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next to hear it on say we try to find out why and how that all happened. 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 them happening or to be near where i live but i was not surprised because i mean i 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
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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 new york culture. the kind of explosion of trauma on the streets in 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
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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 all need to eat 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 riots to see criminality but surely they need to take responsibility too isn't this a problem to 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 there from the underclasses who are incredibly bitter about the lack of opportunity and they incredibly ambitious as well are you teach you know and i have talked disaffected
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a native teenagers who are very clever and they realise that you know actually realistically the opportunities there for them are very limited for example and what they're facing so they go to university they're facing the mountains of debt they want to get a 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 said was to blame for all of the 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. 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 and 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
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right what about the education system is it failing mr. narration 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 the 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 lake a manipulator perhaps very easily educated or not though surely these kids should know that violence is not the answer people brought up in
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a context where they have a kind of conscience perhaps wouldn't be doing this with day and it is an analogy and systems i just don't see the little education system can really help contact with if you are 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 or is the 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 always 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
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so much of a poor. 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 actuation of social behavior and causes no mass kind of problems throughout the u.k. every weekend what is it about british society then the with 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 abroad 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
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the deputy prime minister john prescott a few years ago i punch someone in mouth and reined him posting actually was celebrated right you know we have a kind of as a culture and i have to treat a virus we always join in whatever was going on you know we kind of quite an aggressive adversarial culture and that that really influences things as well it permeates into every level of our society you design it can be changed. 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 your purse and talk to these young people about how they felt you know and how humiliated they felt and not really for me it was very convincingly getting young children thinking about other people's feelings
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and developing a conscience ok was that my work in. classroom but how does that transfer on the wide level of society you could argue obviously david ed miliband has said 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 ross connotations of rich and poor richard which have affected things down so there's lots and lots of little things that need to happen and i would really worry that this current government doesn't. 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
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not well governed we again have this adversarial system that hasn't actually served us that well. you 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 fade do you think it will do more harm than good. and we know it won't work 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 a long term level but just buying them up in prison is where 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
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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 a lot of discussion around how parents should be teaching natural trend and you know disciplining law is so much evidence and all my experience as a teacher is that the children by their parents are the ones who are the worst behaved you know and that just doesn't come out in the kind of general conversation it's a sort of knee jerk 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 much more. perhaps he should say
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building relationships within communities very important this is something i've argued with you know quite strongly on the website 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 better fashion francis thanks very much thank you. i'm going to. shape the future. our team takes to the air show. it can hit dr
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swan's policeman swines 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 acts at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are only two options that i saw either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's got it killing me. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event for the planet as time we don't. need spring going
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on for months twenty twenty five years and since it's been moved i could terrorists 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 of 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 who 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 system. sounds. odd. that.
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the headlines on the skies over moscow welcome to the world of aviation schools are the latest jets perform breathtaking stunts of this year's march two thousand and eleven and i'm sure. european markets tumble on news of economic stagnation across the continent seeks to convince an already skeptical germany to shoulder even more of the euros but. a kind of market grew somewhat all trade in india is on the rise of orders accused of colluding with those who are legally preying on poverty stricken people sacrificing about health. ok time for the sports kids now here in the studio. hello welcome to the sports news ahead and crunch night of champions league
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football action and here are the headlines. injury crisis a depleted rubin travel to french side new without key players for the first leg of their champions league playoffs. logline. robin van persie is named captain but is banned for their first leg against a daisy as the gunners adjust to setting skipper fabregas. down in the. forty in the first round of the cincinnati masters on a stunning comeback victory by fit culture. but first a football andra being a french sideline on this tuesday night for the first leg of their champions league play off a place in the lucrative group stages of the competition is at stake but the russian team lost severely depleted through injuries remains argentinian left christian and solve a sidelined loss and says on the bus it's all silent on the field and shelton is thrown off stride defending martin's russian side will also be without their latest sliding you. quite striken also involved as the deal went through
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a couple of days ago but the twenty seven year old will only arrive in time for the second leg next wednesday. well meanwhile some manager arsene wenger has named robin van persie as his new captain following the departure of cessed fabregas to barcelona on monday however the dutch striker along with midfielders i mean our story has been heavily linked with a move to manage the city are both suspended for tuesday's playoff game time to italian side in a.z. although new signing giovino is set for his champions league debut despite all this anger insists life must go 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 job in the club window and virtue what we want to show that we have the strings. and unity to fry deserve we did. well it in a.z.
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who finished fourth last season in syria have also lost three key players during the off season striker alexis sanchez in a and defended christians a passer at the italian side of a poor european record having reached the group stage a once before which was six years ago francesco giddily admits his team are the underdogs and those arsenal will go for the win with or without fabregas. that we know. that but i don't think it will make a lot of difference for us any lineup that arsenal will put out on to the peach will be full of quality there will be some very important players but they still have others who are just as good. may want to over an england sixty two million dollar record signing sergio aguero came off the bench to score twice and set up another on his debut as match the city thrashed one z. for joint top of the premier league rodgers ones in the first well. signed to grace
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the right the nineteen years held off city until the fifty seventh minute and injected finally broke the deadlock moments later i was brought on and the son in law of diego maradona promptly netted the second of three says that it's over six thirty within fourteen minutes and stoppage time the argentina star capped off the night and a fine individual performance based shot some distance to make it four nil city claim to be only a hundred victory for the opening weekend. meanwhile chelsea midfielder john obi mikel has appealed to kidnappers in nigeria to release his father spoke on two issues television and said he knew his father had been abducted before he played in sunday's goal is to stoke the twenty four year old ass but anyone who had any information to come forward. i'm from. you know i've always tried to help the quandary we in every way that i play in for the countries have in the country it never would have i cannot offer the best of the time for the contras were all to
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help me in the situation. so i just i just i'm just going to say where. we were those days emotional please contact me and hopefully will be released. now the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparation for their first ever winter games while their medal hopes of also received a boost as south korean short track speed skating great on young soon has voiced his intention to compete for the host nation in sochi in three years time the triple olympic gold medalist in chewin multiple world champion hopes to acquire a russian passport you know time for the twenty five year old is currently far from his peak form after failing to qualify for the vancouver games last year but it's with his knee injury now probably healed on once so you 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 in there's been an upset at
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the cincinnati masters as fred kohlschreiber fought back from a set and a break down to beat an angry andy roddick in the first round it was originally looking good for the eleven seed who won the first set on a tie breaker and was a break up in the second. but then he lost his form and his temper and the german levelled the match to set all for straighted world through his racket down in disgust and deciding said he was given a point penalty after hitting a ball into the crowd in anger that lost concentration late into kohlschreiber hands it was that the final set six games to one victory. miles where there was no shot. the frenchman getting past ukraine's alexandra straight sets six one seven six. and then david asked to have a similar school on but the trickier tie against brazilian thomas bellucci just fine it served well to take the first set six one but then scratched it the second
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time great wrapping up the match in just under two hours. while a closer contest saw pollute the honor lopez come from a set down to get the better of fellow spanish. in the spirit side except they have to take time waster when it's six four inch place in the second round. and elsewhere seven time for me no one champion michael schumacher has denied room is he's about to retire from the sport for a second time the forty two year old is adamant he'll stay with us ladies denying reports in the italian media that he was considering quitting next season however the german hasn't enjoyed the best of times since his comeback last year in makkah still hasn't finished podium tenth in the dr astounding of almost two hundred two points behind lead us a bastion vettel. despite some funny. rumors and stupid. untruthful stories. i keep repeating myself that you will have to see me to those who drove it
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will likely go a lot likes it but i will be there the good thing is that i have a lot of support from from all over in particular from the company in particular from the t.v. that they will wish me to be there so i wish to do there to look forward to it. now let's finish with football and 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 draw at rubin and clueless about off propping up the rest in spite of a win and class and up so here are all the goals for you to savor it's goals below . live
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