reacting in cases ranging from recent writing to a war veteran who recorded a court hearing human rights groups have raised the alarm over 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. bennett talked to british jones about the problems in british society the unrest continues to expose. 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 didn't 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 listen the class what we saw with these right this

complicates it i think linked in the sense because it helps reinforce this are there is this terrible in 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 is 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 institutions trade unions council housing values 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 part for aspiration means in britain so because of all that was the working class became a trade 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 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 woman from. people narcs of work in some of the communities worst affected affected by the riots like 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 all employment 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 in saying that this is this is a broken society. 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 they're reinforcing the idea that if your benefits are part of mass unemployment that your behavior is at fault when actually 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 are going to 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 you know agree with some extent knowing these people were clearly have no idea that violence is not the answer i mean no one's justify what happened understanding 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 consumer 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 you saw in places like hackney where you got some of the poorest people living on some of the richest right in the center of london 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 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 of 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 it's one of 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 well 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 this 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 and had the m.p.'s expenses scandal bankers bonuses still getting paid despite the crisis if we look at the m.p.'s in particular who stood up to denounce these looters just three years ago they were embroiled in a huge expenses scandal 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 off shops last week to be one example general counsel of backbench labor m.p. he stood up to demand action be taken against the looters he claimed eight and

a half thousand pounds for buying all of the televisions that whilst one twenty three year old has just been sent to prison for six months. three hundred fifty worth of water to the right so yes we have the bankers who plunged into an economic crisis with the politicians he stole from the taxpayer we recently have the news international scandal where police will be bribed by journalists what happened last week was more disorderly that all are but the example of being set by the top the way the government is dealing with this choosing it's a way for them to kind of legitimize right wing ideals of things like tougher policing cracking down on social media i think these riots have been manipulated by the government quite frankly people understandably angry and they're scared 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 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 attacks and civil liberties by government which promised the defense of liberty is against the attacks from new labor and even as you say attacks on the idea that social media should be closed down which didn't even happen a lot of authoritarian regimes when they were all poisons go about against them you mentioned the starkey that you're involved in the debate. he. mentioned the whites of the come blacks in other courses there's 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 this of a whole range of people involved from different ethnic backgrounds the common factor with all of them 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 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 rich 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 many of. the

same time seems to be mirroring public opinion the public want the government to crack down on the perpetrators and they want them to be punished severely nothingness a good idea look people angry people are scared because of what happened but this should be a test of democracy in a country like they're. very good. an inevitable backlash that should not let people allow justice to be subverted in this country they couldn't are now talking of taking away benefits and 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 who doesn't live in a council and isn't on benefits now i think we need to be just to. be proportionate to the crime and the idea of attacking poor people more than the poor for pollution them twice is fundamentally unjust and also self-defeating because if

we 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 becomes the only means of survival so i think this is near hysteria gripping the magistrates in this country and we need to resist up on jones thank you. yes.

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breaking news this hour here on r.t. but libyan rebels reportedly seize control of most of the capital following a major nato back to the violence that according to the government assault thirteen hundred people killed but some sources on the ground have told us here about t.v. it's too early to say tripoli and one of gadhafi sons is reportedly leading forces in on the city center. meanwhile a massive celebrations are in full swing in the center of the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts who draw parallels to be events in egypt one of the disillusionment that will likely follow. and a disproportionate justice british judges are accused of overreacting in cases ranging from recent rioting to a war veteran who recorded a court hearing human rights groups have raised the alarm over harsh punishments that often don't match the crimes. right andrew those are the headlines here in our next hour into your world of sports big spending on g. continuing to impress on the russian premier league rory another win for them over

the weekend we've all go exactly from sunday's matches plus news and some in our series a minute moved to manchester city in a second. hello there thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines. be denominated continue to rise in the russian premier li. plus looking good ahead of the u.s. open she rather the big yankee in cincinnati for her second title of the season. and with less than a fortnight to go before the page shell season begins we take a closer look at favorites. starting russian president they were angie continue their good form they are now up to fourth in the table after beating two one and she. taking the lead through pursuit for yesterday and stuff the defensive makes up

midway through the first half but the nominee managed to grab an equaliser just before the break andre fluorinated with his sixth goal of the season. however after the interval angie's alexander proved me called got the winner giving his side death third win from five games which means them to be the couple of points of the nama to stay. out of moscow meanwhile managed to get a draw away spot and now a chick they fell behind to close to a string tied to their from good. to just levelled in the fifty fifth minute for the moscow side to make sure the points were shared spot and slipped to face a second from boston. elsewhere to go from denny's of gave lokomotiv moscow all three points against krasnodar the railway men and that one defeated in six games since manage. to sit out to charge they hold on to a sport in the. end there was a goal first to get banned fresh involves a meeting of goal to add five new scene the true right sporting their finishing off

a cross and just before the break through i did it again in similar style to make it sing new. well off half time host continued to press and made it three no it was another and then mikail call made it for neil this time using his feet. and i may continue for both shortly after that it's a good bit of completing the ranks so far i know how it finished a spectacular victory for the bank. and a quick look at the table how the top there after twenty one games it is t. iscar they are just ahead it's any then it is done now closely followed by and she and. the other end it is a familiar story curious to get offstage both but there are. on their way back three change only one point above them they are all go rostov and spot now now in

england this ranch the city he lead the way they are top of the premier league there with two inch from two after three to win away at bolton silver berry and jacko scoring for city square to skate relegation last may be full of material to also make it three wins from two while stay true new boys. are still seeking death as winds of the season managed to knighted by tottenham tonight. tomorrow man city boss roberto mancini says he wants to complete the signing of aston some imaginary by wednesday if he doesn't naturally could feature in the garnish champions league tie with naisi and that means he'd be ineligible to play for city later in the competition mancini saying it is vital midfielder is free to play in all games and chelsea say they've agreed a transfer fee for valencia midfielder one matter it's thought to be around thirty eight million dollars and is subject to the twenty three year old agreeing personal terms and passing a medical model was part of spain's twenty ten world cup winning squad. let's

switch to tennis where maria sharapova has won the cincinnati open coming from a set down to be give each other russian throughway four games or one in the first set to lose that six ball but held on to take the second on a tie break and then overpowered yankovic in the decider six games to three that he should wrap of his second title of the year after winning in. preparation for the u.s. open which starts in a week's time and andy murray won the men's title in cincinnati after world number one never a joke of a child to retire through injury murray had won the first set six four and with three games to love up in the second one the serve had to call it a day this defeat only his second of the season and that winning streak find taking its toll on djokovic she did look exhausted but he's hopeful he will recover in time for the u.s. open. it's kind of expected played so many minutes. this year i've been winning. you know

a lot and. reaching the final stages of each event that i've participated on and. you know the considering the schedule there is very busy in tennis 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. gold has a new winner on the p.g.a. tour webb simpson claiming his first title with victory at the wyndham championship in north carolina his nearest rival was george mcneil here who had a bogey free final round of sixty four but he's steady game including this lovely approach wasn't enough to overhaul simpson he started the day with a two shot lead and never thought this is him a miss finding the greens with some pinpoint ions of his own. is puzzling was spot on to most of the time holding this on the eighteenth for a round of sixty seven enough for

a three shot victory and win his check of just under a million dollars. and after five years of trying england's all of the fish has kept his cool to win his first title on the european tour a two shot victory for him the czech open. from sweden was second. or was a first in major sporting for rally driver sebastian he won the latest stage of the world championship in germany the drivers racing on time out on this one and before the weekend he had never won on this surface but he has now getting the better of fellowship to drive a sebastian he suffered a puncture the day before and that effectively ended his chance of a nine straight win finishing just under forty seconds behind to shake the hand of his copilot here after a good day's work danny saw it was the result leaves twenty five points behind in the drivers' championship with four races left. now in a couple of weeks' time the new hockey season gets underway defending champions at

bars will again be the ones to beat although they have had a mixed pre-season events of course takes a look at their preparations and prospects for more silverware. ogg bars are getting used to life without being lonely do you know relinquish this club deedes to manage the national guard even. kuku none of those should command the respect of the players the former defenseman led team rushed to bronze at the two thousand and five world championships and held the novel moscow with the russian championship the same year beloved enough not too far from the action though taking the time to scope out potential prospects for international duty lawyers darren's english was acquired from in the off season i and the latvian international is already feeling the pressure of the finals with the season yet to start. the goal is to win the last game of the season in. the cup. and if not it's oh it's always

a disappointment no matter their playing and especially if you're playing. in bars such high hopes for the championship so you know we just got to try and try to win the cup and then everyone. will have fun with the . odd bar set of top notch training facilities if you ask former n.h.l. star and team you to the new signing also understands the huge expectations they cold with donning the snow leopard jersey i think our training facility and all that is. in all i know it's a top notch organization. and all been very happy to. be a good player for us. the team time to garden coke winners also added one of the most feared men in the league in the offseason transfer bonanza denise school national former almost call could boast the world record slap shot register your speed of

nearly one hundred seventy eight kilometers an hour during the latest all-star game the og bars faithful fully ready to embrace the new signing but captain alex a morozov and company noll those same fans expect nothing less than a third garden called try to. keep our team. should be good season i finally we will end with some spectacular shots from the latest round of cliff diving as well series britain's gary hunt won in boston to claim the overall title while russian. took the runners up spot before you say yes there are no cliffs in boston and that is why important to touch the contemporary arts building eighteen meters above the waterfront gary hunt here had a chance to successfully defend his world series title victory would ensure he'd be world champion again and no one could match this spectacular dive of one another half twisting quad so a fourth victory of the season giving him the world crown rushes archon still chain can finish runner up for

a fourth time hearing is and is set to finish runner up in the season's overall standings but as one last chance of winning a stage the final dive of the year in ukraine until week's time. i mean it's amazing. really on the scrabble feel and. it's this series under my belt with one on competition to go from believer here. so. it's for this season in this year i think second place a lot science in ukraine for this year when this competition and that's it for me for the moment will be here in a couple minutes time with a news headline. hungry for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get

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