four years before i dodged your facebook status two men in britain are locked up for encouraging bribing by human rights groups say judges are going too far. top flight trade at the international air show in moscow and nerves of steel from russia's premier pilots as they take r t n o bite will rock. also a show unique exchange of know how russia and france agree to create the first military defense joint venture more of that's a business l.t. twenty minutes. also this hour we hear the syrian going to those who are glad to see the army move into their towns even as rights activists accuse the syrian government of atrocities against

protesters. live from moscow you're watching our scene with me and you see now our top story britain has sentenced true young men to four years behind bars for their riot inspired facebook group they've been charged with inciting violence but human rights campaigners security judges of overreacting i just sing out severe penalties to score popularity points bennett reports they aren't the only ones the british courts are coming down hard on. 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 and 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. there is a danger that the courts are moving into distribution that not actually devalues or more serious crimes the 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 are being reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes this is just ten percent some offenders even being

made homeless is their punishment with local governments taking away their houses but many say it's all 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 in the streets was an expression of people not feeling porter society not feeling portable communities then these measures are actually going to push 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 can 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 and social media fueled revolutions in egypt and tunisia britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot and troubles closer to home. i mean you know the. only way. we. walk. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back. this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are definit r.t. london. prime minister david cameron defending the core sentencing saying they are sending a tough message on those metropolitan police say they have already charged over a thousand people in connection with the riots but investigative journalist tony. people at the top in the u.k. so look at their own path before condemning others. i think it's

a bit rich coming from david cameron who and the government i mean who are many of whom are we talking about george osborne boris johnson's baby carriage who were members of this elite oxford bullingdon club and i'll quote now one of the things they said back in ninety six was that they smashed the place up and boris set fire to the toilets i think they should take a close look at themselves and their club that they used to be part of a not for the drinking club where they would smash the places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine or smashed each by these people in a park they don't like vandals to me so they shouldn't really go lecturing the rest of us last thing we need is a knee jerk reaction against our ability to communicate it's quite clear we have to separate the difference between all of the communications and those kinds of communications which involve incitement to riot incitement to other kinds of criminal behavior well one of the ironies of this is as you try and restrict these internet sites what happens is actually if you if you find out for example as you

to please do when they close down the internet in certain places jewing the tahrir square the uprising earlier this year is that people actually come out in the streets and they have to check anyway and i think this is being used actually as an excuse to regulate more government interference in the way we communicate which i think will be a terrible thing. it's not the un's human rights chief my push for syria to face the international criminal court for three people crackdown on protesters over eight hundred people are believed to have been killed across the country the government moved to quell the uprising that started in march president asad claims his military operation has now start even so the presence of troops that's apparently not always seen as a bad sign. now reports. the city of bell is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean i've been in

a spaniard's block the raids put up barricades it became a case city were hiding we were just like hostages for more than a week claimed 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 near the iraqi border measures 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 live in assad's officials 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 forty 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 but one of the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in the cities across the country were maybe there was some so-called bandits among protestors can maybe they use the momentum to spread gains 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 markets reopened and roads bridges days ago were empty are again filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles arms too hard to find and the most obvious one is fear grief national party syria. but in order to end the uprising may not be so clear cut globalization and less michel to the gulf he 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 march in daraa in the southern city of daraa and what we heard is islamists. salafi as well as muslim brotherhood gunned. diapers shooting at civilians as well as shooting at police and it's really sources actually confirming that these militia and i quote aren't with heavy machine guns they say the they won't say that this is all the protest movement because that seems to be either the media consensus but they say the protesters are armed with machine guns and see today now since when are 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 bit of this insurrection. thoughts there on syria from the director of the center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky it's ten minutes past the hour we're going to take a short break but still ahead in the program for you as emergency team struggles a patch up the damage of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant suggested the facility was doomed before it was hit by the earthquake and tsunami that's coming up. at least 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 eco terrorists 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 label them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not the parents real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with her cubs scout troops that's the. sound. of.

live from moscow it's big numbers big deals and show stopping stunts at the mocks trying to go live an air show in moscow and r.t. of course is there. oh among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fibrous seen here the two fifteen which debuted on wednesday its lineup among the best students class like america's twenty two fighter barrett is showing what it can do for the crowds at marks twenty eight on my bed 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 russian knights and the sweeps it takes a lot to put these aircraft through manic maneuvers like you're seeing as artie's very own tom barton discovered. engine. instruments. 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. and dre 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 anew vors they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones for me to have a go or whatever but we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns are you keeping done before and that's true 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. or difficult was it when you leave the cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult stressful and anywhere 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. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned. ok kick the shit hit the. cave ok ok ok ok ok ok ok. the foot i could also see some of the strains that go through. her there's no ticket

but if you know you might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't to shoot at the pilots it's always a difficult job that a terrorist a pilot has to show his skill and the beauty of flights so next time you look up at them speeding planes spare a thought for the pilot in some way. down bottom on tape. stay with us throughout the week for the rest of the series locks air so far to his first class cover its. closest. approach. to future flights. our team tugs to the max their show. militants have been killed in a security rate in russia's republic of chechnya in the north caucuses there's been

president runs on could do rove says the group was sent to the capitol grounds me to carry out attacks they opened fire on security forces the raid was part of a major anti terror operation that's been underway in the republic for the past few days earlier seven militants were killed including a regional terror of chief official favorite security efforts health prevent a series of atrocities planned in the area. the fukushima nuclear power plant operator in japan has admitted its one hundred schedule in cleaning up the heavily radioactive water that's floating 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 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 texas hunted region was june from the

start and that japan should abandon nuclear energy. it was very silly to build reactors on what is clearly of paul ryan and an area where there are known to be. quakes sort of. we see the result of having done that you cannot really believe that you can cage these things and 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 poorly that really we cannot afford truth or venerating because the course you can't stop it just now because that would bring the whole of the crown to a halt because it depends so much from nuclear power the fact that steam is coming out and we know the steam contains the isotope sulfur thirty five and effectively we're producing a very large quantities of radium pods 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 is always online for you with news you choose to watch there some of what we've got lined up for you right now a killing machine invades rushing waters as a second summer falls victim to a jaws attack as the same shark previously bit off of the tourist. and the checkpoint as the eurozone struggles for a solution to its crumbling currency wrong things twice about signing up saying it's not sure what it will be joining about and much more at dot com also check out i shall offer more of our video over.

now at some of the world's other main news for you this hour an indian sounds like corruption campaigner 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 who refused to go until he was given permission for his protest to continue his hunger strike in a park the news of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who gathered outside felt. the pope's planned visit to spain saw thousands protest in madrid over the cost of paying for it eight people were arrested and eleven others injured during scuffles as protesters chanted the pope's visit not with my taxes that's over the seventy million euro cost of the

trip to benefit the sixteenth visit to spain on thursday as to mark world youth day . a roadside bomb has torn through a crowded minibus in the west of afghanistan killing fourteen women and children were among the casualties it was traveling to the prompt provincial capital of herat province the area recently passed through the control of afghan forces earlier a suicide attack at a u.s. drone base in the east of the country killed two local guards the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. it's clear that over six hundred tons of oil could spill from the ruptured shell pipeline in the north sea off scotland as have divers failed to plug the leaking valve more than two hundred tons of oil have already poured into the sea in what is britain's worst spill in a decade so has a range contingencies if the worst happens but green groups say damage has already

been done and will take years to repair. now in just a few minutes we'll meet those who aren't afraid to risk their own how to protect the planet's precious life that's after a line of business update with dimitri stay with us here on r.t. . welcome to business while the crowds at the moscow ash are looked skyward on the ground more deals are being made a new joint venture has been announced between russia's ross technology and french aerospace companies south around the c.e.o. of sufferance whole business ulti the multi-million euro startup will work on state of the art navigation systems you have very few. countries into a world master of the bigger program extreme accuracy even very good you know you're receiving the. weapons i mean there is.

to all three countries worldwide so the c.p.m. . or its faults. is very very significant. way. russian grain exports may reach a record six billion dollars this year properties group tranced says that's mostly because of current high prices their culture ministry also predicts the amount of grain available for export could exceed two thousand and eight when russia had its biggest ever august producers are putting stocks on the market which have been held over the last years export ban the ban was imposed to maintain domestic supply following a severe drought. sigrid of the markets now it starts with more that crude is losing ground after climbing to the highest level numbers two weeks concerns about the global economic recovery are weighing on the price and therefore brands and

light sweet are down more than one dollar this hour and a weaker dollar is likely not providing much support. for asian stocks and low following news from wall street in tokyo exporters are needing the losses on a strong gain yet in the as those down four percent to shiva declined three percent hand saying is down one point three percent of the folks. in europe the markets are tracking losses in asia and the sell off we see shortly after the opening the dax is now down repos said cement down off the switzerland suppose some report a disappointing results it's by the senate though it is south beach people it is declining around two and a half is that this is the proving investment to expand the cold night in colombia . in moscow very similar picture that's the scene the reason to buy with all that gloom coming from europe there's a lot of selling on profit taking after a positive session on wednesday lower oil prices are not providing much support

either so if you look at some of the main movers on the market energy shares like gas problem on down of course on the lower oil prices financials like burbank also losing two point three percent therefore that stock their pricing in the recent decline in futures for the s. and p. five hundred electricity stocks bit different picture there would you. one generating company is climbing around three percent after a massive sell off in the previous months. gold is on the rise for a fourth day as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to a safe haven stocks spot price is now at around seven hundred ninety seven dollars per troy ounce it's being fueled by reports from morgan stanley and deutsche bank which have cut their forecasts for china's economic growth also and then as well of decided to nationalize its huge called reserves pushing gold futures to a record on wednesday central banks all over the world are rushing to buy into gold in order to hedge against appreciating foreign currency reserves. from the troika dialog believes gold is

a great long term opportunity in the washing nugget the russian gold stocks drops off a lake about ten percent in the last two weeks time. gold prices went up eighty percent so i think this is not fair maybe buying gold stocks right now not the best idea it's probably better to buy some liquid stocks good for those who are building it positions for me term and long term i think this is really kind of good opportunity with chance to. get some a matter of nomics that's now russian gross domestic product has risen three point seven percent in the first half of this year slightly below forecasts the government still expects the country's economy to expand by four point two percent in total this year while analysts that russia needs to work hard to meet that target small business news in fifteen minutes time i'll see if you can join me.

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