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thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. these are your headlines the release from. the already jailed for more oil tycoon found guilty of embezzling billions in cash and the former head of oil giant yukos has already serving eight years for tax evasion and fraud following his two thousand and three arrest. the spoils of war on display israel in lebanon competing for a tourist attention with theme parks aimed at selling their side of the story exhibits include weapons tanks and missile launchers with some visitors questioning the morality of it all. and a tough crackdown on a racially motivated crime and justice for all criminals regardless of nationality the kremlin make strong promises in response to a number of incidents of ethnically linked violence. up 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 the interviews coming your way next. 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 ben 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 granddaughter's school in london with seventy six nationalities going 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 all. over the world you 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 are talking about organizations like the international monetary fund from the european central bank controls or they are instruments of the international power of capital and they have a few in for themselves of the government policies you know those 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 pass the power from the wallet to the ballot well historically it's been done by people who campaigned for it and then

the slavery was abolished because people looked. a slave owner for all being a slave and said who gave him the right to do that to that man and once you are still question who gives him the right to do that then you have 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 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 i did women get the vote to get with you know there was a very little movement then women would determine your name paid today 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 britain in most parts of the world the right to be educated the right and. the right it's just it's our rights and if you take some of the way they're doing the university training you have to pay to go then you are taking away people's rights and you through and see

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 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 of what's your next step going to be to bring people together. solidarity say that students support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantaged public servant support range who benefits of being up to the thing becomes a very very powerful political movement for addresses 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 you 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 said this he shed in the one nine hundred thirty s. we had mass unemployment we 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 first state we decided in one nine hundred forty

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 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 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 what have a country and our lives in the dumond of people to be. and have some control is a natural could. 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 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 were towards 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 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 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 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 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 or 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 our knowing about it we could buy it when we know we're able to put questions and so on and i think that with 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're take an interest in politics before politics actually interested you should be on missions or to afghanistan sure 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 that as an antiwar campaign you would support diplomacy by any means as a last resort doesn't this weaken diplomacy in the world now 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 and. 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. politics of gossipers 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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embezzling billions in cash and crude 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 display israel and lebanon compete for tourist attention with the theme parks aimed at selling their side of the story exhibits include weapons tanks and missile launchers with some visitors questioning the morality. crackdown on a racially motivated crimes and justice for all criminals regardless of nationality the kremlin make strong promises in response to a number of incidents of ethnically linked violence. stay with us here on our t.k. partridges up with the sports your way next.

time. in a. disappointing twenty. and up against the. chelsea go to austin to talk for fashion here this premier league. start with ice hockey and in the continental hockey league leaders magnitogorsk have continued their strong vein of form after claiming win number six this month maybe the fifty make every two years ago and have now lost only once in seven games in all of december elsewhere that's a look now because that's a more for to defending champions at the basque extract also fourteen some about to live tame from behind to the club after the least five to take skull recorded their second win in a row this week three hundred bodies have been gassed have a good win on the right at the moment hard to really get the better of you grasp it

over time. meanwhile twenty ten was a year to forget for russia's national ice 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 which i found poor feet caught up with head coach greg gist of big off who 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 lost in the quarter finals a billion bucks to the canadiens amend defeats in the final of the world championships how difficult has it been viewed personally but. it's difficult not to lose not just in sport but as a rule in life in general that the most important thing is to make the roi groups 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 at 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 again sometimes it's important to lose in order to move forward to give 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 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 a national team. 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 who are involved at the moment at the world junior championships in buffalo who 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. to play alongside experienced and talented players is an invaluable source of support as they are 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. guinea malkin every other players

out there of the moment you 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're 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 but occasional is now in its first season is for the toughest year competition in your opinion. 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 care channel are developing and it's getting tougher and tougher to win the get go in cup figure ever so much for your time so bornand in english premier league third place arsenal will host fourth place chelsea this monday night the gunners are itching to beat the blues in the league for the first time in two years and now the gap to leaders

manchester united to two points we have mixed feelings because we came out of boys games against. man united that 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 other team because we are very young side and so it's how we were respond to what happened to us at the end in man united. i mean while chelsea are aiming to get back to winning ways the bears have slipped from a five point lead at the top to fourth after losing to the enjoying three of their last five games but their relishing the chance to put their campaign back on track as important game obviously because. both team are

involving in the fight for the title everyone i think that team can win this game will be excited game my things in this period. but the i.r.b. to play this game because of a thing that. we move on after the moment we are able to come back to play a war football and to try to do everything to him. meanwhile on sunday meant united remain top of the table after winning two nil is home to sunderland to reach all the top score to the top to ensure united remain two points clear of rivals manchester city who won three one of the a castle cost has also netted traffic as it rafael van der vaart a ten man tottenham stayed fit with a two one win at aston villa despite having jermain defoe sent off after twenty seven minutes also kept up the pressure in sixth as they want to know the time to west brom also ran out to know that discipline but called them cold metal twice as

west town moved off the bottom of the table with a three one win in the london fallen and was dropped to the bottom after they lost two one at home in the basement battle with wigan everton against birmingham and blackpool versus medical were postponed. but every russia much of moscow have started their pre-season early this year with new coach saying reinforcements are needed for the next campaign the forty seven year old replaces u.t.c. i mean he was sacked at the end of the season after guiding the railway men to fist bump and you wait for the place. to spot at no six place in the last campaign has been cast in his own mind over his new squad most of the foreign stone was intriguing to strike at them to secure for absent because it's made it clear he wants to bring in some new faces. without question did you meet somewhere in force they can come from the outside as well as from the inside and the internal structure is the main care we're focused on right now as well as good physically

ready for the training camp. that in the n.b.a. the new orleans hornets of claim there for success is home when after coming back to beat atlanta ninety three eighty six the hosts were nine points behind the excess of time but the third quarter was the turning point if you want back to. it's called our opponents by twelve points chris paul was most instrumental from new orleans who scored twenty two points thirteen of them in the pivotal third period until they slapped with a foul tonight sixty six sixty to see the hornets and they held on to their advantage throughout the final farias for them to run and ninety three eighty six victims were going to wait for us now some former stars of synchronized swimming have been putting on a christmas show here in the spectacle was produced by three time olympic champion lydia case and yoga who hopes the production could reach a global audience but the rest of that reports. they will be a few seats mouse over the next two weeks that they're in piskies swimming pool in

moscow and the steam has created a unique show you. may see in the swimmers but diverse and outer banks if you know about his droid several educations up to her time and six years ago but says she is no happy with this show but i would say to them 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 chamber in israel and she plays the leader mir meet the 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. live on our team. and finally there's some good news for russia off the sports

minister vitaly mutko announced that around one point four billion u.s. dollars would be spent on sport in the country next year. and the state budget for twenty eleven forty three billion rubles will be spent on sports in general of course tobacco which will be so bad. professional sport but almost a third of that money will be spent to lambert's a sport right now we have around twenty five million people who do sports on a regular basis and main goal is to increase this figure to twenty eight million. this and that will be back with another update in just under two hours time please join me then. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.