this is r.t. top stories now diplomats reveal who could replace kofi annan as an international envoy to syria its former algerian foreign minister locked up what he mean has personal links to jordan a country cuse to being involved in smuggling weapons to the syrian rebels. over twenty children forced to live in catacombs in central russia islamic sects have been sent to orphanages they spent over ten years in underground cells until being rescued by police. plus egypt briefly reopens its crossing into gaza but only to let palestinians back to the blockaded region because they remain sealed off from vital aid routes off the border violence which forced the closure of underground smuggling tunnels. were coming up as promised talk to joel stein the us

presidential candidate for the green party she explains why she believes her country's political system is often similar to the dictatorships washington wishes to bring down in-depth interview next on r.t. . my guest today is jill stein nominee for president of the united states with the green party thank you very much for joining me dr stein it's great to be with you can really really appreciate it thanks for coming i read you said you'd be the underdog candidate for the underdog voters who are these on the docket voters it's certainly most of the american public people are losing their jobs wages are declining millions have lost their home another million are in the pipeline to lose their homes this year the cost of health care is skyrocketing public higher

education is increasingly out of reach we have thirty six million young people who are students or recent graduates who are effectively indentured servants because they don't have the jobs or the wages to repave these unforgiving debts and the political establishment is not doing anything about it while a very small segment of the american population the one percent we say is making out like bandits so neither party is fixing this i just want to make this clear you're going to be on ballots but not in all states can you explain what is it in the system in the us that makes it so hard for a third party to break into those two horse race exactly the american system is designed to eliminate political opposition like some of the you know dictatorships that we criticize that have rigged political systems in many ways the

american system is also rigged but in ways that are not as straightforward so you have to actually see what it takes to get on the ballot if you're not already on as one of the big machine parties each state has its own set of rules which are very demanding. very detailed and bureaucratic and require a lot of signatures in order to get on the ballot so for the most part you need a lot of money many millions of dollars to buy your way on to the ballot basically by hiring signature gatherers and people to keep track of this is using names and that money is to powerful here in washington is there a way you see to go against money the power of money absolutely i mean the voters don't like this the voters repeatedly are calling for getting big money out of politics. in my home state in massachusetts we passed

a law to get the big money out we didn't voters the supreme court passed and another law which it does and livings all limits from contributions and invalid and what i was going to add was that in our state when we passed it by voter referendum the the legislature which was eighty five percent democratic party they repealed it you know so the entrenched system is is very hostile to the needs of the american people the green party often described itself as the party that represents main street versus wall street as you just being say in what way do barack obama and mitt romney represent wall street that is against the interests of the american people mitt romney doesn't really pretend even to do anything other than advance the economic elites agenda he has

a track record which is to advance the likes of his own you know to acquire enormous amounts of wealth by tearing down other companies and businesses and firing workers and offshoring jobs and gobbling up the profits himself so he's got a track record which is pretty clear and he's you know he's pretty much straight ahead wall street agenda with barack obama on the democratic party it's it's a little harder to see clearly what they are about because they do talk a populist line but to actually look at their record it's pretty clear who their allegiances are to so george bush provided about eight hundred billion in bailouts for wall street but under barack obama it's been many trillions some four and a half trillion dollars worth of bailout that has already been dispersed and then there are many more trillions worth of loans and emergency loans and. guarantees

and then quantitative easing through the fed and all kinds of back doors to basically funnel either out in out bailouts or free money to to wall street so mitt romney has wall street you know he's the wolf in a wolf's clothing barack obama that will finish and clothing but they both essentially have the same agenda. can you talk a little bit more about your involvement with the occupy movement has the movement been big enough to make sort of it took tonic shift in u.s. politics. i believe that that tectonic shift is happening and occupy is one of the indicators that it is happening and it's happening because one out of every two americans is now either in poverty or low income americans are really hurting and are desperate for foreigners for solutions which they are not getting

so there is a rebellion that is in full swing occupy speaks for that rebellion we saw in the polls earlier. a majority of americans a substantial majority of americans was very sympathetic and supportive of the agenda that occupy was are but really i mean it's kind of a silent rebellion right exactly we are silenced you know i believe it is not silent but our voices are continually muzzled through all kinds of ways we can speak out politically the media is very much in the hands of big corporations congress' approval rating is eleven percent so it is people are unhappy but it's a silent by design right so that people have to work very hard to break through and occupy got to critical mass by assembling you know in our public squares and they were very effective in breaking through until the public relations campaign begin

to be conducted against them and we saw that because that p.r. campaign actually got leaked it was a many many hundreds of thousands of dollars campaign that was constructed even before the counterattack began so you had both a media counterattack and then you had a a counterattack by way of police brutality in the suppression of our civil liberties as people were brutally attacked of let's talk foreign policy but switch gears for many years now probably since the collapse of the soviet union every u.s. president ever. every administration took the idea of the us as being the walled police sort of to the next level president obama was no exception what is it what is of the basis of this walled police policy as you see it and would you carry on with that as a president. this world police policy is bankrupting americans we're

spending about it trillion dollars a year on the military industrial security complex that budget has roughly doubled over the last ten years and we are certainly not more secure for it we spent trillions of dollars in iraq when we withdrew from iraq how did we do it we withdrew from iraq in the dead of night at a secret undisclosed date because we were afraid that we would be ambushed in the process how many friends exactly did we make in this war what kind of a stable democracy did we make in iraq you know iraq continues to teeter on the brink of a civil war it has certainly not become a staunch and reliable ally for the united states or for democracy or for women's rights for that matter the barrel of a gun has not been an effective diplomat and we need to heed that and take

a lesson from it unfortunately president obama basically embraced george bush's you know militaristic approach to foreign policy on his third day in office he intensified the bombing. pakistan then went on to spread the drone wars into somalia and into yemen he. served the troops into afghanistan we still have about twice as many troops as we had under george bush it has certainly not made afghanistan a safer more secure place we are not in a better position to you know withdraw now and declare victory than we were you know years ago you know that when you have the kind of civilian casualties that you have with drone bombing for example that you would you simply aid and abet those very terrorist organizations that you are trying to. go after in the first place

what is it that makes you concerned with regards to mitt romney's foreign policy plans if anything you know his plans are basically let's increase the military budget you know i mean and. he you know he has a lot of sort of machismo and bravado and he beats the war drum you know he wants to. really flex muscle against iran but you know so too does the obama administration though they're a little bit more they're less warmongering about it but they're basically in agreement about coming down very hard on your iran and holding no options off the table so they they both threaten to use war where we should be using diplomacy we talked about money in politics and everyone knows campaigns are not cheap your position your net worth is probably far from mitt romney's two

hundred million dollars your party is financing a lost cause basically at this stage what is the goal the real goal at this stage in my view to say it's a lost cause is to say that our economy is a lost cause. you know is to say that it's inevitable that we're going to crash and i don't mean to that ok i mean the elections i would agree i mean i think that the the the uphill battle for our election is identical to the uphill battle to rescue our economy we are a real political party you know we're not just you know the store front that looks like it's main street but is actually funded by wall street that's what the other political parties are they they pretend to really have public support but what they really have is the support of the one percent and then they have a propaganda campaign going on and intensive public relations and psychological

warfare that's intended to convince people that they don't have any options doctor saying thank you very much for being here thank you it's great talking with you. nuclear fashionable heights outside. radioactive fallout of all government betrayal of the government. everything lauded and lauded and claude how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was indeed a very great danger to the servicemen concerned who were given no problem. and to the people of this country generally because of the radioactive fallout. of the

secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests exposed. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. which brightened. soon from phones to impressions.

through startup t.v. dot com. top stories this hour naughty diplomats reveal who could replace kofi annan as an international envoy to syria it's full algerian foreign minister locked up rahimi who has personal links to jordan a country used to being involved in smuggling were. used to be syrian rebels. over twenty children forced to live in catechumens in central russia by islamic sects have been sent to orphanages they've spent over ten years in underground souls until being rescued by police. plus egypt briefly reopens its crossing to gaza but only to let palestinians back to the book aided region of gaza remains sealed off from volatile aid groups of the border violence which forced the closure of underground smuggling tunnels. with a new city with more on those stories and fifteen minutes from now in the meantime cage is next with the sports.

and i welcome to the friday times for round up and here are the headlines. golden girls russia wins the team synchronized swimming outing to their gold in the u.s. to continue their twelve years sweep of the in the big event. while making history that value of one of the all the takes told to become russia's first ever and the big women's wrestling champion jamal apostle thought oh no also triumph for them at . this prince can you sign ballgames to follow up he's a victories in the one hundred and two hundred meters with gold in the relay tyson days americans will be hot on his heels. so let's go straight to london where russia change their thirteenth gold medal of the london olympics with a victory in the team synchronized swimming adding to their gold in the u.s.

to continue their twelve year domination in the sport the russians have won every jew at and t. gold since the sydney games in two thousand and scored ninety eight point nine three points out of a possible one hundred in their free routine this result was added to their top scoring routine from the technical round on thursday and that was enough for a big gold china took silver ahead of space. and in the past half an hour three time european champion a pencil done up has claimed russia's a false wrestling gold at the london x. after winning the men's fifty five kilogram freestyle category by beating. of georgia in the final four meanwhile russia have reached the final of the men's volleyball off a four set win over bulgaria the russians looked on course for a comfortable victory before the bold areas rather late in the third set however they really found their form in the fourth and are now guaranteed a silver medal in the final against either olympic assume medalist brazil or italy

however russia have failed to reach the final of the men's basketball after losing sixty seven fifty nine thousand european champions spain david landslide lead by eleven points at the halfway stage but a blistering revival in the third and fourth quarters and sure spain will take on either top sees the usa for argentina in the final that russia will still be hoping to catch the bronze. one of those a russia rose to fourth in the overall medals table as natalia one of your became russia's first ever big women's wrestling champion the twenty one year old to change victory in the seventy two kilogram category after producing the performance of her life to beat the vastly experienced list of probable garia a five time world champion. in the inaugural women's boxing russia claimed two silvers software which you go about was runner up in the lightweight final after losing out by a couple of points to irish arch rival katie taylor who was unbeaten in six years the archie governor arrived home to a champions. it's amazing to come home to such support

i knew there was belief in us even though there are didn't seem to be too many russian supporters in the stands but now we realise a huge amount of support came from all the fans watching us on their t.v. screens were i'm slightly disappointed in the second place but know this we really tried our best for me while the other silver in women's boxing went through and there's that call up over experience russia was our clan. by american clarissa shields who is only seventeen years old but it didn't dampen the mood a polyp of us returned home. from work to go forth i was leaving the plane my legs were shaken from the realize ation that i'm home breathe and in the air which is totally different especially when you couple that with all the warm support words cannot describe this you just have to feel it remember how do you. know every look is a russian rhythmic gymnasts will be returning to the top of the podium they held on to top spot in the group all around standings after the second and final day of chorus line russia have won every single gold in sydney two thousand and four the

champion for seven says the team looks set to repeat this feat. just in the places i'm really pleased with how the girls performed today in their in first place like that they looked really confident out there are no signs of nerves this doesn't happen very often when are competing in the world's biggest event that they they talons are currently in second which is a bit of a surprise for me that i missed so we need only given time that you never know what my happen. and in the meantime kenya's david rudisha made his mark on the london games by setting the first athletics world record of the tournament with victory in the men's eight hundred metres the hot favorite set a blistering pace from the start and went on to become the first athlete to run under one minute forty one with a time of one minute toolchain point nine one seconds the race for sight fast or light finally set personal or season's best times seventeen year old nigel amos of botswana took silver with another kenyan timothy kite i'm competing at the podium.

for you same boss became the first man to retain both sprint titles with victory in a highly anticipated two hundred meters the defending champion won in a time of nineteen point three two seconds while training partner yohan blake took silver twelve hundreds of a second behind and warren witt completed a german. can sweep of the medals however footballs a fifth and pick gold ensures him so much in respect this. is now worth exploring what i came here for to sort of what are in the best comedy legend know i am the grease that lead their boy is that i put myself in. urban a candy bar away in my car john saudi's great at the top for me it's honored to be in that door. and bolt is aiming to complete another olympic travel by guiding jamaica to victory in the four by one hundred meter relay later this friday night but as i'm sure father found that tyson gay hopes the american team can spoil the

party and in a world record time. can produce upsets can the americans upset that you may consider in the relay final i hope so that's to go very positive right now my team is positive and we're definitely for their gold medal and from the times you've been posting at the moment your quartet looks pretty close to the jamaicans here i think thought they would matter pretty evenly would have been everyone to stand by you same boat is a great athlete but comparing legs we matter pretty well and there's a good level in the relay has called the bats and how important all the changes be and could they decide who gets the gold i think so. trying to make it a little bit more conservative and i think this on their base we're going to be a little bit more risky you know because we want to go further for the world record as well you mentioned the same boat what's it like to race against him is it frightening is it or inspiring. to me it is burning a sense that you know i've been a part of history several times running against a guy testing to bring the patent on me so in that case you know steffen are

frightening but you know it's part and i'm interested when you sing against him do you see mitchell in the race or do you have tunnel vision honesty tunnel vision about malema team leaders agassi but i can see him for a more spin the general impression about the london games i mean great you know it's been great. a lot of people home saying they're trying to keep up. they just wanted a little bit of time to publicize that i've been in a lot of great feedback a lot of people have elizabeth and pleased that the weather has been holding up pretty much every bit that's pretty important right because if it's cold it can make a huge difference he might win a race this is very important the sun came out in the morning first the sun came out. the wind was perfect i don't know no one really had a window to race so everyone pretty much achieved a lot of great goes. next year we have the world championships in moscow which is where we're based that is your plan is it's a race that definitely i've never been you know so it's going to be safe for me to

go to russia for the first time and i look forward to it. now into football and alexei on our first cuban's hero as they held on to win two one in the class that abdullahi in a gritty encounter down to tresco is home science took the lead after thirty eight minutes thanks to an own goal by alexander and you see last fairly and with nine minutes to go if you are not at his command second you must as you have pulled it all back but the home side home going to go seventh in the table and six points one place behind their opponents one on thursday so i realise i was struck twice as angie went into the europa league playoffs they too will be taking on dutch side vitesse arnhem the visitors held a two to lead from the home leg that pushed their hopes right for the beginning with at and finally breaking the deadlock just after half time then tommy out of the home side's task worsened when simon's jamo was sent off for a second yellow card and wrapped up victory with a mate penalty for nel on what gets. out after friday's draw energy want to

face another dutch side as that out mark did not get used to fellow moscow side to scott chappell to swedish outfit like song of last year's runners up athletic bilbao host helsinki in seville and take on remaining inside fast flowing five time european champions league before me to hearts newcastle united go to greek side plumy first legs were. take place on the west the twenty set. while in the champions league spot at moscow have been drawn against turkish side level inching not to be too easy and event just go gentle neo-cons a has been banned for ten months after an investigation into match fixing last season the forty three year old former you've a midfielder led to the club to the syria at title without using a single game in his first term in charge he was accused of failing to report alleged match fixing involving his former club sienna in the two thousand and ten to eleven season conte and assistant coach angelo alessio will appeal against the decision. and finally the legendary pele has urged brazil to bring home their first

ever gold off that he received an honorary degree from the university of edinburgh in london widely regarded as the best player of all time the seventy one year old striker lifted three of brazil's record fine twelve cups but at the olympics they've only so far managed to so this thirteen bonus however is show that neymar and coach can break their stuff when they play mexico wembley on saturday. because it is good to. see the best players so i was. the only man who would in the hope to go see the medal. come back to brazil with a good movie and that i think that within it i want to see in brazil. for this friday i have.

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