if you just joined us for a warm welcome aarti life here in moscow top stories now in the battle for syria engulfs the country's second city aleppo braces for the worst as rebels and government forces go head to head. elsewhere in the rest of region the united arab emirates sees a fresh protest to clamp down with the west's blind eye attitude echoing its stance on saudi arabia and bahrain. but can the troubles past the ancient olympic truce test as politics hangs over sport for the syrian squad at the mountain games. about with another summary for in fifteen years from now in the meantime with protest movements in the u.s. gaining ground the gap between the ninety nine percent and those in power is growing wider r.t. talks to antiwar activist bill ayers for his view on how to achieve change.

parties in chicago sitting down with radical activist author and former professor thank you so much for joining us today pleasure to be with you so let's get 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 the modern protester in the us today well i mean i think occupy is this 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 tell your 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. north occupied for

a while then they ridiculed it then they tried to co-opt it with language like what should that man 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 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 at 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 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 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 in a war we overthrew a government where we eleven years later they're now talking about negotiating with the taleban 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 u.s. 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 occupying 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. 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 u.s. 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 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 in 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 but considering many people and critics of us 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 that 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 though we were killed in

that unnecessary war mostly civilians and the us 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 that 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 election. 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. talked about a lot by the mainstream media what do you think is going to be the 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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we've talked stories this hour and i'll tell you the battle for syria engulfed the country's second city aleppo braces for the worst as rebels and government forces go head to head. elsewhere in the rest of region the united arab emirates sees a fresh protest to clamp down on the west some blind eye attitude echoing its stance on saudi arabia and bahrain elaborate on the troubles past the ancient and then pick the first test of politics hangs over support from the syrian squad of them on the gang. problem that with a new state with more of those stories and fifteen minutes from the mean time when the sport. hello well this is a nice for round up with rich and the top stories the italian job former england manager fabio capello is unbalanced

a new culture in russia and aids to lead them to the world cup in brazil. while oscar winners chelsea complete the signing of brazil midfielder also on a five year deal worth about thirty million dollars. no joke while longer involved in a way to head to the summer olympics the organizers of the next winter games in sochi a taste of what to expect in twenty four teams. 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 replaces dick of the gods who left after russia failed to make it past the group stage at this hour as heroes capello stepped down is even coach in february in protest against the f.a. stripping john terry of the captaincy the italian has won the league title with every club he's managed including rail madrid ac milan roma and eventers or russia will host ivory coast in a frenzy next month before kicking off that one of cup qualifying campaign they

double header against northern ireland india's well in september. and it's just one of us better 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 luck i wanted moscow a new coach seven village given the italian the thumbs up. i think it would be good for russia. to take him because he's got one big advantage and the one big one that if she's workaholic and she ain't going to watch just a couple of teams here in russia you differently have a lot of potential a lot of color to play seeing going to be afraid to take a player from sides if you think she's good enough and i think that series what russia lacks or elect in the last ten years. and 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 source to be around thirty nine million dollars the twenty year old is currently in his country's olympic squad and has been compared to combat you've got the playmaker is a boon for the summer midfield signing along with marco martin and brothers and. also has said he'd wait until after the olympics before completing his move to the better deal tiresias brazil have twice been one is up and never won a limping goals despite winning the world cup five times. in the result every johnson was the surprise here as the m.l.s. all star scored reading three time winner to stand chelsea three two in a friendly in philadelphia chris wondolowski open the hosts after twenty one minutes but we skipper john terry levelled from a corner ten minutes later and the visitors were ahead on the hour thanks to an uncle frank lampard. however after seventy three minutes duane deaver soriano set

up chris pontius to fire ross turnbull to make it to turn. and in the dying seconds johnson grabbed the winner but despite the defeats chelsea manager of a city retire says it's nothing to worry about. another important aspect that we haven't had any injuries so far this is important for us and. we're getting you know slowly together you know someplace back just a few days and the team is slowly now coming together and. it will take a little bit of time to show. trials where the incident company has signed a new six year deal to stay with the english champions manchester city the twenty six year old belgium defender joined the club in two thousand and eight and the since led them to f.a. cup glory last year and also to their first league title in forty four years since he had been training in beijing ahead of their pre-season friendly against all snow

on friday while the talismanic skipper says he expects this season's title defense to be a tough one. to be stiff because liverpool chelsea talking moscow united the real good teams. have a massive squad but i think we'll improve and if we improve normally we'll be up there again to win a title will be very difficult. for the greek world indoor high jump champion the midfield congo kookiest 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 resells really 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 is proven guilty the twenty eight year old could now face a lifetime ban for a second dumping offense. well in the me now is the last thing you'd expect to see

in london in the current heat wave but an artificial grizzard has marked the opening of the sort you park in kensington gardens with russia aiming to provide their own winter games in two years time ice dancer shows and evolves let's simulate up much of some of the entertainment on offer at the headquarters throughout the top sporting event in the british capital while the such your guys are aiming to emulate london success in using the olympics to boost local areas. so far everything is so brilliant and we have. a lot of similarities among them so achieve the same thing on the create in the legacy for the region like you are developed for one of the poorest parts of the london to the olympic village where we develop and hold the region in sochi for the but the life planned for the next generation now moving on to handle 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 on the sports greatest ever name pin and they love rolf gave his view on russia's chances the british capital. had to me 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 we fell just short of the final and that bronze medal is the most memorable of all ted 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. knew us 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 well probably the favorites to finish top of that group but all possible quarterfinal opponents could pose a real threat so it's crucial they'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. but the disagreements 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 their 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 ever goal 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 that seems pretty sesar the u.s.s.r. that won three gold silver and bronze that's once it's well the dition 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. 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 fresh talents like setzer alexander booty call good added 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 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 for the most 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 for 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. say serbia germany and soon egypt none of those teams are considered weak but one thing is for certain if russia makes its of the next stage they will not face any of those nations in the quarterfinals or among calls for an artsy i'm not. an asshole the support for this thursday by.

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