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the movie the joy to be able to be on the villains the great religion the grand imperial college the george wesley to school until you can a little closer to to civility to go. to the kernel was literally a school retreat. slamming into the social media probably linings the sun rises david cameron calls for a pound on twitter and facebook locals in the violence around preaching the say is that bounded by the compass. strips all the unity former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld could find himself in the dog to see where iraq for veterans and give them the green light to see for and that still be a crime. and a media cardinality griot the government needs a great deal of press for the controversial movie that sees hot as the on this side .
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a very warm welcome to you this is our see live from moscow the british prime minister is blaming gangs blankly phones and even social networks for inciting the violence in the country david cameron's also said parts of society are sick but locals in the affected areas so you they've been neglected by the government years with a sense of insecurity growing on the streets people are now forced to take matters into their own hands or emmet reports from london. because i could sure use a warning to looters if you come out to enfield tonight you'd better be in disguise at the first sign of trouble this is what happens. around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out
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of town. despite the more atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that i can to do the opposite effect but you're going to get every weapon much started checking out stories of four young children also children on the streets all of this is happening if there's not enough police they move help them understand everyone a wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go off to really cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in specially no shops up in the road and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say let's solve the problems without wanting violence and causing distress control which then takes it on. causing the violence
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in the streets. this is the current face of communities across england many of which felt under siege from looters and said in their darkest hour the police were nowhere to be seen police have not been anywhere where the police if the police were hit you think. maybe this is what david cameron means when he talks constantly about the big society handing power and responsibility back to local communities and i think the scenes we all saw our television screens last night of communities coming together in. to try and stop violence taking place was a mortal how these things should be done that despite the fact that three young asian men were killed in birmingham early on wednesday trying to protect local businesses looters allegedly rammed the with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante attract all thoughts and more talent he doesn't just rear its head in
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looters this is a huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the moment which many find reassuring but groups like the enfield army prove that communities still feel police are unable to protect them with budget cuts the front line officers still on the table poppies on the beach could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack nor am it r.t. . london based this chris nine says restricting social media is not great downing street should be doing if it wants to stand the threat of further riots. this government is closing down three swimming pools at shopping youth centers and it's vandalizing the economy the rule of law can't be enforced if it's brothel for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same law for everyone we have to start with the most powerful criminals and what we've seen
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recently is politicians on the take these police constables on the take. we've seen the bankers on the trade these people have to be dealt with and when it comes to the question of violence what i would say is this law enforcement does require a certain amount of let's have it it's just so ironic coming celebrate that the facebook revolution the social media the threat of revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly. try to crack down on the media here it's really it's absolutely cannot be. inequality you know if you're serious. what kind of society are we that drives a live neuro fourteen year old kids to that. mental state to you know to burn the local store that that we really actually believe we need actually not weasel politicians words. or plenty more stories ahead of course later we report on the powerful advertising matters and he's going to make sure that.
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they presented the military for what it was i don't think anyone would join it. probably would in media gains help save a superior image of american soldiers t. this. is planted. now to days of concern over whether it would retain its aaa credit score ratings giant the country's top billing on wednesday friends of banks are. the worst affected by the volatility being forced to deny that it was tbilisi was at risk part of that is remain unconvinced the country's finances are on solid foundations but keyser pleased the french banking system would pull through the current crisis. the french banks are loaded with toxic derivatives that were sold to them by american investment banks and the american investment banks plus the rating agencies plus
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the hedge funds are now attacking these french banks they know where the bodies are buried and they're using the weapons that they sold them to attack them and you know going back to the s. and p. downgraded just before the s. and p. downgrade of u.s. debt i told you point blank with certainty that the rating would be downgraded now i'm telling you that the rating will be downgraded again because this is part of a new era on wall street where they go after sovereign debt and the hedge funds and the rating agencies and wall street banks work together now to destabilize the sovereign debt of these countries because remember that has crohn's wall street working with the rating agencies are bigger than any of these countries deciding generale and b. and b. and credit agricole are insolvent their balance sheets are six to ten times bigger in terms of the debt that they carry than they could possibly service but it's carried on the shadow banking system they don't report this debt but the insiders around the world who wield the weapons of mass financial destruction are tapping
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them to force these on realize that's on their balance sheet to force these companies into delinquency into foreclosure because they are going to rate again billions of dollars attacking these banks these banks are insolvent society generali is an insolvent institution so is b m p they they can't possibly meet they're there to write demands absolutely not. meanwhile after a week of turmoil on the european financial markets france italy spain and belgium have the five it's a ban short selling on the shares of banks and other financial companies short selling is when traders profit from betting on falls in share prices has been blamed for increasing market instability where the leaders of the euro zone's biggest economies germany and france have also announced they will meet their eggs week to discuss the nation's two europe's financial difficulties we do watch our business loosen it later on for more. and since last
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week as part of and poor's downgrade of the u.s. is credit rating people have plot to buy gold as a safe haven or to invest their money its value has almost doubled since the beginning of two thousand and nine and prices for the precious metal have skyrocketed this week breaking all time records let's talk more now with steven wright a key asia business editor he joins us live from hong kong many of those of being with us so what all the reasons are people turning to gold and other precious metals is the sign of panic. the amount of gold that is being produced since humans started to you know out of the ground is actually less than the amount of steel that the world produces every day. gold has a rarity value and people see it is holding its value in times of financial. market volatility they see it as
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a relatively stable and safe investment. and deposits in such short supply when explodes for those commodity of course the price starts to skyrocket is viewed seen in recent days so would you say that it is a sign of panic that people are turning back to gold. it's definitely a sign of fear and and anxiety markets gyrating wildly people want to take money away from risky yes it's like stocks and gold is a natural haven for for investors money to do there and that with european and american markets volatile of the moment how are the asian markets reacting where you are. or asian stock markets. commodity markets really kept the two d. of events unfolding in europe in the u.s.
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so the swings that we see on wall street and on european bourses are being pretty much replicated on a day to day basis in the major asian stock markets such as japan hong kong seoul australia and elsewhere i think it's not a long term ramifications for what they thought the high gold prices fell by the us dollar do you think is the world's reserve currency should investors belden looking for that methods. well i mean the reality for the world is that he really is no viable alternative currently to the turn of the currently to the us dollar. the bulk of traders trends that didn't u.s. dollars or commodities trader the newest dollars most central banks keep the bulk of the. foreigners is in the u.s. dollar estimates so really to look for an alternative to the u.s.
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dollar at the moment is really grasping at straws ok stephen wright avi's asia business that is says a word to us live from bangkok many. and a u.s. court has ruled. for a private security. eagle imprisonment and torture proven guilty which means a former defense secretary would be held accountable one in iraq i think it's you madam you know with all the. criminal activity by the u.s. and if you responded by them in prison they were true to who we. would be without charge they don't rule things against the motion had been rejected by the committee until now and you were right and it's buyback. propagates algor officials being held to account for. what we have to recognize is that by stripping
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rumsfeld of them unity for the acts of torture against american citizens this opens wide the door not only for rumsfeld but for cheney for bush for all of those who advocated or put into place policies like the policy of torture which they call enhanced interrogation techniques euphemistically and very philly euphemistically disguising torture which is illegal then that means all of these people could be in the dark if you try to hold pentagon officials in this case the head of the pentagon and rumsfeld accountable for torture or other illegal acts that somehow shackles the hands of u.s. military ironically it suggests that the united states government needs to demands too and is engaging in illegal acts and that if anyone holds them accountable that will be quote shackling in their effort to carry out war it's partly demagogy by virtue of the nature of the argument it also reveals that they in fact have
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institutionalized torture otherwise they would not be afraid of the allegation against it. well the guns can still spending huge amounts of dollars to convince young americans to sign up for the army it's coincides with hollywood and the video games industry is helping turn military service into an attractive to do with the economic crisis and unemployment is working alongside artie's anisotropic in a report on how it's all playing out for america's youth. a hunch for american humor. to fight down the next american ever war incorporated a robust business machine is operating at full capacity in the us straight. from televised ads to hollywood blockbusters. to video games to american presidents dumping soldiers the real patriots each of them as. to what it means to be a soldier sailor airman marine and coast guardsman the image of the american
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laurier is portrayed as that of the invincible hero times where one of the number one interest payments pots even the big alcoa attracts millions from around the world and across the west apart from the flashing lights of the billboards there's a recruitment center right here one of hundreds just a new york the mesmerizing technique luring young americans into serving are more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring a video game tournaments and people tournaments coming and going up to these young kids to perform well and see the u.s. military needs you see your skills at this video game if pushed to young fifteen or sixteen or seventeen year old this is something that's very basic it's a cruel and deceptive type of recruitment they want to use all the hippest tools they can to make being in the military has cool is possible now cinematographer edward pages dedicated ten years to being a u.s. soldier he thought it was the honorable thing to do if that was the end of the
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military for what it was i don't think anyone would join. but they do join having played one computer game and seen one war movie too many there's no second chances in real life you can you can reset a game you can restart a movie there's no second chance when you're actually out there your life is at risk for something that most of these young men have no idea really the true reason why they're going out there by the time some of these. if reasons are realized the military. leaders of the world are trying to limit us it is often too late the problem is a lot of these kids don't know once they get in it's hard to get out the first time the way out is suicide a military report says eighty percent of soldiers in afghanistan have seen a friend killed or injured in the core of war quickly replacing its promised glory yet nothing stops the military propaganda campaign now is spending hundreds of
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millions of dollars every year recruiting group are recruiting people glorifying war glorifying the killing of people whether it's necessary or not but the recording me at home also comes in handy for the pentagon there's a joke in the military that the best recruiter is an economic downturn and that recruiter is raging on what happened here for two thousand and eight that solve their problem was the desperation of millions of americans we had an economic crisis we've had unemployment zoom up no matter the times the power of the pentagon seems eternal american leaders and not become presidents by challenging american national security coming in there seems to tyranny state nor the military industrial complex they just don't do it meaning brewarrina more young americans into more wars with no happy end or game over insights and stacy churkin are our new york. so. you gagging at the media the government said are
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really tied the noose around the country's press constant criticism of the. six gunmen including a terrorist cell leader have been killed in much of southern republican sun in a two day anti terror operation that's according to the national antiterrorism committee. mughal media live but was believed to responsible for support terrorist attacks across the country and was on the most wanted list is also thought to have helped train a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a military counter the republic last year four officers were killed in that blast and more than thirty injured russia's anti terror committee claims that he was assisted by george's intelligence service. thank you it's going to check on some other world news at this hour syrian government forces have a fluffy killed twelve civilians mostly in the province of homs meanwhile in the city of hama all the government's gained full control following
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a crackdown in which schools of education on wednesday the u.s. imposed new financial sanctions on the country and called on all the authorities to take similar measures the ongoing agressor got a march is that to have claimed seventeen hundred lies independent reviews banned from the country make it difficult to verify events on the grounds. that. libyan rebels say they've kept a big key northern town of beit go after months of intense fighting but tripoli's dismissed the claim saying rebels have taken over a part of this is based on libya's main oil fields rebels gained a strategic victory and plenty to get embassy in washington reopened the control of the national transitional council a sign of u.s. support for libya's rebel movement the ongoing civil war in the country raging to six months killing thousands of people despite his intervention. the egyptian government's taken steps to end
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a decades long emergency law the country's government said it plans the changes both pull parliament she elections expected in the event the measure which was imposed in ninety eight ousted president hosni mubarak security forces wife powers to arrest and taylor gyptian without this do little hospital he did the protesters behind the country's uprisings earlier this year and snatched at least eight hundred on food. the government and the hungry is adopted a controversial new media control it will see hundreds of journalists laid off from the freedom of the press severely curtailed because first reports despite fears composition many have been forced into silence if fears for their job security. evil. speak no evil at least not the hung gary in government opinion new media little claim. being silenced.
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it's about hiding things and hiding that's not covering for certain issues. of the government that's. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also established a new media of thirty days working for the media regulated. by the ruling party and were loyal supporters being elected public service broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there have been some major layoffs and we put. people loyal to the government positions of public public. voice criticisms of the raw then you will first see. the public. was introduced. one minute silence in the national review.
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writer is suspended and one of the. three. in fact he was the other one was fired hundreds of others have the same fate wave of layoffs across the industry this is. the situation in the media here and want to keep their jobs in. line it's. a good thing and. a very inflated public media sector people. this is not only talking. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized. politics that about professional commerce. is something. you have to cut costs
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that the day has been strongly contest many talented journalists have found themselves out of the job first. it's not just. the. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent. serious concerns about hungary's democratic. every democracy government needs an independent media so if this government thinks . it can. influence they can regulate. very. very bad ground but heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally the government sticking by the new media laws the
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changes they could bring could be set to radically transform the face of hungary's media. would you visit our web site and see dot com for more news on dates and the latest p.b.s. he is also online today big brother is directing a movie to watch for a lot of trouble makers in new york the police film with units and most essential networks of people up to no good and all saved. this day eleven years ago plagued one of its worst naval tragedies i think nuclear submarine the course gets timestamped bos'n off the parents see him coming a team over one hundred eighteen people are going. to be out with
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a rehab for top stories very shortly but first if there was room for the nation's business seems. hello and welcome to business here on our knowledge has been a week of exceptional bolette so let's see on the world's financial markets here are their gains and losses greater than five percent so the trend has been down and sentiment here for bordering on panic let's find out what friday has in store with an awful c.r.t.c. but this one off who's are saying they're gone now the r.t.s. has already opened what are conditions like today. good morning marina and we have been witnessing extraordinary fluctuations in the markets across the entire world throughout this week and just talk about the streets a little bit to be overnight trading sessions showed moral rule. i'm talking about
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four point movement that just kind of says it all in the end to be you know job. finished getting four percent nasdaq finished getting for him to have the sense of analysts out already calling this week the wildest week for wall street since two thousand and eight the party has has all been here in moscow for the friday trading session so far the moves are positive but during this week we have already witnessed before and now the markets opened in. the black and ended up. in the red in the end of the day. indeed and see the due to this extraordinary situation going on with all it's impossible to predict what's going to happen during the course of the day so we will be monitoring of course the events here near the r.t.s.
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stock market in moscow but for now that's it for me. all right you've heard thanks very much for that update. well let's take a look at the markets and the latest figures first will start where the oil prices which are down with the theory market volatility it will slow down the economic recovery crude prices drop this low is seventy five dollars and climbed this high as eighty six dollars a barrel this week which added some jitters in the markets. precious metals are for at this hour gold this cash that spread after breaking a new record on thursday and is now closed and up just a little bit silver is also off it's friday got almost thirty nine dollars per ounce. and across asia stocks are trading in the mix this hour hong kong songs are prime encouraged by positive jobs they don't from the u.s. but the nikkei is trading at the red dollar ever more than prophecies orders for japanese machinery zero six percent in june analysts believe that japan's exports
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may not rebound enough to help the economy grow later this year. and here in russia the arts yes is now open as you go is said and the latest figures are positive the arts yes is growing and almost one point three percent and my sex will start trading shortly. and that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always check out our websites arts you know it's called slash business in the meantime states in for the headlines without us.
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