rebuilding their shattered lives. with the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me. britain's police are furious about prime minister david cameron's plan to consult a former american police chief on how to tackle street violence there's already tension between them following the riots and looting which have led to more than two thousand arrests but while the blame game circles overhead communities are claiming the streets for themselves. reports. if there goodness i 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 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 you're going to get that everywhere very much started taking our stories of what young children also what children on the streets on the decide if there's not enough police there move them and just give everyone a wage to look after all the shops and just 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 to violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it on. causing further violence on the streets. this is the current face

of communities across england many of which felt under siege from looters and said in their darkest hour the police were nowhere to be seen police have not been anywhere where the police if the police were hit if in all that would have been maybe this is what david cameron means when he talks constantly about the big society handing power and responsibility back to local communities and i think the scenes we all saw 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 the with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attracts all sorts and mentality doesn't just rear its head in looters visit huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the

moment which many find reassuring but groups like the enfield army prove 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 nor am it r.t. . and david cameron this week told m.p.'s that the rioting was pure and simple criminality london based a political analyst chandan says it's not the it's not that obvious rather the real criminals are getting involved in the unrest. really would like the british authorities to rethink hard and fast their approach their approach needs to be actually addressing the root causes of this which is a four go and generation these two didn't cut themselves this is a mass phenomenon this is this is this is a generation that's been called hoodies child's. gangster so that's the way they've

been treated by this system and by people in the community so why are we surprised that they behave in the way that we've laid them for a whole generation it's social nine eleven we can say i mean you know cameron and johnson and miliband will holidaying in my the terrain while they're bombing libya in the south mediterranean a common comes back after the first day of writing from his nice little holiday and he 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 and the london based a political activist chris knight says the crackdown is should not start from the teenagers but rather from top bankers. 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 who set fire not only did this country's economy grow will the economy the very beginning of this year

the bankers are david 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 those bonuses this government is closing down through swimming pools and shutting youth centers and it's randomizing the economy gets just so ironic having a celebrated the facebook revolution the social media the twitter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly there's side of the crackdown on the media here it's absolutely not the issue the issue is inequality the issue is is. really what kind of society are we to drive eleven year olds fourteen year old kids to that. mental state you know to burn the local store that that we need action we need we need action not weasel politicians words more analysis and video at r.t. dot com and so when we look at what's behind britain's worst riots 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 join the discussion and share your view on britain's breakdown at our dot com. the world's stock markets have had their roughest week in years after the united states top credit rating was dropped one notch by standard and poor's but economist michael pentodes says the agency's decision is actually saving america from a worse crisis. american debt is intractable america is the coming insolvent and the cedar is getting out and once the chinese fully understand it and once the japanese and the europeans and all our foreign creditors all a sense the idea that we can pay back our debt without inflation and monetizing and

shouting it will be a time should israel action which will send interest rates to the moon or at least incidence in high single digits and then it will be clear as day that the us is insolvent and that's where the s. and p. stand and poor's is trying to who they should be looking thank you the way they are being in the mainstream media now are the tables are turning on standard and poor's it's not only being a widely slammed first decision but also faces now and legal inquiry financial analyst called the ninja says it's necessary because the downgrade it may have been wrongfully leaked to traders there's clearly an element of legitimacy to investigating insider trading there was an awful lot of rumor mongering that was going on her 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 be inquiries would you. whether the white house agrees with its new credit score or not there's one number that cannot be avoided but of the fourteen trillion dollar debt for huffington post columnist eric margolis it's america's enormous war spending but at the root of it all. if the united states were being under invaded growth from outside powers will no crisis be too much to pay for france but we're not paying for defense right now where people are also 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 the taxes are there to be put on the u.s. national credit card that's one of the reasons why he was fourteen trillion dollars

in his grueling if americans had to pay for the cost of these foreign wars and the large military establishment out of their taxes i think there would be a big change public opinion and europe's economy also took a knock this week with the big hitters being drawn in deeper leading french banks society was forced to deny that its solvency was at risk but investors remain unconvinced that the country's finances a solid aussie economy watch max keiser believes the french a banking system will not pull through. 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 decided 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 tackling them to force these unrealized debts onto their balance sheet to force these companies into delinquency into a foreclosure because they are going to rate billions of dollars attacking these banks decided generali is an insolvent institution so is b. and p. they can't possibly meet they're there to credit demands absolutely not and those a united which are not members of the embattled euro currency club cutting themselves rather lucky some of positivity in a stable in comparison and watching the floundering euro is helping them make up their minds and so if you select you've got to shift the reports from poland. 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 out of trouble here. if we were part of the eurozone then we would have been 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 it will 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 was seen as something very exclusive polls aspired to 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 poland into the. 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 outside the eurozone members pulled could not join the party but now it does not have to hand over 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 both are now much cooler on the idea with minister saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first place very important for us. the need for institutional changes. in the eurozone i mean these economic governance a few of those around and also some crisis management we see some need for

change in the eurozone before. the target date will be. set up the game has changed in the euro globe everyone once wanted to join me now would be the invitation no one wants to accept. let's. see it was you from the warsaw in poland. you are watching the weekly here on r.t. it's good to have your company today and still ahead for you this hour is the syrian leader really listening. he is very worried he'll meet the same treatments that mubarak is now seeing as the pressure mounts on president assad experts interpret his recent actions as exhaustion from clinging to power for so long. plus we travel to hungary where journalists say democracy is under threat by new baby alone which clamp down on government critics they say it undermines press freedom

as we explain to you shortly. three years ago georgia launched an attack on the people of the small republic of south ossetia the five day war in which georgia tried to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives memorial services were held in the south and thirty years ago capital of skin vile hundreds of people came to light candles to pray for the victims of the conflict and released white balloons in their memory but in a question about i went to meet with some of those who are still struggling to come to terms with the loss. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so i knew my next to my dear boy. for the last three years. has come to this cemetery where her son is very it's. five days to norco's two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. when her son daughter

a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital teen vall was under attack from georgia she rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms us they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian 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 with similar tragic stories. in the targets 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 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 violent 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. moskos sound trained force meant to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been returned out three weeks later russia recognized such as independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential air where new roads jobs and have been burst and have been built. but still the conflict remains this behind my back a. good russian peacekeeping. facilis who lived through the horrors of the brief but deadly conflict the memories are still. so much in the reporting from see involved. and you can discover more about the painful path to peace in our two dot

com also online we explore the turbulent relations with neighboring georgia as the opposition claims the country's children are being forced to study english to make it the dominant language in a generation youngsters national identity friends. treasure hunting a lot of my putting dives deep to shed light on the fate of and storage site called the russian. find out what the prime minister found the bottom of the sea at all so you don't call. with the top stories of the week this is the weekly here on r.t. international pressure is mounting on the syrian leadership with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calling for economic and political ties with the

country to be cut syrian war ships have now joined military assault against this port city of latakia the latest round of crackdowns on antigovernment protesters warships shelled residential districts killing at least six people this according to human rights groups arab nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately patrick hayes from the online political magazine spike believes that president assad is ignoring the people of his own power. planting 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 now largely absent. there clinging on to power but even so in a very tired way there is a sense from a really ease by which he started to say this is the end of you know single party

rule and he will start to think about elections and the way we see previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reform means that really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do there very isolated they don't really know where they're going to kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place they don't know what to do but in the sense i get this he seems very tired 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. and elsewhere in the arab world conflicts libyan rebels claim they've gained control of the coastal town of zawiya it's just fifty kilometers from tripoli and through it runs the main supply road to the capital from the. earlier rebels claim they captured the northern oil

town of which the government denies on thursday the libyan embassy reopened in washington under the control of the rebels national transitional council the conflict been raging for six months now killing thousands of people despite nato's intervention. and its the alliance its presence in libya that's making the situation worse or so says the iranian president mahmoud within john spoke exclusively to our tease about his views on the arab spring and foreign involvement . but the security council has made a mistake instead of sending. they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for free elections under the auspices of the un so elections would be acceptable for the people but the security council hastily issued a resolution and it is complicated a situation that has led to the killing of people and destruction of infrastructure

in the country. acquire a. nuclear weapon. human weapon our religion. and we are religious people. to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money create great danger. international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the american nuclear bombs are nuclear weapons and. could the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory. from collapse. with our president. less than ten minutes time. now let's get to some of today's headlines from around the world for you in the united states a stage has collapsed at

a bear in indiana killing at least four people it happened on saturday night during stormy weather at the fairground in indianapolis the strong winds caused the stage ripping for the outdoor concert to fall trapping and injuring around forty people dramatic footage right there. militants have stormed the governor's compound in the eastern afghan province of part of one killing nineteen wounding about forty others a powerful explosions followed by gunfire rocked the regional capital it's thought up to six suicide bombers carried out the attack on a taliban orders the assault comes as afghan troops gradually take over from security forces. three people have been charged and several more arrested in connection with the sectarian violence the flare up in northern ireland clashes erupted as protestants and you will march in the season in the predominantly catholic city of london police warned members of the public to avoid the.

well hungary's journalists fear the freedom of speech is taking a major step backwards after the government pushed through a new media control law they say it will seriously stifle reporters from holding hungary's leaders to account it's a view shared at home and abroad the law also implies massive layoffs and. out those opposing the initiative first in the firing line. evil see no evil speak no evil at least not the hung gary government opinion. media low claims journalists being silent. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy over issues. of the government and that's the whole message of this of this law covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also

established in the media a third say 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 the put . people loyal to the government into key positions that public public t.v. . journalists he voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the new authorities say they were journalists of the public. was introduced. one minute silence in the national radio. suspended and one of them. left their radio. in effect he was dismissed and the other one was fired hundreds of others have stuff at the same

fate with wave of layoffs across the industry this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here and want to keep their jobs. of line so murky the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in 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 many talented journalists have found themselves and the job. is not just. the.

recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events the quds are serious about hungary's democratic. everything or the 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 whole 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 the changes they could bring could be start to radically transform the face of hungary's media so. that a path. you're watching the weekly. on this sunday here on r.t. i'll be back in just a few moments with a recap that writes. wealthy

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