just after five pm here in moscow you with r.t. . fell over london and once again crowds of spilled onto the streets except this time it was local residents out to protect their communities from looters after several days of disorder vandalism and theft the british public has decided it's time to fight back with or without the police lore amid reports. of 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 are ordinary people out to protect their communities

a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that it's going to do the opposite effect but they're going to get that everywhere very much started taking our stories up with young children not so well but children on the streets for the decide if there's no enough police they move help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and 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 start smashing the shops up in the roads 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 one to violence and causing distress to each other 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. looters and said in their darkest hour the police were nowhere to be seen

police have not been anywhere where if the police if the police were hit 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 our television screens last night of communities coming together 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 more ben tell us he 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 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 your and its arty young. politicians our brand most of the rioters as an educated jobless youth some of them turn out to be quite the opposite among the looters was a millionaire's daughter and aspiring ballet dancer and a young musician social policy expert attorney go on the role of parents as being so i wonder mind it drives youngsters to criminality but if we don't have our. then how can you expect young people to learn that they need to adopt certain standards to. those 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 to society. be trusted there are those voices of authority in the young

people's voice needs to be paid more attention to that message is a very dangerous missions to send them because it's completely out of setting the 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 out to the mom and i think this is a much broader problem which in some respects these 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 been through this process i think we actually need to look much deeper at this problem. with our 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 before more pentagon chief would be held personally accountable while in iraq the two men that made claims that was engaged in corruption it's believed that they were then detained for nine months at a military facility before being released without explanation or charge a lawsuit against rumsfeld had been rejected by prosecutors and so on now and she will activist brownback 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 album unity 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 in here. 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 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. well at least the pentagon doesn't seem too worried about money as it splashes the cash in a bid to convince young americans to sign up for the army alongside financial uncertainty and unemployment hollywood and the video games industry are helping to

turn a military service into an attractive option. and i reports now on how the future is being played out for would be soldiers. 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. history. from televised ads to hollywood blockbusters. to video games to american presidents dubbing soldiers the real patriots each of them adds honor 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 square one of the number one entertainment spots in the big apple i tracked 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 are more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring the video game tournaments and 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 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 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 in. 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 i mean. the world that are. 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 first time 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 carney 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 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 insights and. new york. ok i'm just telling eleven minutes past the hour now here in moscow you without a still ahead for you this hour more homeless means more attention israel has to build a thousands of new settlements in occupied land just weeks before palestinians are expected to ask the un for statehood recognition. and hunger and journalists are forced to keep quiet if they want to keep their jobs as a new media lords slam for curbing press freedom. after a choppy week for europe's stocks for euro zone countries have resorted to methods unseen since the two thousand and eight crisis to try and calm the 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 a borrowed of 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 the problems has been battling speculation it was going to lose its aaa school which was finally reaffirmed by the ratings giants on wednesday investors however remain unconvinced the country's finances all solid enough recent figures show stagnation in growth while the banking sector has been battling health through most. hugging the from the european school of management technology says that 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 a 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 in 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 stabilization in the market. for the seemingly endless the global recession has sent investors looking for safer bets for their money and it's gold that's emotional as the most popular commodity its value has

almost doubled in the last two years and precious metal prices have broken all records just this week stephen wright a.p. is asia business editor says the gold short supply means it will always hold its value. it's definitely a sign of fear and anger and so i see markets gyrating wildly people want to take money away from risky yes it's like stocks and gold is a natural haven for investors want you 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 it 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. now five fifteen pm here in moscow you with russia's anti terror committee say they've killed the chief of a major terrorist cell in the southern republican pakistan he was among six militants confirmed dead in the security raid in the region's capital. he's believed to have been behind the first terrorist attacks on police officers in dagestan 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 say the militant and his associates were preparing more assaults in the region when they were killed pakistan remains one of russia's most of volatile regions facing near daily violence. all right let's check out some other headlines from around the world for you this hour syrian security forces have renewed their clampdown on anti regime protesters following friday's prayers when mass riots

erupted across the country in the city of homs at least one person was killed in the east and the army fired shots tens of thousands gathered against president assad's rule no injuries reported just a as of yet that comes after american secretary of state hillary clinton called for wider international sanctions on syria. a pakistani court has sentenced a power military soldier to death over the killing of a young unarmed man in june the incident that occurred in the city of karachi and was caught on videotape and broadcast on national television six other men also accused in the teenager's death they were handed a life in prison the killing provoked public. complaints over the brutality of security forces. student protests have exploded into violence in the capital of santiago protesters demanding government funded education were seen

hitting police cars with sticks and. the mass demonstrations started two months ago when a president pinera announced plans to. spending on education he rebuffed demands by students telling them and nothing is free in this life someone has to pay. israel has approved the building of thousands of new settlements in east jerusalem the land that 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 at the u.n. security council the peace talks between the two sides have been deadlocked since last year after the construction of a jewish homes in the west bank analyst says the latest 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. that 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 refused to resign without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's not going to hurt it much more than it already hurting. and a more news comment and eye catching videos are always there for you on our website or our dot com let's check out some of the items on line for you right now shots fired on the korean peninsula in a fresh tensions between the north and south with analysts predicting that sols two

thousand and twelve elections will bring a big changes in relations. and alien abduction is more sensible than congressman least that's according to the majority of americans who are rapidly losing trust in their lawmakers are for more about head over to argue 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 the press and will result in hundreds of journalists being laid off but it also uses terror through ports despite fierce opposition many have been forced into silence over fears of job security. here in new evil's see no evil speak no evil at least not if it's about the hung gary in government opinions of hungary's new media little claim that their journalists are being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth

and not covering controversy or issues. to food to toward the end of the government that's there's there's there's there's the whole message of this of this law 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 three days party and were loyal supporters the food being selected public service broadcasting is completely by the government there have been some measure of the office and the put. people loyal to the government into key positions that public public t.v. channel journalists he voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the. you will three 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 then 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 who want to keep their jobs and now scared of line 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 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 basis. of. the recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events to look cool zing serious concerns 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 a 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 of hungary's

media so it's a bit of past. summer time. in moscow it's perfect for outdoor activities knows exactly how to keep fit and stay cool. wow that was absolutely brilliant careful not to crush. well i just love the summer here in moscow. and i must go out of here and i just over an hour's time when i see but in just a few minutes i discover russia as we take you to the country's far east to learn

at the customs of the region's indigenous people right after the business update with dmitri. the russian markets are up again after closing in the black on first even for the first time in seven trading sessions equities have been given a further lift by performance on wall street overnights which saw the dow jones index gain four percent you've got a piece going off is that the stock exchange in moscow for business r.t. . looks like on certainty and volatility remain the name of the game here in russia the last five days have now become the most a volatile trading week since two thousand and eight authorities in europe are trying to reinforce some calm on the markets by banning the short selling on banks 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 u.s. and back then 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 ratings 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 margins of all the weather this volatility is for over multi-stage a downturn or means the market is near the bottom of analysts are saying now it's to 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 do steer clear of the markets. as we heard from you go to a number of european countries have imposed a ban on short selling on banks david jones market strategist i-g.

index believes this will only provide short term relief. that's helping the markets today we've got for example here in london barclays is one of the top prizes of the dice 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 month financial markets still dropped another fifteen to twenty percent so again traders in europe at least so far are back convinced be sure selling bans are necessary to change anything. so you look at the markets now in a year there was a downturn at the very beginning of the session but now it's all positive again in the forty's up two point two percent the dax to two point eight percent that's after gaining more than three percent the day before if we take a look at russia looking positive there to finally stronger figures grow for two years up four percent my six three point two percent let's see what is moving the

markets lukoil up two point one percent on the back of rising energy prices will look at them in the second the company is also boosted its net profit by fifty five percent the first half of the year reaching seven point two billion dollars and another well company rules now after is up over four point seven percent meanwhile private gas producers know what is up almost two percent supported by stronger second quarter results which showed net profits rising one hundred and twenty percent. oil prices are positive this volatility will slow down economic recovery that's the limit seeing gains on oil crude prices dropped as low as seventy five dollars and climbed to size eighty six dollars a barrel this week which added some jitters in the market obviously precious metals in the red gold is catching his breath of breaking a new record on thursday it's losing point eight percent point nine percent this hour with this losing half of the say. next

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welcome back without a lot for. now about top stories hundreds of british vigilantes move to protect their streets from troublemakers communities all across england accuse the police meantime of doing too little too late during the recent destructive wave of unrest . a court rules the two americans can sue the former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld over their alleged torture in iraq this as america ramps up its 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 their legislation in dangerous press freedoms and the very notion of democracy. rights and stay with us as we take you to the city of. russia's far east it's a lion just a few kilometers from the chinese pool.