democracy as the means to pass power from what 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 the younger generation see the world now as just roco village and 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 are talking about organizations like the international monetary fund finally european central bank controls are they are instruments of the international power of capital and they have a huge influence over the government policies you know those pay you know 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 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 one shoe hasta 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 themselves in protest but otherwise you know argument or these are dumond's. 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 vote do good with you know there was a very little movement then women were determined and they can 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 britain in most parts of the world but the right to be educated the right to health. the right to priest is just it's 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 four car 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 is a 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 what's your next step going to be to bring people together. solidarity say that student support pensioners who are finding their pensions are in some disadvantage public servant 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 work and 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 i know. i remember the birth of the welfare state and it came in this way i was in the air force in the was

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 shed this he shed in the one nine hundred thirty s. we had mass unemployment we said we didn'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 first 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 be 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 for it 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 can be applied to countries and cultures across the world in a matter what bad underlying principles are i think what have a country and our lives in the dumond of people to be. and have some control is a natural could demand i heard

a program of trying to gauge the other day. which was about a school in trying where they agreed to elect the school representative and it's as if. 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 represented me 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 of threatened 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 no with the

information of their 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 the next stop the war but it created a pattern of public opinion that compelled governments to train policy and since then have you seen support for what the stop will coalition is doing to minish in any way now i think it i think it built up to the point the maximum point just when we were going to war and now with all the inquiries and thoughts about the war tisn't the most dominant question but i think governments realise that when you do get your campaign of that power against what they're doing they are very vulnerable and wiki leaks and julian are solid what do you think that wiki leaks has done to support your campaign releasing all this information about the iraq and afghan wallace 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're 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 we're colleagues is a very very important event and a very profound one and very relevant to democracy and obviously 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 well i think the question is why should we be it afghanistan or in iraq and that's the question everybody has to answer somebody with a story about a young person an old man said to him are you interested in politics and the boy

said no and so the old man said we'll take an interest in politics before politics actually interested you should be on missions or to afghanistan i think debates about policy are absolutely right and that separate house 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 an antiwar campaign you would support diplomacy by any means as a as a as a first and last resort doesn't this weaken to play misty in the world now i think all it does this reveal the way a good pregnancy is is conducted but you're quite right depression machine 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 in the name but does it really matter what insight is in the diplomatic corps think about presidents why

isn't another sort of temporal tattle well that's cos they put goss if you have to disregard because. the politics of gossip is makes people cynical about testicle 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. culture is that so much i'm afraid we're going to be made into a lot of people a variant of look at us consumption western lifestyles are being adopted globally what would be advent of the global recession will those who were once rich. download the official auntie application to go on the phone on pod touch from the

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wattie goes to the homeland of those with strength of mind and body. to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times and which became a premier destination for nineteenth century political exiles. this is the on screen question close up on oxy. a judge has begun delivering the verdict and the second trial of you know how to coffee the former oil tycoon is currently serving time for tax evasion and money laundering and faces new charges and. millions of americans are struggling to find some christmas cheer this festive season even though jobless benefits have been extended for a further ninety nine weeks and women still proving hard to come by. and tourists are the latest weapons being gauged by israel in lebanon in their bitter rivalry he

says showcasing their side of the propaganda battle with competing theme parks but critics question the morality of displaying the spoils of war. as we have lines here in art's he'll be back at the top of the hour and i'll bring you the sports news with. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. high flying monkey the course keep their incredible december run going in the cage. while he told the national side has learned his lessons from a disappointing twenty ten. munched united people the top spot in england off to victory in the. start though with the kontinental hockey league where informatic make me the gold cup got we're number six this month to make three likely because

only once in seven games in the whole of december. or defending champions as a goal for two also some about your life came back from behind and scored for an ounce of gold to be neat. and to your skull got a second win in a row with victory over. god got a good win on the road with the nominations what the normal got the better of you in overtime. we stay with you because twenty time was a year to forget the russians 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 rich poor feet caught up with a head coach for just because he says the next few years will be a rebuilding process for russian hockey. what'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 feats 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 new 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 but again sometimes it's important to lose in order to move forward barger pretend that you're a little surprised that of course i was surprised that would happen and 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 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 for more and more russian veterans returning to play in a cage 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 bridge 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 who involved at the moment at the world junior championships and buffalo you limit your eye 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 a 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 taught 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 guinea mao can every other players out there are 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 a star is only born when a player is ready to become a star some other to look at them ok shell is now in his first season is this the

toughest year of competition in your opinion at the end 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 to 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 you cassel 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 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 win their back burn involved and got the better of west brom a couple of games were suspended because of the weather evidence game against us called off as black holes this is liverpool. 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 the night we have mixed feelings because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible and. it was not the difference between the teams and so we have a great 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 a whole room will respond to what happened to us. that man united. 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 is important because. both team are involved

in the fight for the title really one i think the team can read this game will be excited game my things in this period. but i have to play this game be gritty because. we move on after the moment real reborn to come back to play a world full blown and to try to do everything to him in russia lokomotiv 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 yuri szymon who was sent to the end of the season after guiding the rail i meant to fifth spot and the europa league place class 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 but cousin john has made it clear he wants to bring in some new

faces. but without question the team needs some way enforcements 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 previously ready for the training camp now the news for my stars of synchronised swimming or putting on a christmas show in moscow the before means was produced by three time olympic champion maria castello over who now hopes it could reach a global audience let me spin back took his seat at the pool side. they will be a few seats mouse over the next two weeks and they're in piskies swimming pools with muddy steam has created a unique show you. see in the swimmers but diverse and outer banks he said over his stride several completions up to short term and six years ago but says she's no happy with these shows but 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 the lead will mirror meet your fairy tale by a famous writer and streets to understand. in the rest of the your former school the show will take off in the capital and plan to spread the show all over russia and maybe around the world. like the mystery 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 price favorite wild oats leading the fleet which makes its way along the new south wales coastal low choppy seas are expected over

the coming days in the bass strait as they try to complete the six hundred twenty eight nautical miles to the fastest yachts will finish in around two days' time the site could take up to a week and that is always support for the mine we'll have more feel like you're. hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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in lebanon as a bitter rivals launch a competing war zone theme parks if you had their points across. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina josh welcome to the program a moscow court has begun delivering its verdict in the second trial cost you the former head of the oil giant yukos is already in prison for tax evasion and money laundering and faces new charges of theft well you know across live to our correspondent is our rivers following became for us today so we know what have we heard so far. the news coming from the courthouse of so far told us that the verdict given to him because with that and his former colleague but the .