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and oil the former head of oil giant yukos is already serving eight years for tax evasion and fraud following his arrest in two thousand and three. the spoils of war on show israel and lebanon compete for tourist attention with team parts aimed at selling their side of the story exhibits including weapons tanks and missile launchers but some visitors questioning the morality. president dmitri medvedev calls for a tough crackdown on a racially motivated crime such as the recent riots in central moscow prime minister vladimir putin promises justice for all criminals were darla's have their nationality. next iconic left wing british politician tony benn tells us why he's backing the turbulent student protests even though they've been turning violent stay with us here on r.t. . today i'm talking to the right honorable tony benn one of britain's foremost

socialist and the president of the stop the war coalition tony benn thank you so much for talking to r.t. now you're a big believer in democracy as the means to pos power from what you call the wallet to the ballot what do you think is the state of democracy in the world 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 granddaughters to school in london with seventy six nationalities ways to go to school we 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 they wonder who governs it can be controlled how it could be influenced and so on an area where i'm looking at the government of the village or the country or the. or 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 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 over the government policies in arlon or spain or britain or greece and and i think that issue is going to become a very big one look ahead and how can we post 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. slaveowner fraud being a slave and said who gave him the right to do that to that man and once you are

sequestered who gives him 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 all 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 or 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 to get in with you know there was a very little movement then when they would determine the naked day one 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 peace to 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 your 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. disadvantaged 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 are 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 no. 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 besides 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 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 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 fighting an excuse for reducing it to 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 out of 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 can be applied 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. 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 was a fan. 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 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 and 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 minister 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 sol is what 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. tap our telephone open all 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 that wiki leaks is a very very important event and a very profound one and very relevant to democracy and overstate 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 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 the obvious answer to afghanistan so 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 and 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 call it god just to reveal the way a good program 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. but does it really matter what insiders in the diplomatic corps think about presidents why 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. it can hit doctors one policeman's one minister's wife i just pray. she didn't find me if i could just live through the night. i would get my kids out

of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual. at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw that mostly either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's going to kill it. more news today. again flared up. and these are the images go world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations a room today. in

some beaches she's available in hotels a story and. to kowtow to troops on the soto the true school toto. and see how this. business. for oil tycoon has been found guilty of embezzling billions in cash and oil the former head of oil is already serving eight years for tax evasion and fraud following his arrest in two thousand and three. the spoils of war on a exhibit israel and lebanon compete for tourist attention with theme parks aimed at

selling their side of the story displays including weapons tanks and missile launchers with some visitors questioning the morality of it all. president medvedev calling for a tough crackdown on a racially motivated crime such as the recent riots in central moscow and prime minister putin promises justice for all. of their nationality. stay with us here on our farmers up next with the sports highlights. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. high flying monkey because their incredible december run going in the cage. was. called the national side has learned his lessons from

a disappointing twenty ten. punch 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 win number six this month to make three to me because anyone see seven games in the whole of december. because nets beat a more or defending champions as a goal for two also sell about your life came back from behind and scored for an ounce of gold to be beat by two until this girl got a second win in a row with victory over. god got a good win on the road other 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 breaks to the canadians and then the defeat in the final of the world championships how difficult has it been for you personally is 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 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 attacking hockey and finishing second isn't the worst result in the world 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 to serve as again sometimes it's important to

lose in order to move forward to 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 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 the 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 going volved at the moment at the world junior championships and buffalo you let 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 to grow together 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 or 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 law that will get them ok shell is now in its first season is for the toughest year competition in your opinion at the in tediousness 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. now let's turn to the football when i'm in 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 new castle three one changes parker spurs a fifth after a two one win over villa 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've fallen away i still got a cheer when their 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 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 the night we have mixed feelings because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible and. there 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. and so it's whole room will respond to what happened to us. 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 i'm happy to have the chance to put things right it's important game because. both team are involved in the fight for the title really one would think the team can remain this game will be excited game my things in this period. but i had to play this game because of the team because. we move on after the moment we are able to come back to play or we're foodborne to try to do everything to him in russia welcome back to 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 your human and we sank to the end of the season after guiding the railway

men to fifth spot and the europa league place close in asia and took a spot that now takes the sixth place in the same season and has been casting is i 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 somewhere in force moves so it 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 now the news for my stars of synchronised swimming or putting on a christmas show in moscow the before moments was produced by three time olympic champion maria consuelo over here now hopes it could reach a global audience for me spit back took his seat at the pool side. there will be a few seats now so over the next two weeks and they're in piste swimming pools in

the sky maybe you should always steam has created a unique show huge in reassuringly serious reamers but diverse and. he said over his droid several key provisions of the show are term and six years ago but says she is no happy with this show but it was heated and 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 leader mir meet your fairy tale by a famous writer and streets to understand. and the rest of your former school this show will take off in the capital and plan to spread the show all over russia and then maybe around the world. by 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 pre-race 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 fast yacht will finish in around two days' time the slowest could take up to a week and that is always sport for the mind will have more feel like you're.

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