you call the wallet to the ballots what do you think is the state of democracy in the well today very imperfect i mean if you look at the world people are beginning to see the world as a single unit i mean my granddaughter's school in london with seventy six nationalities ways to go to school like addressing the general assembly of the united nations and i think that younger generations see the world now as just roco village and they wonder who governs it can be controlled how it could be influenced and so on and area one looking at the government of the village or the country all. over the world it down to us to sort of what power do we have over the people who pass the laws and with the power of big business which is now enormous across the world many big decisions are made by people we didn't elect cannot remove who do not have to listen to us so it's

a very very big issue i think and you're talking about organizations like the international monetary fund from the european central bank consoles are they are instruments of the international power of capital and they have a huge influence serving the government policies you know those paid over britain or greece and and i think that issue is going to become a very big one look ahead and how can we pass the power from the wallet to the ballot as well historically it's been done by people who campaigned for it i mean slavery was abolished because people looked at the slave owner for all being a slave and said who gave him the right to do that to that man and once you arse the question who gives them the right to do that then you've opened up a debate about democracy and is that what we're seeing happening now with these protests on the streets of europe well i think all demands by. people to be heard.

sometimes expression observes in protest but otherwise you know argument or these are demands. central to the future advance of mankind and how has that happened do you think that we have gone from being a fairly politically apathetic population particularly in the u.k. to turning out on the streets in huge numbers and shouting about how government well if you look at it historically history is a good guide because if you don't know where you came from you don't know where you are or great trade deals have been made by exactly the same type of political campaigning how do women get the do good with you know there was a very little movement then when they would determine the naked pay did they were and how did men get the vote in britain to trade unions get recognised how did slavery and there are moments in history when people look around and say we are being controlled by those who don't have to listen to us we've got to change it but

do you support these people who are coming out to protest sometimes in quite a violent and destructive way i very strongly support it because the right to education is a basic human right i mean we now have accepted in britain in most parts of the world the right to be educated the right to health. the right to police justice are human rights and if you take some of the way they're doing with the university training you have to pay to go then you are taking away people's rights and influencing the future of the country we seem to be saying somewhat of a hiatus in the process and maybe with christmas in the new year coming up what do you think is going to happen once people recover from that new year stupor and realize what's going on well i mean i'm not a forecast journalist for cross the world i try to influence the time involved in the campaign against the cuts and i believe it will build up and build up because i think it. threatening the whole nature of our society and so i would expect it

would have very very profound political effects in the future and as a campaign of what's your next step going to be to bring people together. solidarity says that students support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantaged public service support benefits are being cut to the thing becomes a very very powerful political movement for justice and once that happens governments have to listen you're huge supporter of free health care for all and of the welfare state in general we've got figures from the department of welcome pensions that say one point six million working age people in britain have never held down a job do you think the welfare state gone too far you know. i remember the birth of the welfare state and it came in this way i was in the air force in the war as a pilot and i learned to ride africa and the nine hundred forty three i went out in

a troop ship and we had thousands of young people. and which i did have a meeting on war aims and one young man i wish i knew his name but i didn't said this he shed in the one nine hundred thirty s. we had mass unemployment be said we don't have unemployment in wartime he said if you could have full employment killing germans why can't you have full employment building hospitals recruiting doctors recruiting nurses building schools building and that was how we got there were fair state we decided in one thousand nine hundred five to apply the same determination to meet the needs of peace that we had throughout the war applied to beat the needs of war and i think it wasn't an ideological so much of a practical solution and a very incomplete and the conservatives in britain never really liked it and the cuts now are a way of finding an excuse for reducing it have it not created a sort of underclass of people who aren't motivated to get

a job because they can live fairly comfortably on money from the government i think so i mean there are people who are homeless and there are people who are not employed and working class people are at the mercy of those who have the money to employ them and if you can keep a lot of people unemployed that is a threat to those that work because people say to themselves oh well if i don't accept low wages my job will go to somebody else i don't accept that argument and let's go back to democracy more generally do you see it as a panacea that cumbia plights to countries and cultures across the world name matter what that underlying principles are i think whatever country anyone lives in the dumond of people to be. and have some control is a natural could. bond i heard a program of trying to change the other day which was about a school in trying where they agreed to elect the school representative and it was

a. sedating program because you realize that in that chinese school all the characteristics that we associate with voting in britain were taking place and then one day you know children will say well if we could choose our school represent the when we were young why should we have a role in deciding the government and i think these things happen but. in order for them to develop you can't have a threatened society because i threaten society will repress domestic dissent because they feel it weakens them and we went to war in iraq ostensibly in the name of democracy but that's obviously not something that you support no i didn't think we did we went to war in support of oil interests and we use arguments governments use arguments to justify what they do and then everyone has the right now with the information of the disposal to question these arguments and say are they valid or

not and if they are not valid why we're doing it and to stop the war movement. built up the biggest political campaign in britain in history of two million people out in london did next stop the war but it created a. pattern of public opinion that compelled governments to train their policy and since then have you seen support for what the stop will coalition is doing to minissha anyway no i think it i think it built up to the point the maximum point just when we were going to war and now we will be in crowds and thoughts about the war tisn't the most dominant question but i think governments realise that when you do get a campaign of that power against what they're doing they are very vulnerable and wiki leaks and julian ourselves what do you think that wiki leaks has done to support your campaign releasing all this information about the iraq and afghan wars well my opinion is the information is itself a very very powerful weapon in general governments want to know everything they can

about us they want to tap our telephone open our letters to find out what we are doing and don't want us to know anything about them and so when all this information is circulating between ambassadors and diplomats without knowing about it we could buy it when we know we're able to put questions and so on and i think with colleagues is a very very important event and a very profound one and very relevant to democracy and oversee the opposition to wiki leaks is saying that it puts the soldiers and those who are collaborating with the u.s. and british armies in afghanistan in danger what do you think about that as well i think the question is why should we be it afghanistan or iraq and that's the question everybody has to answer. somebody's story about a young person an old man said to him oh you would stick in politics and the boys

said no and so the old man said we'll take an interest in politics before politics actually interested you should be on this n.g. to afghanistan sure i think debates about policy are absolutely right and let's separate out if we can for a moment the information about the iraq and afghan wars that we got from wiki leaks and then this latest u.s. diplomatic cables that have been released i would have thought that as. the war campaign you would support diplomacy by any means as a last resort doesn't this weaken to play misty in the world no i think all it does is to reveal the way a good program sees is conducted but you're quite right diplomacy is the alternative to war and therefore if you can get diplomatic contacts going so much the better but people are entitled to know what is being done. but does it really matter what insight is in the diplomatic corps think about presidents why isn't

another sort of tattle tattle well that's gossip and go see if you have to disregard because the politics of gossip is makes people cynical about testi of that since that happens you must know it happens because it helps you to understand better what is really going on among powerful people tony bennett thank you very much. if. he'd. see the. same. subsists.

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a propaganda battle competing scene but critics question the morality of displaying the spoils of war. those are the allies here at he'll be back at the top of the hour in the meantime to bring you the latest from the world of sports. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. high flying monkey because they're incredible december run going in the cage. while you're going to be told the national side has learned his lessons from a disappointing twenty ten. munched united people the top spot in england after victory over something the. start though with the kontinental hockey league were informed that they make need to win number six this month to make three to me because i lost anyone since seven games in the whole of december. because nets beat

a more or two defending champions as a goal for to also sell about your life came back from behind and scored four nonstick goals to be released. into your skull got a second win in a row with victory over. god got a good win on the road than on the men's what they normally got the better of you in overtime. to stay with you because twenty ten was a year to forget for russia's national hockey team there was the shock seven three defeat to canada at the olympics while a star studded lineup failed to bring home gold at the world championships richard found poor feet caught up with the head coach for just because he says the next few years will be a rebuilding process for russian hockey. it's been a very difficult year for the russian national team the loss in the quarter finals a billion bucks to the canadians and the feat in the final of the world championships how difficult has it been for you personally this by the way it is

difficult not to lose not just in sport but as a rule in life in general good of the most important thing is to make the right moves and to pick your head up and start moving forward again it's a necessary fact of life that in order to improve one must also experience what it's like to lose of course the defeat to canada in the olympics was difficult to swallow not just for us but also the team's fans and the country as a whole at the world championships we tried to play more attacking hockey and finishing second isn't the worst result in the world and you always want to finish first but that isn't always possible as at the moment there are five or six teams who also want to win gold and count do so as again sometimes it's important to lose in order to move forward. are you a little surprised that of course i was surprised that what happened i would never have expected us to lose seven three in a quarter final against canada when you're in a situation like this when you go behind quickly it's very important to make quick

decisions to try and turn the game back in your favor when things are going against to you one must never start to show their emotions it's imperative to stay calm to try and give yourself a chance but unfortunately this didn't happen and psychologically we weren't able to compete with the canadians more and more russian veterans are returning to play in a cage shell mad from the n.h.l. does this mean it's much harder for russian youngsters to break into the national team is one of them on the list as the rich trying to build a national team around the best russian players whether they're old or young or that there are two or three youngsters going volved at the moment at the world junior championships and buffalo you let your i will be interested in having a look at once they get back and call them out to the national school. on the other hand these veterans can give these russian youngsters a wealth of experience great togetherness to play alongside experienced and talented players is an invaluable source of support as they're able to teach

youngsters so much about the game both on and off the ice after returning to play in russia i think these veterans understand that it's part of their job to try and teach the new generation of just like how they were told by more experienced players when they were starting out their careers process has been a long time since russia's produced a player of the caliber of alexander ovechkin or and gainey mao can already have a players out there of the moments who could perhaps become as good as one of these three players which i mentioned last year is that we do have some talented young players the most important thing is that they want to become stars and if they are prepared to put in the necessary work in order to achieve this they've got everything at their feet in order to reach the same sort of level of the three players you've mentioned everything is in their hands the story is only born when a player is ready to become a star and it's a mother to look at them ok shell is now in its first season is this the toughest year of competition in your opinion at the in tediously so it's

a very interesting season as i'd say the gap between the clubs is closing i think this shows that the league is growing in stature and the teams in the cage are developing and it's getting tougher and tougher to win the going cup figure ever so much for your time. let's turn to the football when manchin ited states top of the english premier league after two you know when i was sunderland berbatov scoring twice at old trafford to ensure they stay two points clear vive of manchester city . scored twice for them as they beat new castle three one is part of spurs a fit after a two one win over villa despite having to face off in the first half with both goals for tottenham boss meanwhile the top of the table after they lost to wigan and west ham they've fallen away i still got a two year when their bernabe often got the better of west brom a couple of games were suspended because of the weather evidence against them in this called off as black hole versus liverpool now that win by united puts the pressure on arsenal to get a result against chelsea on monday at the emirates the gunners are five points off

the top and have had poor results against their rivals recently but are itching to beat the blues to the first time since two thousand and eight we have mixed feelings because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible and. that was not the difference between the teams and so we have a good opportunity to show got in the coming months and sure is where i believe our room for improvement is bigger than any of the team because we are very young side and so it's whole room will respond to what happened to us. that man united well chelsea meanwhile are trying to get back to winning ways they've drawn their last three games in a slip to fourth spot but are happy to have the chance to put things right it's important game because. both team are involved

in the fight for the title everyone i think the team can read this game will be excited game my things in this period. but i happy to play this game because between that. we move on after the moment we are able to come back to play a world food ball and to try to do everything to him in russia welcome back to moscow have started their pre-season early this year with a new coach who are recursion ajahn saying reinforcements are needed for their next campaign he replaces your the shoeman and he sank to the end of the season after guiding the rabbi meant to fifth spot and the europa league place close in asia and took spot it now takes the sixth place in the same season and has been casting is eye over his new squad most of the foreign stars including first choice striking to me was absent cousin john has made it clear he wants to bring in some new faces.

but without question the team needs some reinforcements so you can come from the outside as well as from the inside and the internal structure is the main thing we're focused on right now as well as getting players physically ready for the training camp. another news for my stars of synchronised swimming or putting on a christmas show in moscow it before means was produced by three time olympic champion maria consuelo over who now hopes it could reach a global audience let me speak about took his seat at the pool side. there will be a few seats now so over the next two weeks that they're in piskies swimming pools when the school committee to see all the steam has created a unique show huge in reassuringly serious reamers but diverse and. d.c. over his droid several completions up to short term and six years ago but says she's no happy with this show but it was easy to learn if the kids love down

performance then we're happy if we manage to keep their attention throughout the show and they love this place delightful then we've achieved some success. the main star of the spectacle is another limbic champion group israel and she plays leader mir meet you fairy tale by a famous writer and streets to understand. and the rest of the your former school this show will take off in the capital and plan to spread the show all over russia and media around the world. like the rest of our party. christmas stand under is a bit warmer than in moscow and there's been plenty of color that day with the sixty six sydney to hobart yacht race getting underway eighty seven yachts headed out to sydney harbor with the pre-race favorite wild oats leading the fleet which makes its way along the new south wales coast low choppy seas are expected over the coming days in the bass strait as they try to complete the six hundred twenty eight

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in lebanon as the better rivals launch competing war zone scene parts to get their points across. you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow now to the russian capital hi marina joshie welcome to the program a moscow court is expected to start delivering its verdict in the second trial of meal how to the former head of the oil giant yukos is in prison for tax evasion and money laundering and faces new charges of theft or you know across like the response from his arbiters following this today for us because you know we understand the judge is already in the courtroom so why does he do to give the decision. that the judge is due to start reading the verdict in just an hour time that's ten am moscow.