in england took a dog turn recently with riots and looting flaring up next tries to find out why it 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 in the 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 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 across hevia 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 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 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 much tonight seeing 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 that from the underclasses who are incredibly bitter about the lack of opportunity and the incredibly ambitious as well are you teach

you know and i have talked to 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 facing the 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 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 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 the snip 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 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 the highly educated group of people who know that they're not there haven't got huge prospects then you've got 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 are brought up in

a context where they have a kind of conscience perhaps wouldn't be doing this with day and it isn't the education systems i do something a little education system can really help contact with if you're dealing with a group of people particularly from kind of fractured families in and growing up in quite a brutalized atmosphere it is a real problem this is a one off for reserve potentially more to come but the underlying rumbling kind of disaffection of your bery 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 you could to 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 culture has 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 anti-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 drunken fierce sort of yeoman type character who would bash the foreignness abroad and that was a cruising agent for this and that's that was what two hundred fifty years ago even people like david cameron were members of the 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 mouth and reined him posting actually was celebrated you know we have a kind of as a culture and i have to treat a virus we've always joy in the more they have wars going on you know we kind of quite an aggressive adversarial culture and not. 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 changing c.c.t.v. footage of themselves being stoned by your purse and 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. 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 cool society which cross-country divisions 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 it will cost but. no 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 within underclass in school they need to look at parenting moves we never personally in

this country be not well governed and 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 effect 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 mooney's 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 a lot of discussion around how parents should be teaching their children and you know disciplining more 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 and 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 well i think again it's much more. perhaps he should say

building relationships within communities very important this is something i've with 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. where you have schools where all community come together we have communities that actually know each other these sorts of problems are dealt with in a bit better fashion. thanks very much thank you. reviewed the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future covered. it can hear dr swan policemen's one ministers one

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top stories this hour and all to france and germany proposed a single collected. eurozone economic government led by the e.u. president to steer the block out of its troubles would have the power to overrule any local government decision. the skies over moscow welcome the world of aviation the scores of the latest jets performed breathtaking stunts at this year's max two thousand and eleven air show. in a market in bodies a gruesome trade in india is on the rise with authorities accused of colluding with those illegally preying on poverty stricken people sacrificing their health for. their top stories more on those a little later in fifteen minutes and in the meantime sport is next with kate. hello welcome to the sports news on this keen night of champions league football

action and headlines. injury crisis a depleted rubin travels in french slimy all without key players for the first leg of their champions league playoffs. life after cesspools robin van persie is named captain down for their first leg against it in a.z. as the gunners adjust to get selling skipper fabregas. understand that angry andy roddick crushes ash in the first round of the cincinnati masters a stunning comeback victory philipp kohlschreiber. but first of all andrew being because i'm go to a french side 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 are severely depleted through injuries remains argentinian left back kristen and sally is sidelined waltz into boxes of us is also massed along with midfield appeal to his throw off and striker over seventy martins the russians are also believe that their latest signing uruguay striker nelson valdes the deal went

through a couple of days ago but the twenty seven year old will only arrive in time for the second leg next wednesday well meanwhile arsenal manager arsene wenger has named robin van persie as his new captain following the departure of said fabregas to barcelona on monday however the dutch striker along with midfielder samir nasri who's been heavily linked with a move to match the city are both suspended for tuesday's playoff game at home to italian cited an easy although new signing joe being young is set for his champions league debut despite a three match domestic ban for the red card of his debut at newcastle on saturday but regardless of all this get insists life must go on after fabregas. me to try to keep. but indeed. and. 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 what we want to show that we have the strings and

unity to fight is we did. well it in a.z. who finished fourth last season in syria and have also lost three key players during the off season striker alexis sanchez midfielder got in a defender christians a passer and the italian side have a poor european record having reached the group stage only once before which was six years ago francesca gave the in admits his team are the underdogs and i was asked not will they 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 into the peach will be full of quality so there will be some very important players but they still have others who are just as good. as. me while ironing and sixty two million dollar record signing said year ago at all came off the bench to score twice and set up another on his debut as match the city thrashed one z.

for neil to go joint top of the premier league provided swanzy the first well side to grace the english top flight the nineteen years of city until the fifty seven minutes we had injected finally broke the deadlock and i was like that i go where i was brought on and the son in law of diego maradona promptly netted the second before swiftly setting up debates over the city's thirty to forty minutes in stoppage time the argentina star capped off the night was fine individual performance in the face of shot from a distance to make it four nil and into a city claimed the only home victory of the kind we can call meanwhile chelsea midfielder john obi mikel has appealed to the kidnappers in nigeria to release his father because all spoke on british television and said he knew his father had been abducted before he played in sunday's goalless draw at stoke the twenty four year old asked 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 country is having the contrie it would have i came out laughing this is the time for the contras well to help me in this situation. so i just i just i'm just going to say wherever. we were in those room of that is emotional please contact me and hopefully will be released. the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparation for their first ever winter games while their medal hopes have also received a beast south korean short track speed skating great on here and soon has voiced his intention to compete for the host nation in. in three years time the triple olympic gold medalist in chewing multiple world champion tips to acquire russian possibles look toyota is only five year old is currently far from his peak form after failing to qualify for the vancouver games last year but it's his knee injury and now probably feels on film soon could be gunning for more glory with russia after dominating the sport few years ago russia have gets to take a medal any of the short track events. it is now and has 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 but it was originally looking good for the eleven cd you want in the first set on a tie break and there's a break up in the second but then he lost his form and his temper and the german levelled the match to set off a frustrated world and threw down his rockets discussed. in the deciding said he was given a point penalty of the hitting a ball into the crowd in anger while that loss of concentration played into cold hands to close down the final set six games to one victory. elsewhere there was no shot i'll cede the french when getting past ukraine's alexander basketball of in straight sets six one seven six. and at asco had a similar score but a tricky a toy against brazilian polish but luci spaniard served well to take the first set

six one against scraps take the second or a tie break eventually wrapping up the match at just under two hours. while a closer contest awfully theone allopathic come from a set down to get the better of fellow spaniard juan carlos ferrero earned in the deciding such a joke with it a timely ace really at six for a place in the second round. elsewhere some time formula one champion michael schumacher has denied rumors he's about to retire from the sport for a second time the forty two year old is adamant he'll stay with the sadie's. denying reports from 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 still hasn't finished on hogan and his current ten in the driver standings a vast two hundred eighty two points behind me to sebastian vettel despite some funny. rumors and stupid. untruthful stories. i

keep repeating myself that you will have to see me through those drove who likes it a lot 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 in particular from the t.v. that they will wish me to be there so i wish to do there so i look forward to it. and that'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 both ends of the table with maintaining the lead despite a draw rubin and clear set of propping up the rest in spite of their win a trust and awe so here all the goals feared to savor this goal is going to. this. list

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