this is. time for the weekly headlines now where the syrian opposition pleads for heavy weapons from abroad and calls for direct intervention as the battle for the country's largest city continues government forces are trying to wrestle control over trying to get it back from the rebels who have several neighborhoods that. saudi arabia is reportedly using violence to force protesters from the streets demonstrators have been demanding reforms along with the release of political prisoners as the wave of discontent grows across the nation. and

spain struggles with a double dip recession with record high unemployment and pledges from the i.m.f. that madrid needs even more reform despite previous hard cutting heads this comes as athens which is also also financially crippled has reportedly agreed on most of the cuts demanded from creditors in order to receive it's back to. the olympic games may have got off to an explosive start. of organizers floors under strict instructions of making many londoners missing out on the sporting extravaganza as scores of empty seats in the arenas are also sparking anger over failings in the way tickets were handed out. well with protest movements in the us also gaining ground the gap between the haves and the have nots is growing wider we speak to antiwar activist bill ayers for on his take for 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 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 us 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 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 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 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 that was the u.s. fighting its 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. and bark 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 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 barack 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 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. in full starting here. for going to local and. a look of. choose your place take your stand.

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free. three stooges free. food free broncos clothing video for your media projects a free video down to our t.v. dot com. headlines on odds he the syrian opposition pleads for heavy weapons from abroad and calls for direct intervention the battle for the country's largest city continues government forces are trying to wrestle control over trying to get it back from the rebels who have now occupied many of the neighborhoods in saudi arabia is reportedly using violence to force protesters from the streets demonstrators have been demanding reform so along with the release of political prisoners as the wave of discontent grows across the gulf nations. spain struggles with a double dip recession with a record high unemployment figures and pledges from the i.m.f. that madrid needs even more reform despite previous cuts hitting the public sector

this comes as a fitness which is also financially crippled has reportedly agreed on most of the cuts demanded from creditors in order to receive its bell. and the olympic games may have got off to an explosive start but a stockpile of organizers floors under strictures are making many londoners miss out on the extravaganza of schools of empty seats in the arenas also sparking anger of a failings in the way tickets were handed out. all right let's stick with the whole theme of olympic sports a union o'neill the new hours to crowds of olympic sport are doing their thing again in london it seems that certainly our team china have double as many gold medals number two and three in the table which are italy and united states rory china yeah they're dominating like they did in beijing two thousand it is. going on today i'm going to get right to it right now.

thanks indeed for joining us this is sports day plenty ahead including the stories . then in focus will be getting the latest from the olympic games very shortly following russ' golden triumph on t.v. one. reason for the most expensive football player ever in combined transfer fees is locked on the bottom of it scores on his debut for p.s.g. . history maker robert green cars the lowest ever and score at the can you do you know. action is well underway now on day two of the olympic games in london there's already been a gold medal handed out jell-o. when juno doing the business for china in the women's ten meter a pistol shooting advent when june first retaining the crowd and she won her home

games in beijing four years back. up with ukraine's. bronze the gold though further stretching team china's leader of the top of the medals table. team russia meanwhile claim their first gold medal of the games on saturday's opening day for more on the on the country's hopes today day two here is under former an richard from port played. so what a night when day for russia austin gal stan coming from nowhere to claim gold in the men's juday he beat all the favorites on route to the sixty kilogram final day in spectacular fashion he defeated japan's pretty achieving amy palmer in the first minutes i.e. through his opponent flat on his back maddie's today's equivalent of the straight nor can the end came into these olympics ranked number four but after that performance he's on top of the world. i expected to be overwhelmed by emotions somehow it felt like any other competition but later when i realized that

this is the olympics i felt really happy. now elsewhere russian cycling chiefs have praised their team's performance in the men's road race that was won by the kazakhs danny alexander vinokourov who claimed gold and he managed to ice mark that much fancied british team are alex on the net was the highest place russian in twenty four from the russian cycling union did say that that was an admirable performance but not so good was the russian shooting team they came to these olympics with great hopes but on saturday they were a bit off target first loop of failed to make the final in the ten meter air rifle a real shot considering she got the gold and silver the last two were lympics also her compound treat that didn't make the final but she finished last in and afterward she said that she just couldn't handle the pressure. of suffered a surprise or early exit in the men's ten meter pistol but also struggled to find form as russia's top ranked tennis player he went on bennett a the frenchman in the

first round at wimbledon although it was better news for videos of one of the over she is three after beating syfy of its sin of sweden with more is richard but tension on sunday will also switch to a boxing ring in this sport where russia traditionally very strong even both things didn't go as well as better perhaps hopes in beijing four years ago where they were really able to pick up two goals there have. always going in the sixty kilogram category he's ranked fifth in the world so there might be a few hopes really get perhaps get unself on the podium but anyway artie the boxing legend and former olympic champion lennox lewis gave his views on how russia might fare in the boxing ring at these olympic games we're going to have to see because there's a lot of great competition you know. professional boxing in most of the eastern bloc on. shoes are doing well boxing so this time i believe that the russian boxing team should do better everybody action continues

a team's forceful rusher on sunday as a very much fancied for men's volleyball team will take to the colts of iran second in the world as well as face stiff competition from the likes of brazil speed usa as well as the competition gets underway into the latter rounds but certainly bill be looking for a medal also britain's basketball team will be coming up against the russians in a much anticipated and counter the russians probably won't be able to get on the medal podium you have to play out of the skins are going to do so but certainly will be hoping to get their competition off to the best possible start has been a couple of busy days for maria sharapova of course she carried the russian wind obviously ceremony on friday and she'll get her singles competition underway on sunday as she'll be looking to complete a grand slam really of the world golden grand slam while she picked up her fourth grand slam title complete percent of the french open earlier this year and she'll be looking to try and complete descent by winning olympic gold here in london in

two thousand and twelve so it could be a golden opening weekend for russia and we will keep you updated with every throw a punch the team has got to offer andrew farmer. london. synchronized swimmers aren't in action at the games for another week or so so we thought we'd take the time to speak to one of the best the sport has ever produced three time olympic champion maria about her rise to the top. just when you see that marriage can and can matter and synchronized swimmers who were virtually on beta boat for two decades and team russia were on the ball to move about fourth place however our three goals the nine hundred ninety seven world cup in china and nods that we have arrived we've had quite a solid winning run since then and i hope we'll continue our dominance along them it's very hard to reach the summit but i believe it's even more difficult to

consistently state the top. level here was one of the olympics that after two separated and were very different from each other emotionally the athens games were the first time i hit the olympic stage without any nervousness but it all came back when our music shuttled during our file for four months he wouldn't we should those feelings in the worst kind of you this has never happened in synchronized swimming before and the judge told us to stop we didn't know if we'll get another game but then ship a nice fan's target cheering us on we ventured to go to our second chance and won gold despite the music's top and several more times just. like the last i was a synchronized swimmer while also starting physical education but i always wanted to try my hand at something out of it was sad to see my sport get very little media

exposure so i thought why not start writing about it myself that gave me the motivation to study journalism at the moscow state university. now the rest of the squad have one of their more accomplished possibly pick participants in the corner for the games for time gold medalist alexey nemeroff who is keeping a close eye on the pulse of the recent enough six team also said that it's all smiles so far in his country's camp. the olympics are such a huge event the entire russian contingent is delighted to be here especially with everyone in london being so kind and polite it's really hard to tell which events are the most important for us because just being of the olympics has already caused to celebrate for many of the squads participles. to football or a second round action in the russian premier league is currently on going being the new boys a lot of the sides are kicked off sunday's play both teams reaming to claim the

first points of the campaign after losses last week but it's worrying champions twice in the past four years who ended with the wind is really bieber's not claiming a brace early on the twenty four year old first converting from the spot after his teammate christian ansel they got roughed up in the area the midfielder wasn't on yet making it to nil in the forty eighth minute. allowing the team president and former russian team manager very good clearly not enjoying the smokin hot form of the home side three one the eventual final score doing nothing insult to injury that. title hopeful spartak moscow are currently in action at home to volga nizhny novgorod but it's not looking too good so far the visitors wander off thanks to alexey sample golf's first off to a run seventy minutes gone in the capital while rust off the new power in russian football on g.e. in the days final clash

a little. the most expensive football player ever and combine transfer fees lot on abraham of h. scored his first goal for p.s.g. the swede netting in a pre-season friendly stateside i guess d.c. united the former milan barcelona intervent is and i are experimenting in impact right away finding space beautifully in the united box to fire home just three minutes in the big first starting that paid back a little of the twenty eight million dollars. paid for him by the french club but that was to be his on his team's highlights for a forty five minute break for a lightning storm the american hosts would fire home a penalty after a all in the area dwayne the result converting for a one one final scoreline but the story of the day was but i am of h.'s scoring. rooms ready for. sure if i'm going to go be.

easy but i don't we do and it's not going to. be. we're going to. show the difference would be. to golf. written his name into the history books the american carving the lowest three draw and score ever at the canadian open beating a fifty seven euro record set by arnold palmer shooting a six under par sixty seven on saturday to propel himself to the top of the scoreboard he set sixteen under with a one shot advantage over joint midway leader william girth it is americans donating the canadian leaderboard currently with the entire top ten heading into the final round a u.s. contingent one of those another of the overnight leaders skull appear she is now two shots off the pace after shooting a three hundred sixty seven. and that is your sport some sport just coming into us there in the last few moments at the olympics russia's. has just won bronze

in women's cycling road race that is the second medal of the games for russia lewis hamilton has won the hungary and g.p. i'll be back in two hours we have much more on that. gk home.

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