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 than their parents property prices have been driven up by militarily generated inflation and by monetary instability generally and the accumulation of debt is obviously a taxation in one form or another on future generations to the benefit of present one one of the this 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 and in between united states and years old we see the middle class being under

enormous assault in the income disparity that we see the inequality that is growing now i mean to echo what john just said there i mean very few people know will save you they 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 and the sort of journalistic sams but we seeing essentially a constellation of the underclass and i don't like using that word but even on the class we seeing a middle class of conflict being squeezed for all the reasons i don't said and we seeing a tiny tiny upper class i'm not using that so many social sense already in an economic one is getting much much richer than anyone ever before where you know that their wealth is going up by a factor of ten one hundred or more and you know that china has a similar problem because it has now got the fastest rates or that's going to fastest growth of billionaires you know soon london property prices will be pushed up in that segment apologized to her with growing middle class simultaneously do so sure about that the fact because is. of capitalism that we're dealing with does

polarized society even in a very different context so yes you have the right about the middle class in china but china but also our 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 out if it works and dispossession 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 from you also if i go to use it you know a lot of people say the middle class i get the state off my back but 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 with 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 that this property is a known property on this 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 the 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 cost a lot in not with the poor of people who make their money to the point where being employed means little girls will live once. i know in both once said very politically that for him working class men people who didn't want to work. was an urgent plea you know what 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 don't think 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 they 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 much more many more risk in sharing service 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's as privatized profit and nationalized losses and socialized and that is a system which still in three or four years after the onset of crisis 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 and through various forms of property not just individual property but also forms of communal property housing associations are a great great example of this that's where you share risk and profit everyone is better off if you work together you could never for example negotiate better energy deals with the big companies you can only do it as a small body and we could have this across the economy to your central. banks my money is with a credit union manitoba the prairie's have them right you give them their money you

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a very warm welcome to you this is a live from moscow the british parliament discussing whether it's sort of us the norwich allows police to stop terrorist suspects without reasonable suspicion. that the powers to fall and are a breach of civil liberties but it's a better course u.k.'s all the legal loopholes which have left some suspects locked up without charge. good family is incomplete. hence. the anguish of a family torn apart. but. these. little. paragraphs resolves. tyla lose some. who are son son is one of britain's forgotten terrorist suspects held in custody for

five years without charge trapped in a twisted pits of its justice system we know him very weak and connect well properly. because it. 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 it calls extremist one of the websites servers happen to be in america and that's why it's after him people are tired if they committed anything occurred in this country and they should be brought to justice here and charged if you can even be a liberal get on with your life five years in prison it is is starvation prison 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 has families relentless fight for justice is the only thing stopping them quote him with his. would be. because america is so paul paul only the people who provoke us with something. nor none of the government protested. this is where it's our how is the rest of 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 it is extradited to the states in prison here china writes poetry and teaches english if extradited and convicted it will be a supermax jail solitary confinement and life without parole extreme measures to those who know them and born and educated in london i'm very surprised that the

british courts have not treat him on bail at least in all these years because it's completely clear that he is not any kind of threat to anybody there of pull more like down including our maid prisons longest detained without charge a prisoner gary mckinnon and another fighting extradition since hacking into the pentagon seven years ago both pm town has suffered from asperger's syndrome which helped keep gary out of prison unlike the muslim suspects karen mckinnon is say you know white middle class english boy and barbara and. are very highly educated. british little class boys and they're both 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 to out in september. has families gone to the european court of human rights in a last ditch to get some tried here it's taken five years to get this far put down his father's not giving up hope yet either then it r t london. then it's continuing to follow that story in london and you can keep track of it on twitter where you can check out his tweets and i'll feed one of his latest message points out of the u.k. government promised an independent review of extradition in its election manifesto almost a year ago but now it seems to be all but forgotten more followers that r.t. underscore can they stop these on this and of course all parts of. the chinese prime minister has warned the e.u. that it must call its economic problems it comes it just days after italian

officials reportedly attempted to convince the chinese delegation to buy italy's debt france's then embezzlement company in sienna holdings ltd believes europe should just hope the chinese come to their rescue. it's precisely seeing is europe's debt problem must be sought by europeans a long frank love child. of last resort. china right here europe's. politicians have. budget deficits but it's hard to figure future. to catch up with them in two thousand and eleven year finally. several european countries like greece and italy so to put their houses in order be they have to spend what they have but not spend more i don't have. all this comes as

italy's pushing a highly unpopular authority package the country's low out of parliament space was a series of tax hikes and spending cuts designed to save seventy billion dollars the measures have already been approved by the senate despite weeks of wrangling and public protests but even if it is passed many one day it'll be enough to turn around years of economic stagnation a culture of excesses arsonists for. as italy prepares to once again tighten its belt and the likes of neil stary seen it politicians it seems and found a way to state and sells and penny we publish a new of the view inside the parliament and it's you see a proper level menu as like a free. restaurant with very cheap cries of cheap yet exclusive many was leaked to

italian let's press a magazine this is name it should instead be straight people pay for it and we've thought that these. prize for the people of the parliament costs five million. and for around a thousand. a year the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated for language courses never a million euros spent just for their stationery and it's the taxpayer left getting that whopping bill in fact that's been hard for many to stomach. we are in economic recession arlene are my people like our speed increases. because they don't bear the interest profits or lead to care early day interest so we are. outside the parliament building a protest movement has been growing there 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 we hope there will come. a testing against what they say is a politicians a piece of taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately if the economic crisis in the country. costs are to be cut and social spending in people's wages comes to the politicians it seems no expense is spared people's appetite for change is growing. but no politicians they consider that they vow that the hunger strike will continue and there are many here and till they get them out there. with actual crime scenes raging across the atlantic as well the context the latest edition of crossfire which is looking at how america's middle class is bearing the

brunt here's a quick preview of the program showing later. i was amazed to discover when i got to the united states that everybody was in a trade union is considered the middle class you just mean guys with jobs that's what you mean about the various. family capital or capital gains or whatever you just read 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 work in the point where being employed means middle class well i want. you know i know in golf one said very quickly that to him working class many people didn't want to work. was an urgent cleaner when it collapsed and i would put it the other 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.

it's north africa in the middle east now where of course washington is strongly opposed in bank and libyan rebels and the new regime there instead well it's now equally strong in its opposition to syria's president. must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way. now the u.s. is voicing concerns about the threat of state terri invited in the region following the uprisings that so enthusiastically back from that have a new report on religious freedom secretary of state hillary clinton as arab nations not to trade one form of repression. in the middle east and

north africa transitions to democracy have inspired the world but they have also exposed and religious minorities to new dangers people have been killed by their own neighbors because of their ethnicity or their fate. in other places we've seen governments stand by while sectarian violence inflamed by religious animosities chairs communities apart. well there are also concerns america's decision to take sides in these conflicts could backfire on its cases at least ally israel damage accounts of the 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 even though. iran is not an arab country the arab spring.

and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurred in the runs under the umbrella of 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 can be and countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america is blaming assad alone i think assad stays just like a dog for your number and let's hope that russia is next in line they've overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next is syria they want to overthrow syria and 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 itself watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are

filled with new hopes and aspirations son went as far as to predict the arab spring would 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 invent. 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 throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington is seeking to increase its influence and control in these countries but 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 by the egyptian border guards in we here are washington's reported leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into a tribal war theory or the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult yet washington seems to be using the early spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for and undermining the whole region i'm going to shake out reporting from washington our king. on the ground in libya the national transitional council has given everyone in the besieged productive stronghold of bani walid two days to leave or face a full attack last week opposition fighters launched an assault of the city that the offense installed in the face of the its resistance rebels claim gains in the

valley sixty kilometers east of kidnapping ten towns of sense and even though the embattled former leader's whereabouts remain unknown stephen headphones and investigators he says it's just a matter of time before he sounds good after years or not but he's a very clever group and he's a north of the road for forty five years. and i'm sure he took note of course. and i'm sure he took an order of saddam hussein was captured. and i'm sure he's avoiding those mistakes but he will make it work. now peace that needs one hundred forty kilometers of border fence and that's the vision of israel's prime minister builders to speed up construction of an electrified barrier along the length of the border with egypt to maintain peaceful

relations that as tensions rise with egypt and turkey threatening to leave israel isolated case political comedies you have used by the hour told r.t. that israel's current policy is heading. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation no taking place because israeli calling israeli decision makers on the political level are choosing to if you will only last was our allies by refusing to apologize for charity for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been done against them certainly push for forward new israeli image in people's eyes the country will continue sprawled fashion cities while the world around them in their near vicinity is is really

changing powerful union becoming. and israel has betrayed itself as an aggressor with its recent actions undermining its position ahead of the upcoming un with a palestinian state if you are. professor of international more a member of the gyptian council a foreigner. the x. overs really reflects undoubtedly reflect that it is not being for peace it is not subpoenas lover under the commitments of the united nations the charter consequently the very strong statement by the government of third of the grave violations of the humanitarian maritime law and the international humanitarian law. thirty of the navy last year out of the ground threat in this and he said that these

acts actually be beyond the international law he said that is really has been sweating question replacing the law since the birth of the state on the fifteenth of may nineteen forty eight. ok we've got more stories for you on our website dot com on. this whole career of russia's richest man could be any day after a little over two months internal struggle for power in the right cause policy to see him live on the top position. on facebook is hiring former white house employees find out why the social networks has been doing some networking of its own the powers that be.

part of the nation a planned missile defense system will be based in remain me about according to a new deal signed in washington under the agreement the u.s. will place a land based interceptor missiles and they were one hundred military remain years so while the country was chosen for the project of the similar debate the system in the czech republic fell through the masterbated initiative is claims to be aimed at defending europe against attacks from both states like korea but according to me i get a pass at howard university but there's no real threat to america or its allies as a question just hit a shield which. i don't think it's really a military necessity one really believed it was a possibility he ran a charity in europe its nice eyes did not reach could not reach western europe

should be gone it was crowded and the czech republic now is a new look at the moment we really know but i think the stakes are truly political washington probably wants to reach for my satellite countries. so it's a political move but hardly a military necessity and also considering the strength of the us economy i don't. it's a wise move in financial terms when obama had this reset all as it were pressure 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 because the effectiveness of the shield is problematic in government but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to.