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violent hotspots of flared 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 the violence comes amid massive austerity cuts and high levels of unemployment and many are blaming the government for the riots were emmett's reports from. london mayor boris johnson a rise in the riots devastated a mixed reception delivering the government's message to rioters that they will feel the full force of the law. 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 here. i think we need to price rises out
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a little bit better i don't think they're doing everything they can i don't mean to be more violent i think we need to be more. 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 stars m.e.p. gerard batten says money's being spent on foreign wars that should be spent at home i think at the point where we have to call in the armed forces. and. criminality across the whole along what we should do in my view pull our troops back from these pointless wars in afghanistan in iraq. as money spent on two wars in foreign lands parts of london birmingham liverpool and bristol i see.
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she get partly because of high immigration but also because young people in these communities have no prospects they're bored and disaffected and as the cuts bite that's not going to improve a class youth worker told me four out of eight youth centers have closed since last year it's about investing in your community when you take away the money from the police in. the money for youth work. i mean i could never have imagined such consequences to be only. a consequence of tuesday night saw sixteen thousand police officers on the 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 is just the beginning of this problem and it's not just about cleaning up it's about communities coming to terms with the fact that even at the
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current numbers if violence is widespread enough the police. 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. london when our correspondents are keeping a close eye on the events. beyond the latest updates twitter you can follow. in her latest tweet laura says that the british capital was shut down early last night in the fears of more people sent home early from work. to underscore. that well with. police and the emergency services stretched to their limits many londoners have been left to fend for themselves freelance journalist patrick henningsen who got caught up in the self says the government should have learned from what's been going on elsewhere in the world. to be honest
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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 a gang of six or seven young black youths in brixton very frightening i was barricaded in a pub for part of the time but couldn't go out and the pub sieged about an hour after the incident so no police to be found even if you dialled nine nine nine the police said sorry we can't help you just stay where you are now if the leadership of this country and the heads of the police departments everything have been paying
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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 it's been like on the streets of london during the riots you can head to our website to watch footage of historic buildings and homes going up in flames. here and i'll take it back justice i suspected child molester previously acquitted by a jury returns to court after the case is reopened here in russia. but
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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 mixed on the credits a hit list to surrender their top rating france. according to a lot of people at least probably going to lose its aaa status. known for its lloyd thirty five working week economists say the real reason why france like e.u. neighbors is in trouble they just don't work hard enough. is coming from heaven europeans are somewhat. titled to the world without actually
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doing something for them so the e.u. dream is becoming annoyed me and as citizens demand better services while working less experts warn 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 position to the bailout centers on three issues people don't want to pay for others' mistakes they haven't been consulted and the money doesn't even seem to be helping it's silly this week became the latest country to bring out the big bowl 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 announced spending cuts but it's feared nowhere near enough to balance the books the e.u. citizens of being tricked into. picking up the tab say analysts italy and spain
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debt is being bought by the european central bank because all merry people called grass bear fence the methods get the easy piece funded by europe's taxpayers don't want to pay for these lousy creek spanish people but when they use the e.c.b. nobody understands it french finance minister francois barrow inspect a big. fund as fears grow that france's mixed in line the looks wise move but then the last remaining careful states may have already had enough the new bush will see brussels. and while markets shake on both sides of the atlantic experts turned 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.
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federal 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 port mine 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 double it 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 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 infected the rest of the world a lot of experts believe that it is actually hurting the economy by keeping interest rates so low bank banks are squeezing lenders for more profits and then it becomes a systemic kind of web where everyone squeezing one another initially fell after
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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 the jobs they stopped looking there is a problem when you have more than forty million people on food stamps when you have 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 of 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
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understand that the situation right now is very tense tense and confidence clearly is declining. report and then following the dip in the global economy ought to be done great of america's prized aaa credit rating money out of this a predictive powa shift in the financial arena according to international monetary fund projections china could leap frogged the distance become the world's largest economy by twenty sixteen. reports from asia. the latest international monetary fund predictions are showing that china's economy will actually grow bigger than 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
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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 this sense 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 at dealing with this financial crisis india china and japan have actually been growing since two thousand and eight while obviously that's not really happening in the west as 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
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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 would like to hear your opinion log on to our website is r t dot com to participate in our latest poll and there were asking if easton economies will be able to use current financial turbulence to their advantage already the most popular response we can see there on screen is yes that beast will rule the world go online to r.t. dot com to contribute because to hear. libyan state t.v. has broadcast what it said was footage of colonel gadhafi son come as 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 libya's 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 and the entire
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executive committee which functions as a cabinet in front of the assassination of the commander of the opposition forces last month author and blogger steven lemmon says it's obvious there's no agreement between the rebels and nato he's using civilian deaths as part of its more strategy . to rebel campers and this is really the executive committee was that. they were unconfirmed reports that the rebels were inside the array that they were literally contesting imo each other some people call it was the only way others say nato is lost is the last of all we need is going to wage war no terror but they certainly can win it by imposing extra hurrying hardships on the libyan people he need all claims we're going to have any civilians we're going to killing civilians they won't. mistake nato is targeting civilians there is
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a strategy or me ask of those. only university if they're slow killing civilians out of the word yes. when i look at some other global news in the 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 mass protests across the country. with the turkish foreign minister in damascus who pressed him to end the crackdown on demonstrators more than one thousand seven hundred people have reportedly been killed in the country since the uprising began in march. chilean rock police used tear gas and water cannon 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 demanding lower tuition fees and other education reforms and more activists burned cars looted shops and threw objects of police recent wave of unrest as the largest
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since democracy restored to chile and one nine hundred ninety after nearly two decades of 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 the on the ministries of agriculture and transport or a number of high ranking officials to leave their posts. the news of a seven year old girl having been molested shot to 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. over reports on the call for reforms in the current sex offending legislation. and mother in grief oh no way was. i even thought of buying
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a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family we were the first floor with curtains constantly drawn to go to work every day sick with fear for my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for that area to admit she trusted someone who harmed her daughter she brought the man into the house is a common law husband to live side by side with him for more than now and use the so called seconds that of my daughter told me he threw a stray cat on the roof and said he'd do the same to her if she ever confided in me about the things she was doing to her there really is no cockle. when natalie have finally managed to get things to the court majority acquitted the man who she says is now off to her family hungry for a bench experience is just one example of many in a recent controversial case a man suspected of raping a seven year old girl was released without charge. yes i told her underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and pressed her into the ground it only took
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a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one. only after an enraged crowd nearly inched the men police launch a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that confession authorities also disciplined the original investigating officer will summarize this for us look at the wars that happened here is the mother was treated like a football she was kicked around from our first office a tragedy had happened to her shouldn't know what to do but no one wanted to even talk to her let alone accept her statement she was. russian authorities have a nominee closed a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been meagre with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in attempt to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands. i'm underage but that's fine i like small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and do many other
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things to you is video has been put together by a group of volunteers as they track people they believe are paedophiles legal online pretending to be an underage boy or girl they set up meetings with people who admit to preferring mayans the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web it was to build what i want to show you are simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in our own way because our families live in a city our children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts it is not going to stop which when they try to act within the law but often operate and it's edge. volunteers tracking paedophiles online say most people will sign off when they learn the personel chatting to is under age but they also say the out of one hundred contacts one is said to be looking for easy prey can be the maximum sentence for child sex offenses is twenty years in prison
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an amendment to the law is meant to introduce a tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but until the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their vigilante campaign gary pushed over archie. well for more news updates and videos you can log onto our website is r t v dot com here's what awaits you online a global hacking team is waiting you tube statement value to bring facebook to protect people's privacy. and all this day eight years ago the first ever marriage in space was conducted by russian and american astronauts all available at r.t. dot com.
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we'll be back with the summer of i'm a new stores in about seven minutes from now in the mean time the business is next with marina stay with us live here most. i. follow and welcome to business here on our team 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 seen now this statement provided some assurance to investors the dow gained almost four percent while the nasdaq closed over five percent in the black on tuesday but alexander cannot be forgotten since capital believes the markets will remain volatile for some time. the following monetary stimulus will be provided in case so for for all that don't work momentum in the economy and there should be market participants like this for the rest of the week there will be usual its military again. just after the slump
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a lot of people will be choosing bare bones bought it seems to me that not all the redemptions are in the market there and maybe the investors will be put off for all money from the table especially from their response the. high be that countries like russia. and let's take a look at the markets now precious metals are gaining this hour after seeing mixed trade in on tuesday right now gold is adding almost one percent small silver and stop one percent point two five of them now let's take a look at oil prices they bounce back from earlier losses fall on the positive sentiment on the markets both light sweet and brant 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 exploiters 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
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seven percent on change 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 of all the my stocks and that just a notch in the negative territory. that's in the global markets over the last few days is being seen by some analysts as something of a summer storm you know softness of all it from deutsche bank russia believes sunny times will be back before we know it. what we're seeing is a crisis of confidence. and this is not something that is necessarily predicated on economic developments per se because in terms of the economy itself yes things are not that great in the developed world but certainly we're not at the stage of a full fledged recession it seems to me that
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a lot of the downward adjustment we've seen in equities especially is speculative in nature and. confidence word to be. instilled in the near term i think the bounce back could be significant. and that's all the business news for now for more stores you can always check out our websites artsy dot call slash business in the meantime states and for the headlines with.
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this is a table from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military according to the press that on that day to kill nine guerrillas in from the best occasion by instructs you including you know . strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues.
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explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet u.s. aid continued to flow. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are today.
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this is. to have you with top stories. in control of the streets. riots in the hundreds of people being arrested on. the continent suffering its worst financial deal since the second world war. and today's top credit rating economists say. to get themselves out of trouble. just. tough punishment through. what is more civilians strikes in libya serious questions being asked over the legality of the intervention and spoke to the former editor of the british newspaper the the sun.

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