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the. piece soon which bryson if you move the song from fans to impression. for instance on t.v. dot com. ten thirty monday night here in moscow good to have you with us this hour breaking news rebels claim to control the libyan capital after a major nato back to violence it was thought to have colonel gadhafi sons were captured by the opposition but one has reportedly escaped with the help of loyalist fighters. opposition supporters rejoice hoping the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to the pretty disillusionment that followed the full of teachers dictate. the international reaction ranges from forty to out like caution and with concern over the likelihood of an unstable rebel government torn
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apart by competing interests. brings up them i'll be back with another place in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's time for a special interview and morning rots in the u.k. the soul searching has become bennett talked to jones about the problems in society that the unrest exposed. i'm joined by owen jones author a book called the demonization of the working classes thanks for talking to r.t. . of the working classes what do you mean by that and what did i 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 with underclass and what we saw with these riots
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complicates it i think in a sense because it helps reinforce this i this is 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 right wing commentators have been betraying their why is this a myth about the working classes how was it created and why the riots being blamed on them well 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 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 that's where aspiration means in britain so because of all that was what the working class became for trade in a very negative way particularly as we came all equal and in
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a more equal society people justify that inequality by saying right actually the people at the bottom of that because they deserve to be there we're lazy they're violent because they're stupid is a justification for inequality and that's not to say they want social problems in this country drugs and crime or whatever but the woman for. five young people narrative work in some of the communities worst effects affected by the top thirty four people facing in 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 growth so it's 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 sales person as a broken society do you think that's just a way of covering up the ills of
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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 you or your benefits are part of mass unemployment that your behavior is at fault but actually you know in this country now there's a problem of lack of jobs. half a million people unemployed another million incapacity benefit are going to put into work there's less than half a million vacancies there's not enough jobs to go around and it's very convenient for the government to say actually all these people on unemployment benefits are if their own behaviors that follow and that's what's need to be said that's what needs to be sorted out not that you should regress to not agree with something send them in these people who 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 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 is five people young people out of
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a job only takes a small proportion of those people feel they have no future to risk to act in this way to bring chaos and violence in the streets of our city 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 portability since 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 mix with hyper consumerism helps create what that situation that we saw in the shop you mentioned this inequality in the u.k. as policy for some time has been some mix rich and poor living in the same areas bringing council houses that have their own areas and vice
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a versa do you not think that's work then 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 construct around the edges of the not that it's good to be mixing but the problem in london is well the most cities in the western world the top ten percent are over two hundred sixty times richer and the bottom ten percent so then we see you have people living alongside of the richest people in the world looking at live they will in all likelihood never have. what we need to tackle that inequality because at the moment people are getting a fair share of the british economy so how do you bridge the gap why we need more progressive taxation we need actors on the rich in order to take more people at the
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bottom out of taxation altogether we need a living wage so people at the bottom especially a place like the less expensive cities on the planet the minimum wage in this country is just not one of the little you can't support a family with their families a 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 also. case then of the bad example being set from the top down and having 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 tax there at the same sort of widescreen t.v. that when carter that shops last week if you want example general powerful and back and. he stood up to them and actually taken a saluted he claimed eight and a half thousand pounds for buying all of them televisions that whilst one hundred
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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 plunged this international crisis we have the politicians stole from the taxpayer we recently have a news international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened last week was more disorderly that all but the example of things that are the top the way the government is dealing with this choosing it's a way 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 are 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 of fatherless families over sponsible we've seen recently david starkey the historian trying to scapegoat black people in black culture and we're now talking about the power to crack down in
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terms of law and order attacks and civil liberties by government which promised the friend civil liberties against the attacks from new labor and even are used as you say attacks on the idea that social media should be closed down which didn't even happen in a lot of authoritarian regimes when they were organizing to go about and i mentioned the start you're involved in the playing. he. mentioned the whites of the come blacks in other courses there has been talk of multiculturalism thing the failure of it being the cause of these riots do you give any kind of credence to that argument on the way out the racial issue coming into play in these riots let me be clear out starkly what he said was a very racist this was an attempt to scapegoat people this are the 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 occasional what happened was completely inexcusable if you have enough people who don't feel have
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a future of whatever ethnic background it only takes a small proportion and to respond in this outrageous way it's been kind of the streets of london but multiculturalism and ethnic groups have nothing to do with will happen we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police still planned on going through when it does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force. much worse. the perfect storm the rich haven't yet this rising youth unemployment. government took away the educational maintenance allowance which is paid to pour over six in your three education university tuition fees have been trouble all of these together will breed continue to breed resentment but more devastating really increasing numbers of people who feel they have no future they feel they have nothing to look forty and i think we could see a lot worse down the line when the courts the government's response when you
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approach those as kneejerk the same time since they mirroring public opinion the public want the government to crack down on the perpetrators and they want them to be punished severely nothing else a good idea look people are angry and people are scared because of what happened but this should be a test of democracy in a country like this. that already. an inevitable backlash that should not let people allow justice to be subverted 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 think committing a crime if you are poor because obviously that will not affect anyone it isn't a council and isn't on benefits now i think we need to be. proportionate to the crime and the idea of attacking poor people more than the core pollution and life is fundamentally unjust and also self-defeating because if we
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take away all forms of income and all forms of housing from people then what reason is there not to be involved in criminality and in effect that becomes your own means of survival so i think this is a near hysteria gripping the magistrates' in this country and we need to resist our own jones thank you.
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house holiday inn the pool. halls the rim brands the crewmate the chesterfield the montague the channels the oil the rubens hotel. the breaking news this hour nazi rebels claim to control the libyan capital for a major nato fact and violence it was thought to have. captured by the opposition from one has reportedly escaped with the help of lawless plights its. opposition supporters rejoice something the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end the skeptics point to the the solution once again for the fall of egypt's dictator. and the international reaction ranges from the forehead to al fright caution the concern and likelihood of an unstable rebel government by competing interests as. well before with more in libya in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime news from the world of sport is next with.
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and i would thank you for joining me for the monday night sports roundup battling. depleted numbers make a moderate sits out top in strips all transferred while the knights of missing three tee defenders in a crunch game being the crimea the. wall of toil chelsea's thirty four million dollar target. turns out to undergo multiple completing a move from the. tiny peak british wrap of the beach elaine yankovic's in cincinnati the second title of the season week before the start of the usa. let's kick off with football in the english premier league where luca moderate has missed totems trip to manchester united this monday evening after manager harry redknapp said the want to i mean feel his mind is not in the right place the absence could be seen as moderates taking a step towards
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a move to chelsea despite all the efforts by spurs to keep the twenty five year old croatian star they do have their boots on right friedel in goal the last one is old trafford almost twenty two years ago and are looking for their first points of the season after last week's opening game time to everton's postponed because of the riots in london while in the united would propel them into a joint top spot with bridles march to city and wolves but united are missing the injured defensive trio of rio ferdinand manny of it and rafael. well city are leading the league following a three to three triples and exultant gareth barry and in jeffco we're on target for the visitors la wolves who escaped relegation last night till it's time to follow him to join city as the only side to take maximum points from both reckoning games and start grant a last gasp draw as ten man your age both sides still looking for the after those wins of the season. and in the meantime more pressure has been eaten also manager
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arsene wenger after picking up just one point from two games since the start of the domestic season the governors will now have to do without going in for the next two european games the coach was suspended for two further you wait for fixtures known for breaching the previous touchline boundary last tuesday's wonder when it came to a dinner easy in the first leg of the champions league qualifying playoffs the second leg will be held in italy on wednesday well meanwhile munches if you haven't heard about them and cheney says he wants to complete the signing oscar made for the star in nashville before that second leg on wednesday if the deal doesn't go through by them a twenty four year old from star could feature in the town both east and is silly which means he'll be ineligible to play for the city later in the competition and cheney says it's going to limit feel that it's free to play in pool city's games. and just say they've agreed a transfer fee with balladeer for midfielder fund nothing is going to be around thirty four million dollars the move is subject to the twenty three year old agreeing personal terms and arsenal medical doctor who has won eleven caps so far
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for spain's forty four goals are to his country's world cup wins last year. while chelsea midfielder john obi mikel should be a happy man off to his father was on duty or michael obi was abducted ten days ago in his native country local police now detained those suspected of the kidnapping. and elsewhere talks aimed at ending the players' strike which has disrupted the start of the spanish league season for the first time in almost thirty years and then with no agreed. reached the spanish footballers association had said players from the top two divisions would go on strike for the first two rounds of the new season unless an agreement with the spanish league was reached over the issue of unpaid wages the players want to guarantee funds to protect their wages in the event of their clubs going bankrupt and fifty million euros remain unpaid to more than two hundred players from normal season nice little reconvene on tuesday. wells where footballers officials and fans had to lobby for coverage imagine mexico after
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a gun fight broke out and saw the stadium on sunday gunmen opened fire on police and stray bullets hit the experience a venue in the northern city is probably on the casualties he recalled an estimated twenty thousand spectators watched the top to match between samples laguna and not as malia for it was abandoned in the forty's minutes no goals had been schooled like the other fixtures across the country went on a shared rules. let's switch to tennis now where maria sharapova has climbed three places to number four in the world rankings following a hard fought with lady yankovic's in the final of the cincinnati open the russians threw away for one lead in the first substance classic sport but held to take the back and forth second set on a tie break before reaching the decider at six three the wind secure trappist second title of the year after winning rome on the twenty fourth at the polls in perth korea it was also the perfect preparation for the us later which starts in
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a week's time. on the men's side and even henri was over the moon after beating man of the moment novak djokovic though that side after the red hot serbian retired into right shoulder to set the love down however which retained his top ranking and was hoping to get the shoulder right in time for what could be his third grand slam crowd of the season at flushing meadows the defeat was only the second of a so far sizzling season for drop of which he has won fifty three matches so far. expected played so many matches 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 it 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 i am confident that i can recover and be ready for you so. now
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let's move on to some spectacular shots from the latest round of the cliff diving world series it is gary hart run in boston to play in the overall title. the runners up spot well as there are no actual cliffs in boston a board is attached to the contemporary art building which is eighty meters across the waterfront and have a chance to successfully defend his world series title as victory in the us then you would ensure once again the crowned world champion and no one could not chase spectacular dive in one and a half twisting quadruple somersault so it was a full picture of the season for hundreds russians still change that image one rock for the fourth time and he's also set to finish second in the season i will standings however he does have one last chance of winning a stage at the final drive of the ukraine in two weeks' time. i mean it's amazing. really under scribe all feeling to. have the words this series
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under my belt with one competition to go from believer yet of course i talk. four times in this season in this year i think second place like a lot chance in ukraine put it here in this competition. finally back to football and could face tough sanctions if the russian premier league finds them guilty of allegedly harvesting the referee in sunday's two one high when i was in a moscow but aside from that's what's recap on those three goals and the rest of the weekend's action. i i. know.
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