it's two thirty pm here in moscow and this is r t and these are our top stories fierce fighting in syria as regime troops try to push rebels out of the country's commercial hub aleppo. well german intelligence finds evidence al qaeda is behind some ninety terror attacks in syria and at work correspondents are just rebels have been passing their own victims off as fake tallaght ease of the regime . plus the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia and bahrain as it leaves a fresh clampdown on protesters as the let's stay silent. now is the divide between people in power in the us widens protest movements are getting more exposure than ever before aren't you know talks to billing errors activist author

and former professor at the university of illinois about the growth of the protest movement in the states. 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 the protests really in the united states we've seen the arab spring we've seen the op risings in europe we've seen occupy wall street in the united states who 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 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

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 one percent ninety nine percent is a marvelous metaphor but as usual power responds to these kinds of peoples in

a pattern 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 repeat it 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 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 what 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 all wearing suits and ties all speaking very quietly but they can 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 the city was incredibly militarized that is there were tens of thousands of police in the streets gear 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 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 and the problem is in many ways it is obviously people are quite annoyed to say the least to the fact that like you say millions are spent on a summit 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 end it this has been 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. there 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 us are you closer to that. 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 it's living beyond its means can it really sustain those wars steps. and you know one of things that happened in the old soviet union was it spent itself into destruction i mean you can't 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 feet. the american military bases abroad what are they doing who are they

and 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 us embark on this new military escapade it would be a catastrophe for everyone if the united states or nato which is just the 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 that

doesn't make us frantic israel is the third largest nuclear power in the world not part of nuclear nonproliferation and hard and even admitting that they have them 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 than to shake your sword every time you feel like it the u.s. 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 u.s. 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 you know lifetime sixty seven years the u.s. has been engaged in the war virtually every year and the wars are primarily wars of invasion and aggression. and i capacious. 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 base 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 obama would become sort of the real face of change a lot of americans now say. that is not happening democrats and republicans seem to be the same side of one point what should we expect is it naive at this point for anybody to expect some real true change come election. for wins this election

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 the main 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 in 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 the 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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party's top stories fierce fighting in syria has regime troops trying to push rebels on of the country's commercial aleppo. while german intelligence finds evidence al qaeda is behind some ninety terror attacks in syria the war correspondents who just rebels have been passing their own victims off as a town and even up the regime. but the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia and bahrain as it leaves a fresh clampdown on protesters but the left stay silent. up next our latest sport with kate. well i would thank you for joining me to the latest poll here the headline is also with chelsea complete the signing of brazil midfielder also on a five year deal for

a fee of around thirty nine million dollars. while. american all-star eddie johnson scores the injury time we need to stun champions league champions chelsea three sitting. in philadelphia. and struggling become a ball legend. tactics as the russian women's team told its goal in the. first day when champions league winners chelsea have completed the signing of brazil attacking midfielder also on a five year deal from into nasional for a fee thought to be around thirty nine million dollars the twenty year old is carney and his country's a limbic squad and has been compared to. the playmaker is the blues fourth summer meet field signing along with marco martin and others and told them all scott had said he would wait until after the olympics before completing his move to the better deal or test side brazil have twice been one is up and never want to go despite winning the world cup five times. however eddie johnson was the surprise here as the m.l.s.

overstaffed school begin three time winner to stun chelsea three two in a friendly in philadelphia chris wondolowski open for the hosts after twenty one minutes but bruce skipper john terry levelled from a corner ten minutes later and the visitors were ahead only outside stewart francom park. however after seventy three when it's doing did was set up chris pontius fire ten to two and in the dying seconds johnson grabs the winner but despite the defeat chelsea manager the versatile retailer says it's nothing to worry about. another important aspect that we haven't had any injuries so far this is important that for us and. we're getting you know slowly together you know. someplace going back just a few days and the team is slowly now coming together and. it will take a little bit of time to show. we're back in the u.k.

captain vincent kompany has signed a new six year deal to stay with english champions manchester city the twenty six year old belgium defender joined the club in two thousand and eight since led them to f.a. cup glory last year also to their first league title in forty four years however the talismanic skipper says he hopes to have an even bigger impact in the future. but meanwhile he must go look at what do you have signed senegal striker and danish top spot right down into it in copenhagen as new head coach loving village talking silverware in his debut season look i finished seventh last season but i started a new campaign with a three two when you come as mordovia surrounds three two last friday well it says the result prove how tough football in russia is and the competition at the top will be fierce this season but look at what is up there with their rivals. this is the league we're. ok semitism it but then you have. six or seven teams that have almost. equal percentage of chances to do it so

it can be decided in a couple of games it gave me. a little bit of luck with that that you got to deserve of course. now the first doping scandal has hit the london olympics after moroccan middle distance runner mariam allow ourselves silly was provisionally suspended following a positive test the world indoor silver medalist had been touted as a medal prospect in the british capital but she failed a test for a diuretic drug from event and this month and if proven guilty the twenty eight year old could now face a lifetime ban for a second doping offense. oh martin i'm not happy with athletes have also been suspended from the games among them is turkish distance runner mary and again he was ranked fourth in the world the twenty two year old was courtroom biological class sport tests which measure changes in an athlete blood profile three russian

female runners will also serve pounds. now the greatest olympian of all time michael phelps says here not one of the ryan lochte or should be aware of unheralded swimmers in london twenty seven felt a record collection of fourteen goals as he is up for his third and final games however the living legend has said he's unlikely to sweep the seven events to take part in but he still eyes more top gongs in the british capital. ryder and i are here just racing each other over where we're racing the whole world another their summers from all over the world that are you know have a chance to win a medal just like we do so you know it's whoever's day is that day and you know when i'm out there is there isn't a rivalry between you two that i mean sure we both hate to lose. the vast people in there where the british men's squad are preparing for the writing match against russia on sunday despite defeats in all three of their recent warm up matches against the defending champions the usa tunisia and belgium coach chris pincher

remains positive but isn't going to make any predictions and the host nation need a top four finish from group b. to reach the quarter finals but face top opposition from european champions spain australia china and brazil. gonna say i'm not in the business of making any predictions this is not what we do we don't try to predict the group i think you'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 to take our chances were never. moving on to humble now and the russian men's team have failed to qualify for the olympics for the first time but the country's women are aiming high in london and the sports greatest ever n.p.n. and i love all of his view on russia. i often get to ask 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 fell just short of the final and that bronze medal is the most memorable of all i've had 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 winning the three girls before we. well russia's women could only manage six at the world championships in brazil last december but was still one of the favorites in london probably only norway are considered better than 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 group for usher 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 are mentally ready for the games and as far as i know we've got an experienced team and i hope they will claim gold. it's no secret that later they 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 however the way the russian team have been preparing especially for the last couple of years gives us a lot of hope all there quite specialists are in place every. it has been thoroughly analyzed so i don't think the national forecast will differ much from the results at the end of the day i think the russian efforts can we twenty three to twenty five golds which would put the team in third place overall. and finally to the men's volleyball where russia will be aiming for their first ever goal since the collapse of the soviet union then on course arrived was at the team's training camp in the black sea resort of an. the russian men's squads greatest achievements

at the summer games was silver at sydney in two thousand that's a far cry from that seems to sesar the u.s.s.r. that won three gold silver and bronze that's wanted twelve edition of the national team collected a number of titles recently and it is hoped that it can overcome the latest hurdles in order to claim its first olympic gold. russian volleyball players have always been distinguished by their athletic abilities but they are lacking when it comes to executing certain technical elements that will be our main focus during the preparation for the games. and squads will be one of the most experienced at the olympics with five players aiming to improve on their bronze medal finish in beijing four years ago however a fresh talents like setzer alexandre would call could add that necessary push for the top of the podium. to keep from going to anyone can win even by

accident that's not enough one must always be hungry for a victory it's like a drug the feeling off euphoria when the team scores deciding point feels like a huge way it's been lifted off your shoulders but victories must be forgotten and losses remembered and analyzed the moment russia won the world league and the world cup in twenty eleven this year however was marked by a visible slump which saw the team drop all the way to eighth place in the world leagues than things like now hopes that will change when the game starts we're going to give a speech on it's a very particular tournaments for example no one has ever thought the poland would develop like it has it's constantly on the podium in the recent years brazil cuba italy some african nations anyone really has a chance it will be more difficult for some than others but it's pretty even. russia's first goal is to get out of their group which features brazil usa serbia

germany and sunni's yeah none of those teams are considered weak but one thing is for certain if russia makes it to the next stage they will not face any of those nations in the quarterfinals the man calls for an artsy i'm not. and that's all this fall for this fellas in there will be more unjust on the tour as time please join me and.

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