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joyce leave it to the movie that's the case we go to the grand imperial college the choice was to push coromandel new kenilworth until the close of the show that you see don't need to go and. run to the colonel was hotel retreat. this is r t the top stories chaos and raves thousands of police move on to the streets of london to prevent new violence a looting after three days of disorder. some business is closes for years rising another nights of violence five all the latest from london in just a few moments. also u.s. stocks called back losses following their biggest slump in years after america's credit rating downgrade. and europe's top bankers has the confidence going through the worst financial crisis since world war two as the central bank buys bonds from the region's crippled economies.
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welcome this is r t it's now ten pm choose the evening here in moscow my name is kevin and it's very good to have you with us and first some sixteen thousand police officers will patrol the streets of london choose their night in a bid to prevent more clashes the random violence that's gripped london for three days now has left a trail of smashed windows looted shops and burnt out cars in a number of cities across the u.k. parties are bennett's following the latest developments for us in london. shops and businesses not just here in clapham in southwest london but all over the city have been closing early as fears rise of another night of looting and violence and we've seen people here walking home early from were carrying their computers with them fearing that there could be break ins to the shops and businesses here on the high street and the police also fearing another night of violence they say they'll be up
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in their offices in the street from six thousand last night to sixteen thousand tonight and they'll be prepared to use plastic bullets if they have to and so the so the city is prepared for another night of violence and now i haven't seen any of that here in clapham in the southwest of london where the tensions here have been definitely high people just angry here. not more was done by the police they say the rioters were given two hours to take what they couldn't cause much damage they could before any police turned up and they're angry that police chose to target other more more wealthy areas first to save them before turning out here politicians and the police are putting the putting last night's riots and violence down to copycat violence an opportunist. criminality and this saying it's criminality rather than anything else they're distancing it from any dissatisfaction among london's news however the people we've spoken to here on the
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streets they think otherwise lost their obviously very angry this writing has happened on their doorstep and they and they then from then on. the same time they do sympathize they feel it's all part of the same thing was that my no no marked against the person who shot and told them last week has sparked all of this they feel it's all tied in and they think that leaves here very disillusioned with society they feel like they have. anything by the coalition government and they're then think they have anything to hope for a lot of the austerity cuts of men that you centers have closed and that's what people are angry about the anger there is high unemployment rates and. i feel i will have nothing to hope for in a moral man is my colleague nor any london's burning writers and police take over the capitol for a third night as looters target yet more areas of london in a spiraling cycle of violence police seal off streets and treat whole areas as crime scenes with local communities trying to come to terms with the wave of
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looting engulfing north east and south london in tottenham where it all began the high street is a person tout shell the police the chaps i'm sorry the banks everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that no jobs nothing for the youth studio it was sparked by the three two shooting by police of bass man mark duggan tottenham once on 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 sounds fantastic precious i had levels of unemployment then are losing jobs their lives and services his clubs being closed there is never an excuse for violence but the community is
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a tinderbox and the warriors and concerns of community protectors are the spark which has for 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 walthamstow and lewisham which also saw violence has become a victim of what prime minister david cameron is now calling failed multiculturalism this. powers a charmingly personally groups. pull these groups. gets all. you know the purple the great scripts. on the races for the breeze. but i do think. something should be done and less these gangs of youths tire of the violence there doesn't seem to be a real reason why this looting should stop it's unlikely the perpetrators have jobs
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to go to the schools out for the summer london residents clear more unrest on the streets in the coming days delusive than making a political point and hardly anyone in these communities supports them but many are saying that that 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 state is bad as it's been for years and with cuts in government spending looming over the next few years it's ration is very unlikely to get any better nowhere and it's happening is that. to keep you up to date with the latest we go live updates on the chaos in the u.k. on our twitter feed out here on the school communism the latest tweets from our correspondents working at the scene is changing all the time the latest we're hearing of sutherland there's a gang of two hundred just going through birmingham city center armed with sticks while police dealing with. wholesale figure what the police over there were this is
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well of course of a we're completely up against the last mile the latest figures again on twitter hundred eleven offices and five police still have been interviewed since those london riots broke out on saturday night log on to our twitter feed out to underscore com for the press videos too as well on our you tube channel. each. the initial spark for the violence in britain was the police shooting of a man in tottenham intentions could once again be stoked for additional ballistic tests just. did not actually fire again at the offices let's get more on this is totally dependent general patrick henry joins us now live from london partly thanks
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for being on the program and how do you think the rioters were reacting to this latest news tonight. the news that the ballistics test came back wasn't mark duggan yeah. i don't think it really matters at this point the chain of events has taken its own turn it spiraled out of control as you know the tottenham demonstrations which turned into riots had a political shape to it what happened with the copycat what i call retail riots in brixton on sunday night has no political shape whatsoever and also the stuff that fold up. in other areas along the like lewisham in ealing is strictly criminal enterprise has nothing to do with political power you can spin it one way or another but at the end it just comes down to opportunity you witness some of these riots yourself first time where did you witness the taking so what you saw. well to
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be honest it's one of the most shocking things i've ever had the displeasure of seeing was in brixton early monday morning about one am i saw gangs of youths who were some of which had fled from central brixton into the surrounding areas like stockwell barricade in the streets with rubbish bins or anything they could find in order to stop cars and try to pull drivers from the cars and take the cars i saw in one instance this happened one man came to help the driver and he was beaten by a gang of six or seven young black youths in brixton very frightening i was barricaded in a pub for part of the time and couldn't go out and the pub got sieged about an hour after that incident so no police to be found. if you dialled nine nine nine the police said sorry we can't help you just stay where you are that's that was the situation sunday night yeah that's the point we're hearing reports last night say
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no in the top of the devil i'm still there for instance was put into the loops is. do you think that the police could have done more. yeah i think you know in this country we've got a massive problem and what it is is we've had twenty years of political correctness and twenty years of health and safety and risk assessment to the point where police will stand back because of legalities involved with not being able to intervene this way or that way or racial profiling and so forth and not allowing the fire department to do their job as well sometimes so buildings are being allowed to burn for two hours it's a major problem and i'm not saying it's a simple problem i'm very complicated and it's our leadership we've got their hands full trying to figure this one out and my advice to the leadership of this country all your m.p.'s and david cameron the real stop playing politics stop playing labor and conservative the blame game and you've got to start looking at what's going on
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the street he could be better organized the metropolitan police who has been described as a rugged leadership at the moment last month of course will recall top officials resigned there over the phone hacking scandal is no one really in charge there. yeah you can say there's a lack of leadership at the met but to be quite fair to the police they've been caught on their back heels we're talking about a trend now if the leadership of this country and the heads of the police departments everything i've been paying attention to what's going on around the world in the middle east and north africa also in chicago flash mobs is up to six months to twelve months ago have been hitting retail stores flash mobs of one hundred two hundred people and the police in america have to stand back and just let them go and do what they want to do but obviously the leadership in britain and the police force in britain think oh we're different we don't need to address the problems that are happening in the united states or in the middle east no it's the
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same you have mobile phones blackberries twitter you have mobs they're able to outmaneuver the police hit any turn and the police cannot cope with this and unfortunately the criminal element know this as we know tonight the police about sixteen thousand officers on the streets of london to try and move on as one person has died in hospital today after what happened last night and it will be the final death. well unfortunately in this situation as long as there are shops and stores that might be able to be ransacked and there are people out there in gangs that are willing to mobilize to do what i call commercial crime i don't think there's going to be an end to this one huge problem is that school is out and the majority of the culprits from eyewitness reports across the board between twelve and twenty years old ok they are not in school their parents always the are not keeping tabs on them so you've got a social issue here but as far as death i don't know how many deaths it's going to
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take till we probably draw a line under this for the summer but i really hope that there were no more casualties as a result of such a ridiculous. mentality and criminal opportunism really appreciate it on the program independent journalist patrick henningsen there joining us from london thank you thank you now on our website r.t. dot com we're asking what do you think is the driving force behind the riots we're in the theories about the you think this is what you're telling us the majority of you think it is the result of heavy handed policing others of you blame the struggling economy and the failure of multiculturalism in europe and as you see the rest of it playing out the rest of you believing the criminals are trying to grab anything they can join the discussion you can have your say you can change that graph look at again next hour how you say it out. for us markets positive territory today stocks climbed in early trading after seeing the worst drop since the crisis of two thousand and eight the federal reserve is meeting now to discuss how to pick up the struggling struggling economy
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made short anyway after the credit john standard and poor's downgraded america's rating he's made a port watching the markets in new york. what this is is a lot better than what we saw play out on monday street experienced its worst day on monday since the two thousand eight hundred mansion prices all three major u.s. stock indexes fell between five and seven percent she's the morning when these indexes are rising the stocks rising slightly clearly it's a little teeny bit of a sign of optimism at federal reserve is meeting today and then many traders traders excuse me are speculating that the fed may announce more help for the economy but this does not eliminate or take away the fact that. did kick the united states out of that aaa credit clogged and this is what caused this is something that caused the stocks around the world to plummet it was like a big rock being dropped into the water and we saw the ripples going all different
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directions what i'm hearing and what i'm seeing because i live in the u.s. is that the economy is not faring well there are fourteen million americans at least unemployed according to the department of labor an additional six point six million that want to jump but have become so just courage from looking and not finding one that they've just put their hands up in the air and quit in addition to that we are very lean right now there's a lot of job insecurity gas prices are going up the confidence is low and part of this debt deal that we saw play out in washington a lot of federal funding for social programs are being cut stamp programs post offices are closing down a lot of services that that every day people rely on are now being slashed there's a hesitation on spending money and as you know this is a consumer driven economy here in the united states it's all of this is systemic
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it's it's connected and there's a lot of uncertainty insecurity and i could tell you first ration and anger is in. re saying among everyday folks that are doing their jobs paying their taxes and seeing that there is security and they don't know what will happen tomorrow so who knows what will happen next but by no means do the majority of people in the united states think that the economy is faring well for that report are in new york in our business there's going to moscow's of course and all the latest developments on the world's markets. so better than yesterday what are the u.s. markets out of the worst of it yet well the dow jones is putting on within one percent a used to be up to so it's becoming a bit shaky in just a few moments we're about to receive some comments as to what came out of the fed meeting of ben bernanke address any hints on going to the easing three and actually just right now slipped below eighty dollars
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a barrel so it's down yet again they used to be up all day but i have all of that hopefully some information was to what came out from that meeting in just ten minutes and i'll join you in the studio with. a. look at the european picture european shares regained some ground after their own heavy losses put the e.u. central bank chief warns the region's financial system is now in the worst state since world war two but still spike the bank starting to buy government bonds from spain and italy to prop up the struggling economies trade is very volatile with fears that the eurozone and u.s. could slow growth already struggling economies the eurozone is playing to boost the powers of its bailout fund meantime to keep contagion from spreading to major e.u. economies i spoke earlier to dr christian right she's from the frogs frankfurt technical university and told me the european central bank's movie is actually doing more harm than good right now. if you look at the mere size of a country like italy i am convinced that it is not possible to do just lets say is
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straightforward as a matter of fact what the city is doing here i think is perhaps to do it. strictly is a breach of trust they encourage certain behavior so that some countries can free ride on the expense of others and this is something which in the long run rather threatens the euro area than strengthen its. we should be aware if you look at a year and spread some government bonds. are now almost make is that pretty euro levels and i would say this is something which should amaze us too much and it shows it in the whole being tired that is in the time from the success of the euro and nothing very much has changed if we enter. encourage more and more selfish behavior by individual countries i would say this is a real threat for the whole euro area let me take you through some of the stories
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now in emergency services a search for an a and twelve and off twelve cargo plane that disappeared last night in russia's far east with eleven on board the plane it's missing is the oldest aircraft in russian civil flee it was heading for a town and. when the crew told air traffic controllers that one of the engines was on fire they asked to make the merges the landing and shortly after that the plane disappeared from radar authorities say fog and heavy rain hampering the search effort. libya's government secures nato of killing dozens of civilians in the west of the country tripoli claims at least eighty five people died during recent airstrikes officials say that nato bombed south of the city of new turn to allow rebels to enter the city the alliance says the targets were military meantime the head of libya's rebel movement the sacked for entire executive committee which functions as a cabinet it follows the assassination of the commander of opposition forces last month we spoke to steve lebanese an author a blogger well this is obvious there's no agreement in the rebel government and
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nato is losing the war. the grill camp is and this is a really easy a kid can be used as they were unconfirmed reports that the rebels would sit in such disarray that they were literally in testing among each other some people call it is the only others a need always last is the last of all we need of the windows one new terror that they certainly can with by imposing peace three hardships first on the indian people legal claims we are starving civilians we are going to killing civilians they need it one. big need is targeting civilians there is a strategy for me us but also school was only a university if there's like killing civilians and already here. you get all the
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latest news updates videos and blogs a chance of your say on our website r.t. dot com there are a couple of stories you will be interested in tonight from north korea to the the russian activists forcing a revolution through social networks find out what's behind the quiet of silent marches end of fighting fear of bringing change we've got a story and a bit of fun a bit of color so it's nice to have it they believe they can fly thousands of onto the bags and most of the river is this colorful array of homemade flying machines briefly try to take to the skies some more success than others more of those pictures and our own as well. also making headlines tonight at least five people have been killed and eighteen injured in a clash over unlawfully some government land in the afghan capital kabul around two hundred people took part in a gun fight between local residents and guards the armed conflict left several houses destroyed in key roads blocked security forces resorted to using water cannons trying to suppress the crowds. at least fifty people including children
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have died after a passenger boat sank off the indian ocean archipelago of commerce the vessel was ferrying over one hundred people when both engines failed causing the boat to capsize those with serious injuries were rushed to the main hospital in the capital while others were treated in local health centers actions like this sadly relatively common income or boats are often overcrowded. syria's neighbors are increasing the pressure on the government to end the ongoing crackdown on protesters several arab nations have recalled their own vast was from the country turkey was also joined a growing chorus against president becomes government forces intensify the assault on opposition strongholds with tanks and artillery for over three hundred people have reportedly been killed in syria over the past week makes it bloodiest in the five month uprising. the hotel maid who accused dominic straus karnow of sexually assaulting is filed a civil suit against him enough a lower q is the former i.m.f.
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chief of launching a violent and sadistic attack against when she arrived to clean his manhattan hotel suite in may strauss can't his parts pleaded not guilty to the charges and has been released on bail amid doubts over the maid's credibility. exactly twenty three minutes past ten o'clock here in moscow finance of course big story of the day in a few minutes time later on we hear a nobel prize winners thoughts on reforming the global economic system in the wake of the current crisis that's to come and let's get back up to date with all the latest on the world's markets next. i've. placed them very much and we're just receiving the first comments coming out from the fed federal open market committee and the fed has said that it will be keeping rates low until at least in the middle of or twenty eight thirteen and no words yet apparently about
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a quarter of easing but this statement about keeping rates low pretty much indicates that they may be continuing to support the economy by printing money and buying back bombs well emerging markets have plunged to their lowest levels in months the flammable cocktail of a u.s. credit downgrade in the eurozone debt crisis prompted a broad selloff on financial markets over the past couple of days russian equities were no exception however they managed to claw back some of their losses during tuesday's session artie's sara for has a broader picture. well it's been another extremely nervy and volatile day again today we see the russian markets a ping this morning in negative territory other that they were then able to close the gap so more we then saw the nosedive again by the market flirting with the possibility of one point of maybe being able to place in the black but it wasn't to be a base close down out here as down t.
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point eight percent in my six down at no point one three percent there's a lot of uncertainty and instability here still and now we seem to lift the leaders come out and try and stabilize the market some of that hasn't had as much of a positive effect as it was we have had some good news and the oil and energy mages have actually managed to close in the black today albeit slightly we will say since the bank placing in the black as well now we had earlier an announcement from prime minister putin he said the russian central bank and the ministry of finance go ready to complicate it into the markets after the u.s. downgrade the ruble the russian central bank then admitted that is that you already started intervening after the russian revolt hit its biggest drop against the year in seven years one day just in seven years so they didn't specify exactly how much money they were buying up as we said we're certainly seeing
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a lot of instability still are we going to see the market stabilizing well they will certainly but yet the traders that we're speaking to have been saying the much of what we think the maybe defenseman driven yet investors have really lost the confidence of the neighbors and is whether or not is it going to be able to pay the calm that month investors had to stabilize the market. or else they could have those figures on the russian markets so i was mentioning the us down two point nine percent my six point one percent not managing to recover for the session. if we look at the movers on the. my sex and gas problem and lukoil are showing a mixed dynamics lukoil up point three percent gas problem down point two percent rather burbank the most liquid stocks are two percent. right for the u.s. market some afraid the figures we're showing right now this is a fifteen minute delay right after these comments from the fed chairman and the first comments that i've been mentioning earlier in the program we've seen the dow
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come down to actually even lose around fifty points for half a percent so basically investors are not really happy with the amount of action that the fed is promising at the moment not enough action basically and therefore the dow is the one i'm seeing right now on my terminal is down twenty two point zero point two percent nasdaq still up two percent this hour. now in europe this is the closing picture of the full sea then fall below the five thousand point mark for the first time in over a year but at the end of the session as the u.s. markets were looking positive for foods they managed to gain one point nine percent the dax the pattern losses and close down point one percent. gold has been set seeing a record high to seventeen hundred fourteen dollars per ounce this hour one
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percent silver however has been coming down lately down three percent this hour. and while prices have dropped right before this announcement coming from the fed it's hold it's going to hold on to hold on rates until the middle of twenty thirteen. is down one point one dollars sixty cents rather bread more than one dollar this is of course on worries about just the state of demand for crude because of the downgrade problems in the economy and the largest crude consumer that is the united states oil prices have shed fifteen percent since the start of all this way by three years of economic recovery in the u.s. it's a rough patch. the russian ruble has been the reflecting what's happening in the oil markets fall into a seven month low against the dollar at the close of tuesday's session it was hovering right below thirty roubles to the dollar analysts are suggesting that the russian government may now need a managed evaluation if we see is
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a. decrease in the price of oil and the project is not. even by the present rocket of the gods. so the government through to find out some ways through friends is that is the end de villiers some. of the amount of social divisions so if you can do that is the way you thirty or thirty one for the role that you feel gives a budget maybe ten fifteen percent of additional. incomes kevin is next with their minds they were hungry for the full story we've got it from the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on party.

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