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in india all these are made of the move jointly the children's a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly the george west coast coromandel you can a little bit you don't have to go. from the city the colonel was originally as a retreat. allowing the social media society feeling sidelined as david cameron calls for a valid question on facebook locals and violence drugs trees put place in their own strength. strips of immunity former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld could find himself in the dog home of the two iraq war veterans are given the green light to sue him for an alleged war crimes. and a media calorie is the government keeps a grip on the press with a controversial rule that sees all the as a journalist silenced. plus in business or so the
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non-banks is in some european companies so the stock market volatility more and that's in business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is our see life from moscow the british prime minister is blaming gangs of black berry things and even social networks for inciting violence in the country david cameron's also said parts of society are sick but locals in the affected areas say they've been neglected by the government for years and with a sense of insecurity growing on the streets people are now forced to take matters into their own hands nor i met reports from london. a warning to looters if you come out to enfield tonight. you'd better be in disguise at the
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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 of town but. despite the mall 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 like in a day opposite effect begin to get everywhere very much started checking out stories of what young children of that were but children on the streets for the decide if there's not enough police them move help them and just carry on the wage the cost to the shops and just push them away this way we don't want to go after anyone cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in specially no shops open you know maruti and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town
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seeks have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say let's all work the problems with out on through violence and causing distress control which then takes it over causing the violence 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 it's a pretty small bit of the bins are 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 to try and stop violence taking place was a mortal how these things should be done that despite the fact that three. a young
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asian men were killed in birmingham early on wednesday trying to protect local businesses looters allegedly rams them with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante attracts all thoughts and more mentality doesn't just rear its head in looters visit 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 and with budget cuts the front line officers still on the table copies on the beach could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack your emmett's r.-t. junction. where london based political activist chris nine says restricting social media is not where downing street should begin if it wants to stem the threat of further riots. this government is closing down through swimming pools it's shocking
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news because it's valid allies in the economy the rule of law can't be good for state it's one law for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same for everyone we have to start with the most powerful criminals and what we've seen recently is politicians on the take police constables on the take. we've seen the bankers on the take these people have to be dealt with and when it comes to the question of violence what i would say is this legitimate law enforcement does require a certain amount of coercion let's have it it's just so ironic having celebrated the facebook revolution the social media twitter revolutions of across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to crack down on the media here it's really it's absolutely not the issue series inequality you know the answer is it is the most i mean what kind of society are we to drive to live near zero fourteen year old kids to the. mental state to you know to burn the local store that we need
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action we need we need action not weasel politicians words. plenty more stories ahead including we report on the powerful advertising the pentagon's it's easy to make war look pretty. fifty percent of the military thought it was that i think anyone would join in hollywood in video games helps a superhero image of american soldiers to get into the army. a u.s. court has ruled two american seaward for a private security firm can sue donald rumsfeld for illegal imprisonment and torture if proven guilty which means the former defense secretary would be held personally accountable while in iraq in two thousand and six thirteen men blew the whistle on their employer for a lead screw in a light city but u.s. miniature. slummed it by placing them in prison where they claim they were tortured
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. to be released without charge they filed a lawsuit against rumsfeld but the motion rejected by prosecutors until now and you were activist linebacker says the case opens the floodgates to other officials being held to account for war crimes. what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld of immunity 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 thinly 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 donald rumsfeld accountable for torture or other illegal acts that somehow shackles the hands of u.s.
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military ironically it suggests that the united states government needs to demands to and is engaging in illegal acts and that if anyone holds them accountable that will be quote shampooing their effort to carry out war it's partly demagogy my virtue of the nature of the argument it also reveals that they in fact have institutionalized torture otherwise they would not be afraid of the allegation against it. well the pentagon still spending huge amounts of dollars to convince young americans to sign up for the alamy it's close ties with hollywood and the video games industry is helping to military service into an attractive deal with a crisis and unemployment alongside the us official reports now on how it's all playing out for america's youth. a hunch for american youth. to hunt down the next american enemy incorporated a robust. business machine is operating at full capacity in the u.s.
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district judge. from televised ads to hollywood blockbusters. to video games to american presidents dubbing soldiers the real patriots each of them as. to what it means to be a soldier sailor airman marine in cold storage the image of the american warrior is portrayed as that of the invincible hero times where one of the number one intertainment spots in the big apple extracts millions from around the world and across the web apart from the flashy lights have the billboards there's a recruitment center right here one of hundreds just in new york the mesmerizing techniques luring young americans into serving our more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring the video game tournaments that keep the tournaments and then going up to these young kids who perform well and see the u.s. military needs you see your skills at this video of course young fifteen or sixteen
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or seventeen year olds this is something that's very basic it's a cruel and deceptive type of recruitment they want to use all the hippest schools they can to make being in the military as cool as possible now cinematographer edward pages dedicated ten years to being a u.s. soldier he thought it was the honorable thing to do if the president of the military for what it was that i think anyone would join in but they do join having played one computer game and seen one more movie too many there's no second chance when you're actually out there and 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 reasons are realized the military conflict. regions of the world are apparently limits to us it is often too late the problem is that a lot of these kids don't know once they get in it's hard to get out the. for some degree out is suicide a military report says eighty percent of sawyer's in afghanistan have seen
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a friend killed or injured yet nothing stops the military propaganda campaign. 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 they have to confess i was in an eight that solve their problem was the discreation of millions of americans we had an economic crisis we've had on employment up no matter the times the power of the pentagon seems eternal meaning during in more young americans into more wars with no happy end or give over insight i'm sure can r.t. new york. still ahead for you this hour gagging the needier government in hungary tightening the noose around the country's press crushing criticism about the room. after days of concern over whether france were saying of triple a credit score
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ratings giants reaffirmed the country's top rating on wednesday french of banks those eight thousand are all of the worst affected by the volatility being forced to deny that its financial stability was a risk but investors remain unconvinced the country's finances are on solid foundations financial analysts that would ease the french banking system would pull through the current crisis the french banks are. where toxic derivatives that were sold to the american investment banks and the american investment banks plus the rating agencies plus there. 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 then you're going back to the s. and p. downgrade 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
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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 the hedge funds wall street working with the rating agencies are bigger than any of these countries decided generale and b. and b. and credit agricole are insolvent their balance sheets are six to ten times bigger in terms of the deficit 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. to force these on realize that under their ballots the forest is companies the liquidity into foreclosure because they are going to reap again billions of dollars attacking these banks these banks are insolvent society generale is an insolvent institution so it's b.m.p. they can't possibly meet they're there to get their hands absolutely not. meanwhile
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after a week of turmoil on the european financial markets france italy spain and belgium have decided to pound on the shares of banks and other financial companies short selling is when traders profit from and share prices is the blame for increasing we said market instability or the leaders of the year is in the biggest economies germany and france have also announced their all meet next week to discuss solutions to europe's financial difficulties our business for this it will have the complete lowdown on the short selling ban later this hour. well since the last downgrade of the u.s. credit rating and concern over the european debt crisis people have flocked to buying gold with a safe haven to invest their money it's value has almost doubled in the last two years and prices for the precious metal have skyrocketed this week breaking time records thievin writes asia business editor says that gold will always hold its
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value because of that short supply. it's differently a sign of fear and anxiety markets gyrating boldly people want to take money away from risky yes it's like stocks and gold is a natural haven for investors wanted to do that the amount of gold that is being produced since humans started taking over the ground is actually less than the amounts of steel that the world produces every day so gold has a rarity value and people see it is holding its value in times of financial. market volatility they see it is as a relatively stable and safe investment. and because of the such short supply. demand explodes for those commodity of course the price starts to skyrocket is being seen in recent years. six government including
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a terrorist cell leader have been killed in russia's southern republican doug asylum in a two day and terror operation that's according to the national antiterrorism committee well the. liver was believed to be the mastermind of several terrorist attacks across the country and was on the most wanted list he's also thought to have helped train a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a military camp in the republican last year four officers were killed in the blast and more than thirty injured russians and the cherokee nation claims that he was assisted by george's intelligence service and it was just a lot of news this hour when syrian government forces have refused to be killed twelve civilians mostly in the province of homs meanwhile in the city of hama our government is going to full control following a crackdown in which schools of people were allegedly killed on wednesday the u.s. imposed new financial sense of the country and called on other orthorexic to seek
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similar messes the ongoing on rescue. began in march is said to have played seventy one hundred lives independent media's bound for the country making it difficult to verify events on the grounds. libyan rebels say they captured the key northern town of brega after months of intense fighting at tripoli's dismissed the claim saying they've taken over a part of the city catered on libya's main oil fields and it was going to strategically with the libyan embassy in washington reopen 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 has been raging for six months now killing thousands of people despite his intervention. here gyptian government taken steps to end a decades long emergency law that's been a key demand of the protesters that ousted hosni mubarak earlier this year the most it was imposed in
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a while and allows police to hold people for months without saud's it's usually scrap before a general election scheduled for november. a chinese train manufacturer is recalling fifty four of its bullet trains it continuing reliability problems in ellsworth it comes just a day after all four of you suspended all new high speed rail projects were killed in july would have put its train on the line and. lives it with another the model that's been recalled is currently in use between beijing and shanghai as the legal power cuts and technical problems. moving to the middle east now in israel has approved the building of thousands of new settlement in a disputed area in east jerusalem creating tensions with palestinians or peace talks between the two sides have been deadlocked by the construction of jewish homes on the west bank and as analysts again in told r.t. the latest announcement is yet another step away from a compromise. this is not
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a time when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving towards the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way the main issue that is blocking return to negotiations is the continued settlement building by the government of israel this is not going to help the situation let's face it the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world right there on this issue everyone is busy with the global financial crisis the united states as well those involved there are some twenty percent of the u.s. congress visiting israel this week and we all know that mr netanyahu has a lot more support in the american congress than he does even in his own parliament so this isn't just be another is really building more settlements within neighborhoods of east jerusalem without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's not going to hurt it much more than it's already hurting . our government has adopted a controversial new media control law it will see hundreds of journalists. a
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freedom of the press a very detailed those are sisera felt reports fierce opposition forces a silence over job security. in. evil speak no evil at least not about the hunger government opinions of hungary's new media law claim journalists are being silenced. it's a hiding sense of hiding that source and that's covering. it was. too full to draw the line of the government that's there's there's there's there's the whole message of. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also established any media authority that these working for the media regulate all chosen by the ruling think there's tarty and loyal support is this being selective
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public service with custom disk. frequence well by the government there have been some majorly off. people loyal to the government to keep the shows that make public t.v. and media channels. voice criticism the wrath of bin you will three say they were journalists of the public radio and. the media was introduced we have one minute silence in the west and the radio. right there is suspended and then one of them left the radio. in fact he was the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate and the wave of layoffs across the industry. contributed to an uneasy situation in the needy i hear he wants to keep their jobs. of line some argue the shape that's a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's
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a very inflated public media sector has been long. been talking about. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized it's more about politics than about professional commerce this is something. you have to cut costs that the day has been strongly contested and many talented journalists have found themselves out of a job. it's not just. the recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events lou causing serious concern about hungary's democratic future.
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the government needs an independent media so if the government thinks. it. can influence can regulate media. very. very bad ground despite heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally the government is sticking by the new media laws the changes they could bring could be such a radically transformed face of hungary's media. but it. can always. fidelity dot com for more news they lead says v.a. here's what i thought longing today big brother directing the watchful eye of troublemakers than usual and least for me unit that morris is the usual in their ways and people up to no good is also a lie. on this day eleven years ago a rash faced one of its naval tragedies the nuclear submarine the poor sprog to the
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bottom of the pirates sea becoming a two all one hundred thirteen people. next year on r.c.u. of it is the marina. hello and welcome to business here on the right see the russian markets are all after wall street posted gains of more than four percent overnights in general has been the most volatile trading rate since september two thousand and eight brought on that from further capice all says that under such circumstances it's impossible to predict what might happen on
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a day to day basis but the outlook is still particularly poor. i think at the moment trying to work out what's happening on a daily basis is virtually impossible it's it's trading on fear is trading on government decisions i mean it's a very poor tradition of trying to work out what the government is likely to be able to do so you know trying to work out whether today is going to be a two or three percentage points balance or a five percent decline that's that's that's an extremely difficult judgment to be able to make for any kind of. longer term investor volumes are actually pretty high at the moment when you see a lot of volatility and high volumes that often tells you the direction in which the move is moving is likely to continue so that's that's actually pretty bad news that there was a there's a lot of volumes but it's i mean the market is coming down sharply i think what we're looking for is some kind of decisive answer to particularly what's happening in europe and you know realistically that at the moment is going to be
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a big move towards fiscal union and unfortunately european government is nowhere close to that right now. and the efforts to stabilize the markets for european nations have banned short selling on banks' friends it's a spain and belgium are prohibits in bets which allow investors to profit from falls in the price of financial stocks the move follows high volatility in the sector amid fears about their exposure see euro zone government that's not bad it could also cut all the e.u. members and so a tricky position as investors with negative views on banks nightshift their bets to these countries. so what should the investor doing these troubled times gold treasuries and cash are all traditional safe havens and for those russians to say that could exists a bias there from dar what happens when markets recommend steering clear of companies exposed to the global economy. well right no obviously i think what we see is that markets generally go out of risky assets and they're trying to find
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some kind of safe haven. obviously if in financial financial titles these things are very very volatile so anything that is in your heart is their exposure to the global economy to the banking sector they should probably be avoided these theories . on a second look at the markets we start with what's happening here in russia both markets are seeing a lot of volatility right now the arts yes's up point seven percent of all my sex is up four percent let's take a snapshot all the market movers on the my sex energy majors are in the black are all snuffed is adding almost three percent and lupul almost one percent banking stocks are also the better having been on the worst performance sectors during the current market turmoil. in european markets fell immediately after the open but have since been climbing however the latest french economic growth figures are a cause for concern as they show the eurozone second biggest economy was stagnant
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in the second quarter both the footsie and the facts are just more actually the growing more the footsies up point nine percent smaller that says all over one and a half percent this hour similar to what's happening with the oil prices they are down with many fear and market volatility will slow down economic recovery crude prices dropped as low as seventy five dollars then climbed this high as eighty six dollars per barrel this week which added some jitters in the markets. and precious metals are in the red gold is actually its breath after breaking a new record on thursday it's losing points one percent of all silver is losing the say. and that's how business looks the sour of the headlines are next without us.
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