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it's two pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r t now to our top story britain has sentenced two young men to four years behind bars for their right inspired facebook group well they've been charged with inciting violence but human rights campaigners accuse judges of overreacting are dishing out severe penalties to score popularity points as bennett reports they are the only wants 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 in our worry is that it is an imbalance and a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for

a grievous bodily harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some form of sexual assault so it seems to me that. there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate eritrean not 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 charged so far two thirds have been remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for the 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 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 pour to society not feel important work immunities and 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 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 but when

troubles closer to home i'm very conscious i mean you know the. poor. only would. we. be a. country. 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 are definit artsy london for london's metropolitan police say they've already charged over a thousand people in connection with the riots prime minister david cameron defended the sentencing saying they send a tough message but investigative journalist tony gosling says that people at the top in the u.k. should look at their own past before condemning others. i think it's a bit rich coming from david cameron. and the government i mean who many of whom are we talking about george osborne boris johnson 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 in oxford a drinking club where they smashed places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine or smashed each by these people and 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 you to please do when they close down the internet in certain places cheering the tahrir square the

uprising earlier this year it's a 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 more government interference in the way we communicate which i think would be a terrible thing now with the u.n. so human rights chief my push for syria to close the international criminal court for its legal crackdown on protesters over eight hundred people are believed to have been killed across the country since the government moved to quell the uprising got started in march or president assad claims is military operation has now stopped and even so the presence of troops is apparently not always seen as a bad side of financial reports. the city over there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean lightly as bandits plot their rights put up barricades and again in a city hiding with just like hostages for more than a week military claims beyond

a fault against armed groups that have taken control of the city and had been terrorizing its residents. told of the syrian army out living in the city of the store near the iraqi border as officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from own groups as you can see here the welcome in the soldiers as the waiters but in other parts of the country the troops little 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 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 over the lords of the syrian army has met a resistance in cities across the country were maybe in

a war some so-called bandits among protestors and maybe they use the momentum to spread cancer but if so where have they been when the army or the armed groups is just a theory invented by the state they have an excuse in the cities. in new liberated there is so life seems getting back to normal the markets reopened and roads that just days ago were emptied out and filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles too hard to find and the most obvious one is fear and reflection r.t. syria. i think origins and the uprising may not be so clear cut globalization analyst michel chossudovsky told our team that some of these so-called peaceful protesters are packing some serious firepower i've been following this day by day since it started in march in in daraa in the southern city of daraa and what we

have here is is slimmest. salafi as well as muslim brotherhood. shooting at civilians as well as sure to get police and israeli sources actually could learn that these militia and i quote. armed with heavy machine guns they say the 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 machine guns and see tank rounds now since way more peaceful civilian protesters on with heavy machine guns so that the question we have to ask yourself who is the source of this killing what are the what all the underlying causes of this of the of this insurrection. that was the director of the

assumption for research on globalization michel chossudovsky and it's still ahead in the program for you as emergency teams struggle to cough up the damage of the past for pretty much nuclear power plants it's not just at the facility it was doing before it was hit by the earthquake and tsunami. is age fifteen to twenty million years for a planet to recover from a major of the planet is time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty one years and certainly 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 work green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their pub scout troops that's the. sound. of. welcome back you're watching r t now it's big numbers big deals and a show stopping stunts of max two thousand and eleven air show in moscow all artes all have all the guys there to tell us who's stealing the show. one of the hard lights of the third day of mac's two thousand and eleven air show is this helicopter the helicopters made its name during the soviets war in

afghanistan the am i seventeen and a soon to return to the country in order to help restore security there as nature is going to go over its range of such helicopters to deploy to afghanistan let's check it out from inside the experts say that it's very easy to operate this helicopter especially for our gun violence many of them were educated by the soviet flight instructors. will be able to check out the insides of the cabin just a moment so special buyers are already here to check it out for themselves and we can go. well of course this is not the only military aircraft is the headliner or this year's airshow marks the fifty is another one line dots together with america's f. twenty two and thirty five fire jets over the fifth generation jeep fifty has been kept a secret for a very long time it was displayed for the first time wednesday but no one was able

to get close to it as its teachers i still kept a secret we do know is that state's most prominent feature is going to be it's very difficult to detect to a raiders but of course this air show is not just about military aircraft we're talking big money a lot of deals to be seals during the next three days including today of course as well we're surrounded by hundreds of warnings and air bosses alongside su who is the bridges and twenty one so we're expecting the billion dollar deals to be sealed for the next couple of these but of course for the general audience the most exciting part of the show is aerobatics russian knights will be performing for them together with hoops of pilots and one of our correspondents the water actually found out what it's like to be on one of those planes during the performance. engine. instrument. runway check.

and then it's takeoff of the russian and back to display team the as models then i'm first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere. and draw a train to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first flight was a solo 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 it was no longer an instructor one 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. yes moves are always trying to hold them knew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones marketed for me but never the work of

a company come up with stunts and been researched them but it often turns out if you've been done before and this kind of 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. because they're almost swear work and when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely different than the stressful and any work you'll go through. so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in my ears 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

meters apart. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not to see to it i returned. ok to hate me ok ok ok ok ok ok ok cool but i can also see some of the strains that go from. here there's no script but if you know the mites before the crowds put serial acrobatics on social to 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 move couple of speedy planes spirit full of pilots and scientists. from bottom to.

all do stay with us throughout the week for the best of this year's max air show for our days of first class coverage. hands full in the. closest. approach. plane schonchin flight. our team chancellor to the much their show. four militants have been killed in a security raid in russia's republic of chechnya in the north caucasus chechen president comes on could lead off says the group was sent to the capital grozny to carry out attacks they opened fire on the security forces the raid was part of a major anti terror all that has been underway in the republic for the past few

days earlier seven militants were killed including the whole territory official say the security efforts helped prevent a series of atrocities planned in the area. by the fukushima nuclear power plant operators in japan has admitted it's behind schedule in cleaning up the heavily radioactive water that's now flooding the facility reactors were severely damaged following the earthquake and tsunami in march and has been leaking radioactive material sense for workers also reported radioactive steam emerging from cracks in the ground under the facility new evidence ice also emerged suggesting most of the damage was done it during the travel and not after the tsunami swept through it's raising concerns that the plan to build an active tectonic region was doomed from the start at the palace should abandon nuclear energy. it was very silly to build reactors on on water what is clearly a portland and an area where there are known to be. quakes and

we see the results coming from that you cannot really believe that you can cage these things and expect them not to come out and then not have these sorts of accidents and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying in the consequences than this so calling it really we cannot afford to choose this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it does not because that would bring the plan to a halt because it depends so so much from the fact the steam is coming out and we know the steam contains the isotope so 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 it's not being adequately reported by the authorities in japan or indeed in the its own international atomic energy agency. l r t dot com is always online for you with the news you choose to watch and here's some of what we've got lined up right now

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corruption campaigner who is on hunger strike has struck a deal with police to move his protest from behind bars to have been allowed to leave jail but refused to go until he was given permission for his protest mohill now continue his longer strike in a park the maze of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who had gathered outside his cell. now pope benedict has arrived in the spanish capital to mark world youth day and you're looking at live pictures from madrid at the pope's visit to madrid saw thousands of protests on the streets over the cost of paying for it eight people were arrested and eleven others injured during scuffles as protesters chanted their close visit knowledge of my taxes over the seventy million viewer costs of the trip . a roadside bomb historic through a crowded minibus in the west of ghana stan killing fourteen were going to children

were among the casualties it was traveling to the capital of head out province area recently passed to the control of afghan forces earlier a suicide attack at a u.s. base in the east of the country killed two local guards the taliban claimed responsibility for that attack. now it's fear that over a six hundred tons of oil could spill from the ruptured shell oil pipeline to the north sea off of scotland about if diverse fail to plug the leak vault more than two hundred tons of oil have already poured into the sea and what is britain's worst spill in a decade shell has arranged contingencies if the worst happens with green groups say the damage has already been done and will take years to repair. scientists say they've lost contact with an advanced russian telecom satellite that was launched early on thursday the two hundred fifty million dollar express took off

and brought a proton and a rocket from kazakhstan and should now be reaching orbit but some reports say it's off trajectory the russian space agency is investigating the possible malfunctions a satellite was planned to be one of europe's most powerful and provide coverage across almost all of russia and the c.i.s. countries and in just a few minutes we talked to be acting leader of the about the young country's early election following the death of its president that's after a business up to its military. thanks tessa hello and welcome to business santi while the crowds at the moscow asho look skyward on the ground what deals are being made a new joint venture has been announcements wien russia's ross technology and french air a space company stuff wrap zero sufferance old business r.t. the multi-million euro startup will work on state of the arts and navigation systems you have very very few. countries in the world that

must do all that by the provider extreme accuracy very gay sure know your precision of the weapons i eat dairy about two or three countries well why it's a good people who get there basically young training or if all the stuff you try and wish we had here is very very significant budget wise. russian grain exports may reach a record six billion dollars this year coproducer recycled trans 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 acre levels when russia had its biggest ever harvest producers are putting stocks on the market which have been held over ju-ju last year's export ban a ban was imposed to maintain domestic supply following a severe drought. move through the markets now and crude is nearing ground after

climbing through its highest level in almost two weeks concerns about the global economic recovery a weighing on the price and the week a dollar is not giving that much of a support brant is down more than one dollar the south light sweet wonderful thirty seven cents. and year of the arkansas dropping deeper and deeper with no positive news to latch on to cement from the down of this wood simmons wholesome report a disappointing results that's more than five percent off the south ninety six also down with anglo-american losing three percent each week bill is it climbing three point three percent this hour after approving investment to expand the coal mine in colombia. and moscow investors also do not see any reason to buy sir profit taking is in doubt circles obsession on the runs they lower oil prices are not providing any support either as a snapshot of the market movers on the nice rights gas promised will indeed a one point six per cent of this hour as are the energy majors where i am can financial stocks are also soft rain pressures by baghdad with three percent as

investors are pricing in the recent declines and futures for the s. and p. five hundred electricity stocks are trying to rally after a heavy sell off in the past months. gold is on the rise for a fourth day as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to safe havens the spot price is now is around the just under eight hundred dollars per ounce being fueled by reports from morgan stanley and which are banks which have cut their forecasts for china's economic growth also going to decided to nationalize its huge called reserves pushing interest to a record on wednesday central banks all over the world are rushing to the gold in order to hedge against appreciating foreign currency reserves eager for high from for dialogue believes the gold is the great long term opportunity in russia not. the russian drops off a leg about ten percent in the last two weeks time while all gold prices

went up eighty percent so i think this is not fair maybe. 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 positions for me time and long term i think this is really kind of for a good opportunity a good chance to buy them. and some of the some micro can only figures now russian gross domestic product has risen for the point seven percent growth probably hear that in slightly below the forecast however the government's aim is still four point two percent by the end of this year my amorous robert russian moves to work hard to meet that time it's. right in south he will be back in fifteen minutes time with not a task that is next with the headlines just able to come. hungry

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