welcome back to this is a check of the headlines fierce fighting in syria as regime troops try to push rebels out of the country's commercial hub the city of aleppo that's as defections among top officials continue to plague the government. while german intelligence finds evidence kinase behind some nine to terrorists honks in syria and a war correspondent suggests a rebels have been passing himself as the time of his of the regime. the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia and bahrain as it leaves a fresh climb down on protesters but the west and states sun and all the developments. as the divide between people and power in the u.s. widens protest movements are getting more exposure than ever before oh she talks to

bill as radical activist also and full professor at the university of illinois to discuss. parties in chicago sitting down with radical activist author and former professor bill ayres thank you so much for joining us today pleasure to be with you so let's get started with protests really in the united states we've seen the arab spring we've seen the uprisings in europe we've seen occupy wall street in the united states what do you think is really the face of the modern protester in the u.s. today well i mean i think occupy is unpredictable but wonderful development and it comes directly out of the arab spring i mean it the idea that people could actually make a difference is is infectious and so occupy came out of madison madison came out of tahrir square tahrir square came out of bradley manning and wiki leaks so we kind of can see. a real development where people are saying you know the world as it is

is not the world as it must be it could be otherwise and when people feel that way they get into motion get into action very exciting very you know hopeful we have obviously critics of occupy wall street who see the main flaw of the movement is a lot of attention all unified message do you think that kind of message exists apart from the obvious occupy wall street what is it really about well i think people are mistaken and with that kind of criticism occupy is not a point of arrival it's not a manifesto it's not a demand occupy is an invitation and it's an opening of the public space that means that every grievance every complaint as well as every aspiration and dream can find a place in a new open public square i think occupy already has accomplished something amazing which is is shifted the frame and how we discuss wealth how we discuss war how we discuss austerity the metaphor of one percent ninety nine percent is

a marvelous metaphor but as usual power responds to these kinds of peoples in a pattern that that is predictable. they ignored occupy for a while then they ridiculed it then they tried to coopt it with language like what you demand and then they beat it up and then they repeated that's very typical of how these things happened but occupy is not going away it's morphed it's transformed to occupy is a marvelous thing and it's still evolving and we shall see occupy also seems to have brought sort of police violence and unrest that we haven't seen in a while in the united states and every time there's clashes like we saw here in chicago it seems to be the protesters saying the police are violent the police are saying the protesters are violent who is right we see in our whole society is the militarization of our society so when nato comes together for example for a summit. this is an organization that all wearing suits and ties all speaking very quietly but they can't they represent three quarters of the military budget in the

world three quarters are represented by the nato kind of g eight world and and that's violence that's institutional violence so in chicago when there were clashes between nato demonstrators and police. we have to also note that at the city was incredibly militarized that is there were tens of thousands of police in the streets here that nobody had ever seen before you know troop carriers buses transformed into military vehicles we take for granted in this country that the military must be under civilian control if it's under civilian control it's a dictatorship what is nato under how is nato governed who takes care of making sure that it's not a military dictatorship in the problem is in many ways it is obviously people are quite annoyed to say the least for the fact that like you say millions are spent on the billions are spent abroad on the wars whereas obviously

a lot of people are still not in the best economic situation do you think i mean what is this all about is there a huge disconnect between those in power and the people or. is this kind of purpose something that's purposefully being done i think both are true but is there a huge disconnect absolutely what is nato if it's not kind of a fig leaf for the united states nato in europe for example has two hundred sixty tactical nuclear weapons those are not allowed under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty but they're allowed because nato is not a signatory it's a way around the law it's a way around common sense but speaking of a disconnect yes there is a disconnect twenty seven percent of americans support the war in afghanistan and we can't end it this is true now for seven years no one wants it eleven years ago when the war started we could have said this is a police action to get the people who did nine eleven but know it was an invasion and war we overthrew a government where we eleven years later they're now talking about negotiating with

the taleban they and moving out of afghanistan but leaving four billion dollars a year in american aid that's an outrage and it should be an outrage that's why only twenty seven percent still support that war but we cannot end it that's a disconnect between power and the people the first time we interviewed you four years ago you said you wanted to create the biggest anti-war movement in the u.s. are you closer to the. occupy wall street part of the energy of occupy is in part an anti-war energy it's an energy that says our priorities are all messed up our society is off the tracks spending trillions on war every couple of years while we ignore basic human needs privatizing the public space destroying the electoral process under the term reform reforming everything from public schools to elections to pensions and what reform is is a kind of a cover for destruction so yes i think that the anti-war movement is represented in

the occupy moment and my hope is that we continue to evolve and grow do you think with the wars the us is fighting in. living beyond its means. absolutely not and you know one of things that happened in the old soviet union was it spent itself into destruction i mean you cannot arm at this level and have now create the conditions for an arms war with china with india with russia with all the countries of south asia that's an outrage that we are now entering into a new arms race which is going to spend us into catastrophe it's anti-democratic it's not what people want it's not how we want to see ourselves and it's something that has to end when you think about the u.s. and nato missile defense plans is that necessary absolutely unnecessary i mean if you think of all the toys and gimmicks and and war materials that are being developed what are they for i mean why

a hundred fifty american military bases abroad what are they doing who are they in circling so now it gives itself permission for preemptive war for war against non-state actors which can take the form of any country it wants to invade so nato in afghanistan nato in iraq nato in libya these are illegal immoral and unnecessary we're hearing war drums beating over iran lately a lot do you think we'll see the u.s. embark on this new military escapade it would be a catastrophe for everyone if the united states or nato which is just a united states fig leaf or israel went into iran and attacked iran there we can live in this world as a nation among nations as long as we insist on the old colonial mentality that we can dominate other peoples we can tell them how to be and have a double standard that's just so grotesque so we're frantic about the possibility that iran might have

a nuclear warhead some day meanwhile we have two thousand nuclear warheads and it doesn't make us frantic israel is the third largest nuclear power in the world not part. nuclear nonproliferation in the heart of even admitting that they have that this is a world that's dangerous that's you know unstable but it's not unstable because of the run there are so many better ways to be a citizen of the world to shake your sword every time you feel like it the us has the biggest military budget in the world a trillion dollars a year what is really the necessity we understand that if somebody had tax you have to be ready to defend yourself considering many people and critics of u.s. warmongering say the us actually starts these boys it by itself builds this long list of enemies well that's my view my view is if you look at my whole. lifetime sixty seven years the u.s. has been engaged in a war virtually every year and the wars are primarily wars of invasion and

aggression and occupation vietnam we can all now look back and say well that was illegal immoral a tragedy three million people were killed six thousand a week were killed in that unnecessary war mostly civilians and the u.s. did it i mean it it it made it happen under a lot of guises of bringing democracy and so on and there was a wonderful sign in the demonstrations recently that said you know if you want to build democracy someplace build it here and i think that's true peace is the answer and it begins here we have to cut back our military budget we have to close our foreign military bases we have to become a nation among nations not the goober nation exerting our will everywhere we have the us elections fast approaching four years ago a lot of people in the us were really hopeful that barak obama would become sort of the real face of change a lot of americans now say that that is not happening democrats and republicans seem to be the same side of one coin what should we expect is it naive at this

point for anybody to expect some real true change come election. for wins those elect. i think we have to build a movement for change i think that's what brings change if you look back even in our fairly recent history it wasn't lyndon johnson although lyndon johnson passed the most far reaching civil rights legislation in history he wasn't part of the black freedom movement he was responding franklin roosevelt wasn't part of the labor movement and yet he accomplished all that labor legislation and social legislation and abraham lincoln didn't belong to an abolitionist party each of them was responding to movements on the ground what we need if we want peace is to build a movement on the ground that could bring about real change from the bottom and that's what i think we should be concerned about during the last presidential elections obviously your name was talked about a lot by the mainstream media what do you think is going to be that mean controversy this time around the one thing that we know for sure is it money is

always corrupting in politics not just here but in russia and europe everywhere money corrupts politics this election season in the united states is going to see an absolute tidal wave of cash come into this election so last time out the obama campaign spent a half a billion dollars this time each campaign will spend over a billion and it's hard to believe that anyone can look at that and say this is what democracy looks like i think it's what plutocracy looks like rich people throwing cash around buying votes buying legislators and it's an unseemly and and certainly undemocratic site i have no idea what the controversy will be but you can be sure it'll be dirty and it will be expensive.

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there welcome to the sports update here not to think for joining us this hour coming up. going. targets in russia is that. the danish league's top scorer. goes to chelsea. decided not to wait until the end of the olympics as the blues their latest acquisition brazil midfielder. and handball legend speaks to the only triple olympic champion in this sport andre love golf about russian women team chances in london. have signed senegal striker and danish top scorer from copenhagen as their new head coach seven village targets away in his debut year the team finished seventh last season but started a new campaign beating newcomers image of

a surrounds three suit in southwest russia last friday. stores have been given a full match ban for an internet intentional ball fall during the game meanwhile the present creation coach says the result proved how tough football in russia is and to just seven weeks of the how he believes competition at the top will be hard this season. with the royals. this is the league. ok for me it is a need but then you have six or seven teams that's almost. equal percentage of chances to do it it can be a couple of games it can be. a little bit of. that that you got to deserve of course. in the meantime english premier league chelsea have confirmed that signing of brazilian midfielder oscar from international deal was reported to be worth around thirty nine million dollars the twenty year old whose full name is

also in barber juneau is currently in london with the brazilian olympic team is a product of this apology you think joined it and i saw in december turn to the playmaker is expected to join the club straight after the games in his absence the blues lost their exhibiting game to an all star american team from the majors sokolich three two in philadelphia. the first victory of the london games went to the host country the british women's football team beat new zealand one nail in the match which unofficially kicked off the lympics two days before the opening ceremony it was the first ever win for britain in olympic women's football as this court had never been put together before this year's games the football tournament started early because of its long match shadowville. now the greatest olympian of all time michael phelps says he and travel around a lot should be aware of and how did swimmers in london at the age of twenty seven

phelps base their record collection of four two golds ace he is up for his third and final games however the living legend says he's unlikely to swing the seven events he'll take part in the limp still eyes small talk in the british capital. rider and i aren't here at this racing each other for the race in the whole world another there are some of us from all over the world that. you know have a chance to win a medal just like we do so you know whoever. is that day is going to win them or is there no rivalry between you two that i mean sure we both hate to lose. to basketball now where the british squad continue their preparations for the upcoming games despite defeats in all three of their recent warm up matches against a satanist and belgium coach chris think states positive is not going to make any predictions britain will begin their campaign against russia on sunday and they

need a top four finish in group b. which also includes spain australia china and brazil to reach the quarter finals. in the business of making any predictions this is not what we do we don't try to predict the group i think we're in trouble when you do that. you know i think for us it's important we approach every game with the same amount of intensity preparation readiness execution and you know particular chances were never. that russian men's handball team failed to qualify for the olympics for the first time but the countries ladies are in the high in london so they sports greatest olympian ever and to share his views on russia's chances. of the i often get asked the question which one of my four olympic medals means the most to me and it's the last one because i wanted to when i was forty two which fell just short of the final and that bronze medal is the most memorable of all

i've heard surgery six months prior to those athens olympics and then picked up an injury just a fortnight before the games so it was doubtful if i'd make it but all that made the bronze medal even sweeter when you go out there and realize it's your last time this makes it even more emotional than we do the three girls before we. some of the most. well russia's women could only manage six at the world championships in brazil last december but we're still one of the favorites in london probably only know we are considered better. in russia but still there are about seven teams who could deliver the goods at any given time so i don't think we should be overjoyed about what seems an easy game for sure in london ok we're probably the favorites to finish top of that group but all possible quarterfinal opponents could pose a real threat so it's crucial we're mentally ready for the games and as far as i

know we've got an experienced team and i hope they'll claim gold. for the secrets no secret that played to the host nations have tended to take five six or seven gold medals they never expected to win in the first place and this is actually quite alarming the first of however the way the russian team have been preparing especially for the last couple of years when gives us a lot of hope of the other quite specialists are in place so everything has been thoroughly analyzed so i don't think the initial forecast will differ much from the results at the end of the day i think the russian athletes can we twenty three to twenty five golds which would put the team in third place overall. at ten sets of medals will be up for grabs in the boxing in the olympic men's boxing but russia is in the hunt for only seven of them as the country has entered its number to spend since one thousand nine hundred six and our correspondent was at the team's training camp and cyprus. though none of the european nations

participating in the london twenty twelve have more than seven licenses russia's entry in just as many weight classes is widely considered as below average by previous standards despite that legendary head coach nikolai crumb off believes any one stands and that in big chance all seven of very experienced boxes and among them a european and world champions a lot will depend on the draw already at the olympic games and in what form they will approach the competition. to russia will be captained by european champions john in london who will make his second attempt at the olympic podium in the under forty nine weight class yes there's only one objective for everybody and that's gold plus we definitely want to win overall first place and london's well i think we're capable of that all the guys are very determined and we will try to reach as high as possible in the world champion michelle young makes his and then big debut

in london and his recent performance at various international starts makes this twenty four year old one of the three routes to clinch at least a place on the podium. limpy games for any professional athlete of the toughest test of the entire career to be among the boxing elite is definitely the dream of my life. stands mother made a moral face and other olympic ricky trying to capture glory in his early twenty's he will represent russia in the over ninety one k. class the heaviest at the london games. and a limp medal means everything to me as it would shape my career my life my future depends on how i will perform in london. on issues that blights heavyweight hugo or me hans of won bronze at the most recent world championship but the twenty seven year old two time european champion already knows what to improve on. it's all about how well you prepare i think the english will be some of our main competitors

for medals. actually all the prison plus cuba will be strong as always seem to form a serious international tournament but it's the olympics so we should not discount the talk horses are going. to more boxers will try to improve on their dismal results of the previous games in beijing that's former world champion sergei for the piano in the fifty six k. category and suits i'm european champion out of today to be of in the under ninety one kilo class last but not least in the sixty nine k. class russia will be represented by a twenty five year old silver world medalist andre some go boy prussian boxers have always been hard favorites to win podium places at the big games the last four olympic games saw them haul in twenty gold silver and bronze medals while the goal for the london olympics is to add at least another three but the management the fans and the athletes themselves are of course hoping that that number will be much higher cost for of artsy the muscle cypress. well that's all from me for the moment

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