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where the police if you flip it you think about it i don't think they're doing everything they can and i think me if anything will come to say a massive austerity cuts in the government's budget policies are blamed for losing control of the streets off the four nights of violence in the u.k. . europe's top banker says the continent suffering its worst financial ordeal since the second world war as fears grow fronts could be next in line to lose its top credit rating. and suspected paedophiles in russia are escaping justice with escaping tough punishment through new polls in current laws.
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international news and comment live from moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day sporadic violence has broken out in cities across the u.k. for a fourth night in a row and within half a dozen violent hotspots of finland up over the past few days buildings were set ablaze and shops looted hundreds of people have been arrested and one man's been confirmed dead thoughts comes amid massive austerity cuts and high levels of unemployment and many another blaming the government for the rot says we're emmett's reports from the. london mayor boris johnson a rise in the riots devastated clap and to a mixed reception delivering the government's message to rioters that they all feel the full force of the law was good. was coming
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across england and wales more than eleven thousand police have already been laid off in austerity measures by two thousand and fifteen a total of thirty four thousand will go meanwhile london and other cities are taken over by thugs the police have not been anywhere where the police if the police were hit if the bins aren't any surprise i think about a little bit better i don't think they're doing everything they can i don't mean anything more compensates while police numbers are being cut the estimated cost of the war in afghanistan from two thousand and one to the end of last month was thirty billion dollars all taxpayer cash british forces are also heavily involved in libya despite the ministry of defense being required to lose thirty two thousand start m.e.p. gerard batten says money's being spent on foreign wars that should be spent at home
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i think the point has come where we have to call in young forces what we're seeing now is. criminality across the whole of long what we should do in my view is pull our troops back from these pointless wars in afghanistan in iraq. as money is spent on two wars in foreign lands parts of london birmingham liverpool and bristol i sensually ghettos partly because of high immigration but also because young people in these communities have no prospects they're bored and disaffected and as the cut white that's not going to improve a classroom youth worker told me four out of eight youth centers have closed sin. last year it's about investing in our communities we take away the money from the police in. the money for the youth work. only i could never imagine such consequences to be only you know if you book a consequence of tuesday night's all sixteen thousand police officers on the
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streets of london according to the metropolitan police the force is being stretched more than ever before and increasingly londoners are talking about taking matters into their own hands bringing with it to ation under control it's just the beginning its goal being the problem it's not just about cleaning up it's about communities coming to terms with the fact that even at the current numbers if violence is widespread enough the police being unable to retain control the feeling of insecurity in these communities is likely to remain for some time particularly if the police keep disappearing from the beat your abbott r.t. london well our correspondents are keeping a close eye on the events as the unfold in london and beyond the latest updates on twitter you can follow them at the school column in her latest tweet nora says that the british capital was shut down early last night in fears of more people sent
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home early from work pubs and shops looking. nothing like as usual awesome self you can logon to aussie underscore com for more on that well with. police and emergency services stretch their limits many londoners have been left to fend for themselves freelance journalist patrick henningsen who got caught up in the violence and self says the government should have learn from what's been going on elsewhere in the world. to be honest this is one of the most shocking things i've ever had the displeasure of seeing was in brixton early monday morning about one am. gangs of youths who were some of which had fled from the 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. in one instance this happened one man came to help the driver and he was beaten by
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a gang of six or seven young black youths in brixton very frightening i was barricaded in a pub for part of the time you couldn't go out and the pub got sieged about an hour after the incident so no police to be found even if you dial nine nine nine the police said sorry we can't help you to stay where you are now if the leadership of this country and the heads of the police departments everything have been paying attention to what's going on around the world in the middle east in north africa the leadership in britain in the police force in britain think oh we're different no it's the same you have mobile phones blackberries twitter you have mobs they're able to outmaneuver the police at any turn and the police cannot cope with this and unfortunately the criminal element know this my advice to the leadership of this country all your m.p.'s and david cameron and everybody else stop playing politics stop playing labor and conservative the blame game and you've got to start looking at what's going on the street. and we have full coverage online of what's been what
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it's been like on the streets of london. riots you can have. come to watch footage of historic buildings and homes coming up in flames. that justice a suspected child molester previously acquitted by a jury returns to court after the case is reopened here in russia. first european markets a bounce back after a day of volatile trading on the stock markets but the central bank chief has warned its financial system is now in its worst state since world war two it comes amid the latest speculation that the french economy is on the brink of a downgrade artie's daniel bushell explains why. of the united states the french and mixed on the credits a hit list to surrender their top rating france this according to what people at
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least probably government knows its fair play status. known for its loike thirty five working week economists say the real reason why france like e.u. is in trouble they just don't work hard enough in the world is coming from heaven europeans are somewhat. titles to the world without actually doing something for them so the e.u. dream is becoming a nightmare as citizens demand better services working less exposed just three states should stay in the euro only germany the netherlands and belgium share the same currency without having economic costs those nations know lead a growing resistance against fellow members the positions of the bailout centers on three issues people don't want to pay for others' mistakes they haven't been
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consulted and the money doesn't even seem to be helping italy this week became the latest country to bring out the big ball but economists think it needs to deal with its own problems i think it is uncompetitive italy is growing relatively slow italy and spain have a spending cuts but it's feared no way me enough to balance the books the e.u. citizens of being tricked into. picking up the tab say analysts italy and spain it is being pulled by the european central bank because all merry people called crosby a friend see methods here the easybeats funded by europe's taxpayers don't want to pay for greece lousy greek spanish people but when they use the e.c.b. nobody understands it fridge finance minister francois barrow inspects a big e.u. fund as fears grow that france's mixed in lawyer in the looks of wise move but then
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the last remaining careful states where you've already had enough then you bush will see brussels. and one market shake on both sides of the atlantic experts turn their sights to asia betting on who is to become the world's next economic superpower and bring you some of the predictions in just a few moments. the u.s. predator reserve has admitted the u.s. economy is not as strong as it thought it also announced plans to keep interest rates at record lows for the next two years to help calm investor nerves u.s. stocks responded negatively to the statement but later recovered their losses in a portnoy has the details now from new york. the federal reserve met for the first time on tuesday after the u.s. his credit rating was downgraded from aaa to get away by standard and poor's and the federal reserve announced that u.s. interest rates will be kept at record lows for another two years through twenty
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thirteen interest rates in the u.s. have been near zero since december two thousand and eight since right after the financial crisis hit the u.s. and you know in fact to the rest of the world a lot of experts believe it is out actually hurting the economy by keeping interest rates so low banks are squeezing lenders for more profits and then it becomes a systemic kind of web where everyone squeezing one another stocks initially fell after the federal reserve did make its announcement to the fed did they use some kind of somber language to describe the america's current economy saying that this year the economy grew at a much slower pace that the fed actually anticipated you don't have to pay attention the dow jones or the s. and p. to understand that with fourteen million americans out of work and six point six additional americans so discouraged from finding jobs they stopped looking there is a problem when you have more than forty million people on food stamps when you have
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one million americans that have lost homes last year and another one million expected to lose homes this year you understand this is a significant crisis a lot of cuts that are now being made by the federal government are cuts going to social programs food stamps were cut by twelve million and now you have a more americans that need them so you don't have to be an economic expert to understand that the situation right now is very tense and confidence clearly is declining. report and then following the dip in the global economy all to be group of america's prized aaa credit rating many analysts are predicting a polar shift in the financial arena according to the international monetary fund projections china could leapfrog distance become the world's largest economy point twenty eight sixteen. reports from asia. the latest international monetary fund projections are showing that china's economy will actually grow bigger than
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the u.s. economy by twenty sixteen which will be the first time in more than a century that the united states economy will not be the biggest economy in the world china's economy focuses on x. sports it's obviously seen as the manufacturing hub of the world and in addition to that china has been able to create millions of jobs for their low skilled workers they've also been focusing a lot on technology which has created millions of jobs for the high skilled workers as well so they've really been able to diversify their economy here in india is that people are actually quite optimistic about the way india is going to react to this global financial crisis initially we were seeing asian markets falling but people are saying that there really is only a short term impact and that in the long run that asian countries are actually better equipped they're dealing with this financial crisis india china and japan have actually been growing since two thousand and eight while obviously that's not
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really happening in the west significantly also you know foreign investors if they start following the path of risk aversion and moving away from u.s. treasury bonds many people are saying that they could start investing more in asian markets like india and china so many people over here are actually seeing all of this as an opportunity for that shift to really happen for more of the international community to get on board and move away from the dollar as the reserve currency to some sort of basket currency that could include a lot of the asian powerhouses like japan and china. of course we want to hear your opinion logo into our web site is going to go to participate in all the latest polls and there were also used in economies will be able to use. to their advantage and really the most popular response you can see those screens. yes the beast will rule the world no one lied to r.t. dot com to contribute to here. libyan state t.v.
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is poor cause what it said was footage of colonel gadhafi son come is visiting people wounded in an air attack east of tripoli if genuine it would be the first visual proof that he's still alive after rebels claimed he'd been killed in a nato air strike last week because government is also accuse the alliance of killing at least eighty five civilians in the west of the country nato says the targets were military meanwhile the head of libya's rebel movement has sent me entire executive committee which functions as a cabinet and forms the assassination of the commander of the opposition forces last month author of blogger stephen leatherman says it's obvious there's no agreement between the rebels and nato is using civilian deaths as part of its war strategy. the rebel camp is and this is a really easy if you give me was this they were unconfirmed reports that the rebels were so in such disarray that they were literally contesting of each other
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some people call it was the only others say nato was lost his job of the waiters were not clearer but they certainly can we're causing three shifts on the libyan people in iraq claims we don't charge any civilians we're going killing civilians they needed one quote unquote this. is getting silly and there is a strategy for me ask old school was only university if there's one killing civilians out of the world it's. when our quick look at some other global news in brief we in our world update the syrian president bashar assad has vowed he will not relent in pursuing what he called terrorist groups and will not ease the response to the mass protests across the country this comes up we met with the turkish foreign minister in damascus. preston to end the crackdown on demonstrators more than one thousand seven hundred people have reportedly been killed in the
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country since the uprising began in march. kevin rudd police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent protesters on the fringe of an otherwise peaceful student demo in the capital tens of thousands marched in downtown san diego for the fifth time in two months and nodding lower tuition fees and other education reforms some last activists burned cars looted shops and through objects of police recent wave of unrest is the largest since democracy restored to chile and one hundred ninety after nearly two decades of military dictatorship. brazilian authorities arrested thirty eight officials from the tourism industry on corruption charges including a deputy minister police say those arrested conspired to use public funds for private gain almost two hundred officers were involved in the operation to detain suspects if a similar crackdowns on a message on the ministries of agriculture and transport were a number of high ranking officials to leave their posts. the news of
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a seven year old girl having been molested shops a small town in the far east to russia even more so when the man suspected of the crime walked free food court as the case reopens later today what is to a push over reports on the call for reforms in the current sex offending legislation. am i there in grief. or perhaps that if i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family it would be on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn to go to work every day or fear of my daughter which i knew what she. it was hard for an idea to admit she trusted someone harmed her daughter she brought the man into houses a common law husband to live side by side with him for more than one use. for the time of the other told me he threw a stray cat on the roof and said he'd do the same to her if she added confided in me about the things she was doing to her that he is now coupled to the. one now
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they are finally managed to get things to the court legendary equitable man who she says is now after her family hungry for a bench experience is just one example of the many in a recent controversial case a man suspected of raping a seven year old girl was released without charge. us at the law for underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and crestor into the ground only took a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one. only after an enraged crowd the men did at least launch a full fledged investigation into the case and record that compassion authorities also disciplined the original investigating officer will some of us this proves what it was that happened here is the mother was freed it was before she was kicked around from our first office a tragedy had happened to her shouldn't know what to do what no one wanted to even talk to her were alone except her statement and was really russian authorities have
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not declared a fight against essentially abuse of mine is what results seem to have the media with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in attempts to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands. i'm underage and that's fine i like small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and so many other things to you this video has been put together by a group of volunteers as they track people they believe are paedophiles online pretending to be an underage boy or girl and they set up meetings with people widely to preferring minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web and it was their will but i wish they were simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in our own way because our families live in this city our children welcome these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts and it is not going to stop which when they try to act
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within the law but often operate and it's edge. volunteers dragging paedophiles online say most people will sign up when they learn the person they're chatting to is under-age but they also say profit out of one hundred contacts one is said to be looking for easy prey. be the maximum sentence for child sex and kansas is twenty years in prison an amendment to the law is meant to introduce jaffer penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but until the changes are implemented and proven to be affective the activists say they'll continue with their thinking and they can be scary pushed over arching school. well for more news updates and videos you can log onto our website is our team dot com here's what awaits you on like a global hacking team is waiting for you tube statement value to bring down facebook to protect people's privacy. and all this day eight years ago the first
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ever marriage in space was conducted by russian and american astronauts all available at r.t. dot com on. we'll be back with some of our main news stories in about seven minutes from now in the meantime but business is next with arena stay with us live here most. hello and welcome to a business here on arts and now we start this hour with the u.s. federal reserve which has said it will keep interest rates at record low levels at least until may twenty third now this statement provided some assurance to investors the dow gained almost four percent while the nasdaq closed over five
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percent in the black on tuesday but alexander got friends since capital believes the markets will remain volatile for some time. before we monitor a stimulus will be provided for in case so for all that don't work momentum in the economy and there should be a market participants like this for the rest of the week that will be usual until it is again. just after the slump a lot of people will be choosing bare bones but it seems to me that not all the redemptions are in the market there and maybe the investors will be put off wrong money from the table especially from the recent he. might be there countries like russia. and let's take a look at the markets now precious metals are gaining this hour after seen mixed trading on tuesday right now gold is adding almost one percent small silver is up one percent point two five there now let's take
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a look at oil prices they bounce back from earlier losses on the positive signs on the markets both light sweet and friends are adding over two dollars this hour. asian stocks are making a comeback recovering some of the hefty losses it was on the last few days commodity related firms x. orders and banks are some of the best performers both h.s.b.c. and bank of china rose around four percent in hong kong after each had more than seven percent on shoes day there ali on wall street has helped restore some investor confidence. and here in moscow the markets will start trading in less than two hours time they closed in the red on tuesday the arts yes lost almost three percent smaller than my socks and that just a notch in the negative territory. in the global markets over the last few days it's been seen by some of that list as something of a summer storm yet a softness of all it from deutsche bank russia believes sunny times will be back
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before we know it. what we're seeing is a crisis of confidence. and this is not something that is necessarily predicated economic developments per se because in terms of the economy itself yes things are not great in the developed world but certainly we're not. pledge recession it seems to me that a lot of the word adjustment we've seen in equities especially is speculative in nature and. confidence were to be. instilled in the near term i think could be significant. and that's all the business news for now for more stores you can always check out our science arts slash business in the meantime statesman for the headlines of.
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covered. this is a table from the u.s. embassy in colombo this talked about here it apparent june seventh incident of
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extrajudicial executions the military reported in the press there on that day that killed nine your religion from that you're just a different guy instruct cion couldn't you know and therefore according to the strongly suggests that we were at the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. splayed how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and just the idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary operations this is a cia document social intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet the usa continued to throw.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. the giant corporations are today . in india aussies available in the move go hard not enjoy the hotel rooms the some of us the case way hoto the brand imperial trident the top western coast coromandel you can allege photo close measure hutto see don't need to go and park highest brotherson the kennel was hoto as used to retreat.

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