brian becker talking to me a little earlier u.s. charges casting doubt on charges against alleged russian gun run a victim boot calling the prosecutor's evidence against him phin boots accused of smuggling arms to colombian rebels seen by the u.s. as terrorists and is currently awaiting trial in the new york jail his lawyers also just to dismiss the charges claiming they don't prove new the arms will be used against america big to boot was extradited the u.s. from thailand last year where he's arrested in an american sting operation in march two thousand and eight. well let's bring up to date on some of the other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day the alarms being sounded by the i.m.f. that the world economy now faces increased risks is debt ridden european countries and the u.s. are playing with fire unless it make immediate moves to cut their deficits making it worse is america's internal wrangling over raising the national debt ceiling and others say that even if the country only technically defaul

after this last day of anguish that we saw over the weekend i want to thank you so much that was brian becker national coordinator of the answer coalition and that does appear now from one of the stories we covered at r.t. dot com slash usa check out our you tube page youtube dot com slash arts america don't forget to weigh in on that g twenty story we want your comments also follow me on twitter at lauren lyster i am back in the saddle after being off on vacation for a week and i will be right back here with more news in what half hour. or so is that so much. of it we'll. be in a meeting with the greek government surveillance of the company as its core issue or deal continues unabated. the way. the. h.l. market here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. oh. oh. oh. to. far as in the band i once went into cairo to collect trash i realized everyone was well dressed i wasn't so what i was a bit upset. even by that i left them off this city has three social classes will follow all the upper class more thought and middle class. then there's a nothing class. th

the regime of president assad if it's deadly crackdown on demonstrations but antiwar activist brian becker says the sanctions are the first step towards why did intervention the e.u. if it adopts these new sanctions the third wave of sanctions there incrementally ask a lady in the u.s. and western european intervention into syria i think that we're going down the road as we when libya where one step leads to another step there climbing the escalation ladder they have a very sort of selective concern for the lives of protesters and democracy movements or movements that call themselves democracy movements you take bahrain they're they're they're condoning the crackdown on peaceful protesters i think what's really happening is that syria syria has been targeted by the united states and also in principle lead by. france and the u.k. for regime change and i think they see this growing protest movement and the possible slippage of the country in the direction of civil war as an opportunity to overthrow what has been considered to be independent government in syria. at least expert and blogger ca

and britain have not ruled out possible intervention and to have more activist brian becker told us that military action in syria would be devastating wiping out the chances of a peaceful conclusion. the assad government is seeking to find a resolution to the political crisis inside of syria and i think that this upset some of the by those who seek to destabilize syria even further who seek to carry out regime change in syria from the point of view of the united states the argument will be made that the economic sanctions the pressure imposed by the west by the united states in particular are causing the assad government to bend and so the conclusion this summary that will be drawn from it is instead of releasing pressure on syria that there should be more pressure not less pressure so i don't think syria can really do anything under these circumstances to satisfy the united states the united states wants to put economic sanctions in use leverage against syria for its own purposes a military court in warsaw has cleared seven nato soldiers of an attack on an afghan village which killed se

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had an unfair trial and deserves clemency now earlier i spoke with one of called here supporters brian becker he's national coordinator of the answer coalition and he has organized protests on peltier's behalf i asked him first you know peltier is in his sixty's he served more than three decades in prison he's had a stroke he has diabetes he's partially blind on humanitarian grounds as so many of his rips supporters call for what is wrong with clemency here's what he said. there's nothing wrong with clemency leonard peltier should not be in prison he should have never been in prison he's the victim of an f.b.i. witch hunt the frame of the individual who has been held culpable for what was a conflict a very deep rooted conflict between the native american communities in that part of the country and the f.b.i. which was conducting the cointelpro when the counterintelligence program designed to destroy the american indian movement which like black panther party which champion rights for black people they were chanting the rights of indigenous people native people and of course on a humanitarian