it's nine am here in moscow you're watching r t live with me and use the now a our top story this hour british courts are coming down hard on the rioters who spread mayhem last week but human rights groups are accusing 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 or 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 naive 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 just 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 saying 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 there be news you know the. poor or. movements only would be the force to complete. the authorities in those countries who are 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. well london's police say they've charged over a thousand people over the riots were aiming to convict three times that number social commentator david bowden says the government's response is a family 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 and quite severe and often incoherent why on 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 it's a very complex one to deal with but i think we can safely say that the kind of people who are going out into the streets and stuff to fight should police officers she was visibly sharing in their enjoyment at the weekend appreciate felicity not necessarily be shaken from their actions because a teenager in very sad and when she said that he thought the rights were a good idea has 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 reclaim that will protect it superficially because we've seen people being hounded quite severe sentences for often playing quite a minor role in the riots and he's dangerous because we now see. kneejerk reaction to people using social networking sites to say they want to have a rights even if they haven't followed up with organizing the rights 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 riots 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 riot didn't go to extreme lengths to try you organize that because it was your job and he's been treated exactly the same severity. now it's big numbers big deals and show stopping starts at the locks twenty eleven airshow in moscow and r t is there. among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter seen here the t fifty which debuted on wednesday its line up among the best in its promise of america after twenty two fighter here it is showing what it can do for the crowds at the max twenty eleven its global debut 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 switch that takes a lot to put these aircraft through manic maneuvers like you're seeing here as our g.'s tom barton discover for himself. jet. stream and. 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 have 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. 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 this they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones not getting form of a stamp or whatever but we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns out that the pins on before nested 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 swear look at you when you leave the cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit what your knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult stressful and anyone with fuel. 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. get him to. keep hitting. the. shit. kicked out he basically kicked it to get it.

but i could also see some of the streams they don't think oh good there's no ticket but just you know he might be for the crowds but serial aren't issued to the pilots it's always a difficult job that a terrorist a pilot's hands to show his skill and the beauty of flight so next time you look up at the speeding planes spirit through the pilots in some ways. from bottom to. well stay with us throughout the week for the best of the series locks ever so and for our team's first class coverage. closest. approach. should ensure slightly. our team takes to the max air show. and saw the un's human rights chief white push for 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 president assad claims his military operation has now stopped even so the presence of troops is apparently not always seen as a bad sign as well as a notion or reports. the city of there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation having made police bandits blocked the raids put up barricades it became a gay city were hiding they were just like hostages for more than a week claiming biami 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 though 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 officials crackdown are far less welcome in a similar offensive against so-called terrorists in the coastal city of latakia the opposition claims government troops killed almost fall to civilians while human rights groups reported 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. little or as the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in the cities across the country we're going to maybe there was some so-called bandits among the protesters and maybe they use the momentum to spread carrots but if so where have they been when the army. armed

groups is just a theory invented by the state to have an excuse to enter the cities. in new liberated there is or life seems getting back to normal the markets reopened and roads that 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 being trained in jail and such opponents say. it's the real objective science military operation if that's the case it seems to have been achieved refinish now t. syria. well the origins of the uprising been so clear cut globalization analysts michel chossudovsky told r.t. that some of the so-called peaceful protesters are packing some serious firepower i've been following this day by day since it started it made it made barge in in

daraa in the southern city of daraa and what we have is islamists gunmen salafi as well as muslim brotherhood gun. was 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 won't say that this is all the protest movement because that seems to be the the media 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 that 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. that was the director of the center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky still have room here on our cheney as a merchant seemed to struggle to stop the damage at japan's fukushima nuclear power plant and suggested the facility was doomed before it was hit by the earthquake and tsunami that's coming up. to.

bring you the latest in science technology from the in. the future coverage. you're watching live from moscow for militants have been killed in russel's republic of chechnya in the north caucasus chechen president says the operation helped prevent a series of attacks planned in the area but in a question of a has more on the region's ongoing war on terror. the latest information that we have received is coming from change now where during an anti terror 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 planned and prepared in advance meanwhile of this day was also marked by and not the rate that happened 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 is a disused a bomb with a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t.

according to russia's f.s.b. had another large scale attack was a preventive this time on the russian railways in the moscow region in july the special forces the number of atar 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 emerged suggesting most of the damage was done during the tremor and not after the tsunami swept through it's raising concerns that the plant built in an active tectonic region was jews from the start and that japan should have vended nuclear energy. it was very silly to build reactors on on what what

is clearly of portland and in an area where they are known to be. we see the result of having to you cannot really believe that you can cage these things in the expect them not to come out and then not to have these sorts of accidents and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying and the consequences of them are so poor that really we cannot afford to use this method of generating electricity course you can't stop it just now because that would bring the whole of to a halt because it depends so much from nuclear power the fact that steam is coming out and we know the steam contains. thirty five and 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. dot com as always online for you choose to watch.

for you today as the u.s. looks to the pentagon blocks to cut. not more funding that are in the firing line. and a massive make over from miles of moscow pavements that some enterprising builders have taken out spot and create a concrete work when the bricks ran out take a look at our comment hang. on for more of our.

it's coming up to george has just gone i should say twenty one minutes past the hour a look now at some world news in brief an indian anti-convulsant campaigner who is on hunger strike has struck a deal with police to move his protest from behind bars on the has already had been allowed to leave jail refused to go until he was given permission first protest continuous hunger strike in a park news of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who gathered outside his cell. for 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 seventeen million euro cost of the trip benedict the sixteenth is due to arrive in the capital later on thursday to mark world youth day. rebels have been finding for control of oil refineries but the forces loyal to

colonel gadhafi in fifty kilometers from tripoli the only functioning oil facility to try and drive troops out and tighten their presence around the capital of rebel field commander claims they have shut down a pipeline and have surrounded the refinery state media reports that colonel gadhafi is ill and need of urgent medical treatment outside libya. it's clear that over six hundred tons of oil could spill from the ruptured shell oil pipeline in the north sea off scotland that's of diverse failed to plug the leaking involves more than two hundred tons of oil have already poured into the sea in what is 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. in just a few minutes we'll talk to one of the men behind russia's answer to silicon valley first it's the business with dimitri.

hello and welcome to the morning business update while the crowds at the moscow air show look skyward on the ground more deals are being made a new joint venture has been announced between russia's role stake knology and french aerospace companies suffer on the c.e.o. of sufferance old business out see the multi-million the eurostar will work on state of the art navy geishas systems you have very very few. countries into a world that master of the. program extreme accuracy very good a share in the. precision of the weapons. there is about two or three countries worldwide so able to see the. hour of the faults. is very very significant threat b.g. wise. secular good markets this first day morning crude is losing ground after

climbing to the highest level in almost three weeks concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on the price however the we could always giving some support brant blend is trading still at over one hundred ten dollars per barrel light sweet is just over eighty seven. asian stocks i love following mild gains on wall street in tokyo exporters are leading the losses on a stronger yen master was down around four percent and toshiba declined more than two and. here in moscow trading will begin one hour both my six had a strong session on wednesday but again around two percent the graph was mainly supported by stronger crude which managed to reach a two week high. while russian markets again in recovery were meant for higher from troika dialog believes the mid to long term trend will mostly depend on how crude performs. the market is mostly drooled by sentiments right now and right now it's

absolutely unpredictable the sentiment can change just in fifteen minutes for example yesterday the markets almost ignored negative statistics on inflation from the united states but you can't say for sure that they ignore stories that they see from europe or from the early states negatives 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 so high level i think all these drops and kind of motion in the markets is just peculation 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. and to some economic figures now russian

gross domestic product has risen three point seven cents in the first half slightly below forecasts the government still expects the country's economy to expand by four point two percent this year meanwhile and the sad that russia needs to work hard to meet that. business that he will be back in around fifty minutes time with the opening figures for the r.t.s. .

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it's nine thirty am here in moscow and you're watching our change these are our top stories britain's courts race to read the riot act to those behind the recently looting and violence by human rights groups accuse judges of laying down just perforce an injustice to score popularity points. top flight trade at the international air show in moscow and the nerves of steel from russia's premier pilots among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter the chief fifty which debuted on wednesday. and the syrian army reportedly fires at thousands of anti-government protesters across the country some syrians say they're glad to see tanks moving into their towns president's claim they see security forces as protection from arm to.