the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in the. in the headlines this week cracks appear between politicians and police over how riots in the u.k. were handled prime minister david cameron turns to us experience for help well fed up local communities turned to vigilantes. three years on south ossetia remembers the victims of a short but bloody war when georgia launched an attack against its breakaway republic as he meets the people trying to rebuild their lives. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies not america's long treasured debt score gets the drop sending world markets into chaotic tumble.

with a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. . this week a split open 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 their poor handling of the crisis even turning to a prominent us law enforcer for advice on preventing street violence the young 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 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 and politicians groups in local communities took it into their own hands . to reclaim the streets from looters were and it's that some of them. a good

result contrary 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 i can to do the opposite effect but you're going to get every weapon much started to take in our streets or for young children or children on the streets will decide if there's not enough police they move help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and just push them away basically we don't want to go after 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

sikhs have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come to this and say let's solve the problems without on people listening causing distress to trouble which then for example. causing the 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 but it. may be 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 rams the with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community. and attracts all sorts and to more pentel if he doesn't just rear its head in looters this is a huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the moment which many find reassuring but groups like the end feels army proof that communities still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts to front line officers still on the table bodies on the beat could get fewer and further between what they call vigilante groups could take up the slack the rabbit party. or those taking part in the lawlessness in britain used social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and evade police in response david cameron said he's considering banning people from those in most if they are found guilty of inciting

violence through the web you also announced he'll take a us zero tolerance stance on street violence where tough punishment follows even minor offenses political activist john roos told me earlier that making up new laws on the fly is not the way to approach such deep seated problems that this is not something that can simply be. streets and water. well it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will be got rid of going posing draconian prison sentences. jailed for six months for stealing a one pound but look water and i live in hackney i live right next clip. was the main cycle. this week and i can tell you that if that happens you can come back in a month or two months or six months or you're absolutely nothing will change and they're all fundamentals is this we. the untold story here is not just what the mob got

them but this is all. a work when you know that when three hundred deaths in police custody over less than you can see what we all do not trust the police what the prime minister is doing is making up the law and making up a punishment regime as he goes along now actually that should be a crime for a leading politician to start suggesting that there are simply and. completely invented on the moment. that we had to go with people is outrageous and social network isn't always put there already cases now old not people who commit the crime but of the parents of people who committed crime during the riots being interviewed you from a council home in a london borough because of what happened last week though nobody has ever said that making somebody of the soon run. another nation.

into street protests is syria you can find out what steps the government here appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the months of bloodshed and also still to come this hour the list of euro applicants get shorter as countries spurred by the contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join the club. the story is told to come but next this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south setting a five day war in which georgia trying to regain control of its all territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives and moral services have been held across the republic with the biggest in south as it is capital simple hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing like balloons in their memory parties many they've gotten 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 a new i will lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years they say sidney has come to the cemetery in self-assertive where her son is buried five days in august two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. as when her sound yorkie a medical college graduate heard they were public'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 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 round it by families was similar tragic stories. in that house across the street lives of women who lost two children enter the

house opposite lives a man who lost both his wife and his child. all these people are of the terms of georgia's military aggression in all those two thousand and eight when they try to retake control of the breakaway republic of south as 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. i saw him fall on fire when you know it was going to be our last mine it was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. most cool sound trained foresman to protect its citizens and prevents more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognized the saturday as a dependence. the last three years have changed the face of this thirty i knew 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 peacekeeping port for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but badly conflict the memories are still very raw of. my cynical tional i see reporting from south saturday 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 and 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 allege that the companies were role and point to reports of rampant insider trading as a bomber unveiled plans to target the country's defense spending long considered it to boot despite the country's fourteen trillion dollar debt for huffington post columnist eric margolis it's america's enormous war spending that's at the root of

it. being under invaded growth. ours will not be too much to the facts but we're now paying for the fans for our people. but america's military operations are all around we're also not too many americans understand is the costs. were never equal. that's arguably pulling us national credit card that's one of the reasons why when the we were down fourteen trillion dollars and his growing if americans had to pay for the cost of these foreign wars and the large militaries. out of their taxes i think it would be a big change public opinion. he you already struggling with the syrian crisis also took a major hit from the downgrade a massive sell off across the bloc led to fears that a staple french bank so see it in general maybe the risk of insolvency is something

the bank denies and artie's own financial guru max keiser how strong doubts over the stability of the french banking system the french banks are loaded with toxic the revenue there 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 their years in the weapons that they sold them to attack them decided to enter our b.n.p. and credit agricole are in solvent their balance sheets are six to ten times bigger in terms of the death that they carry than they could possibly service but it's carried on the shadow banking system they don't report as that but the insiders around the world who wield the weapons of mass financial destruction are tapping there to force these on realize that under their ballots the forces companies into delinquency into foreclosure because they are going to reap billions of dollars

attacking these banks decided generale is an insolvent institution so is b m p but they can't possibly meet they're there to credit demands absolutely not since its inception there's been no shortage of applicants wanted to join the once elite euro currency club but that will change with the start of the debt plagues sweeping through the e.u. and its policies alexia she reported watching the euro tumble as offered all hopefuls fresh perspective. well parts of europe have been teetering on the edge of economic abyss bolen 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 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 happily help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices will go up if we join the euro zone which would damage my business recent opinion polls

suggest that more than sixty percent of balls want to keep their own currency a dramatic turnaround from just a few years back a few years ago the euro was seen as the euro club scene or something very exclusive polls aspired to 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 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 where your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the euro zone meant poland could not join the party but now it does not have a hangover poland was meant to have the euro by next year the time when the country's

co-hosting the trying to do well european football championship but with the latest developments these plans may be shelved for another four years you rule say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining but polish politicians are now much cooler on the idea with minister saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first place very important for us. there. need for institutional changes. i mean these canonic governance a few of them and also some crisis management channels we see some need for change in the eurozone before. target date will be and game set up the game has changed and the you love everyone once wanted to join may now be the immigration and no one wants to accept a look see we're still owed c.

because you from warsaw in poland. well still ahead for you here on r t when building hulls is building tensions peace talks are pushed further into the background as israel starts a new building project just weeks before the u.n. discusses the recognition of a palestinian state. also still to come the threats of tougher laws don't work russian parents do whatever it takes to protect their children from paedophiles slipping through the legal net. of course 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 all ships 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 in mali the violence stops immediately further 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 can't actually kase from online political magazines might believe president assad is ignoring the people and his parents. clamping down on freedom of speech 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 he previously portrayed himself and his party as the only parent thaws 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 messiah to say things very tired that he 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 the 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 progun afy forces opposition fighters are now thought to control the highway linking tripoli to the chin is in border conflicts been raging for six months and thousands of lives have been lost despite nato is intervention and in an exclusive interview with r.t. iran's president said the situation in libya is being made worse by the alliance his presence. with the security council has made a mistake instead of sending bombs and planes and they should have sent mediation groups in order to prepare for free elections under the auspices of the un so whoever won the elections would be acceptable for the people most of them for the security council hastily issued a resolution that 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 with the iranian president next hour but you can also watch it in full on our web site that's r.t. dot com also online at the moment you log on premier treasure hunting but it pretty and dives into the deep 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. and also on the web site of the moment a look at the man who made it on to the u.k. rich list yet over the last go one billion dollars and is wanted for the details of that story and others all right. israel this week approve 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 have stalled since last year after the construction of israeli homes in the west bank and as and in this question baskin told r.t. the compromise is now being pushed even further away and this is. that israelis and palestinians will be moving toward the peace talks and the americans will be leading the way the main issue going to block a return to negotiations is the continued settlement building by the government of israel that the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world greatly on this issue everyone is busy with a global crisis and we all know that mr netanyahu has a lot more support in the american congress than he does you going in his own parliament so this will just be another is really building more settlements within

neighborhoods are used. 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 former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld may face trial over allegations of torture after a court allowed two americans to file lawsuits against him while in iraq in two thousand and six two private security contractors claimed their 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 lawsuit against rumsfeld but 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 antiwar activist brian becker. what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld of immunity for the acts of torture against american citizens this opens wide that 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 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 but 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 coming up to twenty three minutes past the hour in the

russian capital time talk that you and some of today's top stories from around the world as well the man who admitted to shooting sixty nine people in norway has returned to the. scene of his deadly rampage but it was hoping police reconstruct events he showed no remorse when describing how he talked to children as they tried to swim away from the line and right wing extremist is also charged with organizing an explosion in the capital. claims he wanted to save europe from muslims and altie countries and. nineteen people have been killed and almost forty wounded in a taliban attack at the 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 a group of prominent officials who had gathered for a meeting their violence in afghanistan has reached its worst level since two thousand and one as insurgents carry out attacks in relatively peaceful areas.

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 eye to child abuse is there a push cover reports that's forcing parents to deal with the problem themselves and they're in grief. and even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family live on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn to work every day with fear for my daughter which i knew what she. it was hard for my periodontal damage 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 now in use. but also told me he threw a stray cat on the roof and said he'd do the same to her if she added confided in me about the things she was doing to her one of the earlier finally managed to get

things to the court the jury acquitted the man who she says is now after her family hungry for it benj 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 called off her underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and crestor into the ground it only took a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one. only after an enraged crowd only lynched and then the police launched a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that compassion authorities also disciplined the original investigating officer the summer of this brutal words that happened here as the mother was treated like a football she was scripted around from office to office a tragedy had happened to her so i don't know what to do with it or want to play with daughter were alone except her statement there really are russian authorities

have normally closed a fight against the sexual abuse of minors with results seem to have a meager with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in an attempt to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands i am under age that's fine i like small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and the many other things to you this video has been put together by a group on it is as they track people they believe are paedophiles and they go online pretending to be an under-age boy or girl and they set up meetings with people wanting me to preferring minors. the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web and it was the double that what if we were simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in our own way because our families live in the city our children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts but in that effort they try to act within the law which often operates and it's edge volunteers dragging paedophiles on line say most

people will sign off when they learned the person they're chatting to is under-age but they also say roughly out of one hundred contacts one is said to be looking for be easy prey. be the maximum sentence for child sex offenses is twenty years in prison an amendment to the war is meant to introduce tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but i'm till the changes are implemented and proven to be that if the activists say well continue with their thinking on taking pain care you pushed over our children stan that brings us to twenty seven half minutes past the hour here in the russian capital that's all for the moment i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in just a couple of minutes stay with us live here in moscow.

this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day killed nine guerrillas in combat desiccation by instructs young could you know and they're going to be strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues.

displayed how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action i miss and just the idea that you need to produce parties actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration is the cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yeah it's us a continue to flow.