shops and thousands of cars on fire in a number of cities all sparked from what was initially a peaceful protest over a police shooting in south london bennett is following this story for us. there's no guarantee things won't flare up again tonight like they have done the last three nights because last night certainly in several areas of london the police simply didn't have any control whatsoever the word to describe it is lawless it was complete mayhem in places like ealing in west london clapham in southwestern croydon in the southeast where it was widespread looting buildings and vehicles being set on fire when i say the police didn't have any control for example in clapham they weren't there for over an hour and the looters and the use had to have the free run of the main department store there for well over an hour and all the shops and high street were smashed in and. around santa really and. now people were just taking what they could mobile phones trainers and things like that and there has been. some real shock five residents in that area who are speaking to

me last night saying how can this happen here that's quite an affluent suburb and they thought they were out of the trouble they're. in thing they're be affected but it just so no area is safe at the moment from this trouble because last night the police we didn't have much control there has been some criticism of the police last night they had six thousand police officers on the streets tonight bolster that and so the hope is that will get things under control but but already all the police cells are full in london over four hundred fifty arrests have been made and so it's being taken out of london to cells that are free in areas outside of the capital. as i say they're going to bring in more police officers to try and get the situation under control for more on the possible causes of these riots in london here's my colleague laura emmett who is in east london last night london's burning riot is in police takeover the capital for a third night as leaches target yet more areas of london in

a spiraling cycle of violence police still off the streets in treat whole areas it's crime scenes with local communities trying to to come. comes with the wave of looting engulfing north east and south london in tottenham where it all began the high street is a burned out shell the police the job center all the banks everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that no jobs nothing for the youths to do it was sparked by the fatal shooting by police of this man mark duggan tottenham once on says about why and how he was killed but his shooting was just the spark in an exceptionally dry tinder box tottenham and other london boroughs have long been simmering with resentment towards the police towards social injustice and towards unemployment this is a community which is owned fantastic precious by how levels one

a ploy moment then are losing jobs their lives and services youth clubs have been closed those never an excuse for violence by the community as a tinderbox and the war isn't concerns and complaints about the death of doctrine or the spark which has a far tottenham has one of the highest unemployment rates in london particularly amongst the young black people are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police than whites and together with hackney brixton wolf them stay and lewisham which also saw violence has become a victim of what prime minister david cameron is now calling failed multiculturalism this. bearers of some of the groups. these groups. get are you know that. i do not. know a racist. but. you know something should be

done unless these gangs of youths tire of the violence that doesn't seem to be a real reason why this looting. stop it's unlikely the perpetrators have jobs to go to and school's out for the summer london residents fear more unrest on the streets in the coming days the losers on making a political point and hardly anyone in these communities supports them but many are saying that there actually is a political point that social integration in parts of the country is deplorable social mobility is nil and the relationship with the police is bad as it's been for years and with the cuts in government spending looming over the next few years the situation is very unlikely to get any better nor at its height in the east. you can keep up with live updates on the chaos in the u.k. on our twitter feed r.t.e. underscore column some of the latest tweets from our correspondents pm commits more

police to london riots but without beefing up measures they can use will still be strong also driving through london riots armored vehicles deployed on the streets of ewing welcome to our twitter feed at r.t. underscore calm and keep an eye on the best videos on our you tube channel. the. british prime minister david cameron has called the riots pure criminality speaking after a meeting of the country's emergency committee a promise that looters will face before force the law well joining us live now is

gerard battens a member of the european parliament. thank you for joining us some sixteen thousand officers are expected tonight on the streets of london do you think that will be enough. well i think the police have been outnumbered so far and what this is criminality i agree with the camera norm and i think that the point has come where we have to call in the armed forces what we're seeing now is chaos and chaotic criminality across the whole of london it's not confined to one place as it when we've had riots in the past for example in brixton in the 1980's this is now spread across spreading across the whole of london even my area for this is rumored to be targeted tonight i've told my assistants to leave the office early and people about . now what we should do in my view is pull our troops back from these pointless wars in afghanistan in iraq where we should never be in the first place their only function as far as i can see is to help my tony blair multimillionaire in the usa

let's get a troops back into this country and actually put them on the streets supporting the police in order to crush this this criminal insurrection because it's nothing better than that what i've heard on some of your previous interviews is a lot of the usual wear special pleading about these you know these poor disadvantaged people don't have jobs there's jobs there if they wanted to do them most jobs now are filled by paths in shops in everywhere you go they're filled by eastern europeans who are highly educated who actually speak the language and they're getting the jobs and our own people are not getting them very often because they're not interested in education they don't really want to work and it doesn't surprise me now because we're seeing these people on the streets looting is this is this is a kind of now criminal. criminal shopping spree that they're going on because of the lax approach that we've had to actually arresting people and punishing people this country for years it's been it's it's almost impossible to get arrested for something if you're arrested it's very difficult to actually get convicted and if

you're convicted it's almost impossible to get a meaningful sentence these people have nothing but contempt for the law and you can see in their faces they're not even bothering to cover their faces up they don't think anything is going to happen to them there is a mechanism which we could use to deal with this if you'd like me to elaborate on. but i actually want to go back and talk about you saying that the armed forces need to be brought in now we're hearing that assume your london police officer says that it is possible that authorities will use plastic bullets to quell rioters why haven't one or cannons rubber bullets tear gas or even the armed forces been brought in yet i think because the police force over the years have been debilitated by this culture of political correctness where people are out on the streets doing this although you know they must have some reason the poor little dears and you mustn't be nasty to them and i think the police are kind of have been hidebound bodies for years and i think this is what we see that now you can see images of the police now where they're under siege on the streets by these people you've got women jumping from burning buildings to save their lives people are

surprised nobody's actually been burnt to death yet and i think the time has come to get tough with this we must crush this otherwise it's going to get totally out of hand and it will be a constantly reoccurring thing if we don't they'll put the shops back to gether you know they'll stop them and then the criminals will come out again if we don't actually make it plain to these people that this will not be tolerated and it will be crushed and the first victim of the riots the twenty six year old man has died in hospital do you think that is just the beginning are we going to see more adapters. well are so from what we've seen on the t.v. screens. in front of the police with buildings on fire the surprise that they have been more fatal injuries so far because nothing was trying these people have no respect for property or human life. here you know they wouldn't be burning buildings down how sorry if i actually cared when anybody was in them or not after they know where people have been we've seen people who lived about the shops in flats in fact to flee the buildings evacuated in an emergency i'm sure that wasn't done in an orderly fashion these people are taught in the building and i don't see

in them. member of the european parliament on the line with us live from london thank you very much for your time. on our web site r t v dot com we've been asking what's the driving force behind the riots so far the majority think it's the result of heavy handed policing others blame it on the struggling economy and the failure of multiculturalism in europe and the rest believe it's criminals trying to grab anything they can join the discussion drop us a line at our tweet dot com. well from the crisis on the streets of britain to a crisis in the global markets now europe european shares are struggling as the e.u. central bank chief warns the region's financial system is in the worst crisis since the second world war that's despite the banks starting to buy government bonds from spain and italy to prop up their struggling economies our europe correspondent daniel bushnell has the details this is becoming

a blood balls last week was the worst for. you yesterday became known as black monday plummeted today has become even worse and even the cheerleaders for the euro or depressed. the european central bank said this is the worst crisis since world war two and it requires unconventional measures no central bankers a famous for their calm for being reassured and when you hear someone like that coming up with such radical phrases you want the. investors in the markets are panicking he had hoped the european central bank boy up of spanish and italian beds which no one wants to touch at the moment would help but it hasn't as you can see the reaction on the stock exchange is experts actually fear what the e.c.b. is doing is only bringing defaults closer it's forcing a huge states to slash spending less money going in to create jobs and build things when really the only way out of this crisis is for the countries themselves to grow

their economies which means putting more in spending more on the economy and creating new jobs now barack obama has consulted with the heads of spain and italy which are the latest countries to join this euro storm now economist warm of the united states has a common problem with the eurozone they both have unsustainable debts with no real plan b. and as our correspondent alex a euro ships can reports new countries are being put off from joining the euro. while parts of europe have been teetering on the edge of economic abyss poland has remained stable in the storm along with this currency. there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland out of trouble. if we were part of the eurozone then we would have been obliged to help countries like greece and portugal how can we help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices would go up that we join the euro zone which would damage my business recent opinion polls

suggest that more than sixty percent of balls want to keep their own currency a dramatic turnaround from just a few years back a few years ago the euro was seen as the euro club scene or something very exclusive polls aspired to this they wanted their country to join the euro now the name of the euro has been sullied by the troubles in greece and italy polls don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue try to . it could be political suicide poland has fared much better than many of its e.u. partners in the global crisis several countries like greece ireland and portugal are on the brink of disaster partly due to a boring binge allowed by your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the euro zone meant to pull and could not join the party but now it does not have the hangover poland was meant to have the euro by next year the time when

the country is co-hosting the twenty twelve european football championship but with the latest developments these plans may be shelved for another four years e.u. rules say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining but politicians are now much cooler on the idea with ministers saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first place very important for us. the need for institutional changes in. economic governance of euro zone. crisis management. need for a euro zone before. target date will be. set up the game has changed and the euro everyone once wanted to join me now would be the invitation no one wants to accept. r.t.

reporting from warsaw in poland. our business desk is keeping an eye on all the waiters developments on the global markets let's check in with three now so russian market still dropping in view of this financial turmoil well you know they are still down and but they're coming back they're coming back to you r.t.s. index is now down three percent of my sex just point three percent this is. gaining one percent a foot see has come back to zero level it's actually. it's up half of the said just a second ago this is all ahead of the opening of the u.s. markets which is due in around fifteen minutes and it's expected futures are indicating a positive opening investors are looking for words from fed chairman ben bernanke on the possibility of a third wave of course of easing so it's actually coming back and i will check in with you a little bit later in the program thanks for that. of course. the bell just about

to open before that those stock markets in the u.s. have been in freefall they've seen the worst drop since the crisis of two thousand and eight president obama insisted the u.s. economy was still solid despite standard and poor's downgrade of american credit but it looks like his assurances have so far failed to calm investors or days when important i is across the latest in new york. market reaction to the historic downgrade of america's credit are sure it isn't the worst day on wall street since the two thousand and eight financial crisis all three major u.s. stock indexes plummeted but tween five and seven percent on monday now all of this coming just after standard and poor's downgraded the u.s. credit kicking america out of the triple a club this is already creating a climate of uncertainty or increasing this climate of uncertainty and lack of confidence among investors when they look to the stability of the u.s.

economy now the u.s. president barack obama of course tried to inject some optimism into the public and into the markets on monday saying that america has been and always will be our aaa economy he says that washington's problem is not a lack of policy or plans but a lot of lack of political will and he says many lawmakers have been insistent on drawing lines in the sand and now it is urgent for all parties to come together to come up with a long term approach on how to reduce the deficit in the u.s. the u.s. debt of fourteen point three trillion dollars and growing and at this point many investors as we saw on monday are selling now and asking questions later clearly the markets have not been reacting favor favorably to the fact that standard and poor's did downgrade america's credit for the first time ever in history.

with the global economy stumbling deeper into uncertainty we look at all the latest developments at our web site our team dot com here's what's lined up for you today more voices joining the call for a review of america's priorities telling leaders to put in five plans for world supremacy and to feed their people instead. of look at how the financial despair in the u.s. is to. some thriving industrial centers into ghost towns. so more international news for you in brief this hour the head of libya's rebel movement has sacked the entire executive committee which functions as a cabinet it follows the assassination of the commander of opposition forces last month members of the national transitional council libya's highest rebel of already support the reshuffle saying they hope it will stem any crisis in their ranks. the hotel maid who accused the menu of sexually assaulting her has filed

a civil suit against him if you stop to diyala accuse the former i.m.f. chief of launching a violent and sadistic attack against her when she arrived to clean his manhattan hotel suite in may has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has been released on bail and made doubts over the mate's credibility. nine former soldiers have turned themselves into face charges they killed six jesuit priests and two other people during el salvador civil war former defense and vice defense ministers are among the defendants they were indicted in spain under its international jurisdiction long to prosecute the killings of the priests most of whom were spaniards solve adorable now have to decide whether or not to extradite them. to grant is canceling evacuation orders for some areas around the crippled fukushima nuclear plant officials believe the risk of exposure to radiation has fallen in the zone be under twenty kilometer radius about twenty five thousand

people were told to leave their homes in case conditions at the plant worsened after the double tsunami and earthquake in march. syria's neighbors are increasing pressure on the government to end the ongoing crackdown on protesters several arab nations have recalled their ambassadors from the country turkey has also joined the growing chorus against present. are demanding an end to the violence but it comes as government forces intensify the assault on opposition strongholds with tank and artillery fire more than three hundred people have reportedly been killed in syria over the past week the bloodiest in the five month top rising against the regime also earlier pledged democratic and political reforms which he says will take time to implement well political analyst patrick hayes believes the president is on the verge of stepping down from power. plant being 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 of diplomatic consideration is now largely absent in assad's regime they're clinging on to of power but even so in a very tired way there is a sense from a really that the ease by which he started to say this is the end of you know 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 guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms i mean really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do there very isolated they don't really know where they go into a kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place they don't know what to do but the sense i get from assad is that he seems very tired and actually quite almost willing to relinquish power at the moment but i think there's a reluctance to want to relinquish power because i suspect he is very worried he'll

meet the same treatments that some of barack is now seeing. all the latest from the world of business is next here on r.t. with timmy to stay with us. cities alone welcome to business see the row. markets among emerging markets are still plunging to their lowest levels in months cocktail of a u.s. credit downgrade in the eurozone debt crisis is prompting a broad selloff on financial markets and russian equities are among some of the worst performers though they are coming back up the r.t.s. is down three point four percent this hour myself down by just one third of a percent take a look at some of the main movers. energy majors are still down gas from down one point four percent rosneft one point eight percent of course this is a much better than what we see earlier in the day polymaths zero is among the few

game is gaining almost free percent supported by record high gold prices will look at them in the second now six minutes before the opening of the u.s. markets european markets are also rebounding the footsie is now down half a percent the dax one point six percent the footsie did fall below the five thousand point mark the first time in over a year early in the session. gold has been hitting new record highs over the past couple of days seventeen hundred fourteen dollars this bit lower than the highs that we've seen earlier today silver down three percent this hour. and now to oil oil prices are mixed in the past couple of minutes actually it's changing from from minute to minute lights we was up one percent just just a few moments ago right now it's down thirty cents brant is up eleven cents on the well has come back fifteen percent since august weighed by fears that the economic

recovery in the u.s. has hit a rough patch stand and poor's downgrade of u.s. debt load sent prices down six percent on monday. and the russian ruble is reflecting what's happening in the oil markets fall into a seven month low versus the dollar is currently hovering just below thirty roubles to the dollar and the sausage. the russian government now needs a managed devaluation if we see is a. decrease is a present for bob that is not. even by the price of one hundred of those. so the government should find out some ways to a friend then this is the end. mount of social obligation so if you can do is a little maybe to you thirty or thirty one dollars it we'll give you a budget maybe ten fifteen percent of additional. income. now although deja

vu may be the best way to describe investors feelings at the moment jacob now from morgan stanley says current situation is not the precursor to a double dip there are risks out there things could go wrong but you don't have the same level of leverage in the financial markets that you had then you don't have the same exuberant valuations we don't have the same sort of excess confidence that you hired three years ago so i think the risk of a sudden deep correction is much less corporate news now oil major b.p. is taking its russian shareholder and its venture. to court commerce and daily reports that b.p. has charged one of its russian partners win over a group of breaching the shareholder agreement under the agreement the shareholders must include the others in any ventures in russia and ukraine rover which holds a twelve and a half percent of the shares currently operating its energy assets in both countries alone for its part and over says it's ready to defend itself and caught.

russian shareholders have earlier blocked the share swap deal between b.p. and was. right to join business r.t. in fifteen minutes time we'll have the opening figures of the us markets for us as well as the reaction on the russian markets.

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here with r t a live from the headlines outnumbered and beleaguered police struggle to restore order in major british cities locked in a spiral of violence and looting were five hundred people have been arrested after riots the british prime minister called pure criminality. europe's top bankers says the continent is going through the worst financial crisis since world war two the turmoil has already prompted some nations to halt plans to join the once much desired euro currency qualm. and european stocks tumble following the biggest slump in the u.s. for years plunges calls by fears the downgrade of america's credit rating could worsen the slowdown of the world's biggest economy. up next spot my talks to the winner of the twenty ten world press photo competition today's cast jodi bieber.