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very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow britain's police are furious about prime minister david cameron's plan to consult a former american police chief on how to tackle gang violence there's already tension between them following the riots and looting which have led to more the thousands of arrests but while the blame game is circles overhead communities are reclaiming the streets for themselves as are image reports. if a good result could sure use a warning to looters 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 paper that going to do the opposite effect they're going to get that everywhere very much started taking
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our stories up with young children not so well but children on the streets bother with the start if there's not enough police them will help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go off to anyone or any trouble which is one of my sure that no one comes in. the shops open. 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 with out on do violence and causing distress to target 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
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big society handing power and responsibility back to local communities and i think the scenes we all saw our television screens last night of communities coming together to try and stop violence taking place was a mortal how these things should be done that despite the fact that three young asian men were killed in birmingham early on wednesday. trying to protect local businesses looters allegedly rammed the with a car the tragedy ignited the asian community a vigilante attracts all sorts and. doesn't just rear its head. 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 but front line officers still on the table on the beat could get fewer and further between local vigilante we could
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take up the slack and it. was a victim until then pieces we did the rioting is pure and simple criminality london based. says it's not for years who the real criminals are in the unrest really would like the british authorities to rethink hard and fast approach their approach needs to be actually addressing the root causes of this which is a forgotten generation themselves this is a mass phenomenon this is this is this is a generation that's been called hoodies child's. gangster that's the way they've been treated by the system and by people in the community so why are we surprised that they behave in the way that we've moved them for a whole generation it's a social nine eleven we can say i mean you know cameron and johnson and miliband were holidaying in the terrain while they're bombing libya in the south mediterranean a common comes back after the first day of writing from his national holiday and he
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calls these young people criminals and the defying law and order this is the same person who was directly responsible for the massacring by nato of eighty five civilians that same night including thirty five children so let's get some perspective here who's the real criminal in this situation london base because chris knight says the crackdown should not stop the teenagers from top bunk is. 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 same law for everyone we have to start with the most powerful criminals far not only does it this country's economy but to the global economy the very beginning of this year the bankers are very good cameron whether they could help themselves to seven billion pounds worth of bonuses and of course cameron said yes help yourself and we're seeing now that in order to appraise always buying the shoes this government is closing down through swimming pools and shopping youth centers it's randomizing the economy because just so ironic having celebrated the
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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 absolutely not the issue the issue is inequality the issue is is is that the supposed i mean what kind of society are we that drives eleven year olds fourteen year old kids to that. mental state you know to burn the local store that that we actually we believe we need action not weasel politicians words more analysis and video. where we look at what's behind britain's was tried in thirty years. i don't think there's any political motive at all for this they're not attacking the police in attacking official buildings they're attacking shoe shops and businesses and and stealing whatever they can carry in the discussion and share your view of the breakdown dot com. the
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world stock markets have had their rough week in the years after the united states top tier credit rating was dropped one notch by standard and poor's but economist michael penn takes the vision is saving america for a worse crisis. american debt is intractable america is the coming insolvent and the secret is getting out and once the chinese fully understand it and once the japanese and the europeans and or foreign creditors all a sense the idea that we can pay our debt without inflation and monetizing and charging it will be a. shrubbery option which will set interest rates to the moon or at least a dizzying high single digits and then it will be clear as day that the u.s. is insolvent and that's where the s. and p. standard and poor's is trying to who they should be looking. to the future of the
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way they are being in the mainstream media. the tables of turning on standard and poor's there's not a being widely slammed for is this mission but also faces a legal inquiry found alice called vantages says is necessary because the downgrade may have been wrong for the lead straight is. there is clearly an element of legitimacy to investigating insider trading there was an awful lot of rumor mongering that was going on early the downgrade in this case the rumor turned out to be correct and there was a huge swing in the market on friday prior to the downgrade be issued so clearly some people knew in advance and the question is who are those people and how did they get that information because it is clearly improper under u.s. law to trade on material nonpublic information if you have it so to that extent the inquiries would you. now whether the white house agrees with this new credit score or not as one number the company avoided the fourteen trillion dollars in debt for
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having to impose economists mangala sits america's enormous war spending that i had strange. it's united states we're being under invaded growth from outside powers will not be too much to pay for france but we're not paying for defense right now we're paying for all sense in the sense that america's military operations are all around the world not too many americans understand is that the costs of these wars were never equal to the taxes are going to be put on the u.s. national credit card that's one of the reasons why the us is fourteen trillion dollars and has growing if americans had to pay for the course of these foreign wars and the large military sounds out of their taxes i think that would be a big change public opinion. europe's economy also took
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a knock this week with the big cases being a drop in deeper leading french banks i think it was for the night it solvent theme with at risk invest this remain unconvinced the country's finances are full of aussie economy want to claim their pennies the french banking system will pull three. the french banks are loaded with toxic derivatives that were sold to them by american investment banks and the american investment banks plus the rating agencies plus the hedge funds are now attacking these french banks they know where the bodies are buried and they're using the weapons that they sold them to attack them society generale and b.n.p. and credit agricole are insolvent their balance sheets are six to ten times bigger in terms of the debt that they carry than they could possibly service but it's carried on the shadow banking system they don't report this debt but the insiders around the world who wield the weapons of mass financial destruction are taxing them to force these unrealized debts onto their balance sheet to force these
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companies into delinquency into a foreclosure because they are going to rape again billions of dollars attacking these banks these banks are insolvent society generali is an insolvent institution so is being paid they can't possibly meet their their the credit demands absolutely not. they see nations which are members of the embattled currency club accounting themselves whereas if you're lucky some oppose it if you use staple in comparison i'm watching the floundering giros helping then make up their minds as they see the reports from penitentes. while parts of europe have been teetering on the edge of economic abyss poland has remained stable in the storm along with this currency. there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland well out of trouble. if we were part of the eurozone then we would have been
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obliged to help countries like greece and portugal how can we help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices would go up but we join the euro zone which would damage my business recent opinion polls suggest that more than sixty percent of balls want to keep their own currency a dramatic turnaround from just a few years back a few years ago the euro was seen as the euro club scene or something very exclusive polls aspired to this they wanted their country to join now the name of the euro has been sullied by the troubles in greece and italy poles don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue try to bring. it could be political suicide poland has fared much better than many of its e.u. partners in the global crisis several countries like greece ireland and portugal are on the brink of disaster partly due to a boring binge allowed by your membership and associated low interest rates being
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outside the euro zone meant poland could not join the party but now it does not have the hangover poland was meant to have the euro by next year the time when the country is co-hosting the twenty twelve european football championship but with the latest developments these plans may be shelved for another four years e.u. rules say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining but polish politicians are now much cooler on the idea with minister saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first but very important for us. for institutional changes. i mean these economic governance of euro zone. crisis management and we see some need for a trend in the euro zone before. they're a good date. set up the game has changed and the euro globe everyone once
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wanted to join may not be the no one wants to accept. this hour is the syrian leader really listening. to his very words he'll meet the same treatments that's mubarak is now seen as the pressure mounts on the president as our experts interpret his recent actions as exhaustion from clinging to power first. to travel to hungary where journalists a democracy is all the threats by new media laws which planned all government critics they say it undermines press freedom as we explain. three years ago georgia launched an attack on the people of the small republic of self a thirty year the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old
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territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives memorial services were held in south ossetia capital some hundreds of people came to light candles to pray for the victims of the conflict and released white balloons in their memory has been in the courts and i went to meet some of those who are still struggling to come to terms with the losses. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son to a new line next to my dear boy. for the last three years. has come to this. where her son is five days two thousand. her life into a before and after. when her son daughter a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital teen vaal was under attack from georgia she rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian
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alterian firing line. as the only thing that makes her life worth living now is her twenty year old daughter they now live together in a newly built house to rounded by families for similar tragic stories. in the totes across the street lives of women who lost two children and to the house opposite lives a man who lost both his wife and his child. all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in all those two thousand and eight when they try to retake control of the downed breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire nursed my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened that night for i saw him fall on fire when you know it was going to be our last night but it was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. most cool sound
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trained force men to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognize that he has independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential air where new roads jobs and invest in new zealand have been built . but. the conflict remained behind my back i got. a good russian. for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but deadly conflict the memories are still very raw. much in the question of reporting from sea involves. well discover more about the painful path to peace in south the thirty at r.t. dot com also online we explore the targeted relations within neighboring georgia as the opposition claims the country's children are being forced to study english to make it the dominant language pushing
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a generation of youngsters national identity of risk class. premier treasure on doing drugs even who's in dives deep dish or light on the fate of an historic site called the russian atlantis find out what the prime minister found at the bottom of the sea. international pressure is mounting on the syrian leadership with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calling economic and political ties with the country to be cut her statement came after government troops are once again a crackdown on nationwide protests on friday sixteen people reportedly killed in violence nations or say lining up against the government crackdown for civilians demanding the violence stops immediately patrick hails from the online just call
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magazine a spite he's president asaad is ignoring the people at his peril. clamping down on freedom of speech and freedom of expression which is the cornerstone of any democracy is not sending out a message to the syrian people that he can be taken seriously or trusted in his promise is a tool of diplomatic consideration is no largely absent in assad's regime they're clinging on to power but even so in a very tired way there is a sense from a served really be eased by which he started to say this is the end of single party rule and he will start to think about elections and the way in which he previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms i mean really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do there very isolated they don't
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really know where they go into a kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place they don't know what to do but the sense i get this is seems very ties that she almost willing to relinquish power at the moment but i think there's a reluctance to want to relinquish power because i suspect he is very worried he will meet the same treatments that smirk is now seeing. well elsewhere in the arab world conflicts new clashes between pro and anti gadhafi forces erupted around the coastal town in libya a government spokesman says fifty rebels were expelled by the fire and try to take the town so we have fifty kilometers from tripoli in rebel forces hope to cut off the capital to try and end months of dead long earlier they claim they captured the northern oil town of brega was the government denies the libyan embassy reopened in washington under the control of the rebels national transitional council the conflicts been raging for six months killing thousands of people despite his
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intervention. and it's the alliance's presence in libya that's making the situation worse says. he spoke exclusively to our kevin owen about his views on the arab spring and foreign involvement. because the curator council has made a mistake not only instead of sending bombs and planes to libya they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for free elections under the auspices of the un so do you ever won the elections would be acceptable for the people so it's not for the security council hastily issued a resolution and it is complicated situation that has led to the killings and the massacre of people and destruction of infrastructure in the country. of interview with president. is here in around ten minutes time. hungry journalists fear that freedom of speech is taking
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a major step backward after the government push through any media control law they say it will seriously stifle reporters from holding hungry leaders to account if you shared at home and abroad well the law also implies massive layoffs i was there a further found out those opposing the initiative are first in the firing line. evil see no evil speak no evil at least not if it's about the hungary and government opinions of hungary's new media low claim that journalists are 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 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
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cheese and by the ruling party and were loyal supporters before being selected public service broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there had been some measure of the office and put. people loyal to the government into key positions of public public t.v. channels journalists who voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the new authority they were journalists of the public. was introduced. one minute silence in the national radio. suspended and 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
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the media here want to keep their jobs and now scared out of line but some argue the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's reinflated 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 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
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implications of the new law just some of the recent events that a cooling serious concern about hungary's democratic future 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 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 serve a bit of past. that with a recap or headline. show me take away. thanks
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this is all t.v. recounting of the stories that shaped the week the british street rides that led to the two thousand arrests turned into a backlash of police say about how well they handled the violence. this is the turning the government is seeking help from a veteran the american police chief. the u.s. gets a downgrade of its top notch credit stages from a major racing agency which also gave the country and negative economic outlook the move sent shock waves through global markets which in this weekend. marks astri years this week since george is that deadly military offensive to be seized the temperature will gain control of the territory resulted in a five day war on.

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