police and politicians in britain following several days of rioting and looting all 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 under arrest was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a twenty nine year old man and ensuing peaceful protest which turn violent protesters started smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat violence of its two thousand the arrests have been made so far in connection with the destroyed independent journalist patrick henningsen that was caught up in the mayhem he says the u.k. government should realise that country is not so different from the arab world when it comes to rights like us. to be honest this is one of the most shocking things i've ever had the displeasure of seeing was in brixton early monday morning about one am. gangs of youths who were some of which had fled from the central brixton

into the surrounding areas like stockwell barricade in the streets with rubbish bins or anything they could find in order to stop cars try to pull drivers from the cars and take the cars in one instance this happened one man came to help the driver and he was beaten by a gang of six or seven young black youths in brixton very frightening i was barricaded in a pub for part of the time because we couldn't go out and the pub. about an hour after the incident so no police to be found even if you dialled nine nine nine the police said sorry we can't help you just stay where you are now if the leadership of this country and the heads of the police departments everything have been paying attention to what's going on around the world in the middle east in north africa their leadership in britain in the police force in britain think oh we're different no it's the same you have mobile phones blackberries twitter you have mobs they're able to outmaneuver the. police at any turn and the police cannot cope with this

and unfortunately the criminal element know this my advice to the leadership of this country all your m.p.'s and david cameron and everybody else stop playing politics stop playing labor and conservative the blame game and you've got to start looking at what's going on the street. and with police locked into a blame game with politicians groups and local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters. and i want to meet some of them. if a group 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 paper that going to do

the opposite effect you're going to get that everywhere very much start it's taking our stories up for young children not i will but children on the streets follow with the start maybe if there's not enough police them will help them and just give everyone a wage to cost all 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 into question 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 community which then takes it on. causing further violence in the streets. this is the current face of communities across england many of which felt under siege from looters and said in their darkest hour the police were nowhere to be seen police have not been

anywhere where the police if the police were hit if in all that would have been maybe this is what david cameron means when he talks constantly about the 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 then 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 the front line officers

still on the table is on the beat could get fewer and further between while local vigilante we could take up the slack nor am it r.t. . and of those taking part in the weeks of all the lawlessness in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and elude police in response david cameron 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 night just highlights a blatant case of double standards when it comes to issues of freedom and. 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 the issue is is is that we what kind of a 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 i looked into street protests is that of syria plan of action the government appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the months of much. of the rest of euro applicants and gets shorter as countries spurred by the contagion sweeping the economic think twice over their aspirations to join the club. you're watching the weekly here on our end this week marks three years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south the five day war in which georgia tried to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of

innocent lives memorial services have been held across the republic with the biggest in the south as u.s. capital tskhinval hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory within a quarter of a report from the republic but 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 knew 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. tyson says when her son daughter a medical college graduate heard their republic's capital teen vall was under attack from georgia she rushed home to help the injured she 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 he says as the only thing that makes her life worth living now is three twenty two year old daughter they now live together in a newly built house to round it by families with similar tragic stories. into targets across the street lives of women who lost two children. enter the house opposite lives the man who lost both his wife and his child. all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in august two thousand and eight when they try to retake control of the downed breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire nursed my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened that night for it's all 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. moskos santry

enforcement 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 invest in new and 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. you can find out how people in south still trying to restore their lives 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 archeologists

zoo ologists and ecological tourists. one fateful night shots destroyed the harmony of life. how this republic got its life back. hoping dreaming and recreate it. now eleven minutes past the hour here in moscow you are watching the weekly and it's been one of the most hope in 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 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 enormous to war spending that is the root of the problem. it's not in states where being under invaded grave errors from outside powers will not be too much to pay for the 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 the taxes are being put on the u.s. national credit card and that's one of the reason. he was dance trillion dollars in his grueling if americans had paid for the course he believes for the large mood

serious sense of their taxes i think that would be a big change public opinion. the e.u. already struggling with its own crisis also took a major hit down from the from the downgrade rather a massive selloff across the block led to fears that a staple french bank that of society in general may be a risk of insolvency something the bank denies and artie's financial guru max keiser has strong doubts 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 the 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 foreclosure because they are going to rape billions of dollars attacking these banks the side of generali it is an insolvent institution so is being paid they can't possibly meet their their the credit demands absolutely not since its inception there's been no shortage of applicants wanting to join the elite euro currency club but that all changed with the start of the debt plague sweeping across the u. s. aussies alexia chefs he reports watching the euro tumble has offered old hopefuls a fresh perspective. 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 of trouble here. if we were part of the eurozone 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 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 poland could not join the party but now it does not have the hangover poland was meant to have the euro by next year the time when the country is co-hosting the twenty twelve european football championship but with the latest developments these plans may be shelved for another four years e.u. rules say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining but polish politicians are now much cooler on the idea with minister saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first very important for us. a need for institutional changes. in the eurozone i mean these economic governance of euro zone and also some crisis management we see some need for

in the euro zone before. target date will be. set up the game has changed and the euro everyone once wanted to join may now be the no one wants to accept. r.t. warsaw in poland. r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and still ahead for you this hour when building houses that means building. these tools are pushed further into the back of the israel starts a new building project just weeks before the u.n. 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. at least nineteen are reported to have been 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 which was once a summer tourist hot spot arab nations are also learning up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately international pressure is also 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 patrick from the online a political magazine spiked believes president assad is ignoring the people in his own. 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 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 i mean really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do the sense i get this is seems very ties that he quite 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 libyan rebels are believed to have retaken control of the coastal town of zawiya that's about a fifty kilometers away from the capital tripoli after fierce fighting with pro khadafi forces position fighters in our thoughts of control of the highway linking tripoli to the border the conflicts been raging for six months now and thousands of lives have been lost despite nato intervention chandan who recently returned from

a monitoring mission in libya says for some nato members libyan oil is proving a massive temptation. this whole nato aggression on libya is 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 eurozone 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 off of oil contracts from libya and investments could could come in very handy especially for someone like berlusconi in italy now a twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow two policemen in the russian your rules have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes from

a paedophile 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 pushover reports that's forcing parents to deal with the problem themselves. and mother in grief. oh it was. i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself but i simply don't know how else to protect my family on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn to go to work every day sick with fear 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 i finally managed to get things to the court the jury acquitted the man who she says is now off to her family hungry

for adventure. 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 had. only after an enraged crowd inched the men police launch a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that confession authorities also disciplined the original investigating officer will summarize this for us look at the words that happened here is the mother was treated way before what she was kicked around for largest office with a tragedy had happened to her shit in know what to do but no one wanted to be able to talk to her let alone except pretty women with. russian authorities have a nominee closed a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been meager

with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in an attempt to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands i'm underage that's fine i. small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and do many other things to you is video has been put together by a group of volunteers as they track people they believe are paedophiles you know legal online pretending to be an underage boy all go they set up meetings with people who need to preferring minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web it was to go but i want to show you are simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in their own way because our families live in this city the national children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts with him but if they try to act within the law but often operate and it's 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 the out of one hundred contacts one is said 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 in proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their teaching on taking pain diary pushed over our children school. now at twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital iran won't acquire nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century the words of president luck with the uk with their spoke exclusively to r.t. is kevin our. saying that at some point in the 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 the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory in. nuclear weapons the former soviet union from collapse. and we. also want. to. start.

israel this week approved the building of sixteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem on land that palestinians consider to be theirs the u.n. calls the decision a provocative with just a few weeks left before the security council is expected to vote over the recognition of the palestinian administration with green one thousand and sixty seven borders peace talks between the two sides have stalled since last year after the construction of israeli homes in the west bank and as analyst ago baskin 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 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 the 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 a but for now let's take a pause and check out some of today's stories from all around the world nineteen people have been killed almost forty wounded in a taliban attack on a governor's residence in central afghanistan the suicide bomber blew up a car near the gates making a hole in the wall then allowed a five other insurgents to storm the compound the target was prominent officials

who were gathered for a meeting that violence in afghanistan has reached its worst level since two thousand and one as insurgents carry out attacks in the relatively peaceful. the man who admitted shooting sixty nine people in norway has returned to the i don't know where he went on a rampage and there's a bit of it was helping police reconstruct events he showed no remorse when describing how he targeted children as they tried to swim from the island the right wing extremist is also charged with organizing an explosion in the capital. that claimed that he wanted to save europe from muslims and multiculturalism. all right i'll bring you the latest headlines shortly please do stay with us. well see british.

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