live from moscow you're watching our team with me and you sonali our top story written has sentenced two young men to four years behind bars for their riot inspired facebook group they've been charged with in signing violence but human rights campaigners are cures judges of overreacting by just going 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 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 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 charge so far two thirds have been remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes chris 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 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 the news you know the reviews. or. movements only would be the force to complete. the. country's war. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds these fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett artsy london. prime minister david cameron defended the court's sentencing saying they are sending a tough message when there's metropolitan police say they have already charged over a thousand people in connection with the riots but investigative journalist tony gosling says people at the top in the u.k. say look at their own past 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 david cameron who were

members of this elite oxford bullingdon club and i'll quote now one of the things they said back in one thousand nine hundred 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 their places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine were smashed each by these people in a pub they don't like vandals to me so they shouldn't really go lecturing the rest of us the 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 ordinary 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 for example as you gypsies did when they closed down the internet in certain places cheering the tahrir square the uprising earlier this year is that people actually come out in the streets and

they have a check anyway and i think this is being used actually as an excuse to regulate more more government interference in the way we communicate which i think would be a terrible thing. it's thought the un's human rights chief why push for syria to face the international criminal court for at least for 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 that's apparently now we're seen as a bad sign as well from now reports. the city of there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean made please i responded to the raids put up barricades it became a day city were hiding we 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 the 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 leading 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 over them. the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in cities across the country were. maybe there was some sort.

protest maybe they use the momentum to spread. but if so where have they been when the army. armed groups is just a theory invented by the still used to have an excuse to into the cities. in union to break then he saw life seems getting back to normal the markets reopened and roads just days ago were empty out again filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles too hard to find and the most obvious one is fear. syria. or the uprising may not be so clear cut globalization and less michel to standoffs king 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 making barge 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 going further that these militia and i quote aren't with heavy machine guns they say they 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 drabs 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 the 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 struggled to patch up the damage of japan's focusing on nuclear power plants it suggested the facility was doing 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. know it's been going on for about 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 labeled them as terrorists someone you

destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind is not a terrorist real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who plant trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. of.

live from moscow it's big numbers big deals and show stopping stunts at the mox twenty eleven air show in moscow and r.t. of course is there. well among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter seen here the two fifteen which state you don't wednesday it's lining up among the best in its class like america's twenty two fighter there it is showing what it can do for the crowds at mom's going to 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 russian militants and the swiss it takes a lot to put these aircraft through manic maneuvers like you're seeing as artie's very own tom barton discovered. 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 have to start somewhere. and drape 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 vista they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old

ones look at the form of a stamp or whatever but we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns i think been 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 because the most smoke when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult stressful and any work 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 hit k. k k in the shaving. be ok. ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok. the phone but i could also see some of the strains that go through. your best not to get the news for you know the 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 in some way. from bottom on take. stay with us throughout the week for the best of the series locks air so far to his first class cover its. closest. approach. showing future flight. martine thompson to the max their show. four militants have been killed in a security raid in russia's republic of chechnya in the north caucuses children president runs on can do rove says the group was sent to the capital grozny 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 for the past

few days earlier seven militants were killed including a regional terror chief official say the security efforts helped prevent a series of atrocities planned in the area. the fukushima nuclear power plant operator in japan has admitted is 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 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 text 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 fault line and in an area where there are known to be. quakes.

we see the result of having done the 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 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 halt because it depends so 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 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. dot com is always online for you with

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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 but refused to go until he was given permission for his protest to not continue his hunger strike in a park the news of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who gathered outside his cell. for. the pope's planned visit to spray and saw thousands protest in madrid over the cost of paying for it eight people were arrested and eleven others injured during a scuffle as protesters chanted the pope's visit not with my taxes that's over at the seventy million euro cost of the trip to benedict the sixteenth visit to spain on thursday is 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 travelling to the problem provincial capital of herat province the area recently passed to 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 of divers failed to plug the leaking valve more than two hundred tons of oil have already poured into the city in what is britain's worst spill in a decade shell has a range contingencies if the worst happens but green groups say damage has already been done and will take years to repair. in just a few minutes we mean those who aren't afraid to risk their own health to protect

the planet's precious life that's after a live business update with dmitri stay with us here in our city. welcome to business while the crowds at the moscow ashour look 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 the c.e.o. of whole business l.t. the multi-million euro startup will work on state of the art navigation systems you have very very few. countries into a world that must begin to provide extreme accuracy in very gay share in the. ratio of the weapons i mean there is about two or three countries worldwide a good week that see the training or the faults.

which. is very very significant credit she writes. russian grain exports may reach a record six billion dollars this year. tranced 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 when russia had its biggest ever best producers are putting stocks on the market which have been held over due to last year's export ban the ban was imposed to maintain domestic supply following a severe drought. sigler have been markets now it starts with moderate crude is losing ground up to climbing to the highest level in almost two weeks concerns about the global economic recovery are weighing on the price therefore brant and light sweet are down more than one dollar this hour and a week at the all is actually not providing much support. asian stocks are lower

following cues from wall street in tokyo exporters on leading the losses on a strong being yet mazda was down around four percent to achieve a decline three percent the hang seng is down one point three percent of the close . in europe the markets are tracking losses in asia and the sell off we see shortly after the opening the dax is now down to said cement firms are down after switzerland some reported disappointing results it's five percent lower than south beach people it is declining around two and a half to set up to prove investment to expand a coal mine in colombia. in moscow pretty similar picture of us to see no 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 take a look at some of the main movers on the market energy shares like gas problem on down of course on the low oil prices financials like burbank also losing two point

three percent therefore that stock the pricing in the recent decline in futures for the s. and p. five hundred electricity stocks bit different picture there would you care. one generating company is climbing around three percent this hour 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 safe haven stocks spot price is now at around seven hundred ninety seven dollars per ounce it's being fueled by reports from morgan stanley and deutsche bank which have cut their forecasts for china's economic growth also venezuela decided to nationalize its huge gold 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 wash and not get russian gold stocks drop something like about ten percent in the last two weeks time while gold prices

went up eight percent so i think this is not fair maybe the buying gold stocks right now in short term not the best idea it's probably better to buy some liquid stocks but for those who are building new positions for me to i'm in long term i think this is really kind of food good opportunity good chance to buy them. some macroeconomics that's now russian gross domestic product has risen three point seven percent in the first half of this year slightly below forecast the government still expects the country's economy to expand by four point two percent in total this year meanwhile analysts that russia needs to work hard to meet that target. for business news in fifteen minutes time i'll see if you can join me of course.

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i wonder if. these are the top stories on our two men are locked up and for attempting to incite riots using facebook but human rights groups accuse john jones of lying down to a portion of just to score popularity points. top flight trade at the international air so in moscow and nerves of steel for russia's premier pilots among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter the t.v. fifty which debuted on wednesday. and the syrian army reportedly fires that thousands of anti-government protesters across the country but some serious say they're glad to see tanks moving into their towns the president's claim they see security forces as protection against.