and that's all the sports news i think. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

peaceful anti-government rally in moscow leading to clashes with police and injuries only bold sign why no more from me you want to spin off in just a few moments. socialist francois. long france's presidential election beating incumbent nick posies with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years. and a leading human rights activist from brain is arrested days before r.t.e. is to air his interview with julie in a silence in which he spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in this home country.