to protect the communities from looters after several days of disorder vandalism the british public has decided it's time to fight back with or without the police. as the story. could surely 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 chase down the road off to 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 ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that again today the opposite effect they're going to get that everywhere very much start it's taking our stories of four young children out of all but children on the streets father with the start made if there's no enough police stand will help them and

just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and just push them away basically we don't want to go off to anyone or root cause any trouble we just one of my sure that no one comes in return and stops washing the shops up and you know routine 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 saying let's solve the problems without one to violence and causing distress to other which then takes it over 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 done 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 all our television screens last night of communities coming together in birmingham 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 birmingham early on wednesday trying to protect local businesses looters allegedly rammed them with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attracts all sorts and ben tell it 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 but groups like the enfield army proved that communities still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts for front line officers still on the table on the beat could get fewer and further between was local vigilante we could take up the slack you're at it r.t.

. us politicians brown and most of the rioters educated jobless youth some of them turned out to be quite the opposite among polluters was a millionaire's daughter an aspiring ballet dancer and a young musician social policy expert tony gillen says that the role of parents has been so i wonder mind drives youngsters to criminality but if we don't have a thorough then how can you expect young people to learn that they need to adopt certain standards to accept that others are going to challenge them and question their behavior or their ideas and argue with them and get them to be socialized into being mature adults we're sending a message in our society. be trusted there are those voices of authority and young people's voices need to be paid more attention to that message is a very dangerous missions to settle down because it's completely up setting. normal

balance of things where i'd also responsible for nurturing young people putting them under pressure challenging them to achieve the best they possibly can and basically where necessary giving them a hard time about where they where they're not fully coming to the mom and i think this is a much broader problem in some respects the. instances of riots and criminality are just one more obvious visible expression. should be no surprise in our society that young people think that they can wander around and not show respect for other people when we when we we've been through this process i think we actually need to look much deeper at this problem. with r.t. now a u.s. court has ruled that two american contractors who work for a private security firm in iraq can sue donald rumsfeld over their alleged illegal imprisonment and torture if proven guilty the former pentagon chief would be held

personally accountable while in iraq the two men made their claims that their firm was engaged in corruption it's believed that they were detained for nine months at a military facility before being released without explanation or charge a lawsuit against rumsfeld had been rejected until now by prosecutors and she wore activist brian becker 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 tried to hold a pentagon affair. 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 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 their effort to carry out war it's partly demagogy but by 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 at least the pentagon doesn't seem to be too worried about money splashes out the cash in a bid to convince young americans to sign up for the army alongside the financial uncertainty and unemployment hollywood and the video games industry helping to turn military service into an attractive option. now reports on how the future is playing out for america's youth. a hunt for american youth. to hunt down

the next american enemy war incorporated a robust business machine is operating at full capacity in the u.s. district judge. from televised ads to hollywood blockbusters. to video games to american presidents dubbing soldiers the real patriots each of them. to what it means to be a soldier sailor airman marine and coast guardsman the image of the american warrior 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 and the billboards there is a recruitment center right here one of hundreds just the new york the mesmerizing techniques luring young americans into serving our more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring a video game tournaments and keep up tournaments and then going up to these young

kids to perform well and see if the u.s. military needs to see your skills at this video game of course too 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 school 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 even out there by the time some of these reasons are realized the military. the world that are. limited 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 for 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 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 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 luring in more young americans into more wars with no happy end or game over in sight. r.t. new york. for about just running eleven minutes past the hour here in moscow it's good to have your company today still ahead for you this hour here on r.t.

where more homes it means more tension israel has to build thousands of new settlements in occupied land just weeks before palestinians are expected to ask the un for statehood recognition. and journalists are forced to keep quiet if they want to keep their jobs as a new media law curbing crest freedom. after a chop we for europe's stocks for euro zone countries have resorted to methods unseen since the two thousand and eight crisis to try and calm markets france italy spain and belgium have decided to ban short selling on the shares of banks and other financial companies the practice sees investors selling borrowed stocks that are expected to fall in price before buying them back and keeping the difference short selling has been blamed for increasing recent market volatility meanwhile france has been battling speculation it was going to lose its aaa score which was finally reaffirmed by ratings giants on

a wednesday investors however remain unconvinced the country's finances are solid enough recent figures show stagnation in growth while the banking sector has been battling health rumors. from the european school of management technology says it's the banks that are once again being offered protection. part of these rescue managed measures have been taken to to rescue the banking system. especially with the banks in southern europe and i think this needs to be addressed but overall we also have this kind of political situation where it has been very convenient for governments to increase debt levels to avoid bringing tough measures to their constituencies and i think this is something that has to end markets have indicated that they are not willing anymore to finance these large debt levels my fear is that we see some short term improvement in the share prices i think overall we will see. continued downward trend so overall i think these measures will not have a long lasting effect france also has

a debt problem the overall debt level is very high and now that the u.s. government debt has been downgraded there's obvious fear of who will be next in the game and we've seen the problems with spain and italy recently and i think it's quite natural that the markets at this stage are concerned about france as well so i think that the french government is under some strong pressure to act requires some political will to implement these changes and i think that is the big if so if france is able to convince the market that it will implement these tough measures then i think we could see some civilization in the markets. seemingly endless global recession has sent investors are looking for safe bets for their money that is gold that's emerged as the most popular commodity its value was almost doubled in the last two years and precious metal prices have broken all records this week stephen wright a piece asia business editor says gold's short supply means it will always hold its

value. it's definitely a side of fear and and and science he markets gyrating wildly people want to take money away from risky yes it's like stocks and gold is a natural haven for poor investors wanting to do that the amount of gold that is being produced since humans started taking 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 it is holding its value in times of financial. market volatility they see it as as a relatively stable and safe investment. and because of some such short supply when demand explodes for those commodity of course the price starts to skyrocket as we have seen in recent days. a quarter past the hour here in moscow you with r.t.

russia's anti terror committee say they've killed the chief of a major terrorist cell in the southern republican dagestan he was among six militants confirmed dead in the security raid in the regions capital of. it's believed to be behind the first terrorist attacks on police officers in dhaka stan he's also thought to have helped train a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a military camp in the republic last year that claimed the lives of over fifty people but police say the militant and his associates were preparing more assaults in the region when they were killed during a start remains one of russia's most volatile regions facing nearly daily violence . all right let's check out some of the headlines for you from around the world this hour american secretary of state hillary clinton is called why don't the international sanctions on syria security forces continue a violent clampdown on the regime protestors at least twelve civilians have died in fresh raids all across the country mostly in the province of arms demonstrations

are expected in different syrian towns after friday prayers as anger against the killings increases the ongoing unrest which began in march is said to have claimed so far at least seventeen hundred lives. a pakistani court has sentenced a paramilitary soldier to death over the killing of a young unarmed man in june the incident that occurred in the city of karachi was caught on videotape and broadcast on national television six other men also accused in the teenager's death were also handed life in prison the killing provoked public anger and increased complaints over the brutality of pakistan's security forces. student protests have exploded into violence in the capital of santiago protesters demanding government funded education and were seen hitting police cars with sticks and throwing rocks at officers or the mass demonstrations started two months ago when president pinera announced plans to. spending on education he rebuffed demands

by students telling them nothing is free in this life somebody has to pay. israel has approved the building of thousands of new settlements in east jerusalem the land palestinians consider to be their territory this comes just weeks ahead of an expected move by the palestinian administration to have their state recognized within the established pre-one nine hundred sixty seven borders of the un security council peace talks between the two sides have been deadlocked since last year after the construction of jewish homes in the west bank and leicester gosh on a baskin it says the announcement is yet another step away from a compromise. and this is not a time when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving toward 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 on this

issue everyone is busy with a 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 will just be another is really building more settlements within neighborhoods of use 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. you would article after moscow dimitris here in a few moments with the business of course a more news comment on the video is always online for you at our website here's what's awaiting for you now at r.t. dot com the shots fired on the korean peninsula in the fresh tensions between the north and south with analysts predicting solve two thousand and twelve elections will bring a big changes in relations. and alien abduction is more likely than sensible

congressman at least according to the majority of americans who are rapidly losing trust in their lawmakers for and that head over to our dot com. the government in hungary has adopted a controversial new media control law critics say it represents a full scale assault on the freedom of press and will result in hundreds of journalists being laid off because r.t.c. sarah furthur ports despite fierce opposition many have been forced into silence over fears of job security. in new evils see no evil speak no evil at least not if it's about the hung garion government opinion so hungry is new media low claim there journalists being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy or issues. and of the government that's there's there's there's the whole message of

this. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also established in the media authority that these working for the media regulate all chosen by the ruling does party and were loyal supporters the food being selected public service broadcasting is completely by the government there have been some major layoffs and the boot. people loyal to the government in two key positions that public public t.v. channel. journalists he voiced criticism just felt the wrath of the new wealth or say they were journalists of the public radio and. when the media was introduced they have one minute silence in the national radio. they were 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 with a wave of layoffs across the industry this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here want to keep their jobs. of line but some argue the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's reinflated public media sector have been long. this government has not only talking and been talking about it but they have laid the 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 and many talented journalists have found themselves out of the job. is not transparent to.

the people on. the recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events to look cool zing serious concern about hungary's democratic future everything more 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 and the changes they could bring could be start to radically transform the face of hungary's media so it's a bit of past. summer time. in moscow is perfect outdoor activities and

knows exactly how to keep fit and stay cool. is absolutely brilliant for lots of crush. well i just love the summer here in moscow. lucky monitors he gets paid to do that job which is something that. i heard about five minutes time that will be off to the business up there with dimitri.

i mean to you and welcome to business r.t. now it's been an extraordinary week for the world's financial markets not since the height of the financial crisis in two thousand and eight has there been the same level of uncertainty and volatility it's a combination of debt and downgrades weak growth data and loss of faith in politicians has made investors exceptionally nervous to discuss the current situation i'm joined by david jones a market strategist at idea index david thank you so much for being with us what we've been seeing the past week what do you think this is a stage on the downward spiral are we past the bottom yet. i think the risk is even though we've had a fairly quiet couple of days the risk is we could carry on going lower in the weeks ahead it's very similar to sort of moves we're seeing in markets to what was happening three years ago when we had the banking crisis and then we had plenty of volatility big slides go quiet for a bit and then just move lower galloping we have seen quite a big change in sentiment towards stock markets over the last few weeks when it

comes to economics so you actually expecting a second dip in the recession. maybe not necessarily for the recession but from a markets point of view definitely i think you know investors are very worried about the situation and of course we have the u.s. that went down to the wire getting that debt ceiling raised we had the downgrade by the u.s. last friday we've still got all these problems in continental europe with it's really inspiring growth isn't very good there's definitely a risk of a double dip recession but i think the immediate risk is for stock markets to slide a bit. all the optics in the market we've been seeing is this a good opportunity to take risk off the table david. definitely that has been the thing really for much of august we have seen some impressive rallies along the way but they have been used for people to either sell sure to. get out at a better price than they could have done the day before i think it's still a very nervous market and it's i think stock markets around the world have

struggled over the last few weeks to hold on to rallies and i think we'll have to see if that changes this afternoon in the u.s. but i think the risk is we will see a race we'll see people taking off risk ahead of the weekend and david three years ago when we saw extreme levels of volatility there was a bad one short selling introduced in several countries russia included do you think that could be useful to stabilize the market right now. well we have had to overnight for europe we've had. italy spain france and belgium have introduced short selling bans on financial stocks and that's helping the markets today we've got for example here in london barclays is one of the top prizes of the day so we are seeing strength in banks but it is like history repeating itself because similar levels of volatility we had three years ago in september two thousand and eight there was widespread short selling bans but over the next months financial markets still dropped another fifteen to twenty percent so again traders in europe at least so far are back convinced the short selling bans are necessary to change

anything so just next week what do you think is going to be like. i don't know if there is a quick answer is that what i think maybe maybe after the game credible volatility we've had in the last couple of weeks we'll have something about be a return to maybe more normal daily ranges but i think the pressure will still remain on stock markets i still think if we see a bit of strength the risk is it's going to run out of steam and the sellers come back in and push these markets there and i don't think we're going to see any sort of short term return to the sort of levels we were even a month ago for european and u.s. stock markets all right david jones market strategist at i.g.n. thank you so much for your answers and for your time. and i'm afraid back into this edition of the business news on r.t. we will have more for you in around fifty five minutes to join me if you can rory is next with headlines.

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welcome back you were. with me. summary of the headlines now as hundreds of british move to protect the best streets from trouble communities across england accuse the police of doing it too little too late during the recent wave of unrest. a court rules americans can sue the former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld over their alleged torture. propaganda machine. to entice more youngsters into the armed forces. and journalists are outraged in hungary over a new law that could effectively silence critics of the government they feel the legislation in dangers of press freedom and the very notion of democracy. or rights . shows you the best places to take a break during moscow's summer heat must go out.