looting throughout the country prime minister david cameron slammed the cops 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 then started smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat violence over two thousand arrests 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 and my bike was stolen by a gang of. i spent most of the day in tottenham 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 overstretched police force to do their worst and help themselves to free goods 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 arguably for the bad and there are lots of kids 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. went to. a good bazaar called jury 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 people that going to do the opposite effect they're going to get that everywhere very much started taking our stories up with young children not i will but children on the streets for the decide if there's not enough police them will help them and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and push them away basically we don't want to go off to anyone or root cause any trouble which is one of my sure that no one comes in. shops. 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 with out on to violence and force and distress control 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 the police were hit if in all that would've 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 in birmingham 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 with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attracts all sorts and ben tell us he doesn't just rear its head in looters there's a huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the moment which many find reassuring but groups like the enfield army proves that communities still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts for the front line officers still on the table is on the beat could get fewer and further between while the local vigilante we could take up the slack nor and it r.t. . and those who are taking part in the weeks of lawlessness in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and elude police in response david cameron has said that he's considering banning any people from those

networks if they're guilty of inciting violence through the web but london both the political activist night 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 if it's 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 a celebrated facebook revolution the social media the twitter revolution across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to crack down on the media here it's absolutely not be a serious serious inequality serious. i mean what kind of a society are we to drive to live near zero fourteen year old kids to watch. mental state you know to burn the local store that that we actually we believe we need action not weasel politicians words. another nation locked into street protests is

that of syria find out what actions the government there appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the months of bloodshed. the list of your applicants gets shorter as countries are spurred by the debt contagion sweeping the economic block i think twice over their aspirations to join the club. this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south assert here the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old territories it claimed hundreds of innocent lives memorial services being held across the republic with the biggest in south asserting its capital skin vile 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 question of a report from the republic where the scars are still fresh from what happened in august of two thousand and. 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 southeast where her son is burritt five days in two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. when her son a medical college graduate heard their republics capital team vall was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days on to the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian altieri 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 rounded by families for similar tragic stories. in the turnouts across the street lives of women who lost two children enter the house opposite lives the man. 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 him violent fire when you know it was going to be our last night but was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. most cool sound 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 the said he has independence. the last three years have changed the face of the state i new residential area where new roads jobs and invest in new g.m. have been built. but still the conflict remains this behind my

back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping post for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but badly conflict the memories are still very role. much in the question of reporting from scene vaal south stats here. and you can find out how people in south ossetia are trying to restore their lives we have a special report on r.t. later today. the history of this place runs through the centuries. a paradise for archaeologists zoo ologists and ecological tourists. one fateful night sharks destroyed the new life. how this republic got its life by. hoping dreaming and reaching its.

welcome back you're watching the weekly here on out 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 poor's the rating agency behind the move said it made the decision based on the apparent inability of the u.s. government to deal with the problem but 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 for actual analysts to call it done in japanese it should now be a priority to identify those things gauging insider trading. there is clearly an element. to investigating insider trading. and there was an awful lot of rumor

mongering that was going on for 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 being 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 inquiry is legitimate. the effects of the downgrade were not confined just to the u.s. the news caused mass panic on markets all across the world worst hit were tech based economies such as india where spooked investors went on massive selling sprees economics professor gates believes that now things could swing either way thing you die 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 has outlasted 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 in investment rates there are other things as well if there is a recession in the world as is being talked about the 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 the risk is somehow whether india can finance its current account deficit because of the general climate of risk aversion in the economy if 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 but that all changed with the start of the debt plague sweeping through the e.u. and as i got to reports watching the euro tumble as offered old hopefuls a fresh perspective. while parts of europe have been teetering on the edge of economic abyss both of them has remained stable in the storm along with this

currency there's loti there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland 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 how can we help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices would go up that 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 was seen as the euro club scene or something very exclusive polls aspired to this they wanted the country to join the euro 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. 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 euro zone meant to pull and 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 place very important for us. they need for institutional changes. in. governance of euro zone.

crisis management. for the euro zone before. the target date will be. set up the game has changed and the euro club everyone once wanted to join may now be the invitation no one wants to accept. r.t. . in paul and. r.t. 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 a new building project 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 port city of latakia 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 nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops individually. from online political magazine spiked believes president assad is ignoring the people of his own power. clamping down on freedom of speech 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 cleaning on.

but even so in a very tired way there is a sense from a sad 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 in which he previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms means that really there's a real answer. about what he's trying to do they're 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 this is i guess this is 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 treatment that some of barack is now seeing. and another conflict in the arab world and new clashes between pro and anti daffy forces are up in the coastal town of azhar we are 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 persons. who are simple his. 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 don't you ever 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 our

t.v. so you can also watch the full interview with the iranian president on our web site that's of course party dot com also online for you today treasure hunting. dives into the deep to shed light on the historic site known as russia's 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 on to the u.k. . yes moscow one billion dollars and it's one of four fraud those details online. now 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 all seriously stifle reporters from holding hungary's leaders to account a view shared at home and abroad it could also mean a massive layoffs and as artists sara first found out the fiercest critics are first in the firing line. here in new evil see no evil speak no evil at least not about the hung gary in government opinion so hungry as new media lol claim their journalists are being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy because she was. too full to toward the end of the government and that's there's there's there's the whole message of this of this law covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also established a new media authority that these working for the media regulate all chazen by the ruling party and your loyal supporters before being selected public service

broadcasting is completely quiet sward by the government there have been some mutually offs and put. people loyal to the government into key positions at public public t.v. channel those journalists he voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the new authority they were journalists of the public radio and. the. media lou was introduced they have one minute silence in the national radio. they were right there a suspended and then the one of them left the radio. in effect he was dismissed and the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate with a wave of layoffs across the industry this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs and now. out of line some argue the

shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's reinflated public media sector have been long. this government has not only talking and been talking about 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 out of the job. is not transparent to. the people on the basis. of. the recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events to do cooling serious concerns about hungary's democratic

future everything more critic government needs an independent media so if this government thinks. it can oversee the whole media it can influence the whole mediate can regulate the media it's very. very bad ground despite 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 the start to radically transform the face of hungary's media server a bit of past. twenty five minutes past the. here in the russian capital this is r.t. 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. told us here at r.t. the compromise is now being pushed even further away. and this is not a time when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving toward the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way the main issue that has blocked a return to negotiations is the continued settlement building by the government of israel this is not going to help the situation. that the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world they are on this issue everyone is busy with the global financial crisis the united states as well the. twenty percent of the u.s. congress visiting israel this week and we all know that mr netanyahu has a lot more support in the american congress than he does even in his own parliament so this will just be another is really building more settlements within

neighborhoods refused him without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's going to hurt it much more than it's already hurting. all right as we do in 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 up to six suicide bombers stormed the compound during our security chiefs meeting violence in afghanistan has reached its worst level since two thousand and one as insurgents carry out attacks in. lots of any peaceful areas. at least four people were killed and forty injured after a stage collapse at the fair in the u.s. state of indiana the accident happened on saturday night during stormy weather when strong winds course the stage rigging for the outdoor concert before according to

witnesses many people suffered head and neck injuries and broken bones. thousands of protesters in china's northeastern core city of delhi have forced authorities to relocate a chemical plant demands to shut down plant grew after a storm last week broken dikes there was protecting the plant spreading fears toxic chemicals may be released the mayor promised to move the project out of the city are local committee of the communist party ordered an immediate shutdown. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment. still

trying to recover. u.s. regulators that declare war on the ratings agencies after america's. school gets the chop sent the world markets into a chaotic tumble. i want to stay with us here in our next hour exclusive interview .