joyce beaver to the home of the law is the gateway to the grand imperial truth that george was pushed through until you can a little socialism good to see don't need to go. right this is the kernel was the term is used to retreat. in the headlines of this week cracks appear between politicians and the police about riots in the u.k. what prime minister david cameron and now turns to us for help local communities turn into vigilantes. three years on a surface area remembers the victims of a short but bloody war party in which the people try to rebuild their republic and their lives. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america's long treasury debt school gets the chop sent world markets into a chaotic tumble. with

a story that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me. well this week a split opened up between police and top politicians in britain following several days of rioting and looting throughout the country prime minister david cameron slammed the courts for their poor handling of the crisis even turning to a prominent us law enforcer for advice on preventing street violence the rest was triggered by the fatal shooting of a twenty nine year old man and the ensuing peaceful protest protesters and then started smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat violence over two thousand the rest have been made so far in connection with the disorder andrew gilligan a london editor of the telegraph was caught up in the trouble he says it ultimately had little to do with a deadly police shooting. i was mugged i was pulled off my bike. bike was

stolen by. i spent most of the day in sodom which is where it all kicked off interviewing people who had lost their homes as a result of these rights and they are furious with the writers they say that what happened to mark duggan the man who was shot by police is absolutely no excuse at all for what happened to them they blame the police for not being quick enough to contain the trouble in tottenham in the first place it's purely opportunistic it's not anger at all i think it's pure criminality and people are taking advantage of what they see is a lawless situation and and overstretched police forces to do their worst and help themselves to free goods in the trouble is it spreads very quickly this kind of thing we've seen it in fact in the arab world we've seen it social media spreading unrest in the arab world probably for the good there but here it's spreading exactly the same way obviously for the parents. lots of kids on on blackberries and instant messaging and twitter and all the rest of it spreading the word about

where the next rock is going to be and they might be able to move faster than the police i think perhaps i mean if this carries on like this it is quite worrying. a blame game with politicians a group of local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters. to 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 mall most fear 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 i can to do the opposite effect begin to get everywhere very much started checking out stories of what young children are the children on the streets all of this is happening if

there's not enough police there will help them and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go off to really cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in specially no 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 all work the problems without one to violence and causing distress call each other which then takes it over causing the 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 they can inspect it you think that would have been done maybe this is what david cameron means when he talks constantly about the big society

handing power and responsibility back to local communities and i think the scenes we all saw our television screens last night. unity is 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 rams there with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community of vigilante attracts all thoughts and mentality 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 end feels army proof that communities still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts the front line officers still on the table poppies on the beat could get fewer and further between while

you will fit to lunch if we could take up the slack your and it's all to be done to . those who are taking part in the weeks of lawlessness and britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and include police response has said that he's considering banning any people from most networks if they're guilty of inciting violence through the web a london based political activist chris knight but just highlights a blatant case of double standards when it comes to issues of freedom of speech. if it needs a revolution to enforce the rule of law so be it the rule of law can't be enforced it is one law for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same law for everyone is just so ironic having celebrated for facebook revolution the social media the critter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to crack down on the media here it is absolutely not be a serious serious inequality the issue is is that the supposed i mean what kind of

society are we to drive a. fourteen year old kids to that. mental state you know to burn a local store that that we need action we believe we need action not weasel politicians words. another nation locked into street protests is that of syria part of what actions the government there appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the months of bloodshed. the list you're up against gets shorter as countries are spurred by the debt contagion sweeping the economy a lot of i think twice over their aspirations to join the club. this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on a small republic of south ossetia the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old territories it claimed hundreds of innocent lives the moral services have been held across the republic with the biggest in south asserting its capital saying about hundreds of police came to light candles and pray for those

who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory parties within a quarter of a report from the republic where the scars are still fresh from what happened in august of two thousand. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so i knew i would lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years. has come to this cemetery in south the sensor where her son is five days in august two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. cases such as when her son a medical college graduate heard their republic's capital teen vall was under attack from georgia he 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 alterian is firing line. 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 round it by families with similar tragic stories. can touch parents across the street lives of two children enter the house opposite lives a man. both his wife and his child. all these people are of their terms of george's military aggression in august 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 obese dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened the night before i saw him fall on fire when you know it was going to be our last night but was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to become. more schools tantrum enforcement to protect its citizens and prevents more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia

recognized such as independence. the last three years have changed the face of this present a new residential area where new roads charred and have been burst a new strategy and have been built but. the conflict remain behind my bag are all the good russian. for those who lived through the horrors of the brief the deadly conflict the memories are still there we roll. but in the question are are reporting frontin vile self-assertive. other you can find out how people in south ossetia try to restore their lives or we have a special report on r.t. later today. the history of this place runs through the centuries. a paradise for rocking ologists zoo ologists and ecological tourists.

but one sees all nice shots to sleep the life. how this will publish its lifetime. hoping. to recreate. it back you're watching the weekly here and i see it's been one of the most turbulent weeks in years for the world's financial markets the spark was an unprecedented downgrade of america's long treasured aaa rating standard and rating agencies behind the move said it made the decision based on the apparent inability of the u.s. government to deal with the problem that washington responded with an attack on the officials allege that the company's calculations were wrong and point to reports

that a leak about the downgrade allowed those in the know to make a fortune in just days financial analyst a call and then in japanese it should now be a priority to identify those things changing and insider trading. there is clearly an element of c. to investigating insider trading there was an awful lot of rumor mongering going on early downgrade in this case the rumor turned out 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. effects of the downgrade were not confined just to the u.s. the news caused mass panic on markets all across the world but the worst hit were a tech based economy such as india where spooked investors went on massive selling sprees economics professor gates believes that now things could swing either way

when you today. part of the initial sell off was was panic and i think the panic responded to the downgrade in credit worthiness of u.s. treasury bills after the initial panic has resulted us and i think investors realize that emerging markets like india have strong fundamentals they have strong structural reasons going into the future such as a positive demographic trend high savings and investment rates there are other things as well if there is a recession in the world as is being talked about other words of the dollar weakens and if india's rupee therefore strengthens views of you the dollar it's important it will go down as well as the risk is whether india can finance its current account deficit because of the general climate or risk of version of the economy investors are less willing to invest in emerging markets how does india continue to finance its current account deficit. since its inception there's been no shortage of applicants wanting to join the once elite euro currency club that all changed

with the start of the debt plague sweeping through the e.u. he said i've seen other stuff he reports watching the euro tumble as offered old hopefuls a fresh perspective. well parts of europe have been teetering on the edge of economic abyss but has remained stable in the storm along with this currency there's nobody 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 year is in then we would have been obliged to help out countries like greece and portugal happily help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices would go up if we join the euro zone which would damage my business recent opinion polls suggest that more than sixty percent of bulls want to keep their own currency a dramatic turnaround from just a few years back a few years ago the euro is seen as the euro club was seen as something very exclusive polls aspired to this they wanted

a country to join me now. the name of the year has been sought. by the troubles in greece and italy posed to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue try to bring poland into the euro zone. 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 party due to a boring binge allowed by your membership and associated low interest rates being 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 you rule say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining

but the politicians 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. they need for institutional changes. i mean these economic governance of euro zone . crisis management changes we see some need for a change in the euro zone before. target date will be a. set up the game has changed and the euro look everyone once wanted to join we now be the indication no one wants to accept the. r.t. because you from warsaw in poland. party is coming to life in the heart of moscow still ahead for you this hour when building houses means building tension peace talks are pushed further into the background as israel starts anew with building

projects just weeks before the u.n. discusses the recognition of a palestinian state. also democracy under attack in hungary journalists there are enraged over a new media laws the they say that they undermine the basic freedom of the press. international pressure is mounting on the syrian leadership with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calling for economic and political ties with the country to be cut at least five people are reported to have been killed in the course of your lattakia meantime where the syrian military has launched its latest crackdown on anti-government protesters warships are reportedly shelling a residential district in a key port city once a summer tourist hot spot arab nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately. from online political magazine spiked believes president assad is ignoring the people and is. 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 now largely absent in assad's regime they're clinging on. but even so in a very tired way there is a sense from assad really the 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 reforms i mean really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do there very isolated. they don't really know where they go into a kind of start between a rock and a hard place they don't know what to do but the sense i get from assad is a seems very tired that she almost willing to relinquish power at the moment but i

think that there's a reluctance to want to relinquish power because i suspect he is very worried he'll meet the same treatments that some of barack is now seeing. and another conflict in the arab world and in new clashes between pro and anti could daffy forces there up in the coastal town of zawiya in libya a government spokesman says fifty rebels trying to take the town were stopped by troops taking as it may have cut off the capital which is about fifty kilometers away the conflicts been raging now for six months and thousands of lives have been lost despite nato intervention in an exclusive interview to us here at r.t. iran's president said the situation in libya is being made worse by the alliances process. the security council has made a mistake 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 whoever won the elections would be acceptable for the people but the security

council hastily issued a resolution and it has complicated the situation that has led to the killings and the massacre of people and destruction of infrastructure in the country. and we've got an extended version of that interview or later this hour here on t.v. but you can also watch the full interview with the iranian president on our web site that's of course our team dot com also online for you today treasure hunting. dives into the deep to shed light on the historic site known as the russians of atlantis find out what the prime minister found at the bottom of the sea at r.t. dot com. and a look at the man who made it onto the u.k. rich list yet those of moscow one billion dollars and is wanted for for all those details online.

well twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you're with the weekly hungary's journalists fear that freedom of speech is taking a major step backwards after the government push through a new media control law they say it will seriously stifle reporters from holding hungary's leaders to account you should at home and abroad it could also mean a massive layoffs or a fourth round out the fiercest critics first in the firing line. evil's evil speak no evil at least not if it's about the hungaroring government opinions of hungary's new media law claim there journalist being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy was. of the government and that's that's there's there's the whole message of this.

covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also established a new media authority that is working for the media regulate all chosen by the ruling party and your loyal supporters being selected public service broadcasting this completely by the government there have been some mutually offs and the point. people loyal to the government thing for you to keep the show is that the public public t.v. and media channels journalists he voice criticism have felt the wrath of the new authority. of the public. was introduced. one minute silence in the. spend and one of them that there is.

he was. the one who was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate as the wave of layoffs across the industry. only the situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs and. line. the shakeups a good thing and. a very inflated public media sector has been long. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized about politics and about professional commerce. and something is also a bore 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

trust. the people. in other words. in recent firings an uncertainty about the implications of a new law a just recent events a new causing serious concern about hungary's democratic future every government needs an independent media so if this government thinks that it can. influence can regulate. 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 said to radically transform the face of hungary's media. a bit of. twenty five minutes past the. here in the russian capital this is artsy israel

this week approved the building of a set of sixteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem on land that palestinians consider to be their territory the un called the decision provocative with just a few weeks left before the security council is expected to vote over the recognition of the palestinian administration within pre-one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders peace talks between the two sides have been stalled since last year after the construction of israeli homes in the west bank and as analysts go shawn told us here at r.t. the compromise is now being pushed even further away. this is not a time when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving towards the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way i mean you should that is a block to return to negotiations is the continued settlement building by the government of israel and this is not going to help the situation let's preserve the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world radio on

this issue everyone is busy with the global financial crisis the united states as well as in. center 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 with the neighborhoods refused to resign without anyone really blinking it's not going to help the situation it's not going to hurt it much more than it already hurting. so as we're doing the weekly here on r.t. let's pause for a moment and check out some of today's main headlines nineteen people have been killed and almost forty wounded in a taliban attack at a governor's residence in central afghanistan witnesses report powerful explosions and bursts of gunfire hitting the part of one province capital but six suicide bombers stormed the compound during a security chiefs meeting the violence in afghanistan has reached its worst level since two thousand and one as insurgents carry out attacks in relatively peaceful

areas. at least four people were killed and forty injured after a stage collapse in the u.s. state of indiana the accident happened on saturday night during stormy weather when strong winds course the stage rigging the outdoor concert or for that according to witnesses many people suffered head and neck injuries and broken bones. thousands of protesters in china's northeastern quarter city of delhi have forced authorities to relocate a chemical plant commands to shut down the plant grew up a storm last week. there was protection upon spreading fears toxic chemicals may be released the mayor promised to move the project out of the city the local committee of the communist party ordered an immediate shutdown. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment. with

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