this is a weekly review i need you to show our top main story police and top politicians in the u.k. have continued to play a blame game the hundley know the riots in england the worst in decades harsh criticism of each other's before moments came after prime minister david cameron claimed the source 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 of a police suspect protesters began smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat of violence over two thousand tourists have been made so far and calls her worked around the clock to clear the backlog of cases while police and the government who deserves the credit for quiting the rights groups and local communities took it into their own hands to protect their neighborhoods auntie's low and that's one 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 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 are going to do the opposite effect they're going to get that everywhere pretty much started to take young children not i will but children on the streets will decide if there's not enough police help them and just give everyone the wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away because we don't want to go off. to the trouble we just what about sure that no one comes in. shops. and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughters probably go because i'm sorry that's.

the problems without undue violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it. causing further violence on the streets. this is the current face difficult munity is 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 hit if in 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 birmingham 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 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 proves that communities still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts for front line officers still on the table is on the beat could get fewer and further between local vigilante groups could take up the slack no ram it r.t. . political axe has john rees who witnessed the violence so how can one of london's hardest hit a bar is says it won't be long before more disorder ramps as arrests alone cannot solve deeper fundamental causes of the riots this isn't something that can simply be. street water. it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that we got rid of point. posing 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 state which was the main site of. this week and i can tell you that if that happens you can come back to the parent groups that you're in a moment or two months or six months or year absolutely nothing will have changed and they're all up on the middle. just as we will remain the untold story here is not just what happened to mark them but this is a a a what i spurred 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 we had to go to people is outrageous and that the social network is in the words that they're already cases know of not people who committed crimes during the riots but of the parents of people who committed crime during the riots being evicted from their council homes in a london borough because of what happened last week though nobody has ever said that making somebody of the soup of the right. can we had later in the program another nation looks into street protests in syria see the harsh stance the government takes depression the months long uprising. than your anxiety grips pardoned as more and more people review their position i adopting the single currency and saying they don't want to pay for them mistakes about us. as their three years this week since george had launched its attack on the small republic of south a city and its people. the conflict so five days of heavy fighting has georgia sought

to regain control over the territory hundreds of innocent lives were lost memorial services have been held in the capital to involve and across south a set here hundreds of people in those candles and prayed for the victims of the conflict releasing widebody is in their memory and. has talked of those who still struggle to come to terms with their losses. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so a new line next to my dear boy. for the last three years they says he has come to this cemetery where her son is birds five days to two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. when her son a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital t. involved was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died

in her arms as they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian is firing line today 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 the targets across the street lives of women who lost two children under the house opposite lives a man who lost both his wife and his child. all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in all those two thousand and eight when you try to retake control of the 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 kids and i saw him fall on 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. school

santry enforcement to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been retired three weeks late so russia recognized that years to. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential air where new roads jobs and invest in you have been built but still signs of the conflict remain this ruins behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping poles. for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but deadly conflict the memories are still valuable. much in the question of reporting from sea involves the statue. has been one of the most turbulent weeks in years for the world's financial markets sparked by the downgrade of america's from its aaa rating trading saw the biggest volume of shares changing hands since

two thousand and eight punishing investors went on a selling spree standard and poor's they rating agency behind the move says it made the decision based on our parent inability of the u.s. government to deal with the problem echoing the claim was robert zoellick the world bank head of confidence and economic leadership in the united states and europe has pushed markets into a new danger so however investors now look for calm week of trading as the u. imposes a ban on short selling of financial shares and see every tail sales gain 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 a trade it should still be cautions. america. is intractable america is becoming insolvent and the shooter is getting out and once the chinese fully understand it and what the japanese and the europeans and all of foreign creditors all the sense of the idea that we cannot pay that without inflation and market

tires and charge it in there will be. sure to reaction which will send 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 isn't solid and that's where the us should be. there should be you look. at you look forward to where there will be in the mainstream media. it rests upon it was not confined to the u.s. and europe among the was tate was some of the tech based economies such as india economics professor chess on gas he believes that now things could swing either way for new delhi with developing countries a source of growth and opportunity 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 find of 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 would be there for strengthens reserve you the dollar it's important it will go down as well the risk is somehow whether india can find out its current account deficit because of the general climate of this diversion in the economy 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 the currency club but that's all changed with the debt break sweeping through the continent and his it exceed here cesky reports of 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 this currency.

there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland. 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 would go up it will 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 in the euro club scene as something very exclusive poles aspired to 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 into the. it could be political suicide poland has fared much better than many of its e.u.

partners in the global crisis several countries like greece ireland and portugal are on the brink of disaster partly due to a boring binge allowed by your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the euro zone meant poland 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 meets the economic will set joining but both 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. the need for institutional changes. into eurozone i mean these economic governance of euro zone and also some crisis management changes we see some need for

changes in the eurozone before. target date will be. set up the game has changed and the you would love everyone once wanted to join may now be the invitation no one wants to accept. r.t. it will do for 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 on hungary's media workers who slammed the government's new media control law as overly restrictive. at least twenty five people have been reported killed in tennis land in a sea assault by government forces in syria's 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 neil clark president assad's recent promise to allow a multi-party system you know many of the opposition supported by the us appears to be. two days ago president. he was going to allow a multi-party system in syria but i think the opposition have been emboldened by the support they're getting from foreign countries such as the u.s. in france and so i think that's what's really treated is very dangerous situation where we could be heading into civil war and we don't know too much about you because you know we're also seeing things in the west who are very sort of view

because you know they look at your position arbitrators wide white they're absolutely fantastic democrats of course i'm sure they love all of the blue dogs if you are like that but when we contrast it with the situation in bahrain we didn't get these statements from the u.s. saying that the government must go the opposition must take power but we're going to let me syria isn't very helpful at all i'm really worried about the future of syria i'm not sure is a very nice country great people it's a very it's. scientists i'm sure everyone knows is divided on tribal lines religious lines and brandish regime has been one party state will accept that it 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 seen terri and violence develop we could have attacks on the christian community she immerses sunni and the real fear is that syria could just blow up but we could have a terrible terrible civil war we've got to prevent that happening in the only way

we can by nothing happening because if there's internal dialogue in syria. and another troubled country leaving where clashes between colonel gadhafi and the nato supported opposition have raged for half week you're claiming thousands of lives but chicago chandan who recently returned from a monitoring mission in the country says that leave is oil contracts and potential investments and now a move and more attractive proposition for some nato members and continuing the conflict this whole nato aggression on libya is looking increasingly embarrassing for the nato countries so it's not just a question of recognizing the council when. actually i think it's quite clear now it's a race for nato not only to save its own face in trying to extricate itself out of the mess that they've put themselves into but also it's a race to who's going to be the first to cast good off his hands 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 a warning that the dollar could default those billions off of oil contracts libya and investments that could come in very handy especially for someone like me in italy. iran will not acquire nuclear weapons there is no place for this inhumane weapon in the twenty first century so says president mahmoud ahmadinejad spoke exclusively to r.t. is kevin no it. are you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. never never this is an inhuman weapon our religion says it is great it is good and we are religious people if any 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 the iraq and afghanistan could the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory at lebanon

as gaza could 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 has sanctioned the construction of sixteen hundred in east jerusalem earlier this week and is planning to raise that number to almost three thousand the building of israeli settlements in the west bank has been a significant irritant for 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 on recognition of the palestinian authority in the un security council and analyst gershon a baskin believes tel aviv is not inclined to reach a compromise and he told r.t. the timing of new settlement plans is far from being a coincidence. this is not a time 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 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 right there on this issue everyone is busy with a global financial crisis and we all know that mr netanyahu has a lot more support in the american congress than he does even in his own parliament so there's still just be another is really active building more settlements within neighborhoods of east jerusalem without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's not going to hurt it much more than it's already hurting . freedom of speech in hungary may be under threat as the country's government tightens the knot on its journey so with a new media law some and top positions have already been dismissed and more layoffs are sought to becoming for those brave enough to voice opposition to the move sarah ferguson looks into the press prospects for uncaring journalists following the controversial developments in the country's media legislation.

evil. speak no evil at least not about the hung gary in government opinion 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 and that's the whole message of this. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also with stablished and the media of thirty days working for the media regulator. and by the ruling party and your loyal supporters being selected public service broadcasting is completely by the government there had been some measure of the office and be put. people loyal to the government into key positions that the public public t.v.

channels journalists voice criticism have felt the wrath of the new authority they were journalists of the public. was introduced have their one minute silence in the national review. writer is suspended and one of them. 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 reinflated public media sector have 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. to do. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events the cooling serious concerns about hungary's democratic. everything more 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 the start to radically transform the face of hungary's media. that have passed. a us court has 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 accountable the americans claimed in two thousand and six that if they were actually in iraq made pale step ten government contracts they were then reportedly detained and subjected to violence by the u.s. military without explanation or challenge after being released they filed a lawsuit against rumsfeld which has been rejected by prosecutors for years until this week and to optimus prime the case they open the floodgates for other 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 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 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 to and is engaging in illegal acts and that if anyone holds them accountable that will be quote shackling in 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. you're up to date but i'll be back with the headlights various a.

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and again the says sees it weekly review the headlines. senior politicians and police take a swipe at each other over the hundreds of mass rides in the u.k. and while they play a worldwide stand up local communities and all the lives themselves to keep order in the streets of london. after week a roller coaster trading the wall behind walls of global markets have ended and need dangers as investors lose confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries. and three years of some of the said here on south said he remembers the victims of a shorter by bloody conflict one in georgia had launched an offensive to reclaim its own table treats hundreds died in the ensuring five day war on the republic is still trying to recover. up.