local village and wonder who governs it can be controlled how it could be influenced and so on an area we're looking at the. government of the village or the country all. over the world it bound to our sense of what power do we have over the people who pass the laws and with the power of big business which is now enormous going across the world many big decisions are made by people we didn't elect cannot remove and 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 or from the european central bank consoles or they are instruments of the international power of capital and they have a huge influence over 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 pulse 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 are sequestered who gives them the right to do that then you've opened up a debate about democracy i mean 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 demands are 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 you get when you know there was a very little movement then women 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 and 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 it in britain in most parts of the world but the right to be educated the right to health. the right to peace justice our 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 students support pensioners who are finding their pensions are in some disadvantage public servant support benefits of 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 no. 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 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 shed in the one nine hundred thirty s. we had mass unemployment be said we did 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

homes and that was how we got there were fair state we decided in one nine hundred forty five to pry 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 don't 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 so 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 underlying principles are i think we're have a country and our lives in the dumond of people to be. and have some control of the natural couldn't. i heard a program of trying to the other day. which was about a school in trying where they agreed to elect the school representative and it was a fascinating 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 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 a 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 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 the 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 minish in any way now i think 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 realize that when you do get your 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 or 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 that 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 takes an interest in you should be on the stranger to afghanistan i think debates about policy are absolutely right and let's 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 as an antiwar. pena

you would support diplomacy by any means as a as a as a first and last resort doesn't this weekend to play misty in the wild no i think all it does is to reveal the way good pregnancies is conducted but you're quite right to privacy 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 insiders 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 testing all 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.

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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. punched united people the top spot in england after victory in the. start though with the kontinental hockey league were informed that they make need to go when number six this month to make three to me because i've now lost only once in seven games in the whole of december. because nets beat a more or defending champions. goal or to also sell about your life came back from behind and scored for an ounce of gold to be released by two and two your skull got a second win in a row with victory over. god got

a good win on the road with the nominations what anomaly got the better of you in overtime. we stay with the ice hockey 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 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 of a quarter finals a billion breaks 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 the world championships we tried to play more taking 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 barger pretend that 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 here 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 the cage salamat from the n.h.l. does this mean it's much harder for russian youngsters to break into the national team as one of them on the list is returning 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 are a few 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 with me 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 gainey 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 years. 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 and it's a mother to look at them ok shell is now in its first season is just 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 you figure ever so much for your time. now let's turn to the football when i did stay top of

the english premier league after two know when i was sunderland berbatov scoring twice at old trafford to ensure they stay two points to a revival of manchester city. scored twice for them as they beat you castile three one changes part of spurs a fifth after a two one win over village despite having to face off in the first half with both goal for tottenham boss meanwhile the top of the table after they lost to wigan and west ham they'd fallen away i still got a two year when their burn involved and got the better of west brom a couple of games were suspended because of the weather evidence game against was called off as black holes vs 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. that was not the difference between the teams and so we have a good opportunity to show that in the coming months and to show as well 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. 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 would think the team can read this game will be excited game my things in this period. but i had to play

this game because. we move on after the moment we are able to come back to play a war football and to try to do or think to him in russia lokomotiv moscow have started their pre-season early this year with new coach who are recursion ajahn saying reinforcements are needed for their next campaign he replaces euro the szymon who was sent to the end of the season after guiding the rabbi meant to fifth spot and the europa league place class and took spot that now takes in sixth place in the same season and has been casting its i over his new squad most of the foreign stars including first choice striking to me saw a child was absent but cousin john has made it clear he wants to bring in some new faces. when without question the team needs somebody enforcements so you can come from the outside as well as from the insurgency 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 once 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. they will be a few seats mouse over the next two weeks and they're in piskies swimming pools with the mighty steam has created a unique show you. see in the swimmers but diverse and. he should know about his droid several completions up to your time and six years ago but says she is no happy with this show but if the kids love their own 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 israel and she plays the leader mir meet your fairy tale by a famous writer and streets to understand. and the rest of the former school the

show will take off in the capital and plan to spread the show all over russia let me be 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 north. the fastest yacht will finish in around two days' time the site could take up to a week and that is always support for the mine will have more feet like your fish.

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a hotel in thailand to eat london hotel to an ambassador type b. hoto full points and how would prince or to the splendid hotel in touch with a hotel in touch with the photo of a good girl how an international house flood to change every green lol he told. former oil tycoon to ask is found guilty of embezzling oil and cash at his second trial. russia's once richest man faces a number of more years behind bars i'm kathleen as are the outside the courthouse with the details in just a few moments. merry christmas you're fired now job and no joy for millions of americans this festive season while the bankers regular benefits and splash out on lavish parties. and why tourists are the latest weapons being engaged by

israel and lebanon as a bitter rivals launching completing a war zone team to get their points across. it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with marina joshua welcome to the program and to our breaking news first former tycoon meal how to kosky has been found guilty of stealing oil and laundering the proceeds it's not the verdicts being delivered during his second trial in moscow former out of the oil giant you cos is already in prison for tax evasion and fraud because you as are his outside court for our t.v. and get the latest what exactly have we heard so far katrina. rita we know that the verdict is still being read the process started earlier.