against protesters. or welcome to you from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching our team with me and you so now way it's ten am here in the russian capital our top story this hour british courts are coming down hard on the rioters who spread may happen 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 r.c.s. ivor bennett reports 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 in our 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 a 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 it 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 to mobilize. 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 it 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 and services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and tunisia person called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very conscious i've been used you know there really is poor. movement and we would be the force to complete if we thought the authorities in those countries were trying to walk. the prime minister says this is way britain fights back but it speeds be spiting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's artsy london. london's police say they have tars over a thousand people over the riots were aiming to convict three times that number is also 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 societies a long running social problem is 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 who were visibly sharing in their enjoyment at the weekend appreciate felicity and not necessarily be shaken from their actions because a teenager in very safe and when he said that he thought the rights were a good idea was given community service and i think we're seeing quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities as they try to regain that or forty it's superficial because we've seen people being handed quite severe sentences for often playing quite a minor role in the riots and it's dangerous because we now see. i need reaction to people using social networking sites to say they want to have her rights even if

they haven't followed that 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 the 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 and organize that he says it was a job and he's been treated exactly the same severity. now it's big numbers bring jails and show stopping stunts at the mox twenty eleven air show in moscow and are two is there. or does the guardian though it is alive and keeping a close eye on what's taking place at the airshow now it's not long until the public i understand get to get a chance i should say to get up close to the wealth of aircraft that's there what's

happening before that. well before the general audience will have access to this spectacular air show billion dollar deals are to be sealed after amazing performances that have been made in the air by best pilots from all over the world on the newest and the latest in the world of aircraft and of course one of the headliners that's everyone been waiting to see is the fifty's the fifth generation russian fighter jets that has been there's been a lot of rumors about this fighter jet but no one has seen it until today it will be completely finished by the year two thousand and fifteen and ready to be so but so far those who already attend the max air show managed to get a first glance on it of course other headline headliner such as the project who's become earl a regular on the max air show was also performing here now

it's already in use and it's already been sold to a couple of companies so it's become a regular on the show as well as mass twenty one which is also mid-range short range planes. also exhibited here as well as m.r.i. helicopters that's been patrolling the skies for the past three days above the small science city over. the next three days everyone all of you aircraft lovers will be able to. join the show and watch all those aerobatics so far it's only been for those who live around this area as this plains and have up theirs were patrolling the sky for the past three days and this show really gives you a pain in that collision really as you see hundreds and hundreds of people. gazing at the sky and one of the very few who will who was actually looking down on them was artie's dumbarton who managed to get on board one of the planes. engines

check. the instruments. runway. and then it's takeoff for the russian aerobatics display team. the nine first class pilots with 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 thought was so highly. 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 who wanted 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 just trying to hold them a new this they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old

ones not conforming but they're going to whatever don't we come up with stone and then research them but it turns are you peeping down before mr dove a russian came up with the look 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. when you. of the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit what if your knees are shaking because it's extremely different in the stressful and anyone with fuel that was. so with that gut wrenching fear ringing in the mine is i was told it was mine 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 meet us upon. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned. to kick the. ball in the shooting. the. shit. kicked. it. but i could also see some of the strains that go through. there there's no ticket than if you know he might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't a shoot to the pilots it's always a difficult job that a terrorist a pilot 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 and suddenly. from bottom to. embrace all that stay with us throughout the week for the best of the series locks our cell and for our tools for scrath conference. approach. future a lot. more to take to the air show. as the un's human rights chief might 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 uprisings 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 rif notion or reports. the city over there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean a place i was bandits plot the raids put up barricades it became a day city we were hiding we were just like hostages for more than a week 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 so near the iraqi border. 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 waiters 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 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 over the little order of the syrian army hasn't met a resistance in cities across the country were. maybe there was some so-called bandits protest maybe they use the momentum to spread cancer 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 for the new liberated there is so 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 on still hard to find and the most obvious one is fear most refused to talk to our camera. too scared of the train jail sounds opponents say to me is the real objective of my science military operation if that's the case it seems to have been achieved regional shop t. syria. well the origins of the uprising may not be so clear caught globalization analysts michel chossudovsky told our team 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. in in daraa in the southern city of daraa and what we have is islamists gunmen salafi as well as muslim brotherhood gun.

shooting at civilians as well as sure to get 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 machine guns and that's now since way 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. i was the director of the center for research on globalization just. so i had in the program here on our to emergency team struggle to patch up the damage at japan's fukushima nuclear power plant

suggesting the facility was doomed before it was hit by the earthquake and tsunami that's coming off. to take fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event for the planet is time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and since it's been moved before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the 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 were accused of property sabotage and labelled then as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not the terrorists 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. time to. do. four militants have been killed in a security raid in russia's republic of chechnya in the north caucuses tension president. says the group was sent to the capital girls need to carry out attacks they opened fire on security forces the raid was part of a major anti terror operation that has been underway in the republic past few days earlier seven militants were killed including a regional terror chief officials say the thirty m. patel prevent a series of atrocities planned in the area. they focus a much nuclear power plant operator in japan has admitted it's behind schedule and

cleaning up the heavily radioactive water that's flooding the facility reactors were severely damaged following the earthquake and tsunami in march and has been leaking radioactive material since workers also report that radioactive steam emerging from cracks in the ground under the facility well a new evidence has also a marsh suggesting most of the damage was done during the tremor and not after the tsunami swept through that's raising concerns that the plant built in tonic region was doomed from the start and that japan should abandon nuclear energy. it is very silly to build reactors on what is clearly a full line and in an area where there are known to be. great. we see the result of having done that you cannot really believe that you can cage these things and expect them 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 in the consequences of the so pulling but 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 much from nuclear to fight the steam is coming out and we know that the steam contains the isotope sulfur thirty five and effectively we're producing 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 is not being adequately reported by the authorities in japan or indeed in the international atomic energy agency. arjay dot com is always online for you with the news you choose to watch or some of what we've got lined up right now. to ditch the death of the pentagon. but it's a very tension more funding battle in the firing line. and i'm out of the make over of. pavements but some builders have taken to

a spot of concrete and. take a look at our dot com and went over to our you tube channel for more. of a look now at some of the world's other main news this hour an explosion has struck a u.s. military base in the. city of. people a suicide bomber trying to set off a truck bomb near the end drones but was stopped at the first gate by afghan guards where he detonated his device the taliban says it's behind the assault and claimed

that dozens of u.s. and afghan troops were killed or injured. an indian anti-corruption campaign or who's 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 but refused to go until he was given permission for his protest continue his hunger strike in a park the news of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who gathered outside his. planned i should say visit to spain assault thousands protest in madrid over the cost of paying for it six people were arrested and 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 to 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 fifty kilometers from tripoli they have the only functioning well so would be to try and drive troops out in their presence around the capital rebel field commanders claimed they had shut down the pipeline and hands around at the refinery state media reports that colonel gadhafi is ill and for urgent medical treatment outside libya. it's feared that over six hundred tons of oil could spill from the ruptured shell oil pipeline in the north sea off scotland as a driver divers fail to plug the leaking valves more than two hundred tons of oil have already poured into the sea in what's britain's worst spill in a decade so has a range 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 re speak to the acting leader of a positive about the young country's early election following the death of its

president that's after a live business update with dimitri. welcome to the program while the crowds at the moscow as show look skyward on the ground more deals are being made a new joint ventures with an ass between russia's ross technology and french air space company. the c.e.o. of sufferance old business l.t. the multi-million euro startup will work on state of the art navy geishas systems you have very very few. countries into a world that must take. extreme accuracy in very gay share in the. precision of the weapons i mean there is about two or three countries worldwide are able to get the training or if faults. is very very significant

strategy wise. russian grain exports may reach a record six billion dollars this year co-producer trance says that's mostly because of current high prices the agriculture ministry also predicts the amount of grain available for export could exceed two thousand and eight levels and russia had its biggest ever harvest produces a putting stocks on the market which have been held over june to last year's export ban the ban was imposed to maintain domestic supply following a severe drought. crude is losing ground after 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 is that over one hundred ten dollars per barrel price we just over. asian stocks are low holding mild gains on wall street in tokyo exporters are leading losses on a strong the yen is down around four percent to she were declining around to.

the all ts started trading on a negative note down one point six percent lead down by energy shares mostly to my sixth of what you're seeing right now is wednesday's closing figure would gain to around two per cent the growth of mining the supporters on wednesday by strong approval was credited to reach a two week. from troika dialog outlined some interesting assets to watch. market is driven by consensus and i think that seen coming few days will see further growth so i would buy some high but stocks and to liquid stocks i like. i would also recommend probably to look at know what. may be less attractive female needs and long term but short term i think that's just in the process of russian markets and those four just sold on penny for just a word there are cutting position risks on russian market i think is just patience

to blois and b. will be buying back and maybe it's not very attractive but in short term it's going to give for good returns. some economic figures now russian gross domestic product has risen three point seven percent in the first half slightly below forecast we're going to express the country's economy to expand by four point two percent this year being one understand that russia needs to work hard to meet those targets. we will be back around fifteen minutes time with an update including the my six opening figures and he says next.

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ten thirty am moscow time these are the top stories from our teeth britain's courts race to read the riot act to those behind the recent looting and violence by human rights groups accuse judges of elaine down disproportionate justice to score popularity points of. conflict trade at the international air show in moscow and nerves of steel for russia's premier pilots among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth feiner the fifty which debuted on wednesday. members syrian army reportedly fires out thousands of anti-government protesters across the country but some serious a bear glad to see tanks moving into their towns residents claim bases security forces as protection from.