welcome mrs r t it's now nine pm wednesday evening here in moscow my name is kevin now in our top story the u.k. is determined to use all means possible against rioters including water cannon and plastic bullets a number of cities across the country suffered from a fourth night of violence last night when gangs clashed with police torched cars and ransacked shops as artie's lorimer reports now there are those who think u.k. troops engaged in costly overseas campaigns are needed more at home. 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 that would have been i think any surprises out a little bit better i don't think they're doing everything they can i don't mean to be more violent i think. 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. general patton 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 what we should do in my view pull our troops back from these pointless wars in afghanistan in iraq. as money's 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 class youth worker told me four out of eight youth centers have closed since last year it's about investing in our communities when you take away the money from the police in the way the money from the youth work. i mean i could never have imagined such consequences to be only you know. consequences tuesday night saw sixteen thousand police officers on the streets of london according. the metropolitan police force is being stretched more than ever before and increasingly londoners are talking about taking matters into their own hands bringing the situation under control it's just the beginning of golding problem and it's not just about cleaning up it's about communities coming to terms with the baton even

at the current numbers if violence is widespread enough and the police seem unable to retain control the feeling of insecurity in these communities is likely to remain for some time particularly if police keep disappearing from the pain you are at it r.t. clap and london. will follow on twitter for the lives of those most happening in britain also news analysis of the u.k. crisis is available twenty four seventh's on our website. and all you choose channel where you can find the timeline of the rides you will remind yourself of the last four five days you can see what happened from the very first day and catch dramatic footage of britain on fire.

before people have now been confirmed dead as rioting moves across the u.k. prime minister david cameron vowed to end the violence that sparked after police shot a man dead in tottenham north london this is because the situation is richard seymour is a british writer of the activist joining us on the line from london tonight this is a good evening the u.k. prime minister says the fight back is underway what did it take so long road to employ these tougher measures. i think because for a start the political leadership was in a bit of disarray david cameron was on holiday the metropolitan police is in serious crisis over the whole hackett scandal that's taken out a large chunk of its leadership and there's a lot of competition going on for who's going to take over those roles and in addition to that the metropolitan police has spent

a generation trying to repair some of the damage done to relations with black communities in this country the last thing they need now is to fritter all of that work away one of the real problems they're facing here is that the unit that killed mark duggan was a unit belonging to operation trident that was supposed to be a unit that was set up on the list of the black community it now seems to be one that entering a serious crisis. well you know you say that the police yes have come in for serious criticism over the shooting of the man some saying this is what triggered the riots of course his family really want to distance themselves from that but also a lot of criticism of the way the police has reacted to what's happened here and the information they've given out do you think they could have handled it better. i think it was really difficult for them to have handled it better partly because i think the truth is that the police significantly caused this situation as you said

. and therefore don't necessarily have an easy solution to it and if you look at the way in which it's spread it's spread to the two on touched areas areas where i live in areas where i've used to live have seen rioting on a scale that we haven't seen since the 1980's the police probably couldn't have anticipated that and therefore it's not really within their gift to prevent it i think a deeper solution is called for those who are calling for militaristic solutions policing solutions i think are missing the real source of the problem richard as night falls across london across the rest of britain tonight police give the go ahead to use water cannon and plastic bullets if they need to stop any riots well but work is it a way forward. no because i think that what's going to happen is you're going to potentially intimidate an inch or a few people lot of participating in riots but you going to leave that to remain pretty well prepared for future riots because the resentment the anger the

alienation will still be there and by the way in this country supposedly we have policing by consent and that's i mean that's necessary as these riots have demonstrated you couldn't have enough police to just move surely by force now if you start introducing plastic bullets and water cannons which is something that britain only traditionally uses in the colonial front tears historically then you basically a road to consent upon which policing is based so i think it's a short sighted measure it's a panic measure it's one being done because of the lack of political leadership in this country it's a one in perpetual crisis one of the most shocking parts of what's happened in the last couple of days as well i guess is seeing how young people appear to be taking part in this some as young as nine or ten dying in part in this looting what does it tell us about the state of the current state of english society are saying glaciers well because notably there's been nothing so far at least happening like this in wales and scotland. true nothing in northern ireland where i come from

either look the truth is that young people are getting the worst of this recession by twenty percent youth unemployment they're getting some of the worst of the cards education maintenance allowance has been cut for them to issue a piece of grown up opportunities for them being pretty the way they see it and they feel that now young kids may not be politically articulate that doesn't mean they're not aware of the general situation they're in and i have a feeling that they think that there's nothing in it for them and therefore very little to lose. so i think that's going to be one of the reasons at least why people so young have been involved ok folks your thoughts british writer and activist richard seymour on r.t. international tonight. still to come for you this hour back at all odds reports of new shelling from north korea as its southern neighbor returns fire after artillery rounds from the falls into waters close to both countries dividing line bring it today on that later standoff. we discover how activists organize their own

vigilante campaign against sexual predators paedophile offenders the skate justice here in russia. next though the u.s. and european markets have dropped dramatically losing most of tuesday's gains a bit uncertainty over growth prospects with such financial turmoil damaging investors trust they're increasingly setting their sights elsewhere and it looks like asia could emerge as a popular safe haven many analysts believe that with the loss of america's aaa credit score and fears of a new recession china could become the world's strongest economy earlier now than predicted previously the international monetary fund said beijing could force washington from its financial throw by twenty sixteen but china still holds more u.s. treasury debt than any other foreign country and its voice allowed criticism of america's handling of its debt crisis or asia correspondent chris srijit has got the story. 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 last 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 there 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 is to some sort of basket currency that could include a lot of the asian powerhouses like japan and china. new delhi for us well earlier we spoke to martin he's associate director of financial advisory firm tight screw p told us he believes the financial power shift might have already happened in many regards china has already overtaken clearly. suppose it number one economy in the united states and that's when you're looking at the physical economy physical production they were on the purchasing power adjusted basis because their renminbi is undervalued and they need to reflect that then looking at economic size had a projection by standard and poor's made in the year two thousand and five there were six years before now where they actually projected that all of the major western governments were heading for junk status including france the u.s. germany and the u.k. and they started actually saying that the u.s. would lose their aaa rating stages in two thousand and sixteen so now we are

actually five years ahead of that original projection now the balance sheets of these countries if anything would have only gotten worse which is why. the u.s. has lost the aaa rating when you have economies major economies where the deficits and out of control and you have this kind of projections on the line that means that these countries are usually going to print that they are the problem so you main risk and the new form of this financial crisis will probably be very high to hyperinflation in the west and cons in that means investment rise you need to look at other areas particularly gold precious metals is something we have been advising for the past ten years we still are optimistic on that and then asian emerging market economies look a lot better than the western countries. will tell us if you will what you think about the current market turmoil you can head to our two door com vote in our latest poll today we're asking if the emerging economies could profit from the trouble in the west while you think about that what this is what you're telling us

so far get the majority of you telling us going down one percent from last but the world's already too globalized for them to come out the winner here. a lot of you also saying though do you believe emerging economies can and should capitalize on the situation and take the reins some others of you who've taken the time to vote saying they'll only profit if they're smart enough and they act fast enough really good you know what you're thinking about this story you can change the prophetess no we think about it dot com that's where you can cast your vote. north and south korea have exchanged fire in the disputed region of the yellow sea off to the south replied with heavy weaponry as an artillery shell from its neighbor fell into waters near the maritime dividing line ties between the two countries have been strained since last november's deadly exchange killed four people on a south korean island both sides blamed each other for opening fire first with pyongyang saying the attack was a response to seoul's provocative military exercises in the area and it will come

eric so don't kid and told me that while both sides might be fueling the flames a peace deal is still the only option. we see in this history over the past decade or for the past twenty or thirty years where peace seems to get a little bit closer and something happens to make people pull back i think you're dealing with a point in which the united states is planning major military operations with south korea next month and generally these things that happen just around those military exercises here you have one side shot a few rounds off on their side of the border the other side shot a few rounds on their side and everyone blows it up as being the edge of war but you do have one of the highest militarized regions in the world and we need to reduce that tension get to the bargaining table we have over twenty eight thousand troops still unsolved korea and the u.s. is involved with getting the south koreans to build up their military make

purchases and such and so the u.s. has not taken a leadership role in peace we could really look at the relationship and understand that a peace treaty ending the korean war would make all the difference. if you like to find out more about what's happening with korean peninsula head towards the dot com our web site there you'll find a lot more stories like catching videos online for you as well it's a quick taste of some others an arms race in age you're a child or if it's a salvi it was shipped for its own fleet with taiwan flexing its military muscle by brandishing a new missile aircraft carrier killer more details about that on my other diving expedition of vladimir putin to russia's atlantis it's a sudden can land in the south of the country we've got video there he is of the trip on our web site the premier also discovering some of the trophies they're going to find out more about that it's about dot com. and some other international

news in brief no this hour and syrian tanks and armored vehicles have stalled several western towns near the border with turkey expanding a military offensive to crush protests it comes as president bashar al assad well that he will not relent in pursuing what he called terrorist groups in the country earlier you met with the turkish foreign minister who pressed him to end the crackdown on anti-government protesters over fifteen hundred people have reportedly been killed since the uprising started in march. a u.s. drone strikes killed twenty militants including foreign members in north western pakistan the groups believed to be behind a number of attacks against american troops in afghanistan is of about repeatedly called for the u.s. to stop the strikes a little violation of the country's sovereignty activists claim a two thousand five hundred pakistanis have been killed in the attacks since two thousand and four now. almost three hundred people have been detained in chile after tens of thousands of students marched through the capital demanding changes to the education system last protesters burned cars and threw rocks and furniture

at security forces who fired tear gas and water cannon in response students who'd been demonstrating for weeks now say the current system is underfunded and an equal president sebastian pinera is promised extra financing but the protest is a saying it's not enough. overnight. firefights between nato troops and afghan police has left four officers dead four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative manned by locals wanting to protect their own villages he said the men were reportedly mistaken for insurgents the instant follows last month's move by nato to begin handing over control to local authorities across afghanistan. a sexual abuse case involving a seven year old girl has shaken a small russian town in the country's far east outrage was triggered after judges allowed the suspected paedophile to walk away free. cove reports next on how mothers and activists are taking matters therefore into their own hands as hundreds

of child abuse is a skate justice every year. and mother in grief. only was that if i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family were even the first floor with curtains constantly drawn to go to work every day sick with fear my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for that is 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 news on the so-called silence that as my daughter told me he threw a stray cat on the roof and said he'd do the same to her if she'd have a confided in me about the things she was doing to her. so. when i finally managed to get things to the court the jury 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 called 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 had. only after an enraged crowd inched the men the police launched 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 for modest 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 really russian authorities have not 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 peter viles of legal online pretending to be an underage boy or girl they set up meetings with people who didn't need to preferring minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web point was to go but i want to show you are simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in their own way because our families live unless it is our children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts plus a good cause like overstock 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 learned the person or chatting to is under age but they also say

roughly 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 an amendment to the law is meant to introduce 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 diary pushed over arching. now his mission in libya we showed no sign of winding down despite accusations of causing more civilian deaths well r.t. spoke to the former editor of britain's sun newspaper kelvin mackenzie who told us that it'll take the spilling of british blood for the u.k. prime minister to change his policy in the region. is now wandering around in the desert of to brook trying to work out how to get out he would look an idiot at the end of all those the underlying issue is with libya there have been no deaths on

our soil just white valley coptic christian god forbid we lose ten people if that happened we. don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped tens of millions appeals which we haven't gotten but not one single one of the people is has died where that happens the game and the p.r. game. and if you'd like to see more of that interview i can tell you it's on air again in just over an hour here on our take back to the present dollars cut short the latest business news now alex is the latest live from moscow. i was very much kevin and indeed welcome to the business news here on r.t. let's head straight to the markets here in russia that had sharply negative in the claims thing sasha after a short lived rally this morning the sell off started again and it fell right in

the last hour of trade particularly when the dow jones index a pin down some four hundred point four months in session call from overall fed says the russian market still have a way to go to form. so i believe that russia will probably continue to on the perform so i think will come soon strong. in russia we don't hear much of both most of the monkey load only a rush oh. we're talking about only occasional over the show low balled floor so this stage the money which has been leaving the country. has france probed traders i think you've read of things got worse then we'll probably see a lot of do leveraging margin calls and redemptions on the spiro market the rule or the difference of growth as compared to what we've heard them to be there is no not much places where you can wrong reason gold helps you currency is still it's

a very rare. coins have a look at the markets now when nobody i have been saying for equities that here in russia both on the my six cheddars or any before and i'll often said and have breached. in the us down james is behaving like something of a yo yo would given up nearly all the gains it made of cheese day it's currently down only three percent the nasdaq is down nearly a small. and european markets have given up with games if it sees last three percent down the downstroke find. it has called savers commodities now and as we've been saying well prices are up slightly light sweet is adding around two dollars this hour while brant is the trading at around one hundred five dollars a barrel. and looking at precious metals and now they're also gaining this hour after seeing mixed trading on tuesday gold it just keeps on setting new records

particularly at sea but outperforming platinum which traditionally trades at a premium against gold and silver is also all over three and a half percent this hour. and despite trading at a record many analysts say gold has potential to climb significantly higher skilled culture from goldline international explains their reasoning. 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 on the russian ruble how seen a dramatic decline it gets the euro in u.s. dollar in recent days prime minister fusions pledged to palm extra money into the

economy if needed however the central bank confirmed it would not seek to widen the replay exchange rate corridor he had a serviceable excess weevils vulnerabilities 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 it will prices were to decline substantially below say one hundred dollars per barrel. russia would be under significant strain in terms of its macro economy so i think it's some of these concerns that are really related to russia's lingering dependency on oil prices that are fueling that are driving the decline in

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of this is r t moscow meetings kevin i mean these are all top stories tonight british police are given a green light to use tough tactics against rises of the violence spreads from. the u.k. government social policies of blame for britain's worst disorder in years. america's financial woes could see its crown as the world's top economy pass to china in less than four years investors are expected to turn more often to asian markets to escape economic turmoil in the u.s. and europe. as russian officials turn a blind eye the complaints about peeta father souls members of the public launched their own vigilante crackdown on sexual predators current sex crimes laws a slam for being too soft and failing to keep the threat from the country's playground. now r.t. follows the journey of two colombians fans they try to find the truth behind the deaths of their relatives in a mysterious military operation.