you've got. the biggest issues good human voice ceased to face with the news makers . in the headlines this week the senior politicians and please take a swipe at each other over the hungry of mice riots in the u.k. and while they play over the words local communities mobilized themselves to keep order on the streets of london. south ossetia involves three years this week since georgia launched a war that's claimed hundreds of innocent lives takes an inside look at how people still try to rebuild their shattered lives. and after a week of roller coaster trading the world pine achieve one of the global markets have entered a new dangerous and as a best does lose confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries.

and a very warm welcome for all of us here in moscow this is weekly review our top main story police and top politicians in the u.k. have continued to play a blame game one hundred of the riots in england they worst in decades harsh criticism of each other's before ment's came after prime minister david cameron claims before also appeared powerless in the face of disturbances during the first two nights of looting and arson senior politicians were away on holiday when mass riots began in north london after the fatal police shooting openly suspect protesters began smashing shop windows and setting fire to carson building is needed to widespread call because of violence over two thousand arrests have been made so far and schools are worked around the clock to clear the backlog of cases.

while police and the government who deserves the credit for writing the rights groups and local communities took it into their own hands to protect their neighborhoods lower and that's one of them. is good because i can assure you that 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 mall 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 they're going to get every weapon much started to take them out streets up or young children or children on the streets on the beside me if there's not enough police them will help them out and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away because we don't want to go after anyone cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in.

shops up to the roots and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say let's solve the problems with out onto balance and causing this person to travel which then takes a gun. causing the violence and. 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 want it to be all that would've been thought 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 can. 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 birmingham early on wednesday trying to protect local prisoners says looters allegedly rammed the with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community of vigilante attracts all sorts and more 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 groups like the end feels army proof that communities still feel police are on able to protect them and with budget cuts for frontline officers still on the table bodies on the beat could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack door and it's our city. friends political activists john ruiz who witnessed the violence will happen in one of london's hardest hit of virus has been on the longest for mortars or whatever so

arrests alone cannot solve a fundamental causes of the riots this isn't something that can simply be. streets with water cannon and plastic bullets it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will be got rid of by imposing. prison sentences we've seen one hundred forty jailed for six months for stealing the bottle of water now i live in hackney i live right next which was the main site of the riot this week but i can tell you that if that happens you come back with a british leg in a moment or two months or six months or a year and absolutely nothing will have changed and they're all fundamental. just as we remain the untold story here is not just what happened from our government but but this is a a kid when i spoke when you know they've been three hundred deaths in police custody over less word you can see why people do not trust the police what the

prime minister is doing is making up the law and making 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 out or. completely invented on the moment the punishments that we had to go for people is outrageous and out of the social network is in the words that they're already cases no hold not people who committed crimes during the riots because the parents of people who committing crime during the riots being evicted from their council homes in a london borough because of what happened last week nobody has ever said that making somebody the suitable punishment for a crime. coming up later in the program another nation looks into street protests in syria see the harsh steps the government takes to partially the months long uprising. your anxiety grips part and there's more and more people review

that position or adopting the single currency saying they don't want to pay for their mistakes of others. as the three years this week since george had launched its attack on the small republic of south a city and its people because five days of heavy fighting has georgia sought to regain control over the territory hundreds of innocent lives were lost their moral services have been held in the capital to revile and across south aset here hundreds of people at least candles and prayed for the victims of the conflict releasing rideable beings in their memory and. has talked of those who are still struggle to come to terms with their losses. i come here almost to rudely i sit and talk to my son to a new lawyer next to my dear boy. for the last three years has come to this cemetery in self-assertive where her son is birds five days in august two thousand

and eight split her life into a before and after. as will resound a medical college graduate hurriedly republic's capital team 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 out here is firing like casey as the only thing that makes her life worth living now is return when two year old daughter live together in a newly built house to rounded by families was similar tragic stories. in the parents across the street lives of moving two children into the house opposite lives a man who was. both his wife and his child. all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in august two thousand and eight when he tries 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 things that happened that night for its violent fire when you know it was going to be our last night but it was still carried on peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm and. most schools sound trained force and to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian dusts within five days georgian troops had been recount three weeks later so russia recognized such as independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential air where new roads sharp and even. have been built. but signs of the conflict remain behind my back are all that's left of good russian . for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but dudley conflict the memories are still there we were all. watching the question will i see reporting

from c involved. it's been one of the most turbulent weeks in years for the world's financial markets sparked by a downgrade of america's from its aaa rating trading saw the biggest volume of shares changing hands since two thousand and eight panicking investors went on a selling spree standard and poor's the rating agency behind the move says it made the decision based on an apparent inability of the u.s. government to deal with the problem echoing the claim was robert zoellick the role bank head in knots of confidence in economic leadership in the united states and europe has pushed markets entering new dangerous however investors look for calm week of trading as the u. imposes a brine and short selling of financial shares and see every tail sales pain in the u.s. and the biggest in four months but economic economist michael pentodes says there is a much greater problem in the to us than trade it should still be cautious. america

. is intractable america is becoming insolvent and the secret is getting out and once the chinese fully understand it and watch the japanese and the europeans and or foreign creditors all the sense of the idea that we can pay back without inflation and martyre doing it and charging there will be a big because i should israel russian which will set interest rates to the movie or at least it's a losing high single digits and then it will be clear as the day that the us is unsettled and the should be worse is trying to who they should be you look. at you look at florida where they are being in the mainstream media. it rests upon it was not confined to the u.s. and europe among them was tate was some of the tech based economies such as india economics professor chess on chance he believes that now things could swing either way poignant daily with developing countries

a source of growth and oppositions. 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 is the result that 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 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 would be therefore strengthens easily the dollar simple bill will go down as well the risk is whether india can find out it's going to go deficit because of the general climate of this version of the. investors are less willing to invest in emerging markets how does india continue to finance its current account deficit. since the year is inception many countries have done their best to join the once in a currency club and that's all changed with the debt break sweeping for the

continent and has an exceedingly shuster reports watching the euro troubles has given 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 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 happily help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed the prices would go up it will 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 polls aspired to they wanted a country to join the euro now the name of the euro has been solved. by the

troubles in greece and italy poles don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro we should 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 to your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the eurozone members pulled could not join the party but now it does look out the 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 e.u. rules say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining a boat or titians are now much cooler on the idea with minister saying the user

needs to get its house in order first place very important for us. need for institutional changes in the eurozone i mean these economic governance a few of them and also some crisis management since we see some need for a turn in the euro zone before. target date again set up the game has changed from the you would love everyone wants wanted to join we know be the invitation no one wants to accept. it let's stick ot see it with you from the warsaw in poland. this is r.c. and later in the program former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld can be held liable for alleged torture as an american court allows to iraq war veterans to see him. and fears

over the basic principles of democracy and future employment a rise of around hungary's media workers has slammed the government's new media control law as overly restrictive. at least twenty five people have been reported killed and then turned london see assault by government forces and serious key coastal city of latakia the operation continues a brutal crackdown on several cities to root out protesters demanding president bashar assad step down the protests have. dramatically over the past five months but around two thousand civilians dead in clashes with government forces the continuing bloodshed has caused the international community to line up against the state's handling of the uprising and to demand an immediate end to the violence and according to journalist president promised to allow a multi-party system support you know many of the opposition supported by the u.s. is to. exist in

syria but i think the opposition been emboldened by the support for a country such as the u.s. in france etc i think that's what's really hurt you is very dangerous situation where we could be going into civil war we don't do too much about you who we are on the street we're seeing things in the western. view because you know that you're positional betrays what and right they're absolutely fantastic democrats of course i'm sure a lot of people have that if you are like that but when we contrast it with the situation in bahrain we didn't get the statements from the u.s. saying the government must go but the opposition must be let in syria is a very helpful tool 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 sign she's a fool everyone knows it's divine on tribal lines religious lines and. this regime has been one party that has been a one party state of the twenty one party state but it has moved the level of stability because if there is

a. new regime falls we could be into iraq situation where we have six tarion violence and we could have attacks on the christian community. and the real fear is that syria could just blow up with her terrible terrible civil war we've got to prevent that from happening and we only way we can prevent that from happening is if there's internal dialogue in syria. and another troubled country leaving there were clashes between colonel gadhafi and the nato supported opposition have raged for half a year claiming thousands of lives that should cover chandan recently returned from a monitoring mission in the country says that leave is all contracts and potential investments and now and then and more attractive proposition for some nato members and continuing the conflict this whole nato aggression on libya it's looking increasingly embarrassing for the nato countries so it's not just a question of recognizing the council in benghazi actually i think it's

quite clear now it's 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 the first to kiss it off its hand because now with italy about the fall in the in the euro zone and even the president united states on this incredible historic times we're living in a warning that the dollar could default well those billions off of oil contracts libya and investments that could come in very handy especially for someone like us going in italy. iran will not acquire nuclear weapons there's no place for this inhumane weapon in the twenty first century so says president mahmoud ahmadinejad spoke exclusively to r.t. is kevin allen. are you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon how did you never know that this is an inhuman weapon our religion says it is great it is and we are religious people what would be very country tries

to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money and resources and 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 be nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory in lebanon as goes nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse. and you can watch the full interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad in ten minutes time here on out. tel aviv a sanction of the construction of sixteen hundred drownings in east jerusalem earlier this week are in this planning to raise that number to almost three thousand the building of israeli settlements in the was trying has been a significant irritant or palestinians under one of the major causes of political deadlock in the negotiations between the two sides israel's announcement comes just a few weeks before the expected vote of recognition of the palestinian authority in

the u.n. security council and analyst gershon baskin believes tel aviv is not inclined to reach a compromise he told r.t. the timing of new settlement plans is far from being with incidence. this is not a time when when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving towards the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way the main issue that is blocking 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 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 isn't 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 got more than it's already hurting . freedom of speech in hungary may be under threat as the countries that are meant

to tighten the knot on its journey through the new media law some top positions have already been dismissed and more layoffs are thought to be coming for those brave enough to voice opposition for the move sarah ferguson looks into the press prospects for uncaring journalists following controversial developments in the country's media legislation. evil. speak no evil at least not the hungary in government opinion hungry as new media little claim journalists being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and that's covering the controversy. of the government that's the whole message of this. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also established a new media authority is working for the media regulate all chosen by the ruling

party and more loyal supporters being selected as public service broadcasting. by the government there have been some measure of the office and the point. people loyal to the government in two key positions of public public. channels journalists who voiced criticisms of the wrath of the new authority. of the public . was introduced. one minute silence in the. right. and one of the. left. in fact he was the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate wave of layoffs across the industry this is. the situation in the media here

who want to keep their jobs and. blind. the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in a very inflated public media sector has been low maybe this has not only talking. to have a. sustainable. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized it's more about politics than about professional commerce this is something. 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 a new law just some of the recent events look who's in serious concern that hungary's democratic. government needs an independent media

so this government thinks that it can oversee the whole media. influence to. regulate. very. very broad ground despite heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally the government is taking by the new media laws the changes they could bring to the stats are radically transformed based hungary's media that's a bit of. u.s. quote this week given to iraq veterans the green light to see former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld for illegal imprisonment and torture if president guilty he could be held personally accountable the americans claimed in two thousand and six they were actually in iraq and the government contracts they were then reportedly detained and subjected to violence by the u.s.

military without explanation or charge after being released they filed a lawsuit against rumsfeld which has been rejected by prosecutors for years until this week and two out of his brown back that's the case and they opened the floodgates officials to be held to account for. what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld of immunity for the acts of torture against american citizens this opens wide to do or 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 disguise the 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 there will be quote shackling there after the curio 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. you're up to date but i'll be back with a have a nice very safe. more

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