in the russian capital our top story british courts are coming down hard on the rioters who spread mayhem last week but human rights groups are accusing the judges of overreacting by dishing out severe penalties to score popularity points two men were jailed for four years each for trying to incite street violence through facebook but prime minister david cameron defended it saying it sends a tough message argues ivor bennett reports now from london. four years behind bars for the riot that didn't even happen jordan black sure and perry sutcliffe kenan were banged up for inciting disorder on facebook no one turned up after their invitation to riot which they later said was a drunken joke but now they face sentences even tougher than most looters and i worry is that it is an imbalance a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for a previous bodily harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some form of sexual assault so it seems to me that that

there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes that governments encourage courts to dish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating factor it's meant this man anderson fernandez could even be sent to jail for theft of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one denying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charged so far two thirds have been remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes which is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless is their punishment with local governments taking away their houses but many say this will simply cause more harm than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from housing interim move benefits because actually if we are seeing that some of the crime that

we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling part of society not feeling part of our communities then these measures are actually going to push people further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime the facebook case is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west for mobilizing the masses in the arab world but they were also instrumental in the u.k. riots so now the prime minister wants it to stop. we are working with the police the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites or services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and tunisia britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very conscious that they're being used you know they're really poor or. movements only would be the force to

complete. the authorities in those countries we're trying to walk. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett artsy london. london's police say they've charged over a thousand people over the riots but are aiming to convict three times that number is also commentator david bowden says the government's response as a selling attempt to regain control. i think the question you have to ask yourself whether they will actually restore much or thora to your credibility by cracking down in quite severe and often incoherent why people who weren't necessarily heavily involved in the problem you have to the question of the decline of wealth or three within british society is a long running social problem is a very complex one to deal with but i think we can so if you say that the kind of

people who are going out into the streets in shock to fight should police officers he was visibly sharing in their enjoyment of the week you new police chief or she would not necessarily be shaken from their action because a teenager who said that he thought the riots were a good idea was given community service i think we're seeing quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities as they try to recreate or forward to it superficially you can see people being hounded quite severe sentences for often playing quite a minor role in the riots and the strangers because we may also you. need jerk reaction to people using social networking sites to say they want to have a riot even if they haven't followed up with organizing the right itself which is already i think dangerously alive in the distinction between action and speech so you have one of the cases where somebody was trying to organize a riot which obviously is a crime and something you want to deal with quite seriously but you have somebody

else who said he wanted to organize a right didn't go to extreme lengths to try and organize that because it was a joy and he's been treated exactly the same severity. now it's big numbers big sales and so stopping starts at the max twenty eleven era so in moscow and our team is there. among those doing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter the two hundred fifty which debuted on wednesday it's lined up among the best in its class like america's f. twenty two. fighter here it is showing what it can do for the crowds at max twenty eleven but it's not all about military hardware the big names in civilian aviation are there too including boeing and airbus and while they're selling an easy ride for air travelers take a look at these guys these are the russian knights and the swifts it takes a lot to put these aircraft through manic maneuvers like these and artie's very own

tom barton just covered one. engine. instrument. runway. and then it's takeoff for the russian aerobatics display team. their nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all had to start somewhere andre is training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first flight as a solo pilot going to the piers without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own i had no time to be scared there was no longer an instructor right back it was unforgettable takeoff you're on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it i think you're a real pilot at that point. the as moves are always trying to hold them

a new version they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones like a form of the stanford or whatever but we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns are you peeping done before mystery of a russian came up with the loop and all the other stunts are based on the loop the loop is the basis for all aerial acrobatics. however it always comes down to time in the air even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy with the most smokers when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit what your knees are shaking because it's extremely different stressful and anyway what you're left with. so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in my ears i was told it was my turn for the crowds on the ground this is an exciting spectacle but that's not quite the emotion that's going through my mind at the moment because i'm about to see what happens from inside the cockpit.

we did the loop the loop all the planes just meters apart a. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned to it k. . k. k. k. . k. k. . k. k. . k. k. k. k. k. . k. k. k. k. k. k. if the for but i could also see some of the strains that go through. the best new to get the newest you know the might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't issued to the pilots it's always a difficult job that

a terrorist pilot's has to show his skill and the beauty of flight so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilots in some way. from bottom on take. what a very brave guy there while stay with us throughout the way for the best of the series locks air so far to his first class covers. hands full in the. closest. approach. show the future flights. are two types to the max their show. that's not the un's human rights chief might push syria to face the international criminal court for its lethal crackdown on protesters over eighteen hundred people are believed to have been killed across the country since the government moved to quell the uprising

that started in march the president claims his military operation has now stopped even so the presence of troops is apparently not always seen as a bad sign as refinish no reports. the city over there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation and he made his eyes bandits plot the raids put up barricades it became a day city were hiding they were just like hostages for more than a week claim to be army fought against armed groups that had taken control of the city and had been terrorizing its residents. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of there as so near the iraqi border measure officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from armed groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the way there is but in other parts of the country the troops lead in assad's vicious crackdown a far less welcome in

a similar offensive against so-called terrorists and the coastal city of latakia the opposition claims government troops killed almost fall to civilians while human rights groups report the number of deaths in the country could be almost as high as two thousand some say assad is simply using his army to silence peaceful demonstrators across the country. the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in the cities across the country work and maybe there was some so-called bandits among protestors and maybe they use the momentum to spread cants but if so where have they been when the army. armed groups is just a theory invented by the state they have an excuse to enter the cities. in new liberated there is or life seems getting back to normal the markets reopened and

roads just days ago were empty again filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles arms to hard to find and the most obvious one is fear most refused to talk to our camera. too scared of jail assad's opponents say. is the real objective of assad's military operation if that's the case it seems to have been achieved refinish now r t syria well the origins of the uprising may now been so clear cut globalization analyst michel just a gospel told r.t. that some of the so-called peaceful protesters are packing some serious fire power i've been following this day by day since it started it made it made in march in in daraa in the southern city of daraa and what we have is islamists gunmen salafi as well as muslim brotherhood gunmen. shooting at civilians as

well as shooting at police and israeli sources actually confirming that these militia and i quote. armed with heavy machine guns they say they they won't say that this is all the protest movement because that seems to be the immediate consensus but then they say the protesters are armed with heavy machine guns and. now since where not peaceful civilian protesters armed with heavy machine guns so the question we have to ask ourselves who is the source of this killing what are the what are the underlying causes of this of this insurrection. thoughts there from the director of the center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky well still ahead on the program for a marshall same struggle to patch up the damage at japan's fukushima nuclear power

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. there what you are see live from moscow for militants have been killed and rustles republic of chechnya in the north caucasus chechen president says the operation helped prevent a series of attacks planned in the area but on a question of a has more on the ongoing war on terror. the latest information that we have received is coming from change where during an anti terror operation a group of militants have been killed and one of these has already been identified he was one of the high profile terrorists working in the region of north caucasus he was also preparing a suicide bombers as well as he was planning future attacks in the region the

identification of the others is now in process of the chechen republic arms on a bit of sad that this operation was that carefully planned and prepared in advance meanwhile of this day was also marked by and not the rate that happens in the neighboring republic of dagestan where a group of militants attacked a column of the russian military forces two russian servicemen were killed and in the fighting that broke out later another six militants were killed everyone is on high alert and just recently basically at the same time and a very close to the location of the fighting russian federal security service as a defused a bomb with a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t. according to russia's asked us to be had another large scale attack was a preventive this time on the russian railways in the moscow region in july special

forces but the number of a terror attacks went up by thirty percent in the first half of this year. the fukushima nuclear power plant operator in japan has admitted it's behind schedule in cleaning up the heavily radioactive water that's flooding the facility the reactors were severely damaged following the earthquake and tsunami in march and has been leaking radioactive material since workers also reported radioactive steam emerging from cracks in the ground under the facility new evidence has also emerged since jesting most of the damage was done during the tremor and not after the tsunami swept through it's raising concerns that the plant built on an active tectonic region was doomed from the start and that japan should abandon nuclear energy. it was very silly to build reactors on on what what is clearly a full line and in an area where there are known to be. quakes and

we see the result of having done that you cannot really believe that you can cage these things in the expect them to come out and not to have these sorts of accidents and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying the consequences of them are so pulling that really we cannot afford to choose this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it just not because that would bring the whole of japan to a hold because it depends so so much from the. steam is coming out and we know the steam contains so for thirty five effectively we're producing a very large quantities of radionuclides all the time and they haven't been able to deal with that it's just being ignored is being it's being it's not being adequately reported by the authorities in japan or indeed in the international atomic energy agency. r.j. dot com is always online for you with the news you choose to watch there are some of what we've got lined up for you right now with the u.s. debt crisis thank you

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it's just gone twenty one minutes past the hour a look at some of the world's other main news for you indian corruption campaigner who's on a hunger strike has struck a deal with police to move his protest from behind bars on the has already has been allowed to leave jail but refuse to go until he was given permission for his protest will now continue with hunger strike in a park the news of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who gathered outside his cell. and the pope's planned visit to spain saw thousands protest in madrid over the cost of paying for it six people were arrested in two policemen injured during scuffles as protesters chanted the pope's visit not with my taxes over the seventy million euro cost of the trip benedict the sixteenth is due to arrive in the capital later on thursday to mark world youth day. it's here that over six hundred tons of oil could spill from the ruptured shell oil

pipeline in the north sea off scotland that's of divers fail to plug the leak involved more than two hundred tons of oil have already poured into the sea of what's britain's worst spill in a decade shell has a range of contingencies if the worst happens but green groups say the damage has already been done and will take years to repair. well in just a few minutes here in archie we'll talk to the acting leader of qazi about the young country's early election following the death of its president after a live business update with to me today. good morning and welcome to business while the crowds of show look sky would ground more deals are being made a new joint venture has been announced between russia's role stake knology infringers space company the c.e.o. of suffer unto all business all see the multi million euros starts up we'll welcome states of the arts may be gauged system. you have very very few. countries

into a world that must do all that by the clergy provide extreme accuracy very gay share in the. ratio of the weapons. very good or bad to all three countries worldwide a good week good cd and joey or a false. lucia he's very very significant right d.g. wise. so you look at the markets and crude is losing ground of the climbing to the highest level in almost two weeks concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on the price however the weaker dollar is giving some support brant blend is trading at one hundred ten on the offer was profiled while light sweet says that eighty seven goals pretty light sentence. asian stocks are mixed following made gains on the wall street's hang sang is flat to negative this after dropping early

in the session nikkei is almost a percent lower the exposes leading losses on a strong the nasdaq was down almost four percent on the decline to an office in tokyo. where moscow bosses will start the trading day in around two hours time both p.r.c.'s in the my six managed to some hefty gains on wednesday around two percent that's after seeing losses on tuesday the growth was mainly supported by strong crude which managed to reach a two week on it. and while russian markets are gaining recovery momentum going to higher from troika dialog believes the mid to long term trend will mostly depend on how crude performs. the market is mostly drooled by sentiment right now and right now it's absolutely unpredictable the sentiment can change just in fifteen minutes for example yesterday the markets almost ignored the negative statistics on inflation from the united states but you can't say for sure that they ignore say

statistics from europe or from that the states notice that these things today right now the market is very nervous so in short term you can't predict and i think liquidity is so good and i would expect even better liquidity in coming months so i wouldn't expect. all price at all just commodity prices going down significantly and that's usually very good for russia so as long as all will stay in the high level i think all this. kind of motion in the markets is just because lucian so that's why we're kind of recommending as long as world prices are high and if you see sharp drop in the market just to use it to buy. i mean the program a signal of some economic stats the russian the gross domestic product has risen three point seven percent first off that's slightly below the forecast the government still expects the country's economy to expand by four point two percent

this year meanwhile analysts russia needs to work hard to meet those targets. or business out he will be back in around fifteen minutes time with an update and he says next with headlines these days about. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from

a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and since there's been an eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when a nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who are accused of property sabotage and label of then as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not fair it's real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. guys. sound to have.

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here with our t.v. live from moscow our top stories britain supports race to read the riot act to those behind the recent looting and violence on england's streets and human rights groups accuse judges of lying down disproportionate justice to score popularity points. top flight trade at the international air show in moscow and the nerves of steel for russia's premier pilots among those doing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter the t. fifty which debuted on wednesday. and as the syrian army reported the fires and thousands of anti-government protesters across the country some syrians say they're glad to see tanks moving into their talents president also claims the military operation over the summer reza.