the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers m r t. in the. in the headlines this week senior politicians and police take a swipe at each other over the hunger of mass rise in the u.k. and while they play a war was fired up local community is not alive themselves to keep order on the streets of london. south the seti about three years this week since georgia launched a war that claimed hundreds of innocent lives r.t. takes an inside look at how people still try to rebuild their shattered lives. after a week of row the close of trading the wall behind chief pulls the global markets have ended and new dangers as investors lose confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries.

this is weekly review hello and welcome to the program police and top politicians in the u.k. have continued to play a blame game over hundred of the riots in england stabilised and decades harsh criticism of each other's performance came after prime minister david cameron claims the i peered powerless in the face of disturbances during the first denies of looting and arson senior politicians were aware holiday when mass riots began in north london after the fatal police shooting of a police suspect protesters vigorous national shop windows and setting fire to cars of buildings leading to widespread copycat violence over two thousand arrests have been made so far and corso works around the clock to clear the backlog of cases but why are police and the government who deserves the credit for quelling the rights groups and local could. took it into their own hands to prick have been

a bit off his lawyer and meant that someone found. a goodness i can sure you send a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chase down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the more the 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 they can to do the opposite effect they're going to get everywhere pretty much started taking all street cop or young children children on the streets although this is happening if there's no not police. and a scary on the wage the cost to the shops now and just push them away because we don't want to go after anyone any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in. and it's not just in enfield

in other parts of town seeks 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 further 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 they couldn't stop it if it would have 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 screens last night of communities coming together to try and stop violence taking place was a model how these. should be done that despite the fact that three young asian men

were killed in early on wednesday trying to protect local businesses looters allegedly rams there with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community of vigilante attract all thoughts and talents he doesn't just rear its head in his 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 prove that communities still feel police are on able to protect them and with budget cuts the front line officers still on the table poppies on the beach could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack nor emmett's r.t. . critical activists john rees who witnessed the violence and how can one of london's hardest hit virus says it won't be long before more disorder rants as the rest long cannot solve deeper fundamental causes of the riots. this isn't something

that can simply be on the streets and water cannon and plastic bullets it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will go riddled point posing draconian prison sentences would soon one teenage boy jailed for six months for stealing a one pound fish the bottle of water now i live in hackney i live right next state which was the main cycle for rioting this week and i can tell you if that happens you can come back with groups of a month or two months or six months or year and absolutely nothing will have changed and they're all fundamental disturbed as we will remain the untold story here is not just what happened to my person but this is a a a a kid when i spoke when you know that i've 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 act or. completely invented on the moment the punishments that could be handed out for people is outrageous and out of the social network is in the words that they're already cases now to hold not people who committed crimes during the riots but of the parents of people who committed crimes 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 have left the scene of propriety. this is our c.n.n. later in the program another nation locked into street protests in syria. the harsh steps of the government the government takes to crush the months long uprising. and also later the viewer inside secrets poland as more and more people review their

position are adopting the single currency saying they don't want to pay for the mistakes about this. is this or years this week says georgia launched its time on this small republic of south a set here and its people because that saw five days of heavy fighting as georgia's so to regain control over the territory hundreds of innocent lives were lost their moral services have been held in the capital can bow out across self-assertive hundreds of people live candles and prayed for the victims of conflict releasing via the balloons and that memory isn't in a question as talks to those who still struggle to come to terms with their losses . i come here almost to do i sit and talk to my son so a new lawyer next to my dear boy. for the last three years they see sidney has come to this cemetery insult the search area where her son is birds five days in august two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after i. tell you as one who stunned you order

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 out here is firing line. the only thing that makes her life worth living now is return to your old daughter they now live together in a newly built house surrounded by families was similar tragic stories. in the targets across the street lives of two children and a new house opposite lives a man who lost both. his wife and his child will all these people are victims of georgia's military aggression in august 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 got four kids and i saw skin fall on fire when you know it was going to be our last night it was still carried out peacekeeping mission and tried to be calm. most cool santry enforcement to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been recounts 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 sharp and have been burst and have been built but still kind of the conflict remain behind my back are all that's left of the russian port for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but the ugly conflict the memories are still very raw. but in the question will i see reporting

from scene vaal self-assertive. it's been over the most turbulent weeks and years for weeks and years right for the world's financial markets sparked by america's downgrade from its aaa credit rating trading saw the biggest volume of shares changing hands since two thousand and eight as panic investors went on a selling spree standard and poor's the rating agency behind the move says it made a decision based on apparent inability of the u.s. government to deal with the problem of growing the claim robert zoellick the world bank head said the loss of confidence in economic leadership in the united states and europe has pushed markets into a new dangerous however investors are looking for a calm week of trading as the impose a balance short selling of financial shares and see every tail sales gain of the year as the biggest in some months but economist michael pancho's says there is a much greater problem in the us and traders system because it's. america. is intractable america is becoming insolvent and the shooter is getting out so what

the chinese fully understand it and what the japanese and the europeans and all or foreign creditors all are saying to the idea that we can't pay the. inflation and martyre is even charged in there will be caught i'm sure your action would you say interest rates should move lesions are losing high single digits and then it will be clear as day that the u.s. is unsettled and the us should be. trying to who they should be you know if you look at florida where there will be in the mainstream media investor panic was not confined to the u.s. and europe are among the worst who are some of the tech based economies such as india and economics professor chetan got it 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 panic responded to the downgrade in credit worthiness of u.s. treasury bills after the initial panic his devout lasted 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 and 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 rupee therefore strengthens because of the the dollar it's important it will go down as well the risk is somehow whether india can find its current account deficit because of the general climate of this new version in the ground 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 that best joined the once in a currency club but that's all changed with the debt plague sweeping through the continent has an exit here 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 this currency . there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland 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 despite they wanted their country to join the euro now the name of the euro has been sullied by the troubles

in greece and italy poles don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue try to bring poland into the euro zone it could be political suicide poland has fared much better than many of its e.u. partners in the global crisis several countries like greece ireland and portugal are on the brink of disaster partly due to a boring binge allowed to your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the eurozone meant 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 rules of joining but all the titians 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. in the eurozone i mean these economic governance a few of them and also some crisis management tensions we see some need for a trend in the euro zone before. the arrogant date will be. set up the game has changed in the you would love everyone who wants wanted to join may now be the no one wants to accept. look serious or if the party also from warsaw in poland. later in the program former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld can be held liable for alleged torture as an american port allows do it with rocky balboa trains to suit him. and fears over the basic principles of democracy and future employment rise among

hundreds of media where is this land the government's new media control law has overly strict. if twenty five people have been reported killed and terrorists london c s sold by government forces in syria's key coastal city of latakia the operation continues a brutal crackdown on several cities protesters demanding president bashar assad step down but protests have grown from articulate over the past five months with around two thousand civilians dead in clashes with government forces the continuing blush it has caused the international community to line up against the state's handling of the uprising and demand an immediate end to the violence and according to journalist neil clark president scientists have promised a multi-party system has brought no i really wish. you and if us appears to be able. to. said it was going to allow a multi-party system in syria but i think the opposition have been emboldened by

the support they are getting from foreign countries such as the usa in france etc i think that's what's really crazy was very dangerous situation where we could be going into civil war and we really don't know too much about you who we are. seeing things in the west who are very sort of close to you because you know you're busy phrase works and why they're absolutely fantastic democrats of course i'm sure the locals will be pretty obvious 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 that the government must go but the opposition must they were going to let me syria isn't very helpful to talk from really worried about the future of syria i'm sure is a very nice country great be broad it's a very it's a scientism. everyone knows it's divided on tribal lines religious lines and run this regime has been one party state we said that has. been one party state but it has worked the level of stability because if there is a. new regime falls we could be into iraq situation where we have six tarion

violence there will be we could have attacks on the christian community she immerses sunni and the real fear is that syria could just blow up or we could have a terrible terrible civil war we've got to prevent that from happening in the only way we can benefit from happening is if there is internal dialogue in syria. and another troubled country leave the clashes between colonel gadhafi and the nato supported opposition have raced for after year claiming thousands of lives and chanda recently returned from monitoring mission in the country says that leaders oil contracts and potential investments are now and more attractive proposition for some nato bevis and continue 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 bengazi 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 it's only about the default in the 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 off of oil contracts for libya and investments but could come in very handy especially for someone like berlusconi in italy. iran will not acquire nuclear weapons there's no place for this inhuman weapon in the twenty first century so says president shot his spokesperson this quote exclusively to heaven our. some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon. never never this is only human weapon our religion says it is prohibited and we are religious people if any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money resources and they create great

danger the international equations are not determined by nuclear arsenals today the americans are nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and they win in iraq and afghanistan could be nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory and lebanon has nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse. you can watch the full interview with. in ten minutes time here on l.t. . tel aviv's sanctions the construction of six hundred welling's in east jerusalem earlier this week found a stunning to raise that number to almost three thousand the building of israeli settlements on the west vine has been a significant irritant for palestinians and as 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 analyst gosh of baskin believes tel aviv is not

inclined to reach a compromise he told r.t. the timing of new settlements plans is far from being a coincidence. 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 has blocked a return to negotiations is the continued settlement building by the government of israel and the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world radio 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 this isn't just bill other is really building more settlements within neighborhoods of used euro zone without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's going to hurt it much more than it already hurting. freedom of speech in hungary may be understood as the country's government tightens the not only its journalists with a new media law so in top positions have already been dismissed and more layoffs

are so to becoming for those brave enough to voice opposition to the move south of us looks into the prospects for journalists following the controversial developments in the countries immediately just lazy. evil. speak no evil at least not about the hungary in government opinion so hungry as new media law played there journalist being silenced. it's about hiding things and hiding it's not covering controversy. of the government and that's that's that's that's that's the message of. covering broadcast print and online content the controversial new law will also established a new media authority that these working for the media regulate all chosen by the ruling party and were loyal supporters of being selected as public service

broadcasting is completely controlled by the government there have been some measure of the office and the point. people are loyal to the government in two key positions of public public. channels journalists who voiced criticisms of the wrath of the new welfare say they would. probably. have one minute's silence. right there is suspended and one of them. left. in effect he was the other one was fired hundreds of others have suffered the same fate the wave of layoffs across the industry. the situation in the media here who want to keep their jobs and now. blind. either

shake up the good thing and let the layoffs in a very inflated public media sector has been long. so i think. this debate has become. very politicized. politics and about professional commerce. and 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 an uncertainty about the implications of the new law just some of the recent events the new causing serious concern about hungary's democratic future . the government needs an independent media so if this government

thinks that. it can. influence they can regulate. very. very bad ground but heavy criticism from both within the country and internationally government as they can by the new media laws the changes they could bring could be set to radically transform the face of hungry media. that attack. u.s. court has this week given. the green light to see former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld for illegal imprisonment and torture is perfect because how personally accountable the americans claim. they work for iran pale stop take government contracts they were then reported it contained and subjected to violence by the u.s. military without explanation or challenge after being released they found and

ultimately. which has been rejected by prosecutors for years until this week to oxidize brian becker the case and they opened the floodgates. for health care and. what we have to recognize is that by stripping rumsfeld album unity for the acts of torture against american citizens this opens wide to do are not only for rumsfeld but for 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. thanks for being with our serious hour the back of the headlines shortly. to.

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