continue to play a blame game over handling of the riots in england the west and decades harsh criticism of each other's performance came after prime minister david cameron claimed 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 suspect protesters began smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat violence over two thousand directs have been made so far and courts have worked around the clock to clear the backlog cases but while police and the government who deserve the credit for quelling the rights groups in local communities took it into their own hands to protect their neighborhoods auntie's lower element that's another. good bizarre call 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 they're going to get that everywhere pretty much started taking our stories about young children not i will but children on the streets for the decide if there's not enough police help them and just get everyone away just look after all the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go 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 forcing distrust each other which then takes it on. causing further.

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 if the police if the police were hit 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 bobbies on the beat could get fewer and further between while the local vigilante group could take up the slack. under in the wake of intense losing in violence across england david cameron and oust is considering buying people from social networks if they're found guilty of inciting violence through the web but political activist chris knight says a clampdown on media misses the point and fails to address the underlying causes. if it needs a revolution to enforce the rule of law so be it the rule of law can't be enforced if it's one law for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same law for everyone it's just so ironic having celebrated the facebook revolution the

social media the twitter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly there's side of the of the clamp down on the media here it's absolutely not the issue the issue is in the quality the unit the issue is is is that the supposed to i mean what kind of a society are we that drives eleven year olds fourteen year old kids to that. mental state you know to burn the local store that that's we need action we need we need action not weasel politicians words. coming up later in another nation locked in to street protests in syria you see the hot steps the government takes to crush the months long uprising. your anxiety grips poland as more and more people review their position on adopting the single currency saying they don't want to pay for the mistakes of others it's. it's been three years this week since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south a city and its people the conflict saw five days of heavy fighting as george sought

to regain control over the territory hundreds of innocent lives were lost their moral services have been held in the capital city and vall and across south the said here hundreds of people lived candles and prayed for the victims of the conflict releasing wide balloons in their memory and. has talked with those who are 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 would lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years. has come to this the search area where her son is burrage five days to norco's two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. as one 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 as they lay

trapped for days under 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 wrong by families with similar tragic stories. in their targets 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 victims of georgia's military aggression in all those two thousand and eight when they try to retake control of the breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire nursed my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average thing that happened that night for i saw him 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. most ghost town

trained force meant to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognized the such as independence. the last three years have changed the face of this i state i new residential air where new roads jobs and invest in new zealand have been built. but still signs of the conflict remain this ruins behind my back are all that's left of the russian peacekeeping pulse for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but deadly conflict the memories are still very role. much in the question of reporting from sea involved. it's been one of the most turbulent weeks in days for the world's financial markets spotted by the downgrade of america from its aaa credit rating trading saw the biggest volume of shares changing hands since two thousand and eight as 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 occurring in the claim was rob it take the world bank head has said the loss of confidence in economic leadership in the united states and europe has pushed markets into a need danger zone however investors now look for a calm week of trading as the you pose as a bottom a short selling of financial shares and see every tail sales gain in the give us the biggest in four months but as huffington post columnist eric margolis says the u.s. still has to address the financial troubles and to lying cause it's never ending. it demoed states were big on. growth. ours will not be too much to pay for her defense but we're not playing the defense right now where people both sense and the sense that america's military operations are all around the world not too many americans understand is that the costs of these wars

were never equal. it's arguably put on the u.s. national credit card that's one of the reasons why the us. trillion dollars and is growing if americans have the need for the cost of these foreign wars militaries. out of their taxes i think that would be a big change public opinion. struggled investors went looking for new places to put their money in other blow has been dealt to the french banks. that comp fifteen percent off its share value the tele geishas it was holding massive amounts of contagious debt. and financial guru max kaiser says this could be part of a plan by insiders to crush the french banking system and reap the benefits the french banks are loaded with toxic derivatives that were sold to them by american

investment banks and the american investment banks plus the rating agencies plus the hedge funds are now attacking these french banks they know where the bodies are buried and they're using the weapons that they sold them to attack them decided generale and b. and b. and credit agricole are insolvent their balance sheets are six to ten times bigger in terms of the debt that they carry than they could possibly service but it's carried on the shadow banking system they don't report those debts but the insiders around the world who wield the weapons of mass financial destruction are tacking that to force these unrealized it onto the balance sheet to force these companies into delinquency into a foreclosure because they are going to reap billions of dollars attacking these banks the side of general is an insolvent institution so is being paid they can't possibly meet their their credit demands absolutely not the euro's inception many countries have done their best to join the once elite currency but that's all changed with the debt plague sweeping sort of the continent. now reports

washing 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 well out of trouble. 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 this 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 poles aspired to this 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 polish politicians are now much cooler on the idea with ministers

saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first but very important for us . need for institutional changes. in the eurozone i mean these economic governance of euro zone and also some crisis management we see some need for changes 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. warsaw in poland. this is out here still ahead for you this hour one building houses mean a building turned. 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. and one threat of tough laws don't lie russian

parents do whatever it takes to protect their children from paedophiles slipping through the legal net. at least twenty five people have been reported killed in terrorist land and sea are sold by government forces in syria it'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 grown dramatically over the past five months with around two thousand civilians dead after 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 patrick hayes a journalist from the online political magazine spiked president assad's recent promise to allow time for artists to be fired there is almost ready to surrender. clamping down on freedom of speech and 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 is by which he started to say this is the end of single party rule and he will start to think about elections and the way in which you previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantors of syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do the sense i get from assad is that he seems very toys that 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 smirk is now seeing. and another troubled country leiby aware clashes between colonel gadhafi and the native supported opposition have raged for huffer year claiming thousands of lives but chan dan

recently returned from a monitoring mission in the country says that libya's 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 in 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 eurozone and even the president united states i mean this incredible historic times we're living in warning that the dollar could default world those billions of oil contracts from libya and investments could could come in very handy especially for someone like berlusconi in italy iran will

not acquire nuclear weapons there is no place in human weapon in the twenty first century so says present. who spoke exclusively to r.t. is kevin. by you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. never never this is only human and. our religion says it is great if you go to church 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 will iraq and afghanistan could be nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory and go nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse. and you can watch the full interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad in just now here on

r.t. . to levy a sanction of the construction of sixteen hundred welling's in east jerusalem earlier this week and this planning to raise the number to almost three thousand the building of israeli settlements in the was to bind has been a significant irritant to 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 the expected vote on recognition of the palestinian authority in the un security council and. believes to live if it is not inclined to reach a compromise he told r.t. the timing of the 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 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 let's face it the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism

around the world right now on this issue everyone is busy with 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 israeli act of 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 . some of today's top stories from around the world a brutal terrorist assault has shaken the provincial capital of cherry car close to kabul killing at least twenty two tok reportedly targeted a meeting of top security staff in the governor's official residence the taliban has claimed responsibility for the onslaught that left the compound in ruins have got to stand has suffered a series of similar types on prominent government officials in recent weeks. you know where gunmen who confessed to shooting sixty nine people at an island to use

has been taken back to the crime scene for police recognition reconstruction rather wearing a bulletproof vest under his breath who reportedly showed no remorse for the july twenty two massacre spent eight hours showing offices where he had fired on the youth rally thirty two year old far right extremist is also accused of bombing central oslo and killing eight people the town of deeply traumatized norway one of the most politically stable and tolerant countries if you. and israelis present to go chavis is back home after his second round of cancer treatment in cuba vying to remain in power charge it stood unaided on the tarmac wearing his trademark red the rain as he tried it with government officials the fifty seven year old leader underwent surgery in cuba in june to move. his medical team has not yet determined whether he will need a further ground looking like therapy. five people were killed and dozens injured

in an accident caused by a freak gust in indiana thousands with there's the horrifying scene what a massive metal stage structure collapsed on to crowds of fans waiting and to play at the state fair the governor mitch daniels said that cautions had been taken before the storm but no one could have anticipated such a strong gust later estimated at more than one hundred ten of kilometers per hour. two policemen in the russian year olds have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes from a paedophile and it's just the latest in a series of crimes where police and judges seem to be turning a blind diet of child abuse and as diapers color appalls that's forcing parents to deal with the problem themselves and mother in grief. i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family even the first floor with curtains constantly drawn go to work every day fear for

my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for that area to admit she trusted someone who harmed her daughter she brought the man into the house is a common law husband to live side by side with him for more than an hour news. my daughter told me he threw a stray cat from the roof and said he did the same to her if she ever confided in me about the things she was doing to her when i finally managed to get things to the court the jury acquitted the man who she says is now off to her family hungry for events now that his experience is just one example of many in a recent controversial case a man suspected of raping a seven year old girl was released without charge. yes i told her underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and 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 nearly lynched the men did police launch

a fully fledged investigation into the case and record that confession authorities also disciplined the regional investigating officer will some of this for the worst that happen here is the mother was treated like a football she was kicked around from office to office a tragedy had happened to her shouldn't know what to do but no one wanted to even talk to her alone except her statement where. russian authorities have not declared a fight against the sexual abuse of minors but results seem to have been 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'm underage that's fine i like small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and do many other things to you this video has been put together by a group of volunteers as they track people they believe are paedophiles they go online pretending to be an underage boy or girl they set up meetings with people

who admit to prefer ing minors. the idea is to film their faces and expose them on the web was to go but i want to show we are 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 they try to act within the law but often operate and it's edge volunteers tracking paedophiles online say most people will sign off when they learned the person or chatting to is under age but they also say roughly out of one hundred contacts one is said to be looking for easy prey currently the maximum sentence for child sex offenses is twenty years in prison an amendment to the law is meant to introduce tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but until the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say they'll continue with their vigilante

campaign gary pushed over arching. and you can find more stories in our website it's also dot com including. treasure hunting probably have let you know putin dives deep to shed light on the fate of a story underwater science that's known as russia's atlantis so we're really a what the prime minister discovered at the bottom of the sea that's anymore at altitude. and also a look at the man who made it off to the u.k. rich list while knowing moscow won a billion dollars and is wanted for fraud all the details on. it and that's the news this hour and i'll be back with a made headlines in just a moment.

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welcome back this is us he added in the headline this week senior positions aren't getting steak a swipe at each other of the humbling. class riots in the u.k. while they play again it was no doubt local communities mobilized themselves to keep the water on the streets of london. also a week of really close to trading the world by cheap things that global markets have ended in new dangers as investors lose confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries. three years old south to set a remembers the victims of a short bloody conflict on children the ocean offensive to reclaim its all territories hundreds died in the ensuing five day one hundred the public is still trying to recover and as the headline is coming up our special report on russia's far east where echoes of the soviet year makes.