for marty here in moscow where it's just turned nine pm. tired of police not doing enough to keep london safe the british public take to the streets to protect their neighborhoods from vandals after several days of havoc looted shops and torch cause communities decided it's time to take the matter into their own hands more emmett's has more to goodness i could sure use a warning to looters if you come out to enfield tonight you'd better be in disguise at the first sign of trouble this is what happens. around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out 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 going to do

the opposite effect you're going to get that everywhere very much started to take in our streets are for young children not so well but children on the streets for the decide if there's not enough police then will help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and that and just push them away basically we don't want to go off to any one any trouble we just one of my sure no one comes in and start smashing the shops up and. 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 without undue 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 here 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 businesses looters allegedly rammed the with the car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attracts all sorts and. 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 while local vigilante groups could take up the slack. as politicians brand most of the right as an educated jobless youth some of them turned out to be quite the opposite among the looters it was a millionaire's daughter and aspiring ballet dancer and a young musician social policy expert tony good and says the role of parents has been so undermined it drives youngsters to criminality if we don't have our storage he then how can you expect young people to learn that they need to adopt certain standards to accept that adults 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 out a message in our society can be trusted there are those are voices of authority in young people's voice needs to be paid more attention to that message is

a very dangerous message to send out 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 up to the mark and i think this is a much broader problem of which in some respects these instances of riots and criminality are just one more obvious visible expression so it should be no surprise in our society that young people think that they can wander around and you know 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. a u.s. court has ruled two american contractors who work for a private security firm in iraq consume 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 claims that their firm was engaged in corruption it's believed that they were then detail. in fanaa in months at a military facility before being released without explanation or charge a new suit against rumsfeld to be rejected by prosecutors until no military and human rights activists jennifer harbury says other officials from the bush administration should also be held accountable. the only outcome in a civil case is that he must pay money damages to the people that he caused injury to both of these being u.s. citizens the rather startling outcome is that now a united states citizen can sue for a torture that happened outside the united states but someone who is not a u.s. citizen who is probably harmed even worse or even chel by those exact same practices they were ordered and authorized by mr rumsfeld cannot sue under our own

laws let alone all the international treaties mr rumsfeld should be going to jail for people that he has authorized the torture of throughout the black sites throughout the world there's the very notorious document where he authorized a whole string of terrible practices and then at the bottom said i have to stand for eight hours at a time during war why should the prisoners there huge difference of course being that he could walk around and who well of prisoners had to stay in a fixed position which causes the lymph nodes or out the body just swell until the people can't even get their shoes back on usually it's excruciating so because he ordered those he certainly should be subject to suit that does not mean that all of the other people who ward with him on all of this including president bush of course should not also be subject to suit they should be. 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 helping turn military service into an attractive option. as a check and i reports now on how the future is playing out for would be soldiers. a hunt for american youth. to hunt down the next american enemy the war incorporated a robust business 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. to what it means to be a soldier sailor airman marine and coast guardsman the image of the american laurier is portrayed as that of the invisible hero times square 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 in new york the mesmerizing techniques luring young americans into serving our more sophisticated than ever before sponsoring a video game tournaments paint ball 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 game of course to a 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 going out there by the time some of these reasons are realized the military doesn't. reach 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 a whole 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 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 more young americans into more wars with no happy end or game over in sight and. new york. well coming up on r t this hour for going to sultan civil liberties in hungary gen it's a force to keep part if they want to keep their jobs as a new media or is slow for press freedom. that's sort of come the first offer choppy week for europe stocks for eurozone 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 project sees investors selling stocks that are expected to fall in price before buying them back and keeping the difference short selling is being blamed for increasing recent market volatility. well france has been battling speculation it was going to lose its aaa score which was fun of the riff ratings johnson wednesday investors however remain unconvinced the country's

finances all solid enough recent figures show stagnation in growth will be banking sector has been battling health from was. going from the european school of management and technology says it's the banks that once again being offered protection. part of these rescue managed measures have been taken to to rescue the banking system. especially with the banks and southern europe and i think this needs to be addressed but overall we also have this kind of political situation what 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 because 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 stabilization in the markets. he seemingly endless global recession has sent investors looking for safer bets for their money and it's gold that's emerged as the most popular commodity it's found it has almost doubled in the last two years and precious metal prices of broken all records this week stephen wright associated press is asia business editor says gold's short supply means it will always hold its funny. it's definitely

a sigh 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 money 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. gold has a rarity value and people see 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 days. russia's anti terror committee say they have 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. is believed to have been behind the first terrorist attacks on police officers in dagestan is also thought to have helped train a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a military camp in the republic last year claiming the lives of over fifty people police say the bullets into these associates were preparing moral salutes in the region when they were killed the remains one of russia's most volatile regions facing near daily violence. israel has approved the building of thousands of new settlements in east jerusalem the land palestinians consider to be their territory its comes just weeks ahead of an expected move by the palestinian administration to have their state recognized within the established pre nine hundred sixty seven borders at the u.n. 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 the list of gershon. baskin says the latest announcement is yet another step away from

a compromise. 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 the global financial crisis the united states as well though 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 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. more news

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which. down in march is said to have claimed one thousand seven hundred lives. but these four people are being killed and dozens more injured after a train derailed in central poland it was traveling from the capital was sort of the south when the accident occurred in june and three of the carriages came off the tracks rescue teams are working at the site but the cause of the development is not yet. a pakistani court a sentence a paramilitary soldier to death over the killing of a young man in june the incident that occurred in the city of karachi was caught on videotape and broadcast on national television six other member also accused in the teenager's death and one hundred life in prison for killing the public and increased complaints over the brutality of pakistan's security fals. student protests have exploded into violence in the chilean capital santiago protesters demanding government funding education was seen as in police cars with sticks and throwing rocks at officers unless demonstrations started two months ago

when president pinera announced plans to cut spending on education he rebuffed demands by students telling them nothing is free in this like someone has to pay. the government hungary's adopted a controversial new media control law critics say it represents a full scale assault on the freedom of press and well will result in hundreds of journalists being laid off because of the sara first reports despite fierce opposition many have been forced into silence over fears of job security. in the weevils see no evil speak no evil at least not about the hung gary in government akane insists hungary's new media low claim there are journalists being silent. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering the verse or issues. of the government that's. that's the whole message of this of

the still covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also with stablished and the media authority that these working for the media regulate. by the ruling does party and were loyal supporters being selected public service broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there had been some measure of the office and they put. people loyal to the government into key positions that public public t.v. and radio channels journalists he voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the new authorities say they were journalists of the public radio and. the media was introduced they have one minute silence in the national radio. suspended and one of them. the radio.

in effect he was dismissed and the other one was fired hundreds of others have stuff at the same fate with the wave of layoffs across the industry this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs. of line so murky the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in a very inflated public media sector has been long. this government has not only talking and been talking about 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 and the job. is not transparent to. the people on the.

recent firings an uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events the quds are serious about hungary's democratic. everything the critic government needs an independent media so if this government thinks that it can oversee the whole media it can influence the whole media it can regulate the media it's very. very bad ground but heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally the government is sticking by the new media laws and the changes they could bring to be set to radically transform the face of hungary's media circus arts a bit of past. so much time in moscow is perfect for outdoor activities the weather

is great here at the moment modern andries knows exactly how to keep fit and stay cool in the heat. who out there is absolutely brilliant careful not to crush. well i just love the summer here in moscow. so moscow are coming our way in just over an hour from now here on just a few minutes discover rushers we take you to the country's far east to learn the customs of the region's indigenous people that well it's off to the business update

with dmitri. hello to you and warm welcome to the program the most volatile trading week in free years ended on a positive note and russia the markets have closed up for the second day in a row after the negative financial the six previous sessions piece a western from out on says unlike the crisis of two thousand and eight market players are now better positioned to weather the storm. the good thing is that even though we were down a lot it didn't seem like they were panic selling i think that investors were much better prepared this time around than they were in two thousand and eight dollars pin point of significant if very equally significant on a daily basis in the beginning of the week but i think you know because it was so much bad news out of europe and us so much speculation about first a downgrade that they're going to happen of the credit rating but more bad news out of europe of speculation about the next country to basically be in trouble over sovereign debt invest that have had time to position themselves in

a better way for the downturn so in other words they moved slightly more into defensive sectors when the downturn came and then they did when they were selling out a few clients i spoke to were you know were selling part of what their holdings if they were reduced in russia. but they were not sort of selling in panic. in an effort to stabilize the markets for european nations have banned short selling on banks france italy spain and belgium operating bets which allow investors to profit from falls in the price of financial stocks the move follows high volatility in the sector and fears about their exposure to euro zone government debt david jones the market strategist i.g. index believes this will only provide short term relief. and that's helping the markets today we've got for example here in london barclays is one of the top prizes in the day so we are seeing strength in banks but it is like history repeating itself we've got a 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 trade is in europe at least so far are back convinced the short selling bans are necessary to change anything. david jones there from my g index let's take a look at how the markets are fairing this hour in the united states they are positive after a strong recovery on thursday however games are limited as data shows consumer confidence for when sharply to fifty four point nine points this is the lowest level in thirty years. closing picture for european markets now and the footsie and the dax gained another three percent after gaining the same amount on thursday they did fall off to the opening but have since been climbing and in positive territory however the latest french economic growth figures are concerned as they show the eurozone second biggest economy was stagnant in the second quarter. of a closing picture here in russia and the r.t.s. and my say it's finally saw

a recovery of the steep drop spur lead in the weak the r.t.s. up to three point two percent by six two point two percent if we look at the main movers on the myself you'll see the energy shares were mixed actually lukoil a gaining point three percent despite boosting its net profit by fifty percent. first of all the year reaching seven point two billion dollars rosneft up four point four percent at the close no because it was also a bit weaker than the market and again that's after reporting net profits rising a hundred twenty percent in the second quarter. finally a look at the oil prices they are moderately up sixty six cents at forty five cents confidence in the global recovery comes back slightly. now the news industrial production in russia rose over five percent in the first seven months of the year that was the low forecast car production was among the fastest growing sectors up sixty four percent say it expects the admiral production

growth to reach five point four percent. well that's all for now we will be back in around fifty five minutes time and bill is next with.

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if you just joined us for a while most. top stories this hour hundreds of british vigilantes move to protect their streets from troublemakers communities across england accuse the police of doing too little too late in the recent destructive wave of unrest. that cool rules to americans consume former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld over there in iraq this is america ramps up its propaganda machine to entice more youngsters into the fields. and journalists are outraged and hungry over a new door that could effectively sonnets critics of the government legislation and dangerous press freedom and the very notion of democracy. about with more in their stories more developments in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime we take you to the city of how about office in russia's full reste it lies just a few.