jones about the problems in society that the unrest 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 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 placed in the class what we saw with these riots complicate i think linked to 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. 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 not trade union council housing values which in communities were very strong like solidarity in favor of rugged individualism by the end of the eighty's there wasn't the same sense of being being able to be proud of being a 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 a justification for inequality and that's not to say they want social problems in

this country like drugs and crime or whatever but the real info. people narcs of work in some of the communities worst affected fact 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 the 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 they're reinforcing the idea that if your 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 than of the million on 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 the 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 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've 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 mix with consumerism helps create that situation that we saw in the shop you mentioned this inequality but the u.k.'s policy for some time has been some 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. i think the problem with that 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 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 inequality because at the moment people are getting a fair share of the british economy so how do you breach saying 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 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 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 he 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 out of 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 stealing three hundred fifty worth of water to the right so yes we have the bankers who plunged into an economic crisis where the politicians 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 than all of our example 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 rights are being 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 in florida terry crackdown in terms of law and order attacks and civil liberties by government which promised the defense of liberties against the attacks from new labor and even 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 them

you mentioned the starkey that you're involved in the debate. he. mentioned the whites of the come blacks in 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 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 fixation 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 rich haven't yet there's rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which was paid to pour over sixteen your theory and 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 cuts the government's response when you. 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 that's a good idea look people are 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 this country could 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 crime if you are poor because obviously that will not affect anyone it isn't a council house and isn't on benefits now i think we need to be just as obvious to me speak don't need to be proportionate to the crime and the idea of attacking poor people more than the older people for punishing 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 becomes a new means of survival so i think this near hysteria gripping the magistrates in this country and we need to resist up in jones thank you.

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but in this close updates on the news from the headlines. on the rise and she went to wanted time to denominate to get back up to fourth in the russian premier league . while eating at the right time maria sharapova beats me elena yankovic in cincinnati the second title of the season and week before the start of the u.s. open. and snow leopards in focus less than a fortnight ago i was at the start of the ted shell season we take a closer look at favorites at box. we start with football and back up to fourth in the table after a two one win at times to them by moscow in the russian premier league and he took the lead off the twenty runs through my back. is new signing in the field goal of this for us assist after the offensive mix up but still haven't managed to grab an equaliser on strike the time and the right not only in his six goal of the season. however it's twenty minutes to go and use an exam that put me off the struggle to get the home side when

a third victory for five games moved them to the two points of their opponents who states that. while meanwhile spotlights they slipped a fifth after coming back to draw one morning struggling spot to not take the risk is still behind after twenty six minutes to a close range of the us and russia calls. zuba then leveled early in the second half but the score remained one long spot technology a second bottom but now i will put fear of safety. elsewhere a thirty fourth minute goal from dennis who should call for a lot more to moscow who is from point a time to consummate out there oh man i'm out undefeated in six games since monday josie crucero to charge at the beginning of july they stay one place behind their opponents. and that is a goal festing present out of fellow new boys valda five nil this is a try henri opened after twenty minutes and then had a few seconds in first half stopped on. the hosts continued to

press off to the break again only to call she made it three nil and another had a. call from a four nil off to seventeen minutes this time with his boot. i missed the nightmare of although it was not over a set that would have competed the ranch in the dying minutes site five now a spectacular victory for the gun of all the have taken one point in the last six games. so i waffle and let's take a look at the top of the table top twenty one games to sky remain talk to thousands kids in need and i'm up on five points further adrift mostly for the country and spotting most can walk on the other end of the clearly at the back of study bottom but then exploring that way back three teams are only one point above them all go bust off spacek. and over in the english premier league luka moderates will miss totems trip to manchester united this monday evening with manager harry redknapp

saying the want to a midfield his head is not in the right place the absence could be seen as moderates taking a step towards a move to chelsea despite all the efforts by spurs to keep the twenty five year old croatia star tottenham last won that old trafford more than twenty years ago and they're looking for their first points of the sea. after last week's opening game and two everton were suspended because of the riots in london while a win for united would propel them into a joint top spot with bitter rivals manchester city and surprise package walls is the only t sides to have claimed maximum points after two games so far. while city leading away following a three two victory bolton david silva gareth barry and inject they were all on target for the businesses elsewhere wolves who escaped relegation last may need for them too little to also make it to return to ball stoke grabbed a last gasp draw a few boys norwich this place sides are still seeking death as winners of the season. having the means one more pressure has been heaped on arsenal manager arsene wenger after picking up just one point from two games since the start of the

domestic season the gunners will now have to do without vanga for the next two european games the coach were suspended for two further you a fixed itself of breaching the previous touchline ban during last tuesday's one moment and to do newsy in the first leg of the champions league qualifying playoffs the second leg will be held in italy on wednesday well meanwhile manchester city manager that the man cheney says he wants to complete the solving of austin would throw the samir nasri before that second leg on wednesday if the deal does not go through by then the twenty four year old france star could feature in the tie in northeastern italy which means he'll be ineligible to play for city later in the competition and cheney says it's vital the midfielder is free to play in all cities games. say they've agreed a transfer fee would balance their four midfielder juan mata which is thought to be around thirty eight million dollars the move is subject to the twenty three year old agree personal terms and passing a medical model who has won eleven caps so far for spain scoring four goals as part

of his country's world cup winning squad last year. of elsewhere footballers officials and fans had to run for cover at a match in mexico after a gun fight broke out outside the stadium on sunday gunmen opened fire on police and stray bullets hit the exterior of the venue in the northern city of taba. on the casualties who caught it and estimated twenty thousand spectators watched that talk too much watching something like us motherly before it was abandoned in the fortieth minute those goals have been scored on the other fixtures across the country went on the show. that switched to tennis now as maria sharapova has climbed three places to number four in the world rankings following a hard fought win of the year later yankovic's in the final of the cincinnati open the russian threw away four one lead in the first set to lose that six ball that helped her nerve to take the back and forth second set on a tight break blitzing the decider six three when security of the second title of the year after winning in rome and twenty four i thought of course that had korea

that was also the perfect preparation for the u.s. i didn't start in a week's time. while in the men's side and the memory was over the main off to beating man of the moment novak djokovic though the title came off the red hot serbian retired to train right shoulder injury to set three left down however djokovic retained his top ranking and is hoping to get his shoulder right in time for what could be his third grand slam crown of the season at flushing meadows and defeat was the second of a so far sizzling season for djokovic has won fifty three matches so far. it's kind of expected i played so many matches this year. in winning. you know a lot of them. reaching the final stages of each event that i've participated on and. you know they do considering the schedule there is a very busy time is it's kind of normal to expect that at some stage you are exhausted but. as i said you know i am confident that i can

recover and be ready for you so. now in a couple of weeks' time then you can tell. us on the way sending champions that boss will again be the ones to bates although that's how the next preseason. takes a look at the preparations prospects in the weeks fall season. ugh bars are getting used to life with down the dino was relinquished his club d.d.'s demands the national team. were cool none of those should command the respect of the players the former defenseman led team russia to bronze at the two thousand and five world championships and held the now moscow with the russian championship the same year the other deal if not too far from the action though taking the time to scope out potential prospects for international duty laura's darzi was acquired from do not believe in 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 the last game of the season so so you can lift the cup. and if not it's all it's always a disappointment no matter what team you're playing and especially if you're playing in bars 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 the. odd bar set of top notch training facilities if you ask former n.h.l. star and see mutant the new signing also understands the huge expectations they're 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. not been very happy there and. can be a good player for us. the team time to garden complainers also added one of the

most feared men in the league during the off season transfer bonanza. denise kulash a former almost score could boast a world record slap shot register your speed of nearly one hundred seventy eight kilometers an hour during the latest all-star game dog barks faithful fully ready to embrace the new signing but captain alex a morozov been company no those same fans expect nothing less than a third guy in court trying to advance a gorski our team. had finally let's end with some spectacular shots from the latest round of the cliff diving while serious britain's gary hunt won in boston to claim the overall title. to the runners up spot well as there are no actual cliffs in boston a board was attached to the contemporary arts building which is eighteen meters above the waterfront hunts have the chance to successfully defend his world series title as victory in the us then you would ensure he once again be crowned world

champion and no one could match his spectacular dive a one and a half twisting quadruple some sold as a fourth victory of the season for hunt action still to finish one run for the fourth time and also set to finish second in the season's overall standings however he does have one last chance of winning a stage at the final dive of the year to claim in two weeks' time. having his amazing. really undescribable failing to. have. this series under my belt with one on competition to go from believer course i'm so. if for dives in this season in this year i think second place i have a lot chance in ukraine for this year or in this competition. and that's almost as life again.

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rebels claim to control the libyan capital. and there are reports that. position the location of the libyan leader meantime is unknown. journalists in tripoli reported gunfire. reports of overnight looting of houses in the capital has left them feeling unsafe. opposition supporters rejoice hoping the four year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to the disillusionment that followed the fall of egypt. and the international reaction. to outright caution and concern over the likelihood of an unstable rebel government by competing interests.