to me seems to be a very disconcerting fact as we know in britain for instance higher education now is now no longer free when i was a student it was free this is one of the many examples property is another one which shows that the generations are getting poorer we are on a downward slope in spite of all the propaganda about how free trade makes anybody richer i don't have figures but i it is my firm conviction that there is nobody or very few people who are rich parents but property prices have been driven not by militarily generated fallacious and by monetary instability generally and the accumulation of that is obviously a taxation in one form or another on future generations to the benefit of present one one of the it is one of the big issues of today well it turns into what you also no longer very interesting is if we look at the emerging market world you have this expansion of middle classes huge middle classes right now but we have in the west in the i think we in the united states and years old we see the middle class

being under enormous assault in the income disparity that we see here in equality that is growing now i mean people to echo what john just said there i mean very few people know more say they are going to be i think they will do better than their parents i think what's happening is that we're seeing a polarization not just between the rich and the poor not in a sort of journalistic sense but we seeing essentially a consolation of the underclass and i don't like using that word but it isn't on the class we seeing a middle class of the country being squeezed for all the reasons i don't said and we seeing a tiny tiny upper class i'm not using this in any social sense really an economic one but it's getting much much richer than anyone ever before where you know that their wealth is going up by a factor of ten or a hundred or more and you know but china has a similar problem because it has now got the fastest rates or that's going to fastest growth a billion that's you know soon london property prices will be pushed up in that segment apologized to her with a growing middle class simultaneously. well sure but the fact is the kind of

capitalism that we're dealing with does polarized society even in a very different context so yes you have to see what about the middle class in china but china would also experience and is already experiencing social strife and conflict because of this polarization it takes on different forms but perhaps it isn't always works that it works dispossession so expropriation it does not trickle down to the masses that's a great myth which i hope the last three or four years and i don't know it's going to you also if i go to use it you know a lot of people say that the middle class they get the state off my back when maybe in the industrialized west it's the state that can save the middle class actually i think the fourth myth is that the middle class exists. there are two divisions really one is between the financial guys and the corporate guys and i'm happy it's the corporate guys invest the financial guys are not going to so if the corporate guys don't invest the public is going to have to come in which is what's happening now but the other thing is the property owners and own property owners and i was amazed to discover when i got to the united states that everybody who's in the

trade union is considered middle class you just mean guys with jobs that's what you mean very often terrible that family capital or capital gains or whatever you just meet people who make money from money and people only money from work most of these middle class people make money from work and they should cast their lot in with the poor people who make their money to the point where being employed means little will live once. an antique dealer i know in golf once said very briefly that for him working class meant people who didn't want to work. lives in argentina when it collapsed and i would put it another way around when you get a crisis the middle class becomes the people who have to work and they stop having this illusion that they can become rich like everybody else and suddenly realize hey we're just like the poor guy down the street that i used to pass by they're all in the same boat when they realize that then you'll get democracy back then you'll get equality back because once people think we're all in the same boat then. start

thinking we should all have the same rights except the guys who are taking it away from us and that's precisely where we need months for more many more risk in sharing our risk and profit sharing arrangements so that you know you don't have a disconnect in those who take risk and those who suffer the consequences because what we've senshi dealing with is a system that has privatized profit and nationalized losses and socialized and that is a system which still in three or four years after the onset of closures them for the rich and capitalism for the poor exactly and in some ways what we really need is for people to share risk and profit so that if things go well everyone benefits and the way to do this is through property is through various forms of property not just individual property but also forms of communal property housing associations are great great example of this that's where you share risk and profit everyone is better off if you work together on your own you could never for example negotiate better energy deals with companies you can only do it as a small body and we could have as across the economy your central. banks money is with

a credit union manitoba the prairie's have them right you give them their money they keep it. other people that you. think torrie a trick that great. to be old fashioned here for discussing this in stay with r.t. . wealthy

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a report on our. law top and left alone controversial extradition laws in britain trap its own citizens and gaps in the justice system spending years behind bars without charge. it only preparatory a wife of a stereo as a government is down to approve a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish budget. with the wave of revolution still in the air of the arab world there are fears there to support for regime change could spell trouble for israel its closest ally in the region.

watching r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program and peas in britain are pushing the government to take power to stop and search terror suspects away from police the law was first introduced in march and landed in both houses of parliament don't agree to prolong it as archie's ivor bennett reports there are still some dubious legal loopholes in britain which are leaving some suspects locked up for years without charge. becomingly is incomplete. look at the hands. of the anguish of a family torn apart. by. the. little pony who asked to leave this house time up some. who are son son is one of britain's forgotten terror suspects held in custody for five

years without charge trapped in the twisted pits of its justice system we don't. do very weak and karnak not properly i mean when these rebels president. our son was arrested in two thousand and six on alleged terrorism offenses he hasn't been tried here because it's not the u.k. that wants him but the u.s. it accuses of supporting the taliban and being involved with websites he calls extremist one of the web site servers happen to be in america and that's why it's after him people were told if they committed anything or coded in this country and they should be brought to justice here and child and if you think very nice and let them get on with their last five years in prison i mean this is starvation britain

won't release him because of a treaty signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven crackdown it means the u.s. can extradite terrorist suspects without a hearing or even showing any evidence down has families relentless fight for justice is the only thing stopping them. classes. would be syria given how many. people said something but nor none of the government protested. this is why it's our house was arrested at his father's shop just over five years ago since then the family have seen their son once a week but fear they won't see him at all if he's extradited to the states in prison here tell her writes poetry and teaches english if extra diet and convicted it will be a supermax jail solitary confinement and life without parole extreme measures to

those who know the man born and educated in london i'm very surprised that the british courts have not freed him on bail at least in all these these years because it's completely clear that it's not any kind of threat to anybody there are four more like including barber are made prisons longest attained without charge prisoner gary mckinnon another fighting extradition since hacking into the pentagon seven years ago both e.-m. town has suffered from asperger's syndrome which helped keep gary out of prison unlike the muslim suspects karen mckinnon is say near white middle class english henri and barber and tower. very highly educated. british little class boys and they're asians and they're muslims and what that

tells you is sort of something rather awful about our society despite opposing the treaty in opposition the government's done little to overturn it only an independent review in sic timber townhouse families gone to the european court of human rights in a lawsuit to get him tried here it's taken five years to get this far the town has fathers not giving up hope yet other than it. still to come in the program this hour a target locked america persuade the media to well put parts of it in this sort of banter honest territory with washington pushing it with a controversial plan. meantime italy is deciding on the future of a highly unpopular a series package intended to put a leash on the country's runaway get the country's lower house of parliament is voting today on whether to pass an extensive set of tax hikes in spending cuts the

measure has already been passed by the senate despite weeks of wrangling and mass public protests but even if passed many wonder if it will be enough because authorities are a first reported years of economic sick nation and a culture of government excess may have left it too little too late. as italy prepares to once again tighten its belt in the light of new austerity measures politicians it seems they found a way to save themselves and pennies we publish a new of the inside of the problem. you see. as like free. around with really cheap private this cheap yet exclusive many was leaked to italian let's press a magazine this is name it should instead be straight. before we voted that the. prize for the people of the parliament. five million some for around

a. year the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated for learn which courses for a million euros spent just for their stationery and it's the taxpayer left fitting that we. in fact it's been hard for many to stomach that we have an economic. crisis because they don't care the interest of. interest so we are. outside the parliament building a protest meeting has been growing. in a ferrari has been on hunger strike for months. all the people here are hungry for a future for their children we don't see that at the moment but to make the politicians listen we know we need to get three million people here. they're welcome they're protesting against what they say is the politicians of piece of

taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately with the economic crisis in the country still across italy cosseted he cuts social spending and people's wages when it comes to the politicians it seems no expenses. people's appetite for change is growing. thing. i know that this in spoken so but they've got the hunger strike will continue and they're on their own here until they get some answers there are three. and as our tease about his gas discussed the growing crisis in italy is not unique in the united states especially there is great concern over the engine of the world economy that once why now shrinking american middle class there are more in crossed are coming your way at eleven thirty. but here's a preview. i was amazed to discover when i got to the united states that everybody

who's in the trade union is considered middle class you just mean guys with jobs that's what you mean about the variance in terrible the family capital or capital gains or whatever you just read people who make money from money and people earning money from work most of these middle class people make money from work and they should cast their lot in with the poor of people who make them to a point where being employed means middle class well i once a. dealer i know in both once said very quickly that for him working class men people who didn't want to work. was in argentina when it collapsed and i would put it another way around when you get a crisis the middle class becomes the people who have to work and they start having this illusion that they can become rich like everybody else and suddenly realize hey we're just like the poor guy down the street that i used to pass by. in.

washington has strong way back to libyan opposition since the revolutionary wave engulfed the state it's now equally enthusiastic in its support against syria's president bashar al asad but the concern is whether america's decision to take sides could backfire on its closest middle east ally israel our she's going to count looks at a possible repercussions of u.s. policy as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know iran is not an arab country the arab spring which true too. and i think in many ways and she matter of time before that kind of change before and revolution. and runs under the umbrella of the arab revolutions

washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america's blaming assad alone the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way i think. just like a dog and let's hope the rusher assad is next in line they've overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syria next they take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be iran its own watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations some went as far as to predict the arab

spring will spread all across the world what this is all about is the arab spring and bashar assad is next and even places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's where the libyan people are just achieved. that's wishful thinking on the part of john mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government of venezuela and cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just fantasizing about revolutions it actually fosters the process by pledging support for anti-government. but some say this might eventually turn against america's closest ally in the region israel what you have with. with hamas could essentially spread to many more places and then you

have a much much larger population base in an extremely hostile position towards the very existence of israel by throwing its support behind revolution me personally say washington is seeking to increase its influence and control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far it thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there but still in power last week a gyptian store and peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the media are rushing to see what it is ship is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes bills with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult yet washington seems to be using the herb spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting to be opposite of what it wishes for an undermining the whole region i'm going to check out

reporting from washington our team israel strained relations with turkey and egypt threaten to leave a dangerously isolated from the whole region situation made even more delicate by the coming decision at the u.n. on whether to grant a palestinian statehood turkish political commentator told r.t. that israel's current policy is leading nowhere. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation no taking place because he's really calling israeli decision makers on the political. choosing we want to to if you will only last was our allies but i refuse and apologize for turkey for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been. against them certainly puts for forward new in israeli image in people's eyes the country who

continue. to see this while the world around them in their need to be seen if he is really changing. on the ground in media the national transitional council has given everyone in the besieged pro cafe stronghold bani walid two days to leave or face a full scale attack last week opposition fighters launched an assault on the city by the offensive stoled in the face of fierce resistance rebels however claim they've made gains in the city of red valley sixty kilometers east of cut off his hometown of syria even though the whereabouts of the battle leader are still unknown steven rambam who has to have an international investigative agency says it's just a matter of time before he's found. kadar figures or not but he's a very clever and up and he's a northants managed to survive for forty five years and i'm sure he took note of

osama bin laden was captured and i'm sure he took note of how saddam hussein was captured. i know i'm sure he's avoiding those mistakes but he will make a new mistook. ethyl interview with steven rambam is coming up in around fifteen minutes time. the leaders are the u.s. and romania have sealed the deal under a which america would station its much debated interceptor missiles in eastern europe under the agreement the us will build a network of military facilities in the country over the next four years but this is only the first stage of a plan with more bases to be set up around europe the state of intent of the program as a fan you are up against attacks from rogue states such as iran and north korea but according to you appear to be a land professor at parris west university a fact that there is no real threat to america or its allies puts a question mark over just who the shield is aimed at. i don't think it's really

a military necessity no one really believed that was a possibility if you ran a checking europe it's nice size did not reach could not reach western europe so it was the deployment was in the czech republic now it is a new deployment. but i think this takes up surely political washington probably wants to reassure the former satellite countries. so it's a political move but hardly a military necessity and also considering this thing to be a u.s. economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms one of. these reset policy would russia at least he was achieving something corp russia and key issues but this new deployment is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some kind of new arms race which is totally pointless not only the effectiveness of that

she dog is problematic of god's will but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessary lives because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. pilot error has emerged as the most likely cause of the tragic plane crash in the russian city of jaroslaw which killed almost an entire top ice hockey team a week ago peter all over brings us more on the latest theories. i reported a russian newspaper out today quote sources inside the investigative committee saying that pilot error was the most likely cause of the fatal air disaster though the report says as the pilots failed to remove a parking brake the investigators have already ruled out a mechanical failure on the aircraft and thus low quality fuel may have caused this crash so they are suggesting a pilot error was the most likely cause know this parking brake is essentially the

same as the hungry calling card though it doesn't seem like a most obvious of of causes for such a dramatic exhaustive listening to the oem board flight recorders we offered to the pilots the main pilots on board had said that he was sick and asked the. the co-pilot's that they would fly the plane to minsk the flight goes was carrying the locomotive goddess level ice off the team as they were on their way to play the opening much of a cage season because they were all all those members of the hockey team on board were killed the one remaining survivor a flight attendant who was on board will be interviewed by crash investigators as soon as they are up to it. to find out if anything can corroborate this new theory that pilots are talking break was left on and not resulted in this crash here oliver reporting there now let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world c.c.t.v.

footage shows the moment a bus and two passenger trains collided during morning rush hour in argentina eleven people died and two hundred twelve were injured some of them children the bus driver a star have been trying to beat the train across the tracks several of the carriages forced off the rails in a train facing the opposite direction. calving flooding has killed over two hundred people while at least five million have been affected by an insult. pakistan rescue boats are collecting those in villages cut off by water but many remain trapped most of the displaced population are staying in tent camps with more than a million homes destroyed plus began early last month but heavy rains have dated them hampering relief efforts. at least seven people died and seventeen were injured in a wave of taliban attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul gunmen struck at the u.s. amber c. and nato headquarters occupying

a partially built nearby high rise block at the same time several suicide bombings hit key targets throughout the city it taks park in one thousand and five in which all the insurgents were reportedly killed by nato and afghan forces. all that brings us up to date for now remember that for more than anything that we cover here there's our web site r t dot com now though let's take a look at what's happening in business. thanks story man's very well welcome to the program fresh concerns bought the european economy have caused another wave of turbulence in the global markets stocks swing sharply by hundreds of points daily and one investors away the chances of the meltdown in europe take a note from walking sternness this russia doesn't have much to worry about so far russia is actually a much better position of those central european countries turkey in the region because it.