in several parts of the capital groups of youths are clashing with police buildings and cars are again ablaze it follows unrest over the weekend after a monolith shot dead by police oh he's i have a better taste here with more from the british capital. there's violence in birmingham which is widely regarded as the u.k. second city and second city that's in the midlands with riot police taking to the streets to try and contain looting with several you smashing shop windows taking what they can in what's been branded copycat violence of the scene is going on in london as for london though the police here are really braced for a night of violence because it's feared that the worst worst is still yet to come is as you say all leaving going from bad to worse and more and more violence and writing spring up in various places various locations all across the city that were previously unscathed in particular the south of london and it's just gone up a cover not as since darkness fell of writers have been taking. have been looting

and taking to the streets and burning buildings in various locations across south london from clapp and junction in the southwest to croydon and bermondsey in the southeast which is really quite a large area of london this is all happened the last couple of hours or so in clapham people are looting. smashing shop windows restaurants bookmakers grabbing what they can t.v.'s they don't really care what they take it seems they just want to cause as much damage as possible in croydon the latest pictures i've seen there are of a huge building being set on fire whole corner of a block is up in flames and in both cases there's no police around whatsoever the police are saying that they are pretty stretched to the areas they are in which is several areas throughout london lewisham in south london peckham hackney in north london northeast london they're finding it hard to control the situation there because a number of spectators in particular children watching events and getting in the

way of them doing their job and being on robust on the necessary people and so the acting commissioner of police commissioner tim godwin has come out this evening and said. asking parents to. get in touch with their children to try and keep them inside and so the police can do their job that's the plea from the police but also they're saying they simply can't get on top of things as quickly as they would like because seems violence is just springing up just instantaneously at the same time as all across london so they simply don't have the resources this is so this trying to recruit people as it happens situations have gone from from seemingly complete carmen places like clamp and to widespread looting and no one feels safe and. it can go turn into a seemingly like a war zone in just a matter of minutes to buildings in croydon going up in flames so it's very hard to stay on top of things like that and as for the rioters there staying ahead of the

police is believed by using private group messaging the police are making arrests they've made at the least two hundred fifteen arrests today and they have they are having to pass in more offices and bring them in over three hundred of them from twelve other forces around the country to try and deal with the situation that's the scale of it is i think at the moment the police are simply outnumbered by the by the rioters. andrew gilligan from the british newspaper the daily telegraph was caught up in the middle. i was i was mugged i was pulled off my bike and my bike was stolen by a gang of youths. on the way to the studio about forty five minutes ago i spent most of the day in tottenham which is where it all kicked off interviewing people who had lost their homes as a result of these riots and they are furious with the writers they say that what

happened to mark duggan the man who was shot by police is absolutely no excuse at all for what happened to them they blame the police for not being quick enough to contain the trouble in tottenham in the first place and quite clearly what's happening in hackney and lewisham and ackerman croydon and all the other places where disorder has broken out tonight has absolutely nothing to do with the police shooting of a man ten miles away and it's not anger at all i think it's pure criminality and people are taking advantage. of what they see is a lawless situation and overstretched police forces to do their worst and help themselves to free goods well as it spreads very quickly this kind of thing we've seen it in fact in the arab world we've seen it social media spreading unrest in the arab world probably for the good there but here it's spreading exactly the same way arguably for the bad and there are lots of kids on the blackberries and instant

messaging and twitter and all the rest of it spreading the word about where the next rock is going to be and they might be able to move faster than the police i think perhaps i mean if this carries on like this it is quite worrying it does seem to be breaking out in four or five different parts of london. our correspondent in the london lore and that is one of them and she's keeping up to date with all the developments on twitter for the hill and underscore home in her latest comment she reveals a yet more disturbing side of the riots she says early in the evening she witnessed three very young boys committing vandalism kicking in a shop window apparently just compliance out of going to altie on disco called to find the latest on this and the other developing stories we're covering here on r.g.p. . moving on now to president barack obama has defended the american economy claiming the u.s. is still a aaa country the markets that don't seem to be in full agreement they followed the

rest of the global economy after friday's downgrade of american credit the dow jones has lost more than five percent l.t.v. arena has the latest from the. well the mood right now is still very in secure after president obama u.s. president barack obama addressed to the nation that the market continued going down regarding what the u.s. president did say he said he didn't need a credit agency to indicate that the u.s. needs a balanced long term approach to deficit to cut its deficit nor did he need a credit agency to indicate that the political gridlock in washington is damaging the u.s. president went on to say that washington is not lacking policy or plans what it's lacking is political will he said to many lawmakers elected officials are insistent on drawing lines in the sand and bumping heads we saw this play out for weeks and weeks before there was a deal or surrounding the debt that was reached in the last hour of the whole world

was watching as this political partisan type of grandstanding was taking place in washington and this is something that has caught the attention of the credit agencies that are now trying to gauge how much of a confident and insecure and secure investment the united states is the dollar is we do know that s. and p. downgraded the u.s. is credit score from aaa to double a on friday that was the first time ever in history that the this country the world's largest economy was downgraded and we did hear the head of moody's say on monday that there is a chance that moody's a second credit agency and there's a chance that they may downgrade the u.s. this credit from aaa to double like if the deal that was reached to reduce the u.s. is deficit does not prove to be very reliable because at this point we see the u.s. the world's largest economy with fourteen point three trillion in debt and growing

and there's many plans that are put in place on how to reduce the deficit. but the reality is the us has a pattern of borrowing and spending and borrowing and spending the bubble is growing bigger and the world is growing concern. and my pen seen economist at euro pacific capital. that standard and poor's should be praised for their decision to downgrade the u.s. economy american debt is intractable america is becoming insolvent and the saeter is getting out and once the chinese fully understand it and once the japanese and the europeans and or foreign creditors all the sense of the idea that we cannot pay back our debt without inflation and monetizing it and trying to fit in there will be. sure to be option which will send interest rates to the moon or at least into the sing

a high single digits and then it will be clear as day that the u.s. isn't solid and that's where the s. and p. standard and poor's is trying to who they should be you look at it and you can read you look at the way they're being in the mainstream media. europe stock markets are also suffering losses they've seen london closing down over three percent this is despite european central bank decision to buy up spanish and italian government bonds oxys daniel bushell brings all the details from brussels greece is in big trouble it's fall into a fourteen year low because if the euro falls as increasing numbers here believe it could do greece will be first in the firing line if. to be an investor any more than an investor faces must be read like the markets there and everywhere and what's being dubbed black monday spain's become the latest state to pledge that it will change that it will reform it will get its house in order is that it will slash billions more of public spending but that doesn't help the mood in the

european central bank either it will boil up spanish and italian that something that the hormones to the moment that hasn't helped either now the g seven g twenty group of leading economies say that they are working together to control the situation but investors are voting with their feet that's what markets adele and investors just don't believe the politicians meanwhile probably financial adviser and wealth management in london says the eurozone is doomed and less germany comes to the rescue. unless the germans are prepared to write an open check to the big countries and to anybody that has problems moving forward to carry on subsidising it simply isn't isn't going to happen and it is unsustainable so you can't have a sustainable monetary union without fiscal and political union which hasn't happened the only other solution is a breakup of the euro which which is probably looking more likely what i've been

calling for the dollar to capitulate for a number of years and i don't think we're right there yet i think that the dollar will eventually move away as the reserve currency has to happen and of course a new a new set up will have to be formed the problem is that when when the pound lost the reserve status the need moved towards the towards a dollar that was cemented in bretton woods nine hundred forty eight. it was a natural successor to the pound the problem that we have present is there's no. no currency there's a natural successor to the dollar and there's talk about using the i.m.f. as the our system as potentially a global currency but it's very difficult to see how everybody can sit around the table with all their different interests and the politics that there are and actually come up with a solution on a sort of g.

twenty level and create a new reserve currency and even if you do do that the transition may well be extremely painful unless it's managed in a very appropriate way. and coming up in an hour's time aussies financial analyst mark sky's the ones that america suffered he's now at risk and he's a little of what's to come. to cut the debt. by definition cutting parts of the economy that would be generating revenue and tax revenue to pay off debt so what is going to happen is this problem is going to be addressed by a global banking situation like the i.m.f. etc it is bill gross is absolutely correct the mathematics don't add up there's no way you can do any cuts in any combination that will create growth to pay off these debts and this is what we mean when we say america is losing its sovereignty.

to syria now that i have been for a time government protesters across the country gunfire and explosions have been reported in the city of. more than three hundred people have been killed in the past week of bloodiest in the five month uprising against president assad's rule bahrain kuwait and saudi arabia have called them bastards from syria adding to the international condemnation of the crackdown on protesters and patrick from the online political magazine spike in london says bashar al assad is apparently at a loss as to how to deal with the situation. if assad is serious about promising democracy and sweeping constitutional reforms so he has promised then clamping down on freedom of speech and freedom of expression which is the cornerstone of any democracy is not sending out a message to the syrian people that he can be taken seriously or trusted in his promise is a tool there is a sense from really that the ease by which she is started to say this is the end of

the single party rule and he will start to think about elections and the way in which he previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantee guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms means that really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do there very isolated they don't really know where they go and they don't know what's really the position of the u.s. is on this which i think is making them very uncomfortable and i think as a result they're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place and this is i guess messiah is a seems very toys that she almost willing to relinquish power at the moment because i suspect he is very worried it's the same treatment that some of barack is now seeing. on that story and lots more besides at our website home right now united got the latest on

a huge find something most kind of smiled seen from kilometers away coming from this sausage factory these that eight pictures are on our web site of course our dot com and also that. a passenger plane crashes in russia's far east. thanks only to miracle witness and report back to find out more on the stories that are to get up. three years ago georgia launched an attack on the people of the small republic of south a set here the five day war in which georgia trying to reclaim its hold territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives. in the south a setting of capital a city still struggling to come to terms with their losses. i come here almost

every day i sit and talk to my son so i know i will lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years stacey signet has come to this cemetery in self-assertive where her son is burritt five days to norco's two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. when her son a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital teen vaal was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian firing line. the only thing that makes her life worth living now is her twenty year old daughter they now live together in a newly built house to rounded by families with similar tragic stories. in the totes across the street lives of women who lost two children enter the house opposite lives

a man who lost both his wife and his child. all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in all those two thousand and eight when they try to retake control of the breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire nursed my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened that night for i saw him wrong fire when you know it was going to be our last night but it was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. moskos down trained. force meant to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognize such as independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential air at new road jobs and invest in new zealand have been built

but still signs of the conflict remain this behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping post for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but deadly conflict the memories are still very role. much in the question will i see reporting from seen vaal south ossetia. and the regime in georgia similar to that of mubarak era egypt says such a curious form of children and that in politics and the caucuses we are talking about the country that has no opposition or represented in the real political life saakashvili treats georgia as his own fiefdom the only difference to the size of georgia and egypt as a really matter how much egypt was playing a great a great deal for the united states in terms of first ability in the middle east georgia does not in the region but the fact that we have political prisoners we

have no free media and we have autocratic rulers whose reckless behavior and been put through political decisions already played so many negative role for my country he is the one who started this madness genocide against his own people and the cooperate the only corporate the one who started the war the one who is going to be responsible for this action. as changes week so they are of world some countries that finding is easier than others the next iraq's foreign minister tells us he how the revolutions in the region have been positive for his country.

what do you think of the demonstrations and revolutions that keep shaking the arab world and. with what is positive iraq has one of the first arab states that welcomed the revolution in tunisia probably our official representative was the first one to arrive in tunisia and egypt to congratulate them on the revolution we've got good connections with other protesters movements as well what they consider iraq to be an example despite all our drawbacks iraq is pursuing a line of new democracy it's an example of achieving democracy freedom and respecting human dignity we are all aware of our drawbacks however but they are looking at us whether we recognize the people's right to self-determination for

fulfilling their political will and making their political choices while being free and preserving their dignity iraq is anything but neutral in this situation but at the same time iraq is unwilling to interfere with other people's affairs or we can set an example that's how we see our role which does not consist in choosing leaders. but do you have the same position regarding the current events in syria at the moment. yes the government has the same position regarding what's going on in syria however the events in syria different due to the country's geopolitical position in the region and the. it plays for iraq syria is different from libya it's different from yemen with a good relationship and permanent contacts with our brothers in syria showed that we still have time for the reforms that would be really felt by ordinary people and that it was impossible to resolve the issue solely by force my that was your father that quote that mr minister the leaders of political factions are carrying out

goshi asians with the government and the issue of american military instructors staying in the iraqi armed forces after american pulls most of its troops out how many are there going to be and how long are they going to stain iraq. how yes iraq needs military instructors probably the military instructors won't be away from the troops that are being pulled out from iraq probably the training itself will be conducted in iraqi we must be precise the published as they go and only says the government is willing to start negotiations or rather than you cannot claim that an agreement on the agreement to pull out the coalition troops before the end of twenty remains and shake the. their early in the does it mean that before the end of this year all the american troops will be pulled out from iraq. or all the troops and departments will be hauled out before the end of twenty eleven without any delay but there is another problem here iraq has purchased tanks airplanes and military boats and this equipment requires thorough preparation and instructors and

that's the case throughout the world and let's say tomorrow we buy russian tanks then the instructors must be russian as well you should not mix up two different things and talk about the troops staying there longer until now the number of instructors and other details has not been defined mr zebari i'm sure you are very well acquainted with the report presented by prime minister nouri al maliki to party leaders in parliament of the current status of iraq's armed forces what does it say that the report gives an assessment of the country's domestic security and it says that our armed forces have reached the level of proficiency in. equipment status sufficient for maintaining it but i would like to point out again that we have no aircraft no air shield no defense system our ports in the gulf an imbalance or have no cover from the sea since there is no navy place and there still remains a need for intelligence services in the view of the threat from al qaeda and terrorism and quite honestly we still need to build up our defense capacities we

need equipment and armaments as well as qualified instructors who will be able to increase our army's performance to the level where it would become fully operational and self-sustained even lettuces given this when can we expect the iraqi armed forces to complete building up their defense capacities and he called up the task of maintaining domestic security. this is beyond my authority so i'm not prepared to answer this question but i can say that it will take some time no doubt up there is an opinion that the decision to employ u.s. forces personnel to train the rocky army was made by iraq's political leaders under direct pressure from the u.s. see what can you say about that they said lord before that of my higher jat no there was no pressure the americans helped us lay the foundation and start building our new army that's one sure thing that they keep helping us and monitoring the progress they give advice on what strategic arguments we can buy for that we have a need for them and they have their own interests in iraq and they're protecting

their interests or not by way of putting pressure or telling us to do this or that there is nothing if. they say that they are ready to stay only if iraq asks them to we're not asking them with our government hasn't given such a request as for the military instructors this issue will be discussed by the government of the country as late as iraq has a need for them. well

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and again this is all see coming to light from the headlines. london's engulfed in violence for a sad night as riot police try to control what the government calls a way shared criminality then rest is also reported to have spread to britain the second largest city bombing and. that sinking feeling u.s. stocks sharply in the first trading session after america's credit rating downgrade is as eurozone debt continues to wreak havoc with investors fearing it's me and say that the next economist to. three years after georgia's attack on south the sets have remembrance ceremonies are held for the victims of the cold plagues so we talk to the people still bearing this cause all the conflict. and more now that in our special report this hour south a set hands had to overcome to get the country back on track after the.