between police and top politicians in britain it followed several days of rioting and looting throughout the country prime minister david cameron has slammed at the cops for the poor handling of the crisis you can turn into a prominent us law enforcer for advice on preventing street violence got arrested was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a twenty nine year old man and the ensuing peaceful protest which turned violent protesters started smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars i'm buildings leading to widespread copycat violence over two thousand arrests have been made so far in connection with the disorder london based journalist afshin of returns and he says the underlying cause of the chaos was the widening disconnect between the u.k. government and the public. this is completely in crisis and the motivations . of the central one of course is inequality and in terms of civic life it's a big institutions that are completely out of touch whether it be the media replete

force or politicians themselves david cameron who went to the most expensive schools in the country has no knowledge of the huge insecurities and inequalities raging right across this country the idea of david cameron cutting the police force . the idea of shrinking the economy to grow it as a sort of mass religion together with a mass consumerist religion here one thing to buy more and more expensive goods is it for us. looked into a blame game with politicians groups and local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters. went to meet some of. their goodness i call 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 so well but children on the streets for the decide if there's not enough police they move help them and just get everyone away just to cost all the shops and just push them away basically we don't want to go after anyone or root cause any trouble we just one of my sure that no one comes into question no shops open you know routes 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 without one to violence and causing distress to others which then takes it over causing further violence on the streets. this is the

current faced 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 of community. 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 the with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attracts all sorts and more pentel it 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 prove that community is still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts for front line officers still on the table is on the beat could get fewer and further between local vigilance and we could take up the slack your emmet r.t. . those are taking part in the week's lawlessness in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and elude police in response david cameron has said he's considering banning any people from those networks if they're guilty of inciting violence through the web but london based political activist chris knight says that just highlights a blatant case of double standards when it comes to the issue 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 celebrated the facebook revolution the social media the twitter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to crack down on the media here it's absolutely not the issue the serious inequality serious is the most i mean what kind of society are we to drive to live near zero fourteen year old kids to that. mental state you know to burn the local store that that we need action we believe we need action not weasel politicians words. and another nation locked into street protests that over syria find out what actions the government there appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the months of bloodshed. and the list of euro applicants gets shorter as countries are spurred by the debt contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join the club. this week marks three

years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south side here the five day war in which georgia tried to regain control of its old territories it claimed hundreds of innocent lives memorial services have been held across the republic with the biggest in the south as it has capital going viral hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory bodies may be in a cauldron of reports from the republic where the scars are still fresh from what happened in august two thousand and eight. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so i know i will lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years stacey sydney has come to this cemetery in south assessing where her son is very it's five days in two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. when her son daughter 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 on to the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian military 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. in the towns across the street lives of women who lost two children enter the house opposite lives a man who lost both his why. and whose 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 it's all 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. moskos downtrend force meant to protect its citizens and prevent 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 thursday i new residential air where new roads jobs and have been burst a new g.m. have been built but signs of the conflict remain this behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping poles for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but deadly conflict the memories are still very raw. much in the question of r.t. reporting from scene volves. so you can find out how people in south assert here are trying to restore their lives so we have a special report on r.t.

a little bit later today. the history of this place runs through the centuries. a paradise for archaeologists. and ecological tourists. one fateful night shots destroyed the harmony of life. how this republic. hoping dreaming and retreat is. you're watching of the weekly here on our t.v. it's good to have you with us today it's been one of the most turbulent weeks in years for the world's financial markets the spot was an unprecedented downgrade of

america's long treasured triple a rating standard and poor's rating agency behind the move says it made the decision based on the paralyzing hostility of various u.s. political factions but officials allege that the company's calculations were wrong and point to reports of rampant insider trading that's as obama unveils plans to target the country's defense spending long considered a taboo despite the country's fourteen trillion dollar debt and for huffington post columnist eric margolis it's america's in almost was spending that is the root of the problem. it's not even states we're being under in say the great amounts ours will not be too much to pay for france but we're not paying for defense right now we're pretty close sense in the sense that america's military operations are all around the world not too many americans understand is that the costs of the wars were never equal to tax it's going to be put on the

u.s. national credit card. that's one of the reasons why he was down trillion dollars in his grueling into americans and paid for the course at least for the large military sense out of their taxes i think that would be a big change public opinion. and the you already struggling with its own crisis also took a major hit from the downgrade a massive selloff across the block fears that a staple french bank that of society in general may be at risk of insolvency something the bank denies and artie's own financial guru max keiser has a strong balance over the stability of the french banking system. 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 tacking them to force these unrealized debts onto their balance sheet to force these companies into delinquency into a foreclosure because they are going to rape billions of dollars attacking these banks the side of general is an insolvent institution so is b. and p. they can't possibly meet they're there to credit demands absolutely not. since its inception there's been no shortage of applicants wanting to join the once early to euro currency club but that all changed with the start of the debt plague sweeping across the e.u. and as aussies alexy yourself ski reports watching the euro tumble has offered old hopefuls a fresh perspective. well points of view or have been teetering on the edge of it

could. this poland has remained stable in the storm along with its currency. 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 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 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 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's 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 needs the economic rules for joining but polish politicians are now much cooler on the idea with ministers saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first but very important for us .

economic governance a few resign and also some crisis management changes we see some need for a change in the eurozone before. target date will be. set up the game has changed and the euro everyone once wanted to join me now would be the invitation no one wants to accept. r.t. warsaw in poland. you're watching the weekly here in r.t. and i still had for you this hour when building houses means building tension these peace talks are for further into the background as israel starts a new building project just weeks before the un discusses the recognition of a palestinian state. and when the threats of tougher laws don't work russian parents do whatever it takes to protect their children from pedophiles

slipping through the legal that. at least nineteen our reporters are being killed in the port city of latakia where the syrian military has launched its latest crackdown on anti-government protesters warships are reportedly shelling residential districts in the key port city where which was once a popular tourist spot the arab nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately international pressure is also mounting on the syrian leadership and the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calling for economic and political ties with the country to be cut patrick is from the online a political magazine spike believes president assad is ignoring the people in power . 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 there is a sense from a sad really that the ease by which he started to see. 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 i mean really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do this is i guess messiah they say seems very tired that he 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 some of barack is now seeing. another conflict in the arab world and new clashes between pro and anti could deathy forces erupted in the coastal town of are we are in libya a government spokesman says fifty rebels trying to take the town were stopped by troops taking that we may have cut off the capital which is just about fifty kilometers away the conflicts been raging now for six months and thousands of lives

have been lost despite nato intervention so come to chandan who recently returned from a monitoring mission in libya says that for some nato members and libyan oil could be lucrative. this whole nato aggression on libya it's looking increasingly embarrassing for the nato countries so it's not just a question of recognizing the council in benghazi actually i think it's quite clear now it's a race for nato not only to save its own face in trying to extricate itself out of the mess that they've put themselves into but also it's a race to who's going to be the first to kiss good office hand because now with italy about the default in the euro zone and even the president united states i mean this incredible historic times we're living in warning that the dollar could default well those billions of oil contracts from libya and investments could could come in very handy especially for someone like berlusconi in italy. you watch in

the weekly here on r.t. on this sunday. two policemen in the russian and you're also being arrested for allegedly accepting bribes from a pedophile it's just the latest in a series of crimes where police and judges seem to be turning a blind eye to child abuse and as a diary a push over reports that as it's forcing parents rather to deal with the problem themselves. and mother in grief. i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family live on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn i go to work every day sick with fear for my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for that area to admit she trusted someone who harmed her daughter she brought the man into the house is a common law husband to live side by side with him for more than an hour and use. my daughter told me he threw a stray cat from the roof and said he did the same to her if she ever confided in me about the things she was doing to her when the dahlia finally managed to get

things to the court the jury acquitted the man who she says is now off to her family hungry for revenge experience is just one example of many in a recent controversial case a man suspected of raping a seven year old girl was released without charge. yes i called her underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and pressed her into the ground it only took a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one. only after an enraged crowd nearly lynched the men police launch a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that can fashion authorities also disciplined the original enlisted meeting officer will summarize this this proposal the words that happened here is the mother was treated like a football she was kicked around from office to office a tragedy had happened to her shouldn't know what to do but no one wanted to even talk to her alone except her statement where. russian authorities have. declared

a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been meager with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in attempt to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands i'm underage that's fine i like small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and do many other things to you this video has been put together by a group of volunteers as they track people they believe are paedophiles and they go online pretending to be an underage boy or girl they set up meetings with people who didn't need to preferring minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web what was the will but i want to show you are simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in our own way because our families live in the city not children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts but in that they try to act within the law but often

operate at its edge volunteers tracking paedophiles online say most people will sign off when they learn the personel chatting to is under age but they also say roughly out of one hundred contacts one is certain to be looking for easy prey currently the maximum sentence for child sex offenses is twenty years in prison an amendment to the law is meant to introduce tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but until the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their teaching ontic in pain diary pushed over arching moscow. it's good to have you with us on this sunday iran no one to acquire nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century the words of president mahmoud ahmadinejad who spoke exclusively to our. future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent

a nuclear weapon. never. our religion. and we are religious people if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money they create great danger. the international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and could they win in iraq and afghanistan could their nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory of. nuclear weapons the former soviet union from collapse. and we've got an extended version of our interview our next hour you can also watch the full interview with the iranian president of course on our web site that's. also on line for today. to shed light on the fate.

of the same. car. and a look at the man who made it a. billion dollars and is one of those details online. welcome back here with r.t. live from moscow israel is this week approved at the building of sixteen hundred new homes and. to resell them on land the palestinians consider to be theirs they call their 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 nine hundred sixty seven borders peace talks between the two sides of stalled that since last year after the

construction of israeli homes in the west bank and as analysts baskin told us that 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 that the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world right there on this issue everyone is busy with a global financial crisis 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. without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's not going to hurt it much more than it's already hurting. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and i let's just pause for a moment and check out some of today's top stories from all around the world

a hotel explosion has killed twelve people and injured more than twenty others in southwestern pakistan the blast reduced of the building to rubble and rescuers are still clearing debris in the search for survivors police have already arrested two men who left the hotel's restaurant just before the bomb went off the violence plagued region is believed to be home to many taliban insurgents however nobody has claimed responsibility for this explosion yet. egypt's foreign interior minister faces trial again charged with the ordering the killing rather of protesters during the uprising that toppled the country's president the public. denies all charges though if convicted he will get a death. sentenced to six other acts officials accused of being responsible for civilian deaths are also in the dock demonstrations are growing into a full scale revolution started in egypt this january more than a hundred protesters were killed by police. at least five people were killed forty injured after a stage collapse at a fair in the u.s.

state of indiana accident happened on saturday night during stormy weather when strong winds of course the stage rigging for the outdoor concert the full according to witnesses many people suffered head and neck injuries and broken bones. all right i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment do stay with us here on out see.

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welcome back you with. the headlines this week. between politicians and police. in the u.k. well handled prime minister david cameron u.s. experience for help while local communities. remembers the victims of a short but bloody conflict when georgia launched an offensive to reclaim its old territories hundreds died in the ensuing five day war and the public is still trying to recover. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies. that school gets the child. into a tumble. coming up next we follow the journey of two colombians as they try to find the truth behind the deaths of their.