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i've played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside out. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch put the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. so it's an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great so one more transfer. and thinks this minute. welcome back to more of britain's finance minister or chancellor of the exchequer philip hammond will deliver a spring statement about the economy of the united kingdom mainstream media will no doubt focus on his abandoning of neocon neo liberalism maybe but less attention will be paid to

a tory britain arguably riven by division thanks to everything from benefit sanctions to the slashing of public services to subsidise the city of london official figures are conflicting about inequality which worsened under the labor years of blair and brown but many would argue that whoever has been in power the voices of the most marginalized in society are being unheard senior producer pete bennett went to talk with the grassroots activists fighting for political representation in an effort to give the working classes of britain a starring role in their story how much of our lives are dictated by post by law schools and policies coming from the building behind me and it's nearly over decisions are made on our behalf by select few how can elected members of parliament accurately represent the diversity of british society i speak activists on the front line campaigning against government and local councils working class issues striving to get the most vulnerable in society a seat at the table of power chris barely is the founder and c.e.o.

britain has class a grassroots charity stablish to tackle the institutions at the center of britain's class problems. a working class kid from i went to comprehensive schools all my life are going to see just sort of statistically in the sense of you know if you throw enough working class kids in the russell group universities some of them get in and i go and i studied economics for three years and i nearly dropped out i think at least once a year because you just get there and you work so hard together you've done so many things to prove that you're worthy of being somewhere and doing something and then you have just thrown back in your face every minute of every day that you're around people who are better than you you know around you equals you're on your superiors because people have seen more than you they've experienced more they know more they've done more people you know why. so every year people from the top twenty percent of social economic background struck a university rate of about four percent for working class kids for kids who were born twenty percent to about eleven i think so two to three times as many work across kids drop out really every year and you know it's instilled in every single

part of. british life and seven percent of kids educated in the u.k. go to private schools but private schools are such and still. a privilege that a third of employees are going to private schools a third of c. one hundred c.e.o.'s are going to private schools sixty something percent of all school and seventy percent of leading surgeons and lawyers went to private school so education policy massively guides equality in the rest of the country and education policy is decided in parliament inside whom is an educational project empowering marginalized groups to tell their own stories but a collaborative documentary the food bank the projects founder is talk to d.j. neil an activist educated here last school at sixteen to raise it due to single handedly attending night school until eventually in the fifty's been awarded a ph d. we worked with a group. i showed them how to use film camera to set a handheld camera and what they did is they interviewed each other so that they could talk about why they came to the bank why they need to use it how they felt

about used in the tank and of course what you get there when you get people telling their own stories they get very different version. when you it's all mainstream media and people who come to the concert sanctions is one big thing someone came in a couple of weeks ago and they've been sanctioned because they've been told they'd been to the person that was assessed in their time and so that meant i had no money there was a woman with four kids who came in last week and she had been overpaid by the d.w.p. so they stopped her money so she had poor kids and no money coming in and people are being excluded from the ability to write their own lives they're being talked about by people who have no experience of working class by the high. can they possibly know what it's for i to go through the working class they're going through at the moment they can't possibly know that so i think it's really really important that working class people get to represent themselves thirty years in the film industry academy you pulled winning producer be it bases work some british cult

classics the old man is shifty plus the critically acclaimed feature letters from baghdad we spoke about first hand experience of misrepresentation from london to hollywood in the last few years we really know that there have been some real issues around representation and discrimination and sexism and i think it happens around class too and a lot of it is really we're really about our prejudices in the u.k. and it wasn't who i started moving into production that i realised actually i didn't sound the same that i hadn't been to cambridge or had a private education and that most of the people had and then you also realise that so many of the people who are telling working class stories of course we do tell those stories on you they're not from your class and of course we live in a country that is very very polarized in terms of class and a lot of the information that people get about the working class is just through media representation and if the only visibility you happy working hospital is on things like reality t.v.

shows then there's not very much knowledge about working class life there's not much engagement particularly critical engagement with our working class people have been treated under a series of governments neo liberalism has very little use for working class people and then it's much easier to blame them for their predicament and they are in an awful predicament a moment well to look at the structural reasons why people are all elite in the kind of lives that factions definition the class was a communist concept to then the blairite years of we're all middle class it's why we really come confused because the government policies around this equality act does it really protect. class and discrimination now it doesn't so i think we really have to have a really big conversation around this and i don't think it's a simple was all ideologies that are good or bad or particular parties are good or bad bad i think it's like a really big with view that we need to have since blair and those of working class

people have turned away from the labor party because they see it's been dominated by middle class people who have middle class concerns and we can say that we can see how abandoned and i think that's part of the bracks here it's idea that oh it's because they're racists because they're an educated now it's because they've been abandoned and added that's what people need to realize that you know you can sit in london and be very contemptuous of the working class who voted to leave you but if you go to those mining those are mining towns if you go to the south mill towns and you see how people are living then you might start to be able to understand why people voted to lay crossed is the early liberation very early to recognise merge most group of society that doesn't have protection of the qualities or you can fire someone or hire someone legally speaking for having a certain accent from being from a certain town or not or into a certain school we think that people socio economic backgrounds don't have a bearing on how people were so it should be decided for you whether you can be

successful based on cross i mean i would definitely argue that quads in the whole of all of the issues that are affecting people in this country of course we have to take things like sex and disability and raith into consideration of course we to bar i think what we need to think about is not in terms of intersectionality but in terms of solidarity so that we work together and we recognise that you know there are ways to engendered working class people i think part of that identity politics is it deflects away from past and. the more visible. and i tend to become the more difficult it has become poor working class people we contacted labor m.p. for north and a host of brits and has class life where street sing about the role m.p.'s can play in amending the equalities act he was unavailable for comment if you want to join the discussion the charity's next event is the great british class conference held

at the london school of economics in central london on the twenty fourth of march. senior producer pete bennett on working class representation at westminster there because jeremy corbin the bookies favorite to be britain's next prime minister right now change all of that joining me now is liam young author of rise how germy corgan inspired the young to create a new socialism liam thanks for coming on going on the run i've got to ask given the massive mystery around this tragedy and wilcher of this m i six agent and his daughter emily six the head of it weighs six adjourned we deal of said about the protagonist of your book just ahead of the twenty seven election journey corwin is a danger to this nation at six which i once led he wouldn't clear the security vetting. that means jerry coburn is really dangerous yeah well they'd have us believe that for sure but i mean gerry coleman's been a member of parliament for a hell of a long time and if there was any issue with his background i'm pretty sure that

they would have picked up on it already by now and we saw with the whole check by scandal and smearing as well that there's no depth to which these people won't sink to do sport very early on that millennial certainly people older than just weren't listening to mainstream media when it came to the result it definitely yeah i mean you know newspaper. sales are falling for most titles and a big reason for that is because the demographic of people who buy newspapers are literally dying off a little bit more that but it is true but we get on news and opinion and information from different sources now and so a lot of those hits against jeremy on being a check spy all the things that we had throughout the election you know allegations of being a sympathizer with the ira with has a lot of all of these different stories that we've been hearing for the last two and a half years they don't really land with young people because it's not an area of

the media that we're paying that much attention to the guardian newspaper columnist comparing this is actually serious and quoted in your book of comparing people people like colbert to the gruesome moments you know early manson murders years so this was this was the discussion about the cult but it's actually quite offensive to be talking about somebody who has inspired mass membership of the labor party who has engaged young people whether it's a joke or noids not to just dismiss as all is a cult especially in that that way with that comparison why is that is what took hold because quite early on in this a lot of it is about media saboteurs you named the magazine g.q. we. what we're doing is equally all the work over there were certainly pieces that were asking the question of why do young people hate jeremy corbyn and this because for a while we had this idea that young people were actually big venture capitalists who

supported the tory party didn't like socialism or what it offered in that it was old school and they link to all of this which only being old as well so why would young people be inspired by an old bloke who makes jam and has some dodgy tracksuits sometimes why did all of these journalists get it so completely wrong as to why. we called and could do better than the labor party there were dozens of thirty forty five in terms of increased vote i mean for people who talk a lot about plurality there's no plurality in many areas of the british press. when people were asking apparently left wing papers to represent the korban project fairly they were being told to shut up basically but it's not about critics of any of the typically left wing press saying everything you write has to be protocol that all you have to have all of your commentators be protocol that it's about fairness people just want a balance there's no problem of reading

a newspaper that half doesn't support half the that's good that's a good thing but what we had in the press in the lead up to the election and actually over the last two and a bit years has been complete and utter hatred actually of the project and people don't even want to engage with it or discuss it and you didn't much time for this term activist media when a blow to review that was some way it does give the spectrum clear evolved of our media and so on school books why don't necessarily think it is activist media in the sense that when people use that term they're comparing it to the establishment press who are supposedly the guardians of fairness and safe reporting for me this whole fake news phenomenon is actually down to a lot of them feeling uncomfortable but they've lost their grip on fake news fake news is printed on the front pages of many. stream newspapers every day in this country to the point where you get a little correction on page fifty two but then sites and online news sites that are trying to present the leftwing view are completely dismissed as

crazy or mad or fake news what do you make of some loser that of course with relative success of course did lose the the who who said that the problem goes down to education in britain. history teaching about russia and the if britain better education system we'll talk more about russian crimes in here who wouldn't be doing so where the response to the election was mind blowing wearily in that first of all they spoke about bribes and fees and said everybody was bribed then it became people only voted labor because they didn't think jeremy had an actual chance of winning and then as the tories realised they had this huge problem they turned to this idea that young people have not been taught about stalin's crimes in the soviet union. you know i don't really know how you respond quite seriously to that but if our debate has descended to that. writing something that's left wing

that will be pilloried i'm sure for being so shouldn't be too much of a problem then young thank you and that's it for the show will be back on wednesday though for the fallout from british finance minister philip hammond spring statement on the state of the u.k. economy till then keep in touch by social media with you on wednesday forty years to the day british backed israeli troops invaded lebanon displacing well killing up to a quarter of a million in catalyzing the un's beautiful force is now in dialogue with hizbollah . he says. the church secret indeed just like priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the

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i. think. prime minister is expected to give a statement on the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. it follows a meeting of the national security council as the media political frenzy over the case continues also to come this hour an hour to the rebels the terrorists reportedly clash with each other in series eastern give after russian brokered plans to the release of dozens of civilians from the district and as the russian defense ministry releases the first images of its latest missile systems r.t. gets exclusive access behind said.

hello there is seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now amid the media frenzy over the poisoning of a former russian spy on u.k. soil the attack is today being discussed at the very highest level in britain and prime minister to resign mayes under pressure from some in her cabinet to adopt a tough stance so a script to work as an agent for russian intelligence but he was stripped of his rank and jailed for thirteen years for spying for the u.k. he was he how he was however released early in a spy swap between the u.s. and russia to resume a has chaired a meeting of the national security council poisoning with mainstream media pointing the finger of blame directly at the chremylus. attempts to police is for you to still trip branded state sponsored attempted murder just recently sixty blamed russia today theresa may will meet with ministers and officials at the national security council is still speculation and for russian state involvement the on the

agenda chloe said that vladimir putin probably did this console probably the first most likely thirty the spy scandal bonanza is certainly in full swing with the media hype reaching really curious levels they have been making allegations accusations speculation this story has been all the rage for over a week now despite the fact that there has been no proof no public publicly made fact and the investigation is obviously still continuing in terms of media details there's been so much hype with this story with scary headlines and really pre-determined outcomes we've seen things like that this incident looks like a state sponsored attack they've been saying treat russia like the terrorist it is whether a script poisoning can be conclusively pinned on moscow is even beside the point the other side of the story has been this quiet life that this man had been living

in the u.k. they've been talking about how he had the perfect family and lead this peaceful quiet life and there's been so much enthusiasm that some have been really making the story move forward much quicker than it should be with the times even at some point coming up with a headline mentioning swer paul's death which they certainly afterwards changed we do know that here in westminster lots of options have been thrown around about how to react to this whole story people have been saying that potentially of the expulsion of diplomats and spies should take place that some kind of financial curbing of people connected to the kremlin should take place they've been saying that some british officials should not go to the world cup in russia so while all of this is. been going on it's been really hyped up in terms of dragging russia into this whole story including from many politicians here in central london let's take a look what it would be ready to prejudge the investigation i can reassure the house that should evidence emerge that implies state responsibility then the majesty's

government will respond appropriately robustly we look objective lee at the evidence we don't get ahead of ourselves and if there is evidence of a foreign state involvement we will need to respond being more aggressive and we have to change the way that we actually deal with it because we can't be in a situation in these areas of conflict where we've been pushed around by another nation and with all of this really frenzy about this story that is seems to be for in its very first stages unraveling we do know that russia has said let's calm down the hype until we have the facts let's look at the facts once they are presented and made public and of course while we're waiting for more information as the investigation unravels will be continuing watching this story very closely just like everyone else meanwhile during a visit to a grain center russia's president was asked the question on screen powered by

a british journalist this was a blow to me putin's response. with dealing with the culture here and as you can see the aim is to improve living conditions and you're talking about tragedies to me for your sil's first then we'll discuss it. but we discussed the issue with human rights activist craig murray who believes there has been a little too much speculation in the mainstream media for some time. in the british media that are appalling we know but it's not just that the senior british politicians have been naming. the chairman of the commons foreign affairs committee mr toobin here today was pointing the finger at russia naming russia specifically and saying it was growing evidence pointing at russia was in fact there's been no evidence pointing anybody. just so far that all of this was going to be used

to stoke up even further the atmosphere of just a phobia that's been prevalent in the u.k. media for quite some time but we should remember of course that the people who tell us that it will be exactly the same people who told us about saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction so whether you believe them or not is of course quite a different thing. now the news tonight terrorists and rebels occupying the enclave of eastern ghouta just side the syrian capital damascus have reportedly started fighting each other that's according to the russian reconciliation center for syria it says in fighting began after one of the rebel groups with surged to separate from terrorists in exchange for talks about their say passage from the area we earlier the reconciliation center struck a deal with some rebels allowing fifty two civilians half a can children to safely leave the enclave through a humanitarian corridor or this is the first time civilians have been able to use the corridor or there as intended previously they were in

a ride on by militants or they had to use a passing aid convoy as cover r.t. arabic correspondent well fisher bruni reports now from the ground. the syrian army has liberated several parts of eastern ghouta. also thanks to syrian regime after it's a number of civilians have managed to free after being trapped inside a battle zone was of. that's after the russian reconciliation center for syria offered to militants and their families an opportunity to leave with safety guarantees in exchange for allowing to free passage of civilians principal conditions of that deal was the separation of this rebel group called legion from our new sure a terrorist would harm this group has long been affiliated however these

negotiations reportedly resulted in fighting between the former new shura and our allies which has led to an open confrontation an exchange of fire on the streets of eastern ghouta pursing civilians to flee the crossfire nevertheless there's been a decline in fighting as a syrian government and russian reconsiderations center continue negotiating with militants for their safe passage out of the battle zone. while the rebel held area . has been besieged by government forces since twenty thirteen however the fighting there has recently escalated and in the last few days the syrian government has regained a large portion of the territory there pretty much isolating the militants in just the three red pockets you can see suffering under militant rule in these areas have shared their stories. as more now on the deal that allowed dozens of civilians to leave the fighting. militants in control of the area have let them out almost two

weeks after russia and syria open the humanitarian corridor was not an act of good world on behalf of the rebel factions but part of a deal russia and syria led some anti government fighters safely flee with their families and in exchange fighters in go to would allow fifty civilians to leave the war zone as well. we've been suffering horribly for seven years we all stayed neutral in misrata but we couldn't leave can do anything they didn't let us leave controlled pressure on us that mr imagine she'd we haven't seen any of the aid sent to us we haven't seen any money nothing they took everything from us. militants treat civilians anees goutam as a bargaining chip making sure that if anyone flees they do it on the fighters terms the gloves were off from the start the russian defense ministry has reported that

the paths to safety were shelled almost religiously precisely to prevent anyone from fleeing to damascus trying to scape the hell fire between the government forces and militant groups whose fighters far too often side with terrorists. who have all sorts of needs inside order today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with the people inside all day and food aid as well. the gov the other materials as well. and then. europe that started this you know. they never stay here it wouldn't have it not.