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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 by dishing out severe penalties to score popularity points bennett reports they are 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
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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 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 very unwise the move to remove people from housing interim move benefits because actually if we are seeing that some of the crime that
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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 i mean you know they're really poor or. movements and we would be the force to. the authorities in
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those countries we're trying to walk. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds this fighting fire with fire it only found the flames of civil disorder after bennett's. london 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 and 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 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 ninety six was that they smashed the place up and boris set fire
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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 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 and 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 during the tahrir square the uprising earlier this year is that people actually come out in the street so they have a chance anyway 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
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a terrible thing now let's start the u.n. so human rights chief might push for syria to face 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 that started in the march or president assad claims is a military operation has now stopped even so the presence of troops is apparently not always seen as a bad sign 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 nightly bandits blocked the raids put up barricades it became a case of hiding we were just like hostages for more than a week claimed biami forty 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 measure officials are saying operation is
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now over that the city has been freed from armed groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiter's but in other parts of the country the troops live 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 forty 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 noise of the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in the cities across the country where. maybe there was some so-called bended protest and maybe they use the momentum to spread cants but if so where have they been when the army. armed groups is just
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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 angst to hard to find and the most obvious one is fear or if national t.v. syria. and the origins of 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 in daraa in the southern city of daraa and what we have is islamists gunmen salafi as well as muslim brotherhood gun.
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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 with heavy machine guns and see tanks now since way are not peaceful civilian protesters with heavy machine guns so that the question we have to ask ourself who is the source of this killing what are the what are the underlying causes of this of the of this insurrection. that was the director of the a center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky and still ahead in the program for you as emergency teams struggle to cough up the damage of the past for pushing a nuclear power plant it's not just of the facility it was doing before it was hit
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by the earthquake and tsunami. takes 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 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 label them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind is not the parents real people were green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the
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weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. of it. all come back you're watching our t.v. now it's big numbers big deals at a show stopping stunts at the max two thousand and eleven air show in moscow all artes not bad at all because i was 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 helicopter has made its name during the soviets war in afghanistan the am i seventeen that is soon to return to the country in order to help restore security there as nature is going to buy over twenty of such
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helicopters to deploy to afghanistan let's check it out from the inside 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. we will be able to check out the insides of the cabin just a few moments as potential buyers are already here to check it out for themselves now we can go. well of course this is not the only military aircraft is the headliner of this year's airshow marks the fifty is another one line doves together with america's f. twenty two and thirty five fighter jets over the fifth generation t fifty has been kept a secret for a very long time it was displayed for the first time on wednesday but no one was able to get close to it as its features i still kept a secret we do know is that state's most prominent feature is going to be that it's very difficult to detect it by any raiders but of course this air show is not just
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about military aircraft we're talking big money a lots of deals to be sealed during the next three days including today of course as well we're surrounded by hundreds of warnings and air bosses alongside sukhoi superjet and asked to twenty one so we're expecting a billion dollar deals to be sealed within the next couple of days but of course who are the general audience the most exciting part of the show is aerobatics russian knights will be performing for them together with the troops off 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. and then it's takeoff for the russian aerobatics display team.
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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 to my back it was unforgettable takeoff you 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 never knew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones looking for my best tempered or whatever don't let me come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns out the pins on the four nested of a russian came up with the look and all the other stunts are based on the loop the
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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 rikard there for the most slow look at you when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit what if 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 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
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i returned ok wish it would be ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok cool but i could also see some of the streams that go for. good there's no ticket but if you know he might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't social to 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 pilots in some way. from bottom to. all do stay with us throughout the week for the best of this year's max airshow for our days of first
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class coverage. hands full and. closest. approach. show the future flights on. our team types to the max their show. before militants have been killed in a security raid in russia's republic of chechnya in the north caucasus well chechen president at arms on could lead off says the group was sent to the capital grozny to carry out attacks they opened fire on a security force says 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 a whole territory official say the security efforts helped prevent a series of atrocities planned in the area. now the fukushima nuclear power plant
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operator in japan has admitted its behind schedule in cleaning up the heavily radioactive water that's now flooding the facility the reactors were severely damaged following the earthquake and tsunami and marsh and has been leaking radioactive material since 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 bought after the tsunami swept through it's raising concerns that the plant built in an active tectonic region was doomed from the start that japan it should abandon nuclear energy. it was very silly to build reactors on on what what is clearly a poor 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 in and not to have these sorts of accidents
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and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying in the consequences in the so pulling but really we cannot afford to choose this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it just no because that would bring the whole of japan to a halt because it depends so much from nuclear the fight the steam is coming out and we know the steam contains so for thirty five effectively we're producing very large quantities of radionuclides all the time and i 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 the news you choose to watch and here is some of what we've got lined up right now a killing machine and bates russian waters as a second swimmer falls victim to would also attack it's all the same shark previously bit off a tourist off. the checks point of the euro zone struggles for
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a solution to its climate currency prague thanks twice about signing up saying it's not sure what it would be joining that's our to dot com and you can head to our youtube channel for more of our video reports. it's. the. let's look at some of the world's other main news this hour and india the anticorruption campaigner who is on hunger strike has struck a deal with police to move his protest from behind bars had been allowed to leave jail but refused to go until he was given permission to for his protest will now
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continue his longer strike in a park the rays of his release was greeted with cheers from hundreds of supporters who had gathered outside his cell. 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 the scuffles as protesters chanted the post visit with my taxes over the seventy million viewer cost of the trip. a roadside bomb has stormed through a crowded minibus in the west of afghanistan killing fourteen women and children were among the casualties it was traveling to the capital of head out of province area recently passed to the control of afghan forces earlier
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a suicide attack every 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 in the north sea off of scotland about diverse fail to plug the leak involved 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 a 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 or took off of florida 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
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the 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 the acting leader of the about the young country's early election following the death of its president that's after a business update that's me tree. hello and welcome to business while the crowds at the moscow air show look skyward on the ground war deals are being made a new joint venture has been announced between russia's technology and french aerospace company stuff wrap the c.e.o. stuff around all business out see 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 master all that by the clergy provide extreme accuracy and maybe get a share in the. ratio of the weapons. there is
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a god to all three countries why it's a good way to get the training or a false you. believe is very very significant strategy wise russian grain exports may reach a record six billion dollars this year crop producer rosado chance says that's mostly because of current high prices that are culture ministry also for the x. the amount of grain available for export could exceed two thousand and eight levels when russia had its biggest ever harvest producers of 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. move to the markets now and crude is losing ground after climbing to its highest level in almost two weeks concerns about did low economic recovery a weighing on the price and the weaker dollar is not giving that much of the support of brant is down on more than one dollar the south
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a light sweet one dollar thirty seven cents. and year of the markets are dropping deeper and deeper with no positive news to latch on to cement firms are down i'll do switzerland's wholesome report a disappointing results it's more than five percent off the south mining stocks also down with anglo-american losing three percent between billiton is declining three point three percent the south after approving investment to expand the coal mine in colombia. and moscow investors also do not see any reason to vice or profit taking is in the outer poles obsession on wednesday low oil prices are not providing any support either as a snapshot of the market movers on the my six gazprom a schooling vehicle one point six per cent of this hour as are the end. she may just as well have and can financial stocks are also suffering pressures by bag down 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 selloff in the past months. gold is on the rise for
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a fourth day as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to safe havens the spot price is now is around just under eight hundred dollars per ounce it's being fueled by reports from morgan stanley and deutsche bank which have cut their forecast 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 the gold in order to hedge against appreciating foreign currency reserves. from troika dialog believes the gold is a great long term opportunity in the russian market. russians. drop something like about ten percent in the last two weeks time while 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 blood for those who are building
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in positions for me term and long term i think this is really kind of food good opportunity good chance to buy them. and move to some micro konami figures now russian gross domestic product has risen three point seven percent for this year slightly below the forecast however the government's aim is still four point two percent by the end of this year meanwhile and with russia moves to work hard to meet that target. he will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update next with .
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welcome back you're watching our t.v. and here are the main stories we're covering for you today two men are locked up in britain for attempting to inside riots using facebook but human rights groups accuse judges of weighing down disproportionate justice to score popularity points . the syrian army reportedly fires of thousands of anti-government protesters across the country but some syrians say they are glad to see tanks moving into their towns residents claim they see security forces as protection from armed gangs . and top flight trade at the international air show in moscow and the nerves of steel for russia's premier pilots among those stealing the limelight is the latest russian stealth fighter.

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