i've from moscow this is with me rule research showing welcome to the program the british prime minister is blaming gangs blackberry phones and even social networks for inciting the violence in the country david cameron's also said that parts of society are sick and locals in the affected areas say they've been neglected by the government for years now with a sense of insecurity growing on the streets people are now forced to take matters into their own hands as artie's lorimer reports from london. if a good result 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 of town. despite the mob atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most are ordinary people out to protect their communities

a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that going to do the opposite effect you're going to get that everywhere very much start it's taking our stories of what young children not i will but children on the streets bother with the start maybe if there's no enough police them will help them and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go off to anyone cause any trouble we just one of my sure no one comes in. the shops open. and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town seeks have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say let's solve the problems with out on to violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it on. causing further 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 if the police were hit if in all that would have been 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 television screens last night of communities coming together in. to try and stop violence taking place was a model of how these things should be done that despite the fact that three young asian men were killed in early on wednesday trying to protect businesses looters allegedly rammed the with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attract all sorts and mentality doesn't just rear its head in looters there's a huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the moment which many find reassuring groups like the enfield army proves that communities still feel

police are unable to protect them with budget cuts for front line officers still on the table on the beat could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack. meantime a london based political activist chris knight. social media is not where downing street should begin if he wants to. this government is closing down throwing but swimming pools is shutting youth centers and its value lies in the economy the rule of law can't be enforced if it's one law for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the saying all for everyone we have to start with the most powerful criminals and what we've seen recently is politicians on the take chief police constables on the take. we've we've seen the bankers on the take and 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 the twitter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to clamp down on the media here it's really it's absolutely not the issue be a serious inequality in it the issue is is is the i mean what kind of a society are we that drives eleven year olds fourteen year old kids to that. mental state to you know to burn the local store that that's we need action we need we need action not weasel politicians words. with it's good to have a company today and plenty more stories ahead for you this hour with a bit later we report on the powerful advertising methods that the pentagon is using to make war look pretty. if they presented the military for what it was i don't think anyone would join. hollywood and the video games helped to shape a superhero image of american soldiers to lure of the youth into the clutches of

the army. a u.s. court has ruled that two americans who work for a private security firm can sue donald rumsfeld for illegal imprisonment and torture if proven guilty it would mean that the former defense secretary would be held personally accountable while in iraq in two thousand and six the two men blew the whistle on their employer for alleged criminal activity but the u.s. military responded by placing the prison where they claim they were tortured for weeks after being released without charge they filed a lawsuit against rumsfeld for the motion had been rejected by prosecutors until now and he walked us to brian a baucus 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 dick 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 dock 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. military but ironically it suggests that the united states government needs to demands too and is engaging in illegal acts and that if. anyone who holds them accountable that will be quote shackling in their effort to carry out war it's partly demagogy but my word two 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 is still spending huge amounts of

dollars to convince young americans to sign up for the army it's close ties with hollywood and the video games industry is helping to turn military service into an attractive deal with the economic crisis and of course unemployment working alongside. reports on how it's all playing out for america's youth. at the hunt for american youth. to hunt down the next american enemy war incorporated a robust there's this machine is operating at full capacity in the us the strength to choose. 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 and coast guardsman the image of the american is portrayed as that of the invincible hero times where one of the number one

entertainment spots in the big apple attracts millions from around the world and across the u.s. apart from the flashy lights have the billboards there's a recruitment center right here one of hundreds just the new york the mesmerizing techniques luring young americans into serving are more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring video game tournaments and people tournaments and then going up to these young kids to perform well and say the u.s. military needs to see your skills at this video game of course two hundred fifteen or sixteen or seventeen year old i'm just 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 as possible now as cinematographer edward pages dedicated ten years to being a u.s. soldier he thought it was the honorable thing to do if they presented the 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 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 puts up. these streets. world that are trying to limit 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 first some the way out is suicide a military report says eighty percent of soldiers in afghanistan have seen a friend killed or injured yet nothing stops the military propaganda campaign a direct hit a hole 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 after two thousand and eight that solve their problem was the desperation of millions of americans we had an economic crisis

we've had on employment zoom up no matter the times the power of the pentagon seems eternal meaning bringing in more young americans into more wars with no happy end or game over in sight and our new york. still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. gagging the media the government in hungary tightens the noose around the country's press crushing criticism of the. after days of concern over whether france would retain its aaa credit score ratings giants of the country's top billing on wednesday french banks and general has been the worst affected by the volatility being forced to deny that its financial stability was at risk meanwhile after weeks of turmoil on the european financial markets. italy spain and belgium have decided to ban short selling on the shares of banks and other financial companies when traders profit from betting on falls in

share prices it has been blamed for increasing the recent market instability john horgan of the european school of management and technology believes that the short selling ban is only a short time solution. that shows that the officials are very nervous at the moment and they try to. break this stone what's barrel that the banks have been in to leslie my fear is that we see some short term improvement in the share prices but as the fundamentals are. seen rather gloomy in the markets overall i think these measures will not have a long lasting effect the solution is definitely not concentrating on short term the quiddity measures like the european rescue fund i think it's much more important to concentrate on structural reforms and that means bringing down debt levels just the same level and so far we have not seen this what we've seen is this kind of crisis management and this.

communication communication from the european central bank which basically says that everything is under control where all of that you see is kind of panic management. and i think what is really required to stabilize the situation is the focus on structural reform i think this is what we have to do in the in the near future. well since last week's downgrade of the u.s. credit rating and concern over the european debt crisis people have flocked to buying gold as 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 are breaking all time records stephen a right asia business editor says that gold will always hold its value because of its short supply. it's definitely a sign of fear 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 investors wanting to do that the amount of gold that is being produced since humans started taking it out of the ground is actually less than the amount of steel that the world produces every day so gold has a rarity value and people see this is holding its value in times of financial. market volatility they see it as a relatively stable and safe investment. and because it's in such short supply when demand explodes for those commodity of course the price starts to skyrocket as we have seen in recent days. all right so you know a quarter past the hour here in moscow you with artsy six gunmen including a terrorist cell leader have been killed in russia's southern republic of dagestan

during a two day anti terror operation it's according to the national antiterrorism committee . was believed to be the mastermind of several terrorist attacks across the country and was on the most wanted list is also thought to have helped to train a suicide bomber who blew himself up with a military camp in the republican last year for officers were killed in that blast and more than thirty injured russia's anti terror committee claims that he was assisted by georgia's intelligence service. let's check out some other headlines from around the world for you now this hour syrian government forces have reportedly killed twelve civilians mostly in the province of homs meanwhile in the city of hama the government gained full control following a crackdown in which scores of people were allegedly killed on wednesday the u.s. imposed new financial sanctions on the country and called another authorities to take serious similar measures your ongoing unrest which began in march is said to have planed seventeen hundred lives independent media as

a band from the country making it difficult to verify events on the ground. libyan rebels say they've captured the key northern town of brega after months of intense fighting but tripoli dismissed the claims saying they have only taken over a part of the city that is located on libya's main oil field and he could have the activists gained a strategic victory meantime on thursday when the libyan embassy in washington reopened under 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 killing thousands of people despite nato intervention. government has taken steps to end a decades long emergency law it's been a key demand of the protesters that hosni mubarak earlier this year the measure was imposed in one thousand nine hundred one and allowed police to hold people for months without charge it's due to be scrapped before a general election for november. the chinese

a train manufacturer is recalling fifty four of its bullet trains over continuing reliability problems the announcement comes just a day after or thought he suspended all new high speed rail projects forty people were killed in july when a bullet train on the line near when collided with another model that's being recalled is currently used between beijing and shanghai and has been plagued with power cuts and technical problems. israel has approved the building of thousands of new settlements in a disputed area in east jerusalem creating tension with the palestinians peace talks between the two sides have been deadlocked by the construction of jewish homes in the west bank and as analysts told us the latest announcement is yet another step away from a compromise. this is not 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

has blocked a 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 now i want this issue everyone is busy with the global financial crisis the united states as well those involved 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 will just be another is really active building more settlements within neighborhoods of use. 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. it's only twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow the government of hungary has adopted a controversial new media control law it will see hundreds of journalists laid off and the freedom of the press are severely curtailed south of course despite fierce

opposition many have been forced into silence over fears for their job security. evil. speak no evil at least about the hung gary in government opinion. media low claim journalists being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy over issues. of the government that's the whole message of this. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law will also established a new media authority the days when working for the media regulator. by the ruling party and one loyal support is being selected its public service broadcasting is completely by the government there had been some measure of the office and put.

people loyal to the government into key positions that public public t.v. . journalists who voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the new authority they were journalists of the public. was introduced they have one minute silence in the national radio. and one of them. left their radio. in effect he was dismissed and the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate with wave of layoffs across the industry this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here and want to keep their jobs. of line so murky the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's a very inflated public media sector has been long. this government has not only

talking and been talking about people off because they saw that it is unsustainable . so i think. this debate has become. very politicized it's more about politics than about professional commerce. if something is unsustainable you have to cut costs that the day has been strongly contested many talented journalists have found themselves out of the job. is not transparent to. the people on the basis. of the. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events the cooling serious concerns about hungary's democratic. every critic government needs an independent media so if this government thinks

that it can oversee the whole media it can influence the whole mediate can regulate the whole media it's 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 set to radically transform the face the congress media so it's a bit of panic. but you can also visit our website. for more news of course on dot com lots of updates on the latest video here a few of the items that are online for you right now big brother interacting them all. troublemakers in new york at the police called the unit to monitor social networks of people up to no good also one line. on this day eleven years ago russia claims that one of its naval tragedies a nuclear submarine that could have sunk to the bottom of the bering sea coming up

to one hundred and eighteen. with the latest in the world of business. and welcome to business here on the russian markets are up again after closing in the black on thursday evening for the first time and seven trading sessions equities have been given a further left by a performance on the wall street overnights which saw the dow jones index gain more than four percent that's well you got the skin off the stock exchange in moscow for business r.t. . looks like on certain volatility remain the name of the game here in russia the

last five days have now become the most volatile trading week since two thousand and eight goatees in europe are trying to reinforce some common the market. short selling on bank france italy spain and belgium have banned bets which allow the investors to profit from the fall of the prices of the stocks but similar steps have been taken before in two thousand and eight by the u.k. and the us and back then it resulted in a degree of artificial inflation in stock prices on the down side on friday r d a latest economic growth figures from france which is already under scrutiny from rating agencies due to its high debts and g.d.p. figures aren't helping the situation since they were showing the eurozone second largest economy is stagnant currently there is a lot of talk on the more neutral into whether this volatility is part of a multi-state downturn or means the market is near the bottom of analysts are

saying now it's too wait to sell yet too early to buy so since it's impossible to predict the market's moves perhaps the best thing to do now is still steer clear of the market. so watch of the lesser do in these troubled times gold treasuries and cash are all traditional safe havens but for those wishing to say equities to buy a spot there from dial-a capital markets recommends steering clear of companies exposed to the global economy. no obviously i think what we see is that markets generally go out of risky assets and they're trying to find some kind of safe heaven. obviously i think financial financial titles these things are very very volatile so anything that is a new titles that are exposed to the global economy to the banking sector they should probably be avoided these things. let's take a look at the markets will start with what's happening right here in russia both

markets are seeing a lot of volatility all right now in the arts yes it is then in over two percent of all the my sites is up over one and a half percent there is this not sold all the market movers on the my sex energy majors are in the black rolls left that is added more than three percent meanwhile look ball is also up the company has is that it's not profit by fifty percent in the first half of the year rich in seven point two billion dollars banking stocks are also doing better haven't been called the worst performing sectors are in the current market turmoil let's take a look at european markets they fell immediately after the open bottom have since been climbing however the latest french economic growth figures are a cause for concern as they do show the euro zone second biggest to call the move was stagnant in the second quarter both the footsie and the back side bend over one percent a sour. in the oil prices are mixed with many fear market volatility will slow

down economics recovery crude prices dropped as low as seventy five dollars and 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 the gold is catching his breath after a break in and move record on thursday it's now losing points eight percent and silver is losing over one percent so. that's all the business news for now dmitry will have the next update for you in less than an hour in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with by for that.

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with me a quick recap of the top stories now. social media but society feeling sidelined. twitter and facebook. are out to protect us from what's been. stripped all the immunity for u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld could find themself in the don't. give him the green light. fellows with. the media hungry as the government keeps a grip on the press with a controversial. silence. being revoked.