i'm joined by francis gilbert teacher and author he's written a book called the nation and is a frequent commentator on youth culture francis thanks for speaking to r.t. so what was your reaction to the riots and were you surprised i suppose i was shocked when i you know heard of happening or to be near where i live but i was not surprised because i'm our think a lot of commentators have said that this sort of thing. has been waiting to happen for a number of years now why is that. i think it's complicated i mean i suppose you could isolate a few factors firstly we have had a kind of run of disaffected socially disadvantaged young people in our urban areas for. maybe

a couple of decades and they have become more more organized that become. divisions in society go. and they become less fright of the consequences of misbehavior because actually they've been getting away with this sort of behavior for many many years so i think what we're seeing is this sort of culture. the kind of explosion of trial on the streets and the your crucially in my book i define as a theatrical creature someone who. believes he wants the street to become their theater and the whole point of it is the sort of thing that we've seen on t.v. where they're actually parading themselves and their power and smashing things up publicly and this is been a problem in britain for you know a couple of decades so why now why did it suddenly overflow i think. what's

happened is you seen a group a small group of very disaffected alienated people who are on the internet a lot and they are becoming very who's going izing and getting people together in various kind of parts of the country and so the social media played a big role in crudely to get the politicians have been quick to dismiss the rights to see criminality but surely they need to take responsibility too isn't this a province of the society they run i mean i would agree that i mean i think it is quite calm pegs i think that yes there are some very disaffected alienated and quite very clever people out that from the under classes who are incredibly bitter about the lack of opportunity and they're incredibly ambitious as well are you teach you know and i have talked disaffected a united teenagers who are very clever and they realize that you know actually

realistically the opportunity is there for them a very limited for example and what they're facing so they go to university they're faced with mountains of debt they want to get a good job in journalism or law they don't have the parental support the richer people have they don't have the sort of networks that david cameron and his have so was to blame for all of that and thirty forty years ago the vast majority of working class people working factories weren't may now mechanization technology means that what modern western societies are dealing with are large rum people who are not actually needed for work and you have to generate some sort of enterprise culture and that is a real problem for us this net we've got a lot of people on welfare. how do you deal with that obviously you need to. you need to kind of think very seriously about how how you keep those people look all right what about the education system is it failing mr. i actually argued very

forcefully not know that said education isn't everything as i've been hinting at you know once you've got rather highly educated group of people who know that they're not they haven't got huge prospects then you've got perhaps even more of a problem than if they were totally uneducated we also know we have a small minority of very disaffected illiterate poor so the education system has done well and i think it's that mix it's a sort of toxic mix of the bright working class kids and. a group of people a community play perhaps very easily educated or not though surely these kids should know that violence is not the answer people brought up in a context where they have a kind of conscience perhaps wouldn't be doing this with day and it is on the

education systems i just don't see the little education system can really help context with that but if you're dealing with a group of people particularly from kind of fractured families in a growing up in quite a brutalized atmosphere it is a real problem this is a one off for reserve potentially more to come the underlying rumbling kind of disaffection of your brewery that kind of affects all of us in the day to day level i don't think that's going to go away. for many years unless we kind of reorientate to the prospects for a lot of these young people so could this spread to europe do you think i don't know are i personally not i mean i say this in my your nation book. you know french italian cultures so-called have a different kind of attitude to and social behavior and it doesn't seem to be

so much of report. because of the way for example a treat things like alcohol which again we haven't mentioned alcohol in britain plays a huge role in the perpetuation of social behavior and causes no mass kind of problems throughout the u.k. every weekend what is it about british society than the the means your vicious flourishes and has always been the case i mean i argue in the book how to mean our mascot in britain used to be john ball who was this drunk fierce sort of yeoman type character who would bash the foreignness of broad and that was a cruising agent for cologne. and that's that was what two hundred fifty years ago even people like david cameron will members of thing called building society which actually actively encourages young man to get drunk and trashed property. you know the deputy prime minister john prescott

a few years ago i punch someone in the mouth and reined in posting actually was celebrated right you know we have a kind of as a culture an attitude to violence we do is join in whatever was going on you know we kind of quite an aggressive adversarial culture and not that really influences things as well it permeates into every level of our society it is something that can be changed and. i think i do think schools have a role to play and you know i have seen where for example in schools bus drivers have gone into primary schools and spoken to six and seven year olds and showing them c.c.t.v. footage of themselves being stoned by y'all. talk to these young people about how they felt and how humiliated they felt and not really for me it was very convincingly getting young children thinking about other people's feelings and developing

a conscience ok was that my work in. the classroom but how does that transfer on the wider level of society you could argue obviously david ed miliband has said that everyone in the labor party has to read the spirit level which is the seminal book about inequality causing ultimately many of society's ills and yet we have a very unique or cool society which vox hundred three reasons of rich and poor or rich which have affected things no doubt so there's lots and lots of little things that need to happen and i would really worry that this current government doesn't travel costs but you know sorts of nuts and bolts things you know they need to look at how the police are behaving they need to improve perhaps certain things with an underclass in school they need to look at parenting modes we never personally in this country be not well governed and we again have this adversarial system. that

well. constantly have these chopping and changing of policy there's nothing seen through in any kind of long term basis there's no consensus about education health whatever you know it seems that the government's wanting to come down very tough on the court ronson handing out strict punishments and things will sort of do you think will do more harm than good. and we know it well i mean again it's back to a kind of holding the scandinavian model of rehabilitation in finland in sweden in norway is the any serious way that you actually deal with these problems on the long term level but just banging them up in prison in this way which are overcrowded and loonies prisons are prime factors explain. to me sitting right in the english prison to sixty seven percent of these people go into prison they come out and they re offend again the reaction in many parts of the country from

communities. the launch vigilante groups clearly they're angry and they want a heavy handed response is that the answer i don't think the public a very well educated about how. and why children come to do this so for example there's no discussion around how parents should be teaching their children and disciplining law and son much evidence i know my experience as a teacher is that the children by their parents are the ones with the worst behaved . and that just doesn't come out in the kind of general conversation it's a sort of me reaction you know we need to be much tougher and we know it doesn't work in the long run ok so what should we do then if we say see thirteen year old walking down the street so we give him a hug i think again it's so much more. perhaps he should say building relationships within communities very important this is something i've.

you know quite strongly on the web site on my writing you know we have very socially said great to communities and socially segregated schools you know if you do where you have schools where all queen she come together we have communities that actually know each other these sorts of problems are dealt with in a bit of fashion. thanks very much thank you.

dr smile. least months ones minister's wife and i just. if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that it 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 abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's going it killing me. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. it's been going

on for about twenty twenty five years and since it's been moved before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when a nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who are accused of property sabotage and label them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not fair it's real people work green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. sound system. that.

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depleted you are being travel to new york with that key players for that champions league playoffs. while life i'll just say also begin their champions league campaign just twenty four hours after setting skipper fabregas to barcelona. down and out and angry andy roddick crashes out of the first round of the cincinnati masters at the hands of philipp kohlschreiber. but first a football and ring to go to the french side lille this tuesday night for the first leg of their champions league play off place in the lucrative group stages of the competition is at stake but the russian team must really depleted through injuries remains argentinian left back christian and so they is sidelined center back says on the bass is also asked along with me for the rest of the staff and strike up the family mortons the russian side will also be without their latest signing euro quite striking that is the deal went through a couple of days ago the twenty seven year old will only arrive in prison in time for the second leg next wednesday. well the wall still hosting italian side. in

a.z. for the first leg of their playoffs the gunners will be without skipper and star midfielder assess fabregas he completed his move to barcelona on monday and also missing the suspended samir nasri and robin van persie although new signing is set for his champions league debut on meanwhile in a.z. faced fourth in syria last season and will be stirring opponents for us and bangles team but the frenchman assists life goes on after fabregas we do try to keep him but in the end. here is where to respect the desire of the players and this club is hundred twenty five years old. and many big players left a club in the club window and virtue what we want to show that we have the strings and unity to fight as we did. well after two medicals fabric us finally signed a five year contract with barcelona the twenty four year old spent eight years at

arsenal but returns to the team he left as a sixteen year old and could make his debut at the nou camp in the second leg of the spanish super cup against well madrid on wednesday pascoe received a forty nine million dollar transfer fee plus a further eight million dollars depending on the number of games played and trophies one fabregas thanked us and banga for his time and help at the north london club. they spoke to him on friday to say goodbye to be him. as i said before i got very emotional because he's been like a father figure to me and i couldn't even talk at one stage you know when i wanted to hold grateful i was for what he's done for me. i got a little bit emotional and i couldn't talk much so i had to send him a message afterwards you know saying what he's done to me i will never forget it. when i was staying in england at sixty two million dollar record signing sergio aguero came off the bench to score twice and set up another on his debut as match

to city thrash swanzy for the all to go joint top of the premier league prizes ones in the first welsh side to grace the english top flight for nineteen years held off city until the fifty seventh minute and inject a final deadlock moments later where i was brought on and something or of diego maradona probably netted the second force with the setting up of david silva which is third in fourteen minutes and stoppage time the argentina star kept up the night and a fine individual performance today said shot from distance to make it four nil into a city claimed the only home victory of the opening weekend. well meanwhile chelsea midfielder john a recount has appealed to kidnappers in nigeria to release his father spoke on british television and said he knew his father had been adopted because he played against stoke on sunday the twenty four year old asked for anyone who had any information to come forward adding i've always tried to help my country now it's time for my country to help me. now the russian olympic team has received abused

ahead of their first ever home winter games as cyrus korean short track speed skating great arm him soon has watched his intention to compete for the host nation in sochi in three years time the triple olympic gold medalist in children and multiple world champion hopes to acquire a russian passport in october twenty five year old is currently fall from grace peak form up to failing to qualify for the vancouver games last year but with his knee injury now probably hailed on shunsuke could be gunning for more glory with russia after dominating sport a few years ago russia have yet to take a medal in any of the short track events. and it's now and there's been an upset at the cincinnati masters as philipp kohlschreiber fought back from a set and a break down to beat an angry andy roddick in the first round while it was a regime looking good for the eleventh seed in one of the first set on a tie break and was a break up in the second but then he lost his form and his temper and the german level of the match to settle for straight of roddick then threw his racket down we

discussed and in the deciding set he was given a point penalty after hitting a ball into the crowd in anger but loss of concentration played into kohlschreiber hands to close out the final set six games to one victory. well elsewhere there was no shock for twelve. the frenchman got past ukrainians alexander go all in straight sets six one seven six. often under but he did have a tricky time against brazilian thomas village chief but the spaniard served well to take the first set six one and then one second time break the match in just under two hours. while a close a contest to be on a lopez to get the better of fellows planted on carlos ferrero that went to deciding sects will open it a tiny ace when it's six for deflation the second round. while in the women's war

there was a bit of a scare for ninth seed and their pet give it the german had to come from a set down to beat australia to show for leveling a much on a time break and cruising through the deciding set six games to two. as there was no bridge against alexei dutch before number one and revolver which she made light work a contest with the american winning this one six love six to next place the winner of the match to russian at the provo italia about to be cheered. moving on and seven time for me one champion michael schumacher has denied rumors he is about to retire from the sport for a second time the german is adamant he'll stay with miss avies denying reports in the italian media that he was considering quitting next season however the forty two year old doesn't have the best of times since his combat last year he still hasn't finished on the podium and tell the standings past two hundred and two points behind leader sebastian vettel. despite some funny. rumors and stupid.

untrue through stories. i keep repeating myself that you will have to see me in two thousand rove who likes it or not likes it but i will be there the good thing is that i have a lot of support from from all around in particular from the company and pretty in particular from the t.v. that they will wish me to be there so i wish to be there to look forward to it. and it's finished with football and a look back at the weekend's action in the russian premier league it's a case of as you were at both ends of the table with maintaining the lead despite a drawer being clearly a set off propping up the rest in spite of a winning present so here are all the goals fears to savor its goals going to.

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