missions in the u.k. have continued to play a blame game over hundreds of the riots in england the worst in decades harsh criticism of each other's performance came after prime minister david cameron claims appeared powerless in the face of disturbances during the first tonight's of looting in dawson senior politicians a world away on holiday when last riots began north london after the fatal police shooting of a suspect protesters began stashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat of violence and over two thousand a rest have been made so far and pools have worked around the clock to clear the cases but while police and the government over who deserve the credit for wanting their rights groups and local communities took it into their own hands to protect their native trees on his lot and that's. a good result could jury a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the

mob atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most are ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that are going to do the opposite effect but you're going to get that everywhere pretty much started taking our stories about young children not double but children on the streets while the decide if there's not enough police to help them just get everyone away just look after all the shops and that and this push them away basically we don't want to go after anyone any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in the. 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 come together with us and say let's solve the problems without undue violence and causing distress to trouble which then takes it on.

causing 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 were hitting 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 in birmingham 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 then tell us he 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 army proves that communities still feel police are unable to protect them with budget cuts for front line officers still on the table is on the beat could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack you're emmet r.t. . and political activist john reso witness the violence in any one of london's hardest hit barra's says it won't be long before more disorder iran arrests along cannot solve deeper fundamental causes of the riots this isn't something that can simply be. street water. well it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will be going posing draconian prison sentences we've seen one hundred eighty four jailed for sixty. and 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 riot this week and i can tell you that if that happens you can come back to the fair and 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 the just this week will remain the untold story here is not just what happened to mark duggan but the fact that this is a eight to one iceberg when you know that have been three hundred deaths in police custody over less than a decade you can see why people do not trust the police what the prime minister is doing is making up the law and making up the punishment regime as he goes along now actually that should be a crime for a leading politician to start suggesting that there are simply ad hoc. completely invented on the moment punishments that could be handed over people is outrageous and that the social network is in the words that they're already cases now go 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 less suitable punishment for a crime. this is an aussie and another nation locked into street in syria see the harsh steps the government takes to crush the money's gone up wise and later in the program. to your anxiety groups poland as more and more people review their position on the adopting the single currency say they don't want to pay for their mistakes about. is there three years this week since georgia launches its hard on the small republic of south a set here and its people the conflict so five days of heavy fighting as georgia has sought to regain control over the territory hundreds of innocent lives were

lost their moral services have been held in the capital involved and across south aset here hundreds of people lived candles and prayed for the victims of the conflict releasing wide but looms in their memory or his medina has talked to 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 i knew i will lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years stacey signet has come to this summit. where her son is burrage 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 teen vaal was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms us they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian is firing like. 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 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 he tried 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 i saw violent fire when you know it was going to be our last night but was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. school sound trained force meant to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five

days georgian troops had been retired three weeks later russia recognized the statue as independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday a new residential air where new roads jobs and invest in you have been built but 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 valley roll. reporting from c involves the statue. has been one of the most turbulent weeks and years for the world's financial markets responded by america's downgrade from its aaa credit rating trading so the biggest volume of shares changing hands since two thousand and eight as panicking investors went on a setting 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 occurring they claim was robert zoellick the world bank head of confidence in economic leadership in the united states and europe has pushed markets into a new dangerous however investors now look for a calm week of trading as the you impose a ban on short selling of financial shares see every tail sales gain in the u.s. the biggest in four months but economist michael pentodes says there is a much greater problem would be to us and traders should still be cautious. america . is intractable america is becoming insolvent and the shooter 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 or did it without inflation and monetizing and charge it in there will be costly i'm sure your action which will send interest rates to the moon or lesions in

a single high single digits and then it will be clear as day that the us is insolvent and that's where the end should be. is trying to who you should be you look. at you look forward to where they're being in the mainstream media. invest a panic was not confined to the us and europe among the west hate us some of the tech based economies such as seeing tia and economics professor at chess on gotta believe that now things could swing either way for need today with developing countries a source of growth and opportunity part of the initial selloff was was panic and i think the panic responded to the downgrade in credit worthiness of u.s. treasury bills after the initial panic has 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 the other words of the dollar weakens and if india's rupee therefore strengthens views of you the dollar its import bill will go down as well the risk is somehow whether india can finance its current account deficit because of the general climate or risk aversion in the economies if investors are less willing to invest in emerging markets how does india continue to finance its current account deficit since the euro's inception many countries have done their best to join the one thousand eight currency club but that's all changed with the debt plague sweeping through the continent and as aussies alexy yourself can now 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 this currency. there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland of trouble here. if we were part of the eurozone then we would have been

obliged to help countries like greece and portugal how can we help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed that prices would go up if we joined the eurozone 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 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. 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 is 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 rules for joining but politicians are now much cooler on the idea with minister saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first but very important for us. for institutional changes. into eurozone i mean these economic governance of euro zone and also some crisis management tensions we see some need for change in the eurozone before. target date will be.

set up the game has changed and the euro club everyone once wanted to join may now be the invitation no one wants to accept the legacy we're sure of ski odyssey reporting from warsaw in poland. this is r.c.n. lation the program for making a difference stick with donald rumsfeld can be held liable for alleged torture as an american court allows all veterans tissue. fears over the basic principles of democracy and future employment of rise among hundreds of media workers the government's new media controlled or as well billy restrictive. at least twenty five people have been reported killed in tennis london c assaulted by government forces in syria its key coastal city of latakia the operation continues a brutal crackdown on several cities to root out protesters demanding president step down these protests. protests have grown dramatically over the past five

months with 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 according to journalist clark president assad's recent promise to allow a multiplier to system. really as the opposition supported by the us appears to me . two days ago person who said that she was going to allow a multi-party system in syria but i think the opposition be emboldened by the support they are getting from foreign countries such as the usa in france etc and i think that's what's really creating this very dangerous situation where we could be heading into civil war and we don't know too much about people who say you know we're all seeing things in the west through a very sort of view because you know you're position arbitrators wives why 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 well 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. as 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 the level of stability because if there is a. new regime falls we could be into iraq situation where we have seen terror 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 prevent that from happening he said if there's internal dialogue in syria. and another troubled country leiby aware clashes between colonel gadhafi and the natives supported opposition have raged for hoffer year claiming thousands of lives

but can't count china who recently returned from a monitoring mission in the country says that leaders oil contracts and potential investments are now a more attractive proposition for some nato members than 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 and benghazi 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 kiss good office hand because now with italy about the default in the euro zone and even the president united states on this incredible historic times we're living in warning that the dollar could default well those billions of oil contracts from libya and investments could could come in very handy especially for someone like me in italy. and iran bow not

acquire nuclear weapons there's no place for this inhumane weapon in the twenty first century so says president mahmoud ahmadinejad who spoke exclusively to ask his kevin allen. 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 where our religion says it is great 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 that the international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and could they win in iraq and afghanistan could the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory in lebanon has gone nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse.

and you can always the full interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad in ten minutes here on the scene. tel aviv sanctions the construction of sixteen hundred. this week and is planning to raise that number to almost three thousand the building i was ready settlements on the west bank has been a significant a return for palestinians and is one of the major causes of political deadlock in negotiations between the two sides israel's announcement comes just a few weeks before they expected but a recognition of the palestinian authority in the security council and our list box can believes tell of it is not inclined to reach a compromise he told us here the timing of new settlements plans is far from being a coincidence this is not a tare when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving toward the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way the main issue that has blocked a return to negotiations is the continued settlement building by the government of israel that the government of israel feels pretty immune to any. this is him around

the world right there on this issue everyone's 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 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 journalists with a new media law samant top positions have already been dismissed and more layoffs are still to be coming for those brave enough to voice opposition to the move south looks into the prospects of garin journalists following the controversial developments in the country's media just place. evil see no evil speak no evil at least no it's about the hunger area and government

opinions of hungry is new media low claim that journalists are being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding the truth and not covering controversy over issues. of the government that's the whole message of this of this law covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law also with stablished any media authority that these working for the media regulate. and by the ruling party and were loyal supporters being selected public service broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there have been some measure of the office and they put. people loyal to the government into key positions at public public t.v. channel journalists he voiced criticism have felt the wrath of the new authorities say they were journalists of the public radio and. was

introduced they have their one minute silence in the national radio. suspended and one of them. left their radio. in fact he was then the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate with the wave of layoffs across the industry he says contributed to an uneasy situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs. of line so murky the shakeups a good thing and that the layoffs in hungary's a very inflated public media sector has been long. this government has not only talking and been talking about but they have laid the people off because they saw that it is unsustainable. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized it's more about politics than about professional commerce. if

something is unsustainable you have to cut costs that the day has been strongly contested many talented journalists have found themselves out of the job the. recent firings and uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events to look cool with serious concerns about hungary's democratic. everything worked at the 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 whole 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 could

be start to radically transform the face of hungary's media so. a bit of. a u.s. court has this way given to iraq veterans the green light for u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld for illegal in. isn't and torture if proven guilty he could be held accountable that americans claimed in two thousand and six that they work for when they take government contracts and they went and reported detained and subjected to violence by the u.s. military without explanation or charge and after being released they filed a lawsuit against rumsfeld which has been rejected by prosecutors until this week and today is the case they opened the floodgates other officials to be held to account for war crimes. 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 dock if you try to hold pentagon officials in this case the head of the pentagon donald rumsfeld accountable for torture or other illegal acts that somehow shackles the hands of u.s. military ironically it suggests that the united states government needs to demands too and is engaging in illegal acts and that if anyone holds them accountable that will be quote shackling 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. that's tonight's news and up of back with the made headlines and just the

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play again this is all see and in the headlines this week. senior politicians and police take a spike at each other over the humbling of mass riots in the u.k. and while play by play of war was fed up local communities mobilized themselves to keep a lid on the streets of london. so a week of roller coaster trading the wall was that global markets have entered a new danger as investors lose confidence and it could all make leadership of several key countries. on three years' own solve the setter members the victims of a short but bloody conflict one georgia launched an offensive to reclaim its altera trees hundreds died in the ensuing five day what they were probably still trying to recover. as the headlines up next also his exclusive interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad president of the.