harsh punishments that often don't match the crimes. well it's not just the country's justice system that's come under scrutiny following the riots are to talk to british author owen jones about the problems in british society the end breast exposed. i'm joined by owen jones author of a book called the demonization of the working classes thanks for talking to r.t. the demonization of the working classes what do you mean by that and what does that have to do with the riots i think there's been this myth which the political establishment and journalists alike embrace basically everybody in britain is middle class and all that remains of the old working class is a sort of problematic fact plus in the class what we saw with these riots complicate it i think linked to the sense because well it helps reinforce this are there is a spiral of the class which is waiting you know which is not only lazy in fact with

but also violent which is how the government and lightning commentators have been portraying it why is there this myth about the working classes how was it created and why the riots being blamed on them why i think what we saw in the 1980's in this country was an attack on a lot the pillars of working class britain industries that sustained a lot of communities and institutions trade unions council housing values which in communities were very strong like solidarity in favor of good individuals and by the end of the eighty's there wasn't the same sense of being being able to be proud of being working class everyone supposed to seem to become middle class you know that that's what aspiration means in britain so because of all that was that the working class became betrayed in a very negative way particularly as we became all equal and in a more equal society people justify that inequality by saying well actually the people at the bottom of that because they deserve to be there the lazy the violent

bigoted stupid but is it just the. inequality and that's not to say they want social problems in this country like drugs and crime or whatever but the real info . five young people marks of work in some of the communities worst affected facts by the top of the thirty four employed people facing chasing every drop so i think problems what we saw last week another a whole range of other social problems i think unemployment and poverty provide fertile ground for them to grow so as not to justify it is just to try and explain why these things happen in order to stop it from happening again so using politicians have been quick to blame all of this on criminality and say that this is this is a broken society do you think that's just a way of covering up the ills of a society they've created an absolutely i mean basically what they're trying to do is turn a social issue into a moral issue and they're reinforcing the idea that if your particular benefits are

part of mass unemployment that your behavior is at fault when actually you know in this country now there's a problem of lack of jobs we've got two and a half million people unemployed another million incapacity benefit the going was the push into work there's less than half a million vacancies there's not enough jobs to go around it's very convenient for the government to say actually all these people on unemployment benefits are is their own fault their behaviors that fall and that's what's need to be so that's what needs to be sorted out not the issue addressed do you not agree with some extent knowing that these people were clearly have no idea that violence is not the answer i mean no one's justify what happened and understanding it's the whole are starting what has to be this must never happen again people must never be terrorized in their communities as they were last week with what in five people young people out of a job only takes a small proportion of those people who feel they have no future to risk to act in

this way to bring chaos and violence the streets of our cities and i mean there's other issues too i think i think consumerism and the society has a lot of responsibility in britain your status has so much to do with what you possess. and what you wear. for a lot of all young people want to be part of a consumer society but there's a whole group of people particularly poor communities who feel they have no access to it and in a perverse way i think that's what we saw in places like hackney where you got some of the poorest people living along some of the richest right in the sense of wonder and i think that kind of inequality mixed with hyper consumerism helps create that situation that we saw in the shop you mentioned this inequality but the case policy for some time has been to mix rich and poor living in the same areas bring in council houses to fill in areas and vice a versa do you not think that's work then i think the problem with vacation is you end up with lots of shops pricing out

a lot the people who live there actually pushes up the cost of living for the people but yes i think mixing and social mixing is good you only have to look at paris where the rich are concentrated in the middle and the poor concentrate around the edges the so-called effect it's good to be mixing but the problem in london is when the most cities in the western world the top ten percent are over two hundred sixty times richer than the bottom ten percent so then we see you have poor people living alongside some of the richest people in the world looking at lives they would in all likelihood never help and what we need to do is to tackle that inequality because at the moment people are getting a fair share of the british economy so how do you get what we need more progressive taxation we need actors on the rich in order to take more people at the bottom out of taxation altogether we need a living wage so people at the bottom especially

a place like london were most expensive cities on the planet the minimum wage in the country is just not enough to live on you can't support a family with it so these are huge social problems which aren't being addressed and we have these problems at a time when people at the top are richer than ever is this also. case then of the bad example being set from the top down for the m.p.'s expenses scandal bankers bonuses still getting paid despite the crisis if we look at the m.p.'s in particular he stood up to denounce these looters just three years ago they were embroiled in a huge expenses scandal and let's be honest they were state taking money from the taxpayer to get the same sort of widescreen t.v.'s that were being carted out of shops last week give you one example general councilman backbench labor m.p. he stood up to demand action be taken against the looters that he claimed eight and a half thousand pounds for buying all of them televisions that whilst one twenty three year old has just been sent to prison for six months for stealing three

hundred fifty worth of water to the right so yes we have the bankers who plunged us into an economic crisis we are the politicians who stole from the taxpayer we recently have the news international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened last week was more disorderly that all of our example of being set by the top the way the government is dealing with this using it's a way for them to kind of legitimize right wing ideals of things like top of policing cracking down on social media i think these rights have been manipulated by the government quite frankly people understandably angry and they're scared about last week no wonder people terrorized their own communities but what this government is doing is using that to justify attacks on people on benefits we've seen attacks on single parents this idea of fatherless families over sponsible we've seen recently david starkey the historian trying to scapegoat black people in black kocher and we're now talking about and for tearing crack down in terms of law and order tax and civil liberties by government which promised the defense of

liberty is against the attacks from new labor and even are used as you say a tax on the idea that social media should be closed down which didn't even happen in a lot of authoritarian regimes when they were all poisons going about against. you mentioned starkly that you're involved in that debate where he. mentioned the wants of the come blacks and other courses there has been talk of multiculturalism being the failure of it being the cause of these riots do you give any kind of credence to that argument with about the racial issue coming into play in these riots let me be clear about david starkey what he said was a very racist this was an attempt to scapegoat people or this of a whole range of people involved from different ethnic backgrounds the common factor with all of the is poverty and unemployment and again it's not just a creation what happened was completely inexcusable if you have enough people who don't feel they have a future of whatever ethnic background only takes a small proportion and to respond in this outrageous way to bring kind of the

streets of london but multiculturalism and different ethnic groups have nothing to do with what happened we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police cuts still plan to be going through when it does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force of much worse. there's a perfect storm the haven't yet there's rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which was paid to pour over six in your office then education university tuition fees have been troubled all of these together will breed continue to breed but more devastatingly increasing numbers of people who feel they have no future they feel they have nothing to look forward to and i think we could see a lot worse down the line when the courts the government's response when you need the same time seems to be mirroring public opinion the public want the government

to crack down on the perpetrators they want to be punished severely nothing else a good idea look people are angry people are scared because of what happened but this should be a test of the. in a country like this that you already there's an inevitable backlash that should not let people allow justice to be subverted this country couldn't and i'm talking of taking away benefits council houses from those who were involved in the riots now what that says is you will be punished twice for pig committing crimes if you are poor because obviously that will not affect anyone it doesn't account for the harm done isn't on benefits now i think we need to be just the obvious needs to be told it needs to be proportionate to the crime and the idea of attacking poor people more than the all the could call for pollution them twice is fundamentally unjust and also self-defeating because if you take away all forms of income and all forms

of housing from people then what reason is there not to be involved in criminality i mean in effect that because i need means of survival so i think this is near hysteria gripping the magistrates in this country and we need to resist up i mean jones thank you. as you know was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say that song so it should not be punished for his crimes so on is the no rational person in the neither side has been punished is being punished and will be honest with. themselves must be executed for the brutal crime committed this is a punishment this is not. to mention.

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breaking news this morning libyan rebels have reportedly seized control of most of the capital following a major nato back advance that according to the government saw thirteen hundred people killed two of colonel gadhafi sons have been arrested however the location of the libyan leader himself remains unknown but some say. sources on the ground have told r.t. it's too early to sing tripoli fall and there are still confusion as to who is controlling the city. meanwhile massive celebrations are in full swing in the center of the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts draw parallels to events in egypt warning of the disillusionment that will likely follow. and disproportionate justice for british judges are accused of overreacting in cases ranging from recent riding to a war veteran the record of the court hearing human rights groups have raised the alarm over harsh punishments that often don't match the crimes. so they have lines and time now for a sports update with under former that's next here on araa. thanks

for watching the sports and these are the headlines only up n.-g. come from behind to beat the now much as they continue their rise in the russian premier league. plus looking good ahead of the u.s. open she rather than jankovic in cincinnati for her second title of the season. and with less than a fortnight to go before they can i shall season begins we take a closer look at cyprus time. to start there with the russian premier league where angie and i were up to fourth in the table after beating the now in moscow two one and he took the lead through. to capsulize in the defensive mix up midway through the first half but the nominee to grab an equaliser just before half time on the environment with a six goal of the season. approaches strike just after the break

andy's alexander proved the call that got the winner and you'll be three wins from five games now and i just two points behind the nominee to stay in third place out west but imo still managed to get a draw away spot right now take the host to really good prior. auction does the level fifty to win it to make sure the points we shared spot that slipped to fourth on our check for from boston. on the goal from benoît music of gave lokomotiv moscow all three points against krasnodar the railway man and i understated in six games since manager jose consider to charge i hold on to a spot in the. it all goes to guy never had no problems against all the nice new punching on the kind five me only seen it through i spring definition off approach and just before the breakthrough i did it again to make it. i left the bright

house continued to press. the radio i then. called. for. i cannot make the bold. surrogate completed the five new. tank in the big three for the bank. look at the type of twenty one games to remain at the top of that just ahead of sin a. closely followed by angie. and the other end it is a familiar story. bottom but they are clearing the way back three teams are only one point above them. and. so confirmation that of all the scores from sunday's gangs a great win left the band also victories for. and and you've lost. the points but.

now in england it's manchester city who lead the way they're top of the premier league with two wins from two off a three two win away at bolton silver in the city. relegation last fullam to also make it. through new boys nor it is both still seeking their first wins of the season richie delighted made it one nil with his first half strike began when james levelled in the dying seconds ninety tottenham to not. won the cincinnati open coming from a set down to be. of age the russian threw a game to one late in the first set to lose that six cool but take a second on the tie break and then i was tired yankovic and they decide that six games to three of the second. title of the game after winning in rank and he's the

perfect preparation for the u.s. open which starts weeks time and andy murray won the men's title in cincinnati after world number one novak djokovic chad to retire through injury mary had won the first set six for almost three games to love up in the second. half to call it a day to fate only his second of the season and that winning streak finally took its toll on djokovic she looked exhausted but he is hopeful he'll recover in time for the usa. it's kind of expected played so many matches this year. being winning. you know a lot. and reaching the final stages of each event that i've participated on and. you know the do considering the schedule it is very busy terminus it's kind of normal to expect that at some stage you are exhausted but. as i said you know. confident that i can recover and be ready for you so. now gold

has a new winner on the page to a web simpson claiming his first title with victory at the wyndham championship in north carolina is nearest rival was george mcneil you had a bogey free far around of sixty four but is steady game wasn't enough to overhaul simpson to buy this lovely shot he had started the day with a two shot late and never faltered on responding the greens with some pinpoint his putting was spot on so you anyhow and. this part coming on the eighteenth of a round of sixty seven enough for a three shot victory kind of with his check of just under a million dollars it's. there was a thirst in motor sport for rally driver sebastian ogier he won the latest stage of the world championship in troy in germany the drivers racing on tarmac for this one and he had never won on this surface before the weekend but he has now getting the better of fellow driver sebastian suffered a puncture the day before that effectively ending his chance of

a ninth straight win low finishing just under forty seconds behind home. he shakes his hands a with his copilot job well done spun it down and soda with the result leaves twenty five points behind in the drivers' championship with paul races left. to time to go in cup winners and bars begin their campaign on september the ninth against all our favorites scar because then men have recently beaten to chance but lost to atlanta in preseason even savor skate takes a look now at their preparations. ugg bars are getting used to life with. the national team. of those should command the respect of the players the former defenseman team rushed to bronze at the two thousand and five world championships and held moscow russian championship the same year. not too far from the action though taking the time to scope out potential prospects for international. laura's

darns english was acquired from the off season. and the latvian international is already feeling the pressure of the finals with the season yet to start the goal is to win through in the last game of the season so so you can lift the cup. and if not it's oh it's always a disappointment no matter what team you're playing and especially if you're playing. in a bar stool has always such high hopes for the championship so you know we just we just got to try and try to win the cup and then everyone. will have fun with that. ogg bars have top notch training facilities if you ask former n.h.l. star and see mutant the new signing also understands the huge expectations that come with donning the snow leopard jersey i think our training facility and all that this is a level. i know it's

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breaking news this morning libyan rebels reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato back to advance to the government thirteen hundred people killed but some of the sources on the ground have told r.t. it's too early to say tripoli is falling and there's still confusion as to who's controlling the city. international journalists in tripoli fear for their lives we'll bring you a firsthand account from their hotel that's already fallen prey to looters. meanwhile celebrations are in full swing in the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts will draw parallels with events in egypt warn of the disillusionment that will likely follow. plus disproportionate justice british judges are accused of overreacting in cases ranging from recent riding to war veteran who recorded a court hearing as punishment often don't match the.