currently inciting crowds to define police orders to move. next we'll explore the connection between big bucks and the drive for revolution around the globe we talked 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 the 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 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 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 when 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 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. of 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 us 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 a city like cities like homes at this point aside from the murderous showing and everything else you really have a situation where who can eat 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. terry 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 head just thank you for your time and for speaking with r.t. thanks. for joining me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the terrorist you're going to meet some real crime insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . league.

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socialist francois hollande has won france's presidential election beating incumbent nicholas so crazy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventy two years as. a fugitive exiled russian only goggle bar is a softy puts a bounty on bloody near the putin for anyone willing to detain the russian leader at the presidential inauguration on monday. protesters throwing smokes a grenades and fireworks in clashes with wire police in moscow and to government with a number of opposition leaders arrested after apparently inciting calls to defy police orders to move. i'll have more news for you in about fifteen minutes and right now tate is here with the latest sports.

they're welcome to dispose of the headlines. files telling on the spot stop and let you know is it needs brave to ask the moscow side wins three to the unique champions to go second while the numbers drop to two with a look at what is in the final but this figure appeared in football. this d.-day manchester city how the want to handle the english premier league trophy after they beat him you can also manchester united also defeats was easy to ensure the title race goes down to the final day. and i mean the reds machine that russia beat no way for to install to make it to its beat i saw two world championships. but let's kick off with russian premier league football where ten man spots at moscow spoiled the celebrations of newly crowned champions a nice after they won streets here in st petersburg to go second and into the last

champions league spot well as they need to look to finish their home campaign in style and that is that they're going to go for them in front of twenty three minutes scoring strike that latching on to the end of the medical defeat those cross not just this one hundred really go to the game turned on its head in the final twenty minutes first we had dean over the level to sponsor it was the rush at midfield to go for the red ones since joining the efforts in the winter and then as in they were awarded a penalty and said gates a man just beat the goalkeeper to make it two one but just two minutes later on mont emmanuel and many cup it spots at level again and then immediately so i controversial red card for what the referee ruled was an obscene gesture however despite that most of the. time spotlight tonight in the eighty minutes minutes i'm sure they need for him to step into second but least and to change that. well they need to award you believe trophy and celebrated their defense.

while elsewhere deny my moscow missed the chance to go second despite snatching a last gasp two two draw at home to look motif maxing mallya i have opened a lot though off to twenty seven minutes the twenty year old netting has made a week ago but having to run eleven straight off to the end of a cracking overhead kick by the german striker however with ten minutes to go denise headed home dimitri tobin ski's cross to put the visitors back in front bought a long range strike from him for this that missed him a bitch in the last minute ensured it ended to now try out third place to stop by a point that have only one game left to play all the army men have to. run in the meantime and he came from behind to be rubin three one and will play in the europa league next season seven gay davidoff we directed alan because they have

crossed to school for the visit is in the limited but it was all angie after last mobocracy equalised off to fourteen minutes i mean you have to be better than man oh man now we need to sign him christopher samba noted in from a corner if i'm going to want to lead. to some real it so response so on the scoresheet cameron strike us looking at a beauty for a tiny time though with just over a minute to go you see the side are up to this and we're going to europe while we're being told there's so much to the russian cup final and faced him out on victory day this wednesday. while in the bottom half of the table with our stuff aged ten month old one male to boost their hopes of avoiding the relegation playoffs gave bevan's was sent off off to sixty six minutes and the need to get a jenga netted but without ten minutes later the machine of a defense speech important to the fake. and that beat i'm caught three

one in grozny survivor made the most of a goalkeeping beyond the road protection team seventy two of them took the wayside just a couple of minutes to provide. firing home. let's say pulled that back in front midway through the first time off. this second the next thirty five minutes left capitalizing on some more dreadful defending visitors not just a point. but 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 ja toure a scored twice in the last twenty minutes to ensure the title is city's to lose with one 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 ten montauban

missed the chance to go third off to coming back to draw one want struggling after the last substitute to give bill sees a boost to keep ya survival hopes with the late when i can start the boltons chances of avoiding the drop or dented after west brom came from two goals down to draw two to beat sunderland two one and already relegated wall street will 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. there are two crucial week for us we won the first. fifteen. if you've been there or have another

returns to another to build the most important europe. we are all looking forward to play this game. now in two eyes and russia have outclassed norway for two to make it two ins from two at the world championships in stock bubble that's opened for the red machine in the second theory at least in the south soon double their lead shots the northmen twice pulled themselves to within a goal in an action packed second frame alexander's but i shall get nothing russia's fourth and last on the night right after the second for a while before that match reigning champions and co-host finland edged slovakia one male in helsinki. 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. us it was billed as the fight of the year and may we're back to work hard for victory number forty three he held off a tireless call time before rocking him in the twelfth round claims the lighting

middleweight belt the judges made him the clear we're not without unanimous points decision and let's make sure that was full of respect for his opponent and 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 piece. there's a job competitor. so. good his words are going to easy fight i don't look like i'm so going to destroy expected to easy for what i said before to me. was undefeated fighter he fought one guy who took your choice he fought another guy who was cheating the sport he brought his best maybe by down a fight or. well the match up that everyone can't wait to see is my weather taking on manny 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 last. so the surtees three year old

champion is already deep in preparation to take on the mountains five years his junior. green hearted but with that it's very. hard because the. younger guys. are by the way. 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 home and stormed to a fine victory as he held off the challenge of former champion holgate iran's eye over a second industrial zone as teammate dani pedrosa came 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 public had which is set to undergo surgery on monday. is left over 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 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 write a film a little bit different way to ride so i felt sort of 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 sebastopol and descending n.b.a. champions the dallas mavericks of being knocked out of the playoffs in the first round they were swept four nil by oklahoma city who ran it for a one hundred twenty points to ninety seven in dallas elsewhen of the los angeles clippers all to one up in that best of seven series against memphis a single time picturing san antonio now needs just one more win against utah off of that one hundred eighty to ninety victory then three overall indiana also on the brink of progressing regular orlando have to go three one up in their contest often topsy turvy. very very proud of our guys. we've shown 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. is a lot of fun out there or not 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 adding his native jamaica where he's come to enjoy 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 as such 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 my time is a new genre 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 mind the top dog in london especially off the sailing to deliver in beijing four years ago. that's all the sports news bison.

socialism francois hollande has won the funds as a presidential election beating incumbent nicholas psychos who with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first station as president and seventeen yes. fugitive exile the russian oligarch spare results he offers a bounty on glad to meet putin to anyone willing to detain the russian leader at his presidential inauguration on monday. radical opposition activists hijack a peaceful anti-government rally in moscow leading to clashes with police and injuries on board signs find out more from e.u. board was going off in just a few moments.