live from our studios in central moscow you're watching are with me and he said now it's two pm here in the russian capital eleven am in london and sporadic violence has broken out in cities across the u.k. for a fourth night in a row more than half a dozen violent hotspots have flared up over the past few days buildings were set ablaze and shops looted hundreds of people have been arrested and one man has been confirmed dead were and that is in the british capital with the latest. we saw a lot of trouble in birmingham last night which we also had seen on the previous night manchester and self it also flared up in quite a serious way as to its variety of sort of small towns in the surrounding areas so this violence has now spread out words from the capital into really improbable small towns all over the country we're hearing reports that three people were killed in birmingham when they were run a vote by a car that was just running amok and the police are looking at investor looting

murder inquiry the reason that it was under control last night we think is because an additional ten thousand police bringing the number of police to take it sixteen thousand were working on the streets of london last night they had permission to use rubber bullets if they had to a supply of rubber bullets was available to them we haven't heard any reports of us having to be actually deployed we still fires in other parts of the country police being attacked with rocks and with petrol bombs so really this is this is something that is now nationwide parliament will come back and meet today coming back from that some a break to deal with the situation but i have to say that a lot of people were very disappointed in david cameron statement yesterday they were expecting him to come in here and say this is out of control we have to do something concrete about him what we're going to do is this this and this in fact he didn't say that parliament is coming back today they're going to they're going

to hold a debate which a lot of people said you know we don't need a debate right now what we need is actual action but the government and not proposing to introduce any emergency legislation to deal with the situation in these communities in which the violence is taking place so hugely socially deprived there's nothing for young people to do around here really large social problems at a time when when the u.k. is spending an awful lot of money a broad base in libya and in afghanistan and that's the subject of my report. 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 hitting all that would have been i think the need to price rises out a little bit better i don't think they're doing everything they can and i don't mean to be more violent i think we need to be more constant 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 but i think that the point has come where we have to call in the armed forces. and . 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 spent on two wars in foreign lands parts of london birmingham liverpool and bristol i sensually 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 classroom youth worker told me four out of eight youth centers have closed since last year it's about investing in our communities we when you take away the money from the police in the way the money for youth work. i mean i could never imagine such consequences to be honest this is. 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 its goal being that 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 seem 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 b. door and it's up to london where correspondents are keeping a close eye on the events as they unfold in london and beyond bringing you the latest updates on twitter you can follow the feed at r.t. underscore problem and one of her latest tweets laura says that londoners have taken to the streets of the british capital in a mass cleanup operation people armed with hands and brushes unite together to tidy up and that's going to argue underscore calm throughout the day for more details from laura in london. now the fatal shooting of police by police of a black man in london that sparked the riots is under investigation that's after the police watchdog said there's no evidence mark duggan was first to fire at officers as initially had been claimed investigative journalist tony gosling says the force how does have a bad record. we've had something like three hundred and

forty deaths mostly of ethnic minorities in police custody over the last twelve years now that's around about one a month without a single conviction of a police officer we also need to know the names of the police officers and the firearms people who shot mark duggan and we also i would say as a society would be nice to see those that officer who fired that fatal shot arrested and that would give a lot of confidence that the police are not above the law because that's what many of these young people are saying i'm not excusing the violence or the burning of course that's criminal behavior which should be punished but you have to understand that there is a big reasons for this but i've been going on for many years and particularly the mistreatment of ethnic minorities by the police in both in custody and by the rather ruthless way they seem to arrest them. as we have full coverage online of the situation on the streets of london during these riots our website has the footage of london from living nightmare to our dot com takeover.

the eurozone is struggling to keep its economy afloat with rumors france is next in line for a downgrade president nicolas sarkozy is to hold an emergency meeting he's interrupting his summer holiday after criticism for staying away while turmoil grips financial markets meanwhile the italian treasury borrowing costs drops sharply in its latest bond sale but while europe has further into the red elsewhere their story of a black china could top the list of the world's strongest economies in the u.s. century old seat earlier than expected that's according to the international monetary fund which says the power set in the financial arena could take place as soon as twenty sixteen artie's british media 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 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 international community to get on board and move away from the dollar as the reserve currency into some sort of basket currency that could include a lot of the asian powerhouses like japan and china. well martin headachy associate

director of the financial advisory firm time scroope ltd says the back of those projections western countries could start printing more money hiking inflation. when you have economies major economies where the deficits and debt are out of control and you have this kind of projections on the line that means that there's a huge legal and to print of a or the problem so you may risk and the new form of this fund enterprise is very probably be very high to hyperinflation in the west and kanzi asian emerging market economies look a lot better than the western countries and even equity is generally in the in those emerging market economies such as china they represent some form of assets that are more inflation proven wrong so that in two thousand and eight commodities and equities where the growth thing to be an orderly has an end result of the crisis this time around commodities may be the real safe haven will be and equities

may actually all perform bonds because equities are more inflation broken bones. of course we always like to hear your opinion you can log on to our website r t dot com to participate in our latest poll today we're asking whether the emerging economies can profit from turbulence in the west so far the meant to argue you are saying yes it's time for them to take what is do over a quarter of you think that it's only possible if they are fast and smart enough while some are saying the world is already too globalized threat that drop with a lie let us know what you think at our tune dot com. south korea's navy has opened fire towards north korea after shells from the north fell close to their western seaboard or it's not yet clear on which side of the frontier they landed in relations between with your contras have been unstable since an artillery exchange in november last year that claimed four lives south korea began firing into waters near the north korean store all the north responded by shelling one of

the south islands without search dr roger frank from the university of vienna says the situation on the peninsula is difficult but it's hard to say what led to the latest events so. we don't you know exactly what was going on it's a little bit surprising in the short term because there were hopeful signs of talks in indonesia between north and south korea. so be all little bit surprised as to this is happening now and the other could be just a mess the situation is complicated and they might have to show some force to do a population so we are still struggling to find out what that really means and how this could go well of course eventually we all think that there's going to be a peace agreement because the current situation is obviously not sustainable the question is when and under which conditions and to the right now north korea is struggling to have a succession problem do however the mess the economy that is really also worsened by the recent floodings and next year to have a big event coming up where they need to show some success to their people so that

is a many things are possible. so far it's not even clear whose son bill really picked because he has not yet officially been an aunt's their successor we expect this to take lucia next year and all those questions are not only asked by us in the worst but also by people in north korea but creates a lot of uncertainty and insecurity and for such a monolith of system as north korea so much questions and such insecurity is really dangerous. libyan state t.v. has broadcast what it said was what is of colonel gadhafi son commies this i think people wounded in an air attack east of tripoli if genuine it would be the first visual proof that he is still alive after rebels claimed he'd been killed in a nato airstrike last week but libya's government has also confirmed has also accused i should say 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 sack the entire executive committee which functions as

a cabinet that follows the assassination of the commander of the opposition force that wants to mop author and blogger stephen leatherman says it's obvious there's no agreement between the rebels and nato nato using civilian deaths as part of its war strategy. the rebel camp is in disarray need the executive committee was that. they were unconfirmed reports that the rebels would sit inside there were eight if they were literally contesting of each other some people call it the stay only others and they always lost there's no class always knew it was going to win this war militarily but they certainly can win it by imposing a stream hardships on the libyan people he needle claims we don't care if you use of billions we're not killing civilians they made it one quarter call mistake nato is targeting civilians there this is part of

a strategy why me ask of those going school almost only university if there's like killing civilians i don't know what is. well nato mission in libya is showing no signs of winding down despite mounting civilian deaths are two spoke to the former editor of britain's sun newspaper kelvin mackenzie who says that it will take the spilling of british blood for the prime minister to change his policy in the region that interview is coming up in about fifteen minutes here's a preview. camera is now wandering around in the desert to brooke trying to work together he would look at the end of all this the. issue is with libya there have been no deaths or. just why you rarely copped to christ and god forbid we lose time people if that happened we saw it being blown out of the sky don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped

tens of millions of pounds which we have a goal but not one single one of our people is where they're happening the guy in the. brief look now at some world news in brief for you an overnight fight between afghan police and nato forces has left four officers dead and former wounded in the district in the district of kandahar the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative manned by locals who seek to protect their own villages they were reportedly mistaken for insurgents and witnesses said the men were praying when they came under fire. syrian troops have taken control of the eastern city. which has been a front line for the past four days it comes as president bashar vowed he will not ease the response to mass protests across the country earlier he met with the turkish foreign minister in damascus who pressed him to end the crackdown on

demonstrators meanwhile the u.s. called on tuesday for more international sanctions against syria more than seventeen hundred people have reportedly been killed in the country. since the uprising began in march. an american drone attack in pakistan near the afghan border has killed twenty people pakistani officials say most of the dead were afghan militants belonging to an insurgent group islam of god has repeatedly called for the u.s. to stop the strikes saying they're a violation of the country's sovereignty but drone attacks have reportedly killed hundreds of people in pakistan over the past few years. now russia's high court will reopen the case of a suspected pedophile today who walked away walked away free after his first trial as hundreds of child abuse suspects skate justice in russia each year the authorities have been called to take a tougher stance. over reports on how fed up mothers and activists are taking

matters into their own hands. and mother in grief. i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family live on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn i go to work every day sick with fear for my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for another 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 an hour and use the so called saloons the with my daughter told me he threw a stray cat on the roof and said he did the same to her if she ever confided in me about the things she was doing to her there really is no couple so. when the dollar finally managed to get things to the court the jury acquitted the man who she says is now off to her family hungry for adventure now that his 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 pulled off her underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and crestor into the ground it only took a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one. only after an enraged crowd nearly lynched the men did police launch a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that confession authorities also disciplined the original investigating officer will some of us as this part of us look at the words 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 sure don't know what to do but no one wanted to even talk to her let alone accept her statement was. russian authorities have a number declared a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been meager with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in an attempt to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands. i'm underage

that's fine i like small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and do many other things to you this 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 and they set up meetings with people who would need to prefer in minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web point was to go but i want to show we 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 most of it was like others 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 person or chatting to is under-age but they also say the out of one hundred contacts one is certain to be looking for easy prey can

be the maximum sentence for child sex offenses is twenty years in prison an amendment to the law is meant to introduce tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but i'm till the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their vigilante campaign diary pushed over arching moscow. for more news updates and videos you can log on to our web site r t dot com here's what awaits you online today a global king team has threatened to bring down. people's privacy. on this day eight years ago the first ever marriage in space was conducted by russian and american astronauts.

movie i'll be back with a recap of our top stories shortly up next the business with marine. business here on the art scene now the russian the markets are have been a volatile day after post of open encouraged by the so performance on wall street overnights the balancing and then the out of negative territory it seems investors there have little faith in the measures announced by the u.s. federal reserve to stabilize the situation ours is sorry for us it is at the headquarters of the r.t.s. stock exchange with all the latest. but with this continued volatility on the market they get a day off yes then my thanks began this morning trading good positive territory but again the market taken a very very hard to predict exactly what's going to happen when the ball is going

for. the we feel the positive result this morning following the meeting of the u.s. federal reserve yet today the markets one thing that meeting it's really like the big that what would be announced and what the fact that announcement would be that much of the market was a ping pong to these things that it should be now that's not what the u.s. federal reserve that what they said in that it was that they were going to be keeping interest rates but the next two years until about twenty c. . to see it but that had initially it not the markets are going to keep tumbling out but we fooled them but yes they both did about bulpitt fence up and that both having the pulse of the banks we saw it this morning but as the days progress with this volatility come back in best this will have the kisses. and let's take a look at the equity markets here in russia and the latest figures which unusually

are not truckin the more positive moves in europe and the last the arts yes the slightly well my sex is their own almost point three percent let's have a look at the individual sherm's on the my sucks energy majors who lost her near gains in our money the main losers the sour gas problem is the point three percent of all luke oil is almost zero point two percent actually and the t.v. is down almost three percent as banking stocks are under pressure. let's move over to europe markets there are in the black helped by their early on wall street to the footsie is the point nine percent of all dax is gaining over two percent thermal and their comrades. and carmaker volkswagen are among the top performers there. and oil prices are bouncing slightly over the international energy agency is now predicting reduce the month in twenty eleven and that's due to fears there will be another recession blights is adding over two and

a half dollars while brands is trading at one hundred six dollars almost. precious metals are again this hour after seen mixed trading on choose they right now gold is adding point eight percent it's. while gold is trading in record high territory some say there is still room for it's a rise further scott carter from goldline international outlines a number of reasons for that. there's a lot of concern about sovereign debt there's concern about the u.s. debt and there's concern about the economy and those are strong components of why gold is perform well as far as whether it's in a bubble or not there are very few people actually invested in gold so it's still under penetrated in the marketplace and it hasn't hit all of its all time inflation adjusted high of twenty three hundred dollars so many analysts are saying that there's still a lot of running room for the price of gold even given its price point today. the

russian ruble has seen a dramatic decline against the euro and u.s. dollar in recent days prime minister putin has pledged to pump extra money into the economy if needed however the central bank confirmed it would not seek to widen the likes saying a word or jaroslav less of all it believes the book was for nobility is linked to its dependence on oil. the scale of the klein and the ruble is intimately linked to the outlook on oil prices and the main reason why the scale of the decline is so significant is the fear that russia is still inherently very much dependent on oil prices this dependency hasn't gone away it's still very high and that means that if oil prices were to decline substantially below say one hundred dollars per barrel. russia would be under significant strain and terms of its macro economy so i think it's some of these concerns that are

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at two thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories from our team massive austerity cuts and the government's budget policies are blamed for losing control on the streets after four nights of riots in the u.k. hundreds of people have been arrested and it's been confirmed four have been killed in violence. china could top the list of the world's strongest economies pushing the u.s. all but century old seat within five years as the eurozone economies economies circles the drain with news that france is next in line for a downgrade. and activists in russia are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to catching pedophiles who escape justice current sex crimes laws are slammed from being inadequate and keeping the threat on the playground. as more civilians die in nato airstrikes in libya serious questions are being asked.