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 the 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 copycat violence over two thousand a recipe made so far in connection with the disorder and with the police locked into a blame game with politicians groups and local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters nor emmett's met 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

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 you're going to get that everywhere very much started to take the streets up with young children or children on the streets rather with the fact that if there's not enough police help them and just give everyone the wage to look after the shops and just push them away basically we don't want to go off to cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in and start smashing the shops up in. and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town seeks have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say let's solve the problems with out on to violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it up. causing further violence and destroy.

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 here 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 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. 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 with budget cuts for front line officers still on the table on the beat could get fewer and further between local vigilante groups could take up the slack. for those taking part in the weeks in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and police in response to cameron said he is considering banning any people from those networks if they are guilty of inciting violence he also announced he is taking a us style zero tolerance stance. tough punishment follows even minor offenses. that making up new laws on the fly isn't the way to approach such deep. concerns. the streets with water cannon and plastic bullets it isn't something that

can be and that isn't something that will be got rid of by imposing draconian prison sentences we've seen one teenage boy jailed for six months for stealing a one pound fifty bottle of water now i live in hackney i live right next to the pembroke state which was the main site of the riots this week but i can tell you that if that happens you can come back with bridge that you know a moment or two months or six months or a year and absolutely nothing will have changed and therefore the fundamental cause of this is this will remain the untold story here is not just what happened to mark duggan but the fact that this is a a a when iceberg when you know that have been 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 there are simply ad hoc. completely invented on the moment punishments that can be had over people is outrageous and that the social network is in the words that there are already cases now of not people who committed crimes during the riots but of the parents of people who committed crimes during the riots being evicted from their council homes in a london borough because of what happened last week they have no views ever said that making somebody have lost the suit or at least the crowd. another nation locked 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 your applicants get shorter as countries 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 ossetia the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives the moral services have been held across the republic with the biggest insult the city is capital seen val hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons and their memory bodies made it a question 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 stacey sidney has come to this cemetery where her son is birds five days to norco's two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. as when her son daughter

a medical college graduate heard there were public'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 under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian firing line. as 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 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 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 violent 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 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 recognized the statue 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 zealand have been built. but still signs of the conflict remain this ruins behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping post 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 sea involves self-assertive. and find out how people in self-assertive 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 archeologists zoo ologists and ecological tourists. but one fateful night shops destroyed the harmony of life. how this republic got its my spine. hoping dreaming and retreating. it's been one of the most turbulent weeks in is for the world's financial markets the spark was an unprecedented downgrade of america's treasured aaa rating studded

them pause 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 culloden japanese it should now be a priority to identify those engaging in insider trading there is clearly an element of legitimacy 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 to be 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 be

inquiries would you. effects of the downgrade were not confined to the u.s. the news cause mass panic all markets across the world west tech based economies such as india where spooked investors went to massive selling sprees economics professor gates believes that now things could swing either way for new denny 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 finding his 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 will be there for strengthens because of you the dollar it's important it will go down as well the risk is somehow whether india can finance its current account deficit because of the general problem of the list aversion in the

economy 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 cell each year zero currency club but that all changed with the start of the debt plague sweeping through the e.u. and as it is election reports watching the euro tumble as off an 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 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 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 is seen as the euro club was seen as something very exclusive polls aspired to that they wanted their country to join the euro now the name of the euro has been sullied. by the troubles in greece and italy poles don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue try to bring poland into the eurozone 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 eurozone members pulled 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 either. rules say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it leaves the economic rules for joining but both 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. they need for institutional. governance a few rules on. crisis management. need for the euro zone before. target date will be. set up the game has changed and the you everyone once wanted to join may now be the invitation no one wants to accept. r.t.

because you feel the warsaw in poland. still ahead for you this. justice. or u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld could face a trial over allegations of torture a possible step towards war crimes charges. also 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. person least nineteen are reported to 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 which was once a summer tourist spot arab 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 for the

country to be cut patrick ase from online political magazine spiked believes president assad is ignoring the people at his parents. clamping down on freedom of speech and freedom. 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 promises until there is a sense from a southerly the ease by which he started to say this is the end of single party rule and he will start to think about elections and the way we should previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms means that really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do the sense i get from assad is a he seems very tied that she almost willing to relinquish power at the moment but i think there's a reluctance to want to relinquish power because i suspect he is very worried he

will meet the same 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 fifty kilometers away from the capital tripoli after fierce fighting with progress and forces opposition fighters enough to control a highway linking tripoli to the tunisian 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. all nato aggression on libya is looking increasingly embarrassing for the nato countries so it's not just a question of recognizing the council when benghazi actually i think it's quite clear now it's a race for nato not only to save its own face 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 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 who spoke exclusively to our 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. 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've got an extended version of that interview later but you can also watch it in full or on our website that's. also online at the moment treasure hunting. to shed light on the fate of a historic site known as russia's atlantis and find out what the prime minister found at the bottom of the sea that on the web site. and a look at the man who made it on a ritualised. full of the details of that story.

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 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 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 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 let's face it the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism

around the world the i want 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 of use. 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 backward self to the government pushed through a new media control law they say it will seriously stifle reporters from holding hungary's leaders to account at home and abroad it could also mean massive layoffs first has been finding out the fiercest critics are first in the firing line. evil see no evil speak no evil at least not about the hung gary government

acquaintance of hungary's new media low claim their journalists being silent. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy or 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 in the media of thirty days working for the media regulator all cheese and by the ruling party and were loyal supporters being elected public service broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there have been some measure of the office and they put. people loyal to the government into key positions that the public public t.v. and radio channels journalists he voice criticism have felt the wrath of the new authority they were journalists of the public radio and. the media

was introduced they have one minute silence in the national radio. suspended and then one of them left their radio. in effect he was dismissed and the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate with the wave of layoffs across the industry this is contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs. 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. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events the cool thing serious concern about hungary's democratic. every critic government needs an independent media so if this government thinks that it can oversee the whole media it can influence the whole media it can regulate the 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 to be such

a radically transformed face of hungary's media circus. that a past. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld may face trial on of allegations of torture after a court and two americans to follow a law suits against him while in iraq in two thousand and six two private security contractors claimed 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 activists brunn. what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld of immunity for the acts of torture against american citizens but it 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 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. 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 sky. wealthy

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in the headlines this week on a weekly update cracks appear between politicians and police about how riots in the u.k. were handled prime minister david cameron turns to u.s. experience for help while fed up local communities turned to vigilantes. three years old in south ossetia remembers the victims of a short but bloody conflict when georgia and launched an offensive to reclaim its old territories hundreds died in even suing the five day war and the republic is still trying to break out the. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america's long treasured debt school gets the sending world markets into a chaotic tumble. we'll be back with more fee in fifty minutes from now on the me.