joyce below to the i'm a visit the gateway to the grand imperial should the torch was to push coromandel. socialistically to sit down to go. back to the kennel was total retreat. in the headlines this week cracks appear between politicians and police over how the riots in the u.k. were handled prime minister david cameron turns to us experience for help local communities turn to vigilantes. three years on the surface at year remembers the victims of a short but bloody war when georgia launch an attack against its breakaway republic teammates the people trying to rebuild the. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america's long treasured that school gets the chop sending markets into chaotic trouble.

look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on our team. this week a split opened up between police and top politicians in britain following several days of rioting and looting throughout the country prime minister david cameron slammed the force for the poor handling of the crisis even turning to a prominent us nor enforcer for advice on preventing street violence their arrest 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 leading to widespread clubbing can't violence over two thousand a recipe made so far in connection with the disorder and with the police locked into a blame game the politicians groups in local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from the nor end it's me. some of them. to goodness i can

assure you that a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to try troublemakers out of town. despite the mall the 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 can do the opposite effect but you're going to get everywhere very much started taking our streets are young children children on the streets although this is happening if there's not enough police move help then just give everyone a wage the cost of the shops and this pushing away this we don't want to go off to really cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in. the shops . 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 violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it. 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 put it you think . 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 and by. early on wednesday trying to protect local businesses

looters allegedly rams the car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante attract all sorts and to tell us he doesn't just head looters visit 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 poppies on the beach could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack nor am it r.t. . well those taking part in the weeks of lawlessness in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and elude police in response to cameron said he's considering banning any people from those networks if they are guilty of inciting violence through the web he also announced he's taking

a us style the zero tolerance stance on street violence where tough punishment follows even minor offenses political activists john re says that making up new laws on the fly isn't the way to approach such deep line problems but this isn't something that can simply be on the streets with water and plastic bullets it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will be got rid of by imposing in prison sentences we've seen one. for you jailed for six months for stealing one pound the bottle of water now i live in hackney i live right next state which was the main cycle. this week but i can tell you that if that happens you can come back to the parent groups or two months or six months or year and absolutely nothing will have changed and they're all upon the middle. just as we do you untold story here is not just what happened to my broken back but this isn't a a

a kid when i spoke or when you know the three hundred deaths in police custody over less than a decade you can see why people do not trust the police what the prime minister is doing is making up the law and making up the punishment regime as he goes along now actually that should be a crime for a leading politician to start suggesting that they're simply out or. completely invented on the moment a punishment that we had to go to people is outrageous and that the social network isn't always put there already cases now to hold not people who committed crimes during the riots but of the parents of people who committed crimes during the riots being need to feed from their council homes in a london borough because of what happened last week nobody has ever said that making somebody lost the suit. another nation looked into street protests is syria you can find out what steps the government there appears ready to

take to find a compromise and stop the months of bloodshed. the list of europe gets shorter as countries by the debt contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join the club. this week not 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 territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives and moral services have been held across the republic with the biggest insult the city's capital single hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons and the memory that is made in a cotton over 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 they says he think has come to this cemetery in self-assertive where her son is burritt five days in august two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. cases such as when her son a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital t. involved was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian is firing line. as the only thing that makes her life worth living now is return to your old daughter they now live together in a newly built house surrounded by families with similar tragic stories. in their targets 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 you try to retake control of the downed breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire and nurse my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened that night for kids i saw skin fall on fire when you know it was going to be our last night which was still carried out peacekeeping mission and try to become. the most cool santry enforcement to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognize the statue has independence. the last three years happen changed the face of this thursday a new residential area where new roads sharp and have been burst and have been built. but still kinds of the conflict remain this ruins behind my back are

all that's left of the russian people hold for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but dudley conflict and memories are still very raw. i did the question will i see reporting from teen vul self-assertive. and find out how people in surfaces here are trying to restore their lives we have a special report all r.t. in the next hour. the history of this place runs through the centuries. a paradise for archaeologists sue ologists and ecological tourists. but once it's all nice shops destroyed the hockey of life. how this republic its lifetime. hoping dreaming and retreats.

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 treasured aaa rating standard and poor's the rating agency behind me 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 firm officials of theirs that the company's calculations were wrong and point to reports that a leak about the downgrade allowed those in the know to make a fortune in just days financial analysts call them japanese it should now be a priority to identify those in caging in insider trading there is clearly an element of legitimacy to investigating insider trading and there was an awful lot of. mongering that was going on part of the downgrade in this case the rumor turned out the correct and there was a huge swing in the market on friday prior to the downgrade be issued so early some

people knew in advance and the question is who are those people and how did they get that information. it is clearly improper under u.s. law to trade on material nonpublic information if you have it so to that extent be inquiries would you. effects of the downgrade were not confined to the u.s. the news caused mass panic on markets across the world west where 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 for me 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 because there's outlasts is i think investors realize that emerging markets like india have strong fundamentals they have strong structural reasons going into the future such as a positive demographic trend high savings and investment rates there are other

things as well if there is a recession in the world as is being talked about by the words of the dollar weakens and if india's will be there for strengthens because of you the dollar would simple but will go down as well the risk is somehow whether india can finance its current account deficit because of the general climate of list of version of the. 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 one seventy two year old currency cloud but that all changed with the start of the plague sweeping through the e.u. and as it is election reports watching the euro tumble is offered all hope falls 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 its currency. there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep

poland well 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 the prices would go up and join the euro zone which would damage my business recent opinion polls suggest that more than sixty percent of paul's want to keep their own currency a dramatic turnaround from just a few years back a few years ago the euro is seen as a euro club was seen as something very exclusive poles aspired to that they wanted their country to join the euro now the name of 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 into the euro zone it could be political suicide poland has fared much better than many of its e.u. partners in the global crisis several countries like greece ireland and portugal

are on the brink of disaster partly due to a boring binge allowed by your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the euro zone members pulled could not join the party but now 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 each. so you say full and is obliged to adopt the euro once it leaves the economical for joining but alterations 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 the eurozone i mean these economic governance of eurozone and also some crisis management tensions we see some need for action

in the euro zone before. target date will be a. set up the game has changed in the you look like everyone once wanted to join we now be the invitation no one wants to accept let's see richard stick r.t. it will be for the warsaw in poland. still ahead this party of justice former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld could face a trial over allegations of torture a possible step towards war crimes charges. still to come the democracy under attack in hungary journalists are enraged over a new media laws they say undermine the basic freedom of the press. the first at least nineteen reporters have been killed in the port city of 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 arab nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians and 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 for the country to be carved patrick ase from online political magazine spight believes president assad is ignoring the people and his power. 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 to 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 parent thaws of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms means that

really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do percents i guess messiah to say things very time 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 our kids now are seeing. another conflict in the arab world libyan rebels are believed to have retaken control of the coastal town of zawiya fifty kilometers away from the capital tripoli after fierce fighting with programming forces opposition fighters are now thought to control the highway linking tripoli to the chinese and border the conflicts been raging for six months 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. to nato aggression in libya it's looking increasingly

embarrassing for the nato countries so it's not just a question of recognizing. 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 good off his hand because now with italy about the default in the eurozone and even the president united states on this incredible historic times we're living in warning that the dollar could default those billions off of oil contracts libya and investments could could come in very handy especially for someone like. iran won't acquire nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century the words of president mahmoud ahmadinejad's he spoke exclusively to our tease kevin. are you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent

a nuclear weapon. never never this is an inhuman weapon our religion says it is great and we are religious people if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money and they create great danger the international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the americans have nuclear bombs a nuclear weapon. and could a win in iraq and afghanistan could the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory and. could nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse. and we've got an extended version of that interview later this hour but you can also watch it in full on our web site that's. dot com also there online at the moment premier treasure hunting. into the deep to shed light on the fate of a historic site known as russia's atlantis it is going to what the prime minister

found at the bottom of the sea there on the web site. and a look at the man who made it on to do you k. ritualised yes i was moscow won a billion dollars i was bolted for fourth of the details of that story. israel this week approved the building of sixteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem on land palestinians considered to be their territory he when called the decision provocative we just a few weeks 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 there's a new list 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 toward the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way the main issue that has a lock to 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 there's still just be another is really active building more settlements within neighborhoods of east 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' freedom of speech is taking a major step backwards after the government pushed through a new media control law they say it'll seriously stifle reporters from holding hungary's leaders to account home and abroad could also mean massive layoffs

furthur has been finding out the fiercest critics of first in the firing line. will speak no evil at least not hung gary in government opinions hungry new media low claim their journalists being silent. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering. it was. of the government and that's. message of this. covering broadcast print and online hundred ten the controversial new law also established any media authority that these working for the media regulate. by the ruling party and your loyal supporters being elected to public service broadcasting is completely once what by the government there have been some meeting with the office and the point. people loyal

to the government think the positions of the public public t.v. under your channels journalists the voice criticisms of the wrath of been you are thirsty they were journalists of the public radio and there. was the interview the one minute silence in the national review. and one of the. three. in fact he was. the one who was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate with wave of layoffs across the industry. uneasy situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs. out of line. the shakeup to get. a very inflated public media sector has been long. been talking about

the people. so i think. this debate has been. very politicized. politics and about professional comments. something is also a bore you have to cut costs that the day has been strongly contested really talented journalists have found themselves out of the job. the. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent. serious concerns about hungary's democratic. government needs an independent media so this government thinks that.

influence can regulate. very. very bad ground but heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally because many sticking by the new media laws the changes they could bring could be set to radically transform the state the punk reason media. a bit of . full u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld may face trial and i think actions of torture after a court and two americans to file lawsuits against him while in iraq in two thousand and six two private security contractors claimed the firm was engaged in corruption in response the u.s. military reportedly held them in prison for nine months where they were allegedly tortured without explanation or charge 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 other officials being held to account for war crimes

that's according to the war activist brian but. what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld of them unity for the acts of torture against american citizens this opens wide to do are 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 dark 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 too and is engaging in illegal acts and that if anyone holds them accountable that will be quote shackling 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 that's all for the moment but i'll be back for a recap of the headlines in just a few moments stay with us live here in the. wealthy

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