here with r t live from moscow the headlines the battle for syria engulfs the country's second city aleppo braces for the worst as rebels and government forces go head to head we find for the northern city as collates while more clashes are reported in damascus and several other sites. elsewhere in the restive region dozens of people now detained in the united arab emirates amid a fresh protest or clamp down the blasts blind eye attitude at going in towns on saudi arabia and bahrain. but can the troubles past the ancient olympic truce chastize politics hangs over support for the syrian squad at the london games the country's athletes say they're carrying a message of peace as damascus faces mounting pressure from abroad. but with the

protest movement gaining in the u.s. the gap between the ninety nine percent and those in power is growing wider talks to antiwar activist bill ayers for his take on how to achieve change. party's in chicago sitting down with radical activist author and former professor thank you so much for joining us today pleasure to be with you it's a look at started to protest 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 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

ten years 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 is predictable they. nord occupied for a while then they ridiculed it then they tried to coopt it with language like what you're that man and then they beat it up and then they repeated that's very typical of how these things happen but occupy is not going away it's morphed it's transformed so 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 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'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 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 for 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. and of purpose something that's purposefully being done well 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 as the u.s. is fighting it's living. sort of 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 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 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. gratian in the heart of even admitting that they have them this is a world that's dangerous 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 for 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 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 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 elections for wins those elections i think we have to build a movement. 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 that 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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the battle for syria and ghosts the country's second city aleppo braces for the worst as rebels and government forces go head to head the week long fight for the northern city escalates while more clashes are reported in damascus and other side . where in the rest a region dozens of people are now detained in the united arab emirates amid a fresh protest or clamp down with the west's blind eye attitude at calling it sounds on saudi arabia and bahrain. but can the troubles the ancient olympic truce tassos politics hangs over support for the syrian squad at the london games countries athletes say they're carrying a message of peace as damascus faces mounting pressure from abroad. more free of the top of the hour next sport with kate.

hello welcome to the latest poll. here and i see the headlines the italian job for my england manager fabio capello is on the belt as the new culture of russia aims to lead them to the world cup in brazil. while also winners chelsea complete the signing of brazil midfielder also on a five year deal for around thirty nine million dollars. however stars shock clues eddie johnson scores the injury time winner as the american all star stunned chelsea three two in a friendly in philadelphia. but first former england manager fabio capello has finally signed a two year deal to guide russia to the world cup in brazil the sixty six year old italian or places they can figure out who left after russia failed to make it past the group stage of this summer's euros caballo stepped down as england coach in february in protest against the f.a. stripping john terry of the captaincy the italian well he's won the league title

with every club he's managed including way on madrid ac milan roma and you venters russia will host ivory coast in a friendly next month before kicking off their world cup qualifying campaign with a double header against northern ireland and israel in september. which are some of your spirit i believe i can create a fantastic golden center to have experienced and young players playing together but also i fundamentally believe experienced players must be a part of any young and aspiring team as they can provide the necessary passion needed to move forward. and capello's appointment has prompted a swift response in russian football with lokomotiv moscow new coach levon village giving the italian the thumbs up. i think it would be good for russia. to him because he's got one big and then t.j. and the one big one that if she's workaholic and she. watched just a couple of teams here in russia you differently have

a lot of potential sort of for the two place you're going to be afraid to take a player of from sides if you think she's good enough and i think that series what's russia lacks or elect in the last ten years. in the meantime champions league winners chelsea have completed the signing of brazil attacking midfielder also on a five year deal from international for a fee thought to be around thirty nine million dollars the twenty year old is currently in his country's olympic squad and has been compared to combated kaka the primary carries the blues for the summer midfield signing along with mark o'mara and brothers and as our mascot said he'd wait until after the olympics before completing his move to reverted imitator side brazil have twice been runners up and never won a limping goals despite winning the world cup five times. however any thoughts on was the surprise here as the evillest all start its usual time when it is stunning chelsea three two in a friendly in philadelphia responder was open for the hosts after twenty one

minutes but blue skipper john terry levelled from a corner ten minutes later and the visitors were ahead on the hour thanks to a number one plan. however the seventy three minutes away goes ario set up chris pontius to fire past ross to make it two two and in the dying seconds johnson grabs the winner was despite the defeats chelsea manager diversity about ai this is nothing to worry about. the force another important aspect though we haven't had any injuries so far this is important for us and. we go 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. while elsewhere 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 and has since let them to f.a. cup glory last year and 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 while it still remains unclear of company will be joined by also most prolific strikeout will be involved percy. can see the front does use dragger but. we have a four striker and with the striker we won the championship last year it's me that . betsy the top player. you can say a different being said about this but these are south players. now greek world indoor high jump champion demetrius contador who kiss is the latest athlete to withdraw from the london olympics after failing a drugs test the news comes a day off tomorrow can middle distance runner allow ourselves silly was also

suspended 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 an event earlier this month and if proven guilty the twenty eight year old could now face a lifetime ban for a second doping offense. but in the meantime no one is the last thing you'd expect to see in london in the current heat wave but an artificial blizzard has marked the i think of the sort you park in kensington gardens with russia aiming to provide their own winter games in two years time i stands shows and they played simulator just some of the entertainment on offer at the headquarters throughout the top sporting event in the british capital while the statue organizers are aiming to emulate long term success in using the olympics to boost local levels. so far everything is so brilliant and we have. a lot of similarities among them so achieve the same thing on their creating the legacy for the region like you are

a developer of one of the poorest part of the london to the olympic village where we develop and hold the region in sochi for the but alive when for the next generation that made it on to fall as the russian men's team has 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 an infant and i love rolf that his view on russia's chances to negotiate with. that's america 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 goals 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'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. at 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 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 everything has been thoroughly analyzed so i don't think they need full cost will differ much from their results at the end of the day i think the russian athletes can win 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 have a gold since the end of the soviet union. was at the team's training camp in the black sea resort of an. the russian men's clubs greatest achievements at the summer games was silver at sydney in two thousand that's a far cry from the teams we discuss or the u.s.s.r. that won three gold silver and bronze that's one to 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 big old. 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. 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 sets are aleksandr with the call good that necessary push for the top of the podium. like a kid from anyone can win even by accident that's not enough to go one must always be hungry for victory it's like a drug the feeling off euphoria when the team scores deciding point because like a huge way it's been lifted off your shoulders but victories must be forgotten and just and losses are remembered and analyzed at the moment rochelle 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 a place in the world leagues than things like now hopes that will change when the game starts but we're going to give a speech on it's a very particular tournaments should be a core example no one has ever thought the poland would develop like it has it's constantly on the podium in the recent years with 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. brush just first goal is to get out of their group which features brazil us. they serbia germany and tunisia none of those themes 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 calls for an artsy i'm not. and also fence post us for a couple of hours i think.

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