gangs clashed with police torched cars and shops three men were killed after they were run over while protecting their properties and as a lawyer and mentor of course 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 here do you think that would have been i think any surprise i think south 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

start m.e.p. gerard batten says money's being spent on foreign wars that should be spent at home i think the point has come where we have to call in the armed forces what we're seeing now and. criminality across the whole of what we should do in my view is 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 are essentially 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 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 invest in your communities when you take away the money from the

police in. the money from the youth what. i mean i could never have imagined such consequences to be only you know you look at consequences 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 folding 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 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 beach your emmet r.t. london british police are on high alert ready to find a bike with force in case riots enter a fifth day but also one journalist afshin rattansi believes u.k.

politicians have no understanding of the true problems in society really sparks an arrest this is completely in crisis and the motivations or so numerous the central one of course is inequality and civic life. that are completely out of touch whether the. police force or politicians themselves. i think we all would realize in this country david cameron who went through one of the most expensive schools in the country has no knowledge of the huge and insecurities and inequalities that raged right across this country the idea of david cameron cutting the police for massive cuts the idea of shrinking the economy to grow it as a sort of mass religion together with a mass consumerist religion here one thing to buy more and more expensive goods.

the whole idea of this government having any understanding of trying to run thing in britain is a farce but as to what happens next and i think that's perhaps the most interesting question eleven year old boy has appeared in the courts. this will be the way to understand what is going on the phrase mindless the phrase shit criminology shows of you've already have no idea how to stop what looks like a runaway train right now. the u.s. and european markets have dropped dramatically losing most of tuesday's gains amid uncertainty over growth prospects with such financial turmoil damaging investors trust they are increasingly setting their sights elsewhere and it looks like asia could emerge as a safe haven many 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 and at that predicted and previously the international monetary fund said they could force washington from its financial throne by twenty sixteen so china's still holds more

u.s. treasury dead than any other foreign country and has voiced loud criticism of america's hundley of its debt crisis asia correspondent for the details the latest international monetary fund projections 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 that really is only a short term impact and that in the long run that asian countries are actually better equipped to 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 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 in for more of the international community to get on board and move away from the dollar as the reserve currency issue some sort of basket currency that could include a lot of the asian powerhouses like japan and china. and associate director of the show advisory group and have been the is the financial power shift might have already happened. in many regards china has already overtaken clearly. do suppose that number one economy in the united states and that's when you're looking at the physical economy physical production there on the purchasing power adjusted basis because their renminbi is undervalued and they need to reflect that when looking at economic sizes you're fed a projection by standard and poor's made in the year two thousand and five there was six years before now where they actually projected that all 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 the aaa rating stages in two thousand and sixteen so now we're 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 they're 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 the 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 metal to something we have been advising for the past ten years be optimistic on that and then asian emerging market economies look

a lot better than the western countries. do you of french president nicolas sarkozy has ordered his finance and budget ministers to come up with additional measures to tackle the financial crisis and it concerns they could be next to lose their aaa credit rating and his interrupted his summer holiday after being criticized for staying away while turmoil grips the financial markets and some economists say it's a reluctance to put fast that coherent way to travel in the first place daniel bushell has more. of the united states the french next on the credits a hit list to surrender their top rating france this according to a lot of people at least probably going to lose its replace status. known for its life 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 that 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 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 cost those nations now lead a growing resistance against fellow members opposition 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 italy 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 debt is being bought by the european central bank because people can't grasp their fancy methods yet the e.c.b. funded by europe's taxpayers they don't want to pay for these lousy greek spanish people but when they use the e.c.b. . nobody understands it's bridge finance minister francois borrowings backed a big bailout fund as fears grow that france is mixed in line the looks of wise move but by then the last remaining careful states may have already had enough the new bush will see brussels. a special abuse case involving its seven year old girl has shaken a small russian turn in the country's far east outrage was triggered after a judge's allowed this suspected paedophile to walk away free diapers called the

reports now of how mothers and activists are taking matters into their own hands as hundreds of child abusers escape justice each year. and mother in grief. i was. 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 go to work every day sick with fear for my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for that idea 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. seconds that of 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's news michael said. when natalie have 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 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 i had. only after an enraged crowd nearly inched 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 wars that happen here as 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 where there really russian authorities have a number declared a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been meagre

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 admit to preferring minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web to be able to what is simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in our own way because our families live in a city our children in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts. 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 roughly 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 until the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their vigilante can be dairy pushed archie. and of course more stories and comments for you online at r.t. dot com and here's a quick luke i love this race in asia as china or fifth as soviet war ship for its own slate with taiwan flexing its own military muscle by brandishing you missile dubbed and i quote carrick killer. and the diving expedition over the reputed to russia's a client is a sunken lived in the south of the country push the video of that trip on our

website so that probably also discovered some ancient trophies local to our state of home to find out all that jazz. already strained relations between north and south korea came under increased pressure on wednesday the south says it responded to the shelling from the north near their disputed maritime border has dismissed the accusations as ridiculous as the two countries clashed last november in a deadly exchange that killed four people in the south korean island both sides blamed each other for opening fire first with pyongyang saying that time was a response to seoul's provokers of military exercises in the area but experts say the precautions of the repercussions could stretch far beyond regional tensions. well there have been a very hesitant discussions between the united states and north korea very

preliminary the united states the obama administration has been very clear that this is only very preliminary they don't want to suggest that the united states is about to sit down anytime soon until north korea jumps through several more hoops and north korea has indicated that is not enthusiastic about jumping through those hoops any time soon those hoops would include for instance an apology to south korea for the shelling the island it would include perhaps some indication that north korea is serious about denuclearization at the moment north korea hasn't given any of those indications and the united states too well it's not eager to as they say sell the same horse twice this is something the obama administration is very reluctant to give any indication that it's going to do because of course it's worried that it will be attacked by conservatives both in congress and elsewhere

while the upper cautions of course are very serious both north and south korea have tremendous amount of artillery facing one another huge number of soldiers facing one another north korea has nuclear program but it's unlikely that it actually has an effective nuclear weapon nevertheless if a conflict were to escalate it would have serious repr cautions with so many people living close to the demilitarized zone. let's have a look at some other international news stories making headlines this hour fifty people have reportedly been killed after syrian security forces opened fire on residents in the city of holmes turns have also ended several north western towns near the border with turkey meanwhile the u.n. security council met on wednesday to discuss how to stop the escalating conflict president assad is coming under increasing international pressure would be u.s. imposing fresh sanctions on a syrian bank and a cell phone operator. at least twenty militants have been killed by a u.s.

drone strike in northwestern pakistan the group is believed to have been behind a number of attacks against american troops in afghanistan is that a bad has repeatedly called for the u.s. to stop the strikes saying they're violation of the country's sovereignty actually its claim up to twenty five hundred pakistani civilians have been killed in drone attacks just a thousand and four. at least three hundred people have been detained in the chilean capital santiago after turns of thousands of students around and demanding changes in the education system and marked the protests as a burned cars and threw rocks and furniture at security forces who fired tear gas and water cannon in response students who have been demonstrating for weeks say the current system is underfunded and unequal president sebastian pinera has promised extra financing but protests to say this is not enough. overnight fire fights between nato troops and are going to police have led four officers dead and

four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative he said the men were reportedly with taken for insurgents the incident follows last month's move by a native to begin hundred handing over control to local authorities and cos i've got stuck. up to date up next as more civilians reportedly die in nato air strikes in libya serious questions are being asked over the legality of the alliance's intervention and he spoke to the former editor of the british newspaper the sun who says that leave it was a good p.r. stunt for the british government as he shares his insights into the conflict.

today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former editor of the song newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of british bloods mckenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons that as strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi usually that's worth a few british bombs and sorties well first of all we don't know whether there was going to be a massacre of big girls or this was the period of this was the government push this

was cameron's personal space. in the end of the day though this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should be running their country after all when i last looked i didn't notice any of the libyans into fear when the cavaliers in the roundheads took place and revolution or the far as i could see there was nobody from tripoli wondering where in the french revolution this is a revolution quite normal but libyan rebels did off off to intervene they also may say to intervene do we not that full have a duty to go in and help the mouse no we don't want you to do we owe to a saw aid in a revolution who is trying to grab power to decide what the outcome of that war is going to be i say we have no duty while we are out there wandering around the desert there was a justification it was last debate there's no justification i prefer the russian

position i prefer the chinese position i prefer the german position all of which is the siamese we wish you well we're not firing any guns away not sending in any planes what now that means you're with nation that we pull out and leave the libyans to what could essentially be a bloody civil war it is a bloody civil war that's what happens in civil wars that isn't the point the reason that you have the word war involved in civil war is it's not called civil negotiation it is a fight and in the end i expect the rebels they will win but they don't need to win risking our blood on our money and what happens to the politicians is that they look around them selves they look at this their ratings in the polls and they sorry john i was i'm not doing very well here the people who vote for me think i'm going to be a begin to charge me out of ten they want to wander around north africa wander around the middle east why do we go into saudi arabia where they've banned marches and the

king as announce there will be severe. repercussion for demonstrations and in the east they started firing everybody why don't we go into the main why don't we go in everywhere and yet we have still going into libya which by your logic also has nothing to do with us is because we could have been open about gadhafi you know what it is we're warry a nation trying to relive the old days of the empire cameron keep on shouting out where of all the pink bits gone you know strolling around the middle east you know without a site and without an exit plan we know how to go into these places we have no idea how to get out people say that the government's various governments learned nothing from iraq and afghanistan but do you think what in fact what you learned was how to sell another military intervention no absolutely the issue is quite clear. we didn't want iraq it was lumbered on us by a vainglorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to

brook trying to work out how to get out he will look at the idea at the end of all this but the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no deaths on our side just why if alec optic crashed and god forbid we lose ten people all all by the way they use those heat seeking missiles which you can basically just walk in and according to today's papers. 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 haven't gotten but not one single one of our people has has died where that happens the game and the p.r. game will change politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa at a military of what cameron saw what was in it for him or for a country he's a pro for he is unfortunately

a professional bleeding hearts and so he's one of those guys who rush around endlessly he's a total political animal by the way rush around endlessly saying something must be done the answer is something mustn't be done this light when used about to send off a really stinking is. on the night before to your boss right. send a mile go to bed wake up in the morning reread it and decide whether it was a good idea or not cameron hasn't got that ability by simply i think he's going mad he's gone mad very early he's only been in power yeah. as long as blanche blair was such a fog at the end of it all. my suspicion is that the pressure is just driven by kelvin mackenzie thank you very much.

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this is all see the headlines. police across india and given the go ahead to use tactics to control right to its base comes as three men in birmingham not killed while protecting their home. america teaches on its top sports as an investigative and while on this project china could replace the u.s. as the world's biggest economy within four years markets were again dragged down by fears e.u. debt could spread to the us. north and south korea. over disputed maritime border in the yellow sea raising fears fresh talks on the north's nuclear program will think just stalled the substance and returned its boxes shelling from the north again dismissed the claims on this particular. nexus how he says stay with us for that.