and 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 unrest 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 that some of. their goodness i 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 of what young children children on the streets although this is happening if there's not enough police will help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go off to anyone cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in and start smashing the shops up. 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 on. causing further violence in distress. 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 if 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 the car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attract all sorts and. doesn't just rear its head in looters business huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the moment

which many find reassuring but groups like the enfield proved that communities still feel police are unable to protect them with budget cuts for frontline officers still on the table on the beat could get fewer and further between local vigilante groups could take up the slack. those taking part in the weeks more in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and police in response david cameron said he's considering banning any people from those networks if they're guilty of inciting violence through the when he also announced he's taking a us style zero tolerance stance on street tough punishment follows even his political activist. making up new laws on the fly isn't the way to approach such the problems. of street. 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 and i can tell you that if that happens you can come back to the bridge that you know 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 which will remain the untold story here is not just what happened to mark bowden but the fact that this is a a tip when i spoke 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 the punishments that we had over the people is outrageous and out of the social network is in the words that they're already cases now though 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 of less is a suitable punishment for a crime. another nation locked into street protests is syria and you can find out what steps they got there is going 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 spurred by the debt contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join up.

this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south the city of the five day war in which georgia tried to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives memorial services are being held across the republic with the biggest in south ascetics capital hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory artie's medina question of reports from the republic where the scars are still fresh from what happened in august two thousand and eight. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so i know i will lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years stacy sydney has come to this cemetery where her son is birds five days unorganised two thousand eight split her life into a before and after. when her son daughter a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital teen vall was under attack

from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days on to the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian military is firing line tyee says the only thing that makes her life worth living now is her twenty two 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 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 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 zealand have been built. but still signs of the conflict remain this behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping post for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but badly conflict the memories are still valuable. much in the question i see reporting from team vall south assateague. 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 treasured aaa rating started them pause the rating agency behind the move says it made the decision based on the paralyzing hostility of various u.s. political factions but officials challenge or i should say allege that the company's calculations were wrong and point to reports of rampant insider trading as a bomber unveils plans to target the country's defense spending long considered to boot despite the country's fifteen trillion dollar debt and for huffington post columnist eric margolis it's america's enormous war spending at the root. if the united states were being under invaded growth from outside powers will not be too much to pay for france but we're not paying for defense right now we're pretty close and it's in the sense that america's military operations are all around we're also not truly americans understand is that the costs of the wars were never

equal to taxes are going to be put on the u.s. national credit card that's one of the reasons why the us down fourteen trillion dollars and is growing if americans had paid for the course if foreign wars and the large military sounds out 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 from the downgrade and massive selloff across the bloc led to fears that a staple french bank general may be at a risk of insolvency something the bank denies and aunties own financial group mexico as it has done so for 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. and b. 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 those debt but the insiders around the world who wield the weapons of mass financial destruction are tacking them to force these unrealized debts onto their balance sheet to force these companies into delinquency into a foreclosure because they are going to reap billions of dollars attacking these banks decided generali is an insolvent institution so is b. and p. they can't possibly meet their their credit demands absolutely not. then since its inception there's been no shortage of applicants wanting to join the once elite euro currency club but that all changed with the start of the debt plague sweeping through the e.u. and as artie's alexi had a shotgun reports watching the euro tumble as often 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 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 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 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 meant pull and could not join the party but now it does not have the hangover poland was meant to have the euro by next year the time when the country's co-hosting the twenty twelve european football championship but with the latest developments these plans may be shelved for another four years e.u. . rules say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it 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 with trees very important for us.

the need for institutional changes. i mean these economic governance of euro zone. crisis management we see some need for in the eurozone before. kara good date will be. set up the game has changed and the you everyone once wanted to join me now would be the invitation no one wants to accept. let's. see it was you from warsaw in poland. still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. when building houses main building tensions peace talks are pushed further into the background as israel starts a new building project just weeks before the un discusses the recognition of a palestinian state. threats of tougher laws don't work russian parents do whatever it takes to protect their children from paedophiles slipping through the legal net

. at least nineteen are 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 arab nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately further international pressure is 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 caught or to discuss the situation in syria i'm joined by journalist neil clark who's joining us from the u.k. there in oxford thanks very much indeed neal for being with us here on our team now the five month long conflict seems to have no end why is this deadlock do you think . well i think outside interference has not been very helpful here because i think if we think back ten days ago president and sad said that he was going to allow multi-party system in syria frank straightaway said that was provocative and i

think what's happened is that instead of being responsible members of the interest community are actually being done the opposite and that's what that's one of the these terrible things are still going on in syria what do you think these promises of political reform there by the president have not appease the protesters. who are you know i think the only way serious problems can be solved is brian turnbull dialogue the government has said they're willing to indulge in a dialogue but i think the opposition have been emboldened by the support they are getting from foreign countries such as the usa france etc and i think that's what's really creating this very dangerous situation where we could be heading into civil war you're saying that. the opinions the voices from outside of syria the external wall not physical intervention but certainly the voice of concern from for example the u.s. calling on the international community to cut ties with syria i mean what further steps though can we expect from other countries toward syria for them to take

notice and do something well i think russia could play a very key role here in getting some sort of dialogue going meaningful dialogue between the opposition and the regime in syria i think it's not very helpful to us to keep saying we're going to you know are sad must go and i must go back is really no incentive for compromise and i think that other countries to are getting involved in this one and the best thing would happen if the talks could be brokered between the government and the opposition is easy though neal to identify the opposition after all are similar to what we've seen there libya after many years of oppression from a regime a cohesive and organized the pressure opposition isn't exactly easy to get together is it. very much so and we really don't know too much about the opposition what you know all this week we're seeing things in the west through a very sort of biased. because you know the opposition arbitrate is why it's why they're absolutely fantastic democrats of course i'm sure there are people in the opposition who are like that but when we contrast it with the situation in bahrain

we didn't get the statements from the u.s. saying that the government must go that the opposition must take power but getting that in syria isn't very helpful at all you mention russia being involved in some sort of what about turkey that's been a long time partner trading partner with with syria could that be influential because so far as remained pretty quiet over the matter there in syria has met yes it could be and i think obviously all of us here watching this program tonight we want to see the violence and don't want to see all the sides in syria stop the violence and that has to be a dialogue but what we're seeing is there is a very clear agenda here by the u.s. and france and certainly its allies they want the assad regime out and they want a pro western government in syria if they want to and if you want to if they want to why have we not seen external physical intervention like we've seen in libya so far while having the dress where your previous report already talked about how it was stripped to the u.s. is a warning to libya there's just no way now that the u.s. and its allies could launch military action in another middle eastern country much

as they were i'm sure a lot of hawks in those countries would like that to happen that that isn't going to happen but we really u.s. is for syria to be further isolated where in fact the opposite could be happening we should be having dialogue and we keep pushing the regime into a corner here they get more isolated we should be saying that you know the opposition by no means the whole of syrian society a lot of people in syria by what's going on the christian community for example has had very special protection under the but this raid in syria and you know it's a very it's a very complex situation i think the only country so far has actually come out and said this is a complex situation is russia and i think russia has been the most statesman like player in this whole affair what about the test themselves up they don't actually appear to be ready to negotiate with the authorities what why not well then they're not and again the country's right. france you know what they said last week when president sat made a major concession he said this is a country that's been ruled by one party for decades he said we're going to allow a multi-party system and the french instead of saying we really welcome said it

wrong these provocative in what way would that be so the opposition if you like getting their cue from countries like the u.s. france and they're holding out and this is prolonging the violence just maybe finally and briefly let the safe assad falls and we see a situation that we've seen in egypt what could happen there are fears of what could happen next what would the implications be if assad does fall well i'm really i'm really worried about the future of syria last year is a very nice country great people it's a very it's a scientists i'm sure everyone knows is divided on tribal lines religious lines and brought this regime has been one party state will accept that it has been a one party state of defending it being a one party state but it has brought the level of stability and if there is a. new regime falls we could be into iraq situation where we have sic tarion violence developing we could have attacks on the christian community she and versus sunni and the real fear is that syria could just blow up but when you have a terrible terrible civil war we've got to prevent that by happening in the only

way we can prevent that from happening is that if there is internal dialogue in syria i do not. sorry to interrupt you there we are in time but thank you so much for your thoughts on this really interesting to where hear what you have to say and thanks for joining us live there in oxford in the u.k. . two policemen in the russian urals have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes from a paedophile is just the latest in a series of crimes where police and judges seem to be turning a blind diet to child abuse as data pushkov reports that's forcing parents to deal with the problem themselves. and mother in grief. oh no was that if i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family we live 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 news. my daughter told me he threw a stray cat from the roof and said he did the same to her if she ever confided in me about the things she was doing to her when the dahlia finally managed to get things to the court the jury acquitted the man who she says is now off to her family hungry for events now that his 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 told her underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and pressed her into the ground only took a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one had. only after an enraged crowd lynched the men the police launched a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that confession authorities also disciplined the original enlisted meeting officer will summarize this for us

look at the wars that happened here is the mother was treated like a football while she was kicked around from our first officer with a tragedy had happened to her shouldn't know what to do but no one wanted to talk to her let alone accept her statement it was really russian authorities have a number declared a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been meagre 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 this video has been put together by a group of volunteers as they track people they believe are paedophiles legal online pretending to be an underage boy or girl they set up meetings with people who need to preferring mines the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the

web because to be able to i want to show you are simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in our own way because our families live in the city not children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts but in their field we try to act within the law but often operate and it's age volunteers tracking paedophiles online say most people will sign off when they learn the personnel chatting to is under-age but they also say roughly out of one hundred contacts one is said to be looking for easy prey can be the maximum sentence for child sex offenses is twenty years in prison an amendment to the law is meant to introduce tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but until the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their teaching on taking pain diary pushed over our children school. israel this week approved the building of sixteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem on land 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 as analysts 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 with the can to. 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 now 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 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 . well that's seoul for the moment i'll be back with a summary of all my new stories for you very shortly stay with us live here in the sky.

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coming from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day is the weekly here in r.t. and the headlines from the past week cracks appear between politicians and police ruts in the u.k. well handled prime minister david cameron turns to u.s. experience for help while fed up local communities vigilantes. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies all to america's malls treasure the debt score gets the world markets in two. three years old south says he remembers the victims of a short but bloody conflict when georgia launched an offensive to reclaim its old territories hundreds died in the five day war and the republic is still trying to recover. we'll be back with more news stories more developments in less than half an hour but more now how the republic of south ossetia is still recovering.