top politicians in britain following several days of rioting and looting throughout the country prime minister david cameron slammed the force 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 police shooting of a twenty nine year old man and the ensuing peaceful protests which turned violent protesters started smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings widespread copycat violence there were two thousand a recipe made so far in connection with the disorder london based journalist afshin rattansi 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 are so numerous but i suppose the central one of course is inequality and entire civic life it's a big institutions that are completely out of touch whether it be the media replete force or politicians themselves but david cameron who went to the most expensive

schools in the country has no knowledge of the huge securities and inequalities that rage right across this country the idea of david cameron calling the police force massive. the idea of shrinking the economy to grow it as a sort of mass religion together with a mass consumerist religion here wanting to buy more and more expensive goods is it for us. with the u.k. police locked into a blame game with politicians groups in local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters nor emmett's that some of them. a good result could sure use a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the mob atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most

ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that going to do the opposite effect you're going to get that everywhere very much started to take you know stories about young children not so well but children on the streets for the decide if there's not enough police them will help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and then just push them away basically we don't want to go off to anyone or any trouble we just one of my sure that no one comes in and start smashing the shops up and. and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say let's solve the problems with out on to violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it on. causing further violence 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 television screens last night of communities. 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 communities 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 vigilante we could take up the slack nor emmett r.t. . those 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 said he's considering banning any people from those networks if they are 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 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 law for everyone is just so ironic having celebrated the facebook revolution the social

media the twitter revolution across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to clamp down on the media here it's absolutely not the issue the issue is in the quality of your series is that i mean what kind of society are we to drive to live near zero fourteen year old kids to that. mental state to burn the local store that that we actually we believe we need action not weasel politicians words . another nation locked into street to protest is syria and you can find out what action the government there appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the months of bloodshed. also still to come the list of euro applicants gets shorter as countries burd by the debt contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join the club. their stories to come but first this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on

the small republic of south ossetia the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives memorial services are being held across the republic but the biggest in capital involved hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory parties between a question of a reports now 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 sidney has come to this cemetery and self-assertive where her son is birds five days unorganised two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. as when her son daughter a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital tin vall was under attack

from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms us they lay trapped for days on to the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian 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 with similar tragic stories. in the totes across the street lives of women who lost two children and to the house opposite lives a man who lost both his wife and his child. all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in all those two thousand and eight when they try to retake control of the breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire nursed my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened that night

for i saw him wrong far when you know it was going to be our last night but it was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. moskos sound trained force meant to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognize the city has independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential area where new roads jobs and have been burst and have been built. but signs of the conflict remain this behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping pole 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 c involve south sacha. and find out how people in self-assertive are trying to restore their lives we have a special report on r.t.

later for you today. the history of this place runs through the centuries. a paradise for archaeologists zoo ologists and ecological tourists. but one fateful night shots destroyed the life. how this republic. hoping dreaming and retreat is. 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 treasury aaa

rating standard and poor's the rating agency behind the move says it made the decision based on the apparent inability of the u.s. government to deal with the problem washington responded with an attack on the officials and that's that the company's calculations were wrong and point to reports that a leak about the downgrade and now those in the know to make a fortune in just days i mentioned on this call that in japanese it should now be a priority to identify those engaging in insider trading. clearly an element. to investigating insider trading there was an awful lot of rumor mongering that was going on further 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

inquiry is legitimate. the effects of the downgrade were not confined to the u.s. the news cause mass panic all markets across the world was ten tech based economies such as india where spooked investors went on massive selling sprees economics professor chesson gate believes that no things could swing either way for you danny 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 by the words of the dollar weakens and if india's rupee therefore strengthens views of you the dollar its import bill will go down as well as the risk is somehow whether india can finance

its current account deficit because of the general climate of risk aversion in the economies 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 will change with the start of the debt plague sweeping through the e.u. and us all he selects he had a shift he reports watching the euro tumble as offered all 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 out of trouble here. if we were part of the eurozone then we would have been obliged to help countries like greece and portugal how can we help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices would go up

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 is seen as the euro club was seen as something very exclusive polls aspired to they wanted their country to join now the name of the euro has been sullied by the troubles in greece and italy poles don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue try to bring poland. 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 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 ministers saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first place very important for us. the need for institutional changes. in the euro zone i mean these economic governance of euro zone and also some crisis management tensions we see some need for change in 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. it was you from warsaw in poland. this is r.t. live here in moscow with twenty four hours a day still ahead for you the omens of justice former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld could face a trial over allegations of torture possible step towards war crimes charges. also democracy under attack in hungary journalists are enraged over a new media laws they say undermine the basic freedom of the press. those stories still to come but first at least nineteen reported 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 spot nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately international pressure is mounting on the syrian leadership with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calling for economic and political ties with the

country to be cut patrick kane is from online political magazine spite believes president assad is ignoring the people. planting down on freedom of speech and freedom of expression which is the cornerstone of any democracy is not sending out a message to the syrian people that he can be taken seriously or trusted in his promise is a tool there is a sense from assad really be eased 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 you 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 that he seems very tired that 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'll

meet the same treatments that are seeing. another conflict in the arab world and new clashes between pro and anti good afi forces erupted in the coastal town. in libya a government spokesman says fifty rebels trying to take the time were stopped by troops taking may have cut off the capital this is just fifty kilometers away the conflicts been raging for six months and thousands of lives have been lost despite nato intervention and in an exclusive interview to r.t. iran's president said the situation in libya is being made worse by the president. because the curator council has made a mistake instead of sending planes to libya they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for free elections under the auspices of the u.n. so do you ever won the elections would be acceptable for the people most of them for 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 later this hour but you can also watch the interview in full with the iranian president on our web site that's dot com also online at the moment treasure hunting dives into the deep to shed light on the fate of a historic site known as russia's atlantis you can find out what the prime minister found at the bottom of the sea there on the web site. and look at the man who made it on to the u.k. richard moscow one billion dollars and is wanted for fraud the details on that story online.

israel this week approved the building of sixteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem on land the palestinians consider to be their territory the un called the decision provocative 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 since last year after the construction of israeli homes in the west bank and as analyst gershon baskin told 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 towards 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 let's face it 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 of use jerusalem 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. hungary's journalists fear freedom of speech is taking a major step backwards after the government pushed through a new media control law they say it will seriously stifle reporters from holding hungry leaders to account if you should at home and abroad it could also mean massive layoffs and sarah ferguson faces critics first in the forum like. evil see no evil speak no evil at least not if it's about the hunger area and government opinion so hungry is new media low claim there journalist being silence . it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy over

issues. of the government that'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 chosen by the ruling party and were loyal supporters being selected its public service broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there had been some measure of the office and put. people loyal to the government into key positions that the public public t.v. and media channels journalists he voiced criticisms of felt the wrath of the new authority they were journalists of the public and there. was introduce the have one minute silence in the national radio.

suspended and then one of them that 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 who this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs and now. out of line so murky the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's a very inflated public media sector has been long. this government has not only talking and been talking about it but they have laid the people off because they saw that it is unsustainable. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized it's more about politics than about professional commerce. if something is unsustainable you have to cut costs that the day has been strongly

contested many talented journalists have found themselves out of the job the people on the basis. of the. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law are just some of the recent events the cool thing serious concerns about hungary's democratic. everything mokhtar the government needs an independent media so if this government thinks that it can oversee the whole media it can influence the whole mediate can regulate the whole media it's very. very bad ground but heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally the government is sticking by the new media laws and the changes they could bring could be start to radically transform the face of the congress media so it's

a bit of. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld may face trial over allegations of torture after a court allowed two to americans. two thousand and six two private security contractors claimed the firm was engaged in corruption and response the u.s. military reportedly held them in prison for months when they were allegedly tortured without explanation. when they were released they brought a little suit against rumsfeld that was rejected by prosecutors until now the case may open the floodgates to officials being held to account for war crimes that's according to war activist braun becca what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld of immunity for the acts of torture against american citizens this opens wide the door not only for rumsfeld but for dick cheney for bush for all of those who advocated or put into place policies like the policy of torture which they call enhanced interrogation techniques euphemistically and very thinly

euphemistically disguising torture which is illegal then that means all of these people could be in the dock if you try to hold pentagon officials in this case the head of the pentagon donald rumsfeld accountable for torture or other illegal acts that somehow shackles the hands of u.s. military ironically it suggests that the united states government needs to demands to and is engaging in illegal acts and that if anyone holds them accountable that will be quote shackling in their effort to carry out war it's partly demagogy but by virtue of the nature of the argument it also reveals that they in fact have institutionalized torture otherwise they would not be afraid of the allegation against it. well some of today's top stories from around the world and world update a nineteen people have been killed in almost forty wounded in a taliban attack at a governor's residence in central afghanistan the suicide bomber blew up

a car near the gates making a hole in the wall that allowed 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 relatively peaceful there. motivated shooting sixty nine people in norway has returned to the island where he went on a rampage and as bravely was helping police reconstruct events he showed no remorse when describing how he targeted children as they tried to swim from the on an. extremist is also charged with organizing an explosion in the capital was believe it claimed he wanted to save europe from muslims and multiculturalism. well that's all the news for now but i'll be back with the latest headlines for you in just a couple of minutes stay with us live here in moscow.

now here in the russian capital in the headlines this week cracks appear between politicians and police. in the u.k. . prime minister david cameron turns to us experience for help fed up local communities turn to the vigilante. three years. 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 republic is still trying to recover. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america's long treasured school gets the sending markets into a chaotic tumble. i'll be back with another update for about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime artie's exclusive interview with. the president of the islamic republic of.