british courts are cracking down on rioters with song list of sentences but human rights groups accuse judges of overreacting by dishing out superior penalties indiscriminately. party hears the syrian voices that welcomed the army as it moves into their towns despite international calls to prosecute president assad's regime for human rights violations and that saw cities against protesters. were on the ground of the moscow regions biannual international air show are also eyes are on the sky.

it's four pm here in the russian capital of this is our team and britain has sentenced two young men to four years behind bars after their facebook posts well they said were a joke call on others to cause trouble in their hometowns well now human rights groups are sounding the alarm saying the courts are overreacting by dishing out penalties which are far too harsh as archy's ivory bennett reports it's part of the political drive for tough justice in the wake of the looting and disorder across england. 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 loopholes in our

worry is that it isn't in balance 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 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 the nand is could even be sent to jail for a thing of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one i 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 hosing interim of 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 poor to 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 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 where we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality in social media fuel revolutions in egypt and

tunisia britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot and troubles closer to home i'm very conscious there mean you know there are. only what we. don't treat. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are definit artsy london . british prime minister david cameron has defended the sentencing saying they are sending a tough message but investigative journalist tony gosling believes that the authorities must not forget 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'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 the not for the greek it club where they would smash places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine were smashed each by these people in a pub they look 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 for example if you could just do 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 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 for the un's human rights chief is preparing to call for the international criminal courts investigate serious crackdown on protesters on the u.s. says it's found a pattern pattern of systemic systematic attacks against civilians and has compiled a list of fifteen alleged perpetrators inside the government of president assad claims that military operation has now stopped resulting in the financial has been finding out the presence of government troops is not always seen as a guard side. the city of there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean made it easy as bandits plot the raids put up barricades it became a city hiding with just like hostages for more than a week reclaim 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 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 little assad's vicious crackdown are far less welcome and 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 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. the syrian army hasn't met a resistance in the cities across the country were. maybe there was some so-called

bandits among protestors and maybe they use the momentum to spread cants but if so where have they been when the army. armed groups is just a theory invented by the stude they have an excuse in the cities. in new liberated there is life seems question back to normal the markets reopened and roads bridges days ago were empty out again filled with cars but reminders of the recent struggles to hard to find and the most obvious one is fear. r t syria. israel has suffered at four consecutive shootouts that have left five dead and dozens injured of the attacks took place near its southern border with egypt with gunman opening fire on a passenger bus a private car and israeli troops let's cross live for more for a spot of policy or who is a television right now of color also full of hearts on these are all in one day at

this point what more do we know but we have confirmation of at least three incidents in the one as you say and israeli bus was fired on by gunmen using a k forty seven in a theater in couldn't an israeli patrol vehicle drove over a roadside bomb and in a good incident a private vehicle was fired at by an r.p.g. now we are hearing reports of a fourth incident but that's not clear at this stage as you can well imagine the reports sometimes come pick each other this does seem to have been some kind of shootout between the israeli army and militants but because we are receiving five people dead and twenty six people injured now this happened in five minutes well not new kitchen border hearing on the israeli prime minister's office that at least three of the gunman have been killed the israeli army is on high alert and they say that it is an orchestrated the operation is ongoing and even as we speak there is

gunfire being good in the area ok paula this is a had had happened very near the border with egypt so what could the sandwich mean for israel egypt's relations. well these really depends minister ehud barak says there's no doubt that the fire came from gaza which is which is why some people here are now hearing that there could be another israeli gaza war operation at the same time it only adds to fear that's already being expressed for several months now that the situation in the sinai peninsula is chaotic and it's one of an alkie which is the way that some israeli experts have described the situation there just last week egypt in thousands of troops to the sinai peninsula to try and militants the second time that they have done this ever since the egyptian president hosni mubarak fell and this is an operation that is being supported by israel which is increasingly talking not about wiccans being smuggled into gaza that but what israeli officials call launch shipments of all denies

military operations caches of equipment that are making me wait into gaza and of course the question is being asked why was all not better prepared but you need to remember that the israelis have some border is a long border it is not as clearly quickly patrolled as other borders in this country because of the israeli egyptian peace treaty and as i mentioned earlier the fact that some people say that this was so well orchestrated and so sophisticated is leading here is leading some one to say that there is some kind of foreign involvement some kind of foreign expertise in what we've witnessed today all right thank you very much for that artie's policy or bringing you the latest from israel thanks again. who are turning to the skies now which are particularly noisy the slurs they have a moscow region the a max international air show is hosting all sorts of magnificent men and their flying machines and all the cobra is there for our two to bring us up to speed with the latest developments.

one of the hard lights of the third day of max two thousand and eleven air show is this helicopter the helicopters made its name during the soviet 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 its range of such helicopters to deploy to afghanistan let's check it out from inside experts say that it's very easy to operate this helicopter especially for our gun violence many of them were educated by a soviet flight instructors. we will be able to check out the inside of the cabin just moments as potential buyers are already here to check it out for themselves i wouldn't go. well of course this is not the only military aircraft that is the headliner of this year's air show monks t. fifty is another one line jobs together with america's f.

twenty two and a half thirty five fighter jets both the fifth generation 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've still kept it secret we do know is that it's most prominent feature is going to be that it's very difficult to detect it by raiders but of course this air show is not just about military aircraft and we're talking big money a lot of deals to be sealed during the next three days including today of course as well we're surrounded by hundreds of warnings an air bosses alongside sue boise. and hours twenty one so we're expecting the billion dollar deals to be sealed for the next couple of days but of course for the general audience the most exciting part of the show is aerobatics russian nights performing for them together

with the. pilot sounds of one of our correspondents but i actually found out what it's like to be on one of those planes during the performance. engines check. instruments check. runway check. and then it's take up with a russian aerobatic display team b. as moves their nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere. andre the training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first thought 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 it was no longer an instructor want back it was unforgettable takeoff you're on your own controlling the plane and when you land you've done it i think you're

a real pilot at that point. yes moves are always trying to hold their maneuvers they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones for me but they're the work of a book we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns are you peepin on the floor and that's true of a russian came up with the loot and all the other stands 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 leave the cockpit. you can squeeze a gallon of swig from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely different and stressful and anyone with fuel or through a stove with that gut wrenching fear 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. in it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned. if you can. kill the king. the. king. can. keep it. but i could also see some of the strains that go through. there's no ticket but if you know he might speak for the crowds it's eerie like robotics arm to shoot at the

pilots it's always a difficult job that a terrorist a pilot has to show his skill and the puti of flight so next time you look up at the speeding planes spirit full of the pilots and some make. some bottom. i'll do stay with r.t. throughout the day as we bring you more updates and live coverage from the max two thousand and eleven international air show in moscow region. how the czech republic is the latest in a new continent to back away from the struggling euro zone say joining now would be an appropriate well it's just the latest country to be scared off the debt ridden single current. see there's some even ignoring legal obligations to sign up well for more on this we can start with a national expert passing the joining us live from michael thanks very much for joining us so what's behind this so growing skepticism towards the year is it a crisis of confidence jumping on the bandwagon of being afraid or are they going

back to the drawing board and reassessing the fundamentals oh look i think this is returning to the fundamentals i mean essentially the reason people want to join the single currency in the first place was because of c. the the idea that they could trade in a single currency across borders and the dark would be a hard trading currency block what we've seen in the course of the last number of months i mean actually going over a year or more knowledge has been an increasing number of summits various bailouts every time we end up with this chorus of people telling us that everything's over and we've got frankly a ground opera of the euro that's turning into a farce everybody outside of the european union elite understands that the euro is under incredible pressure and therefore our government with the czech republic will the prime minister is being very pragmatic he's sitting looking at the idea that it's going to cost his country three to maybe ten or fifteen billion euros to join the euro in one go. if you've got the opportunity to join

a private members club and suddenly you see that the swimming pool is broken don the tennis courts look as if they're in disrepair and some people are telling you that the bailiffs are going to come in and actually try and close the club down i'm not sure you want to pay that sort of membership thing where they're there so one side of the coin is now on the other hand if they are to be pragmatic as well given that germany and other e.u. nations are major trade partners is this lack of public playing a risky game by waiting out well actually look at a couple of things i mean first of all to actually join the euro anyway the czech republic would have to join the exchange rate mechanism which means that it's going to be at least two or three years before they would physically be members. the currency per se so it's not terribly risky for them at the moment hitting one finger in the air and saying we're going to see which way the wind blows and then reassess what goes on knight you're quite right of course germany is a very vital trading partner amongst other western european nations with the czech

republic and their exports foreign direct investors big companies like samsung and other korean coal mines amongst others very much want to see the ability to harness the benefits of the single currency but there's no point in joining something where it's actually currently in intensive care and if someone switches off the life support system it could die ok looking at it on the big picture here opinion what do you think will happen soon with the euro in the wake of the crisis and this growing mistrust basically towards it well look i mean what we saw the other day was really one of the most pathetic show rods in european union history i mean with this meeting of the fabulous marco's the brothers mrs merkel and mr sarkozy and frankly they looked like hunter mime villains they didn't look anything remotely approaching statesman like financially credible leaders the e.u. needs to get its act together it needs to cut the cancer and get rid of places like greece and through the noise of the euro it needs to create

a new unstable system and it needs to adhere to the rules because all of the euro zone members have essential broken the rules in some way shape or form the markets need confidence this is not caused by markets thinking that they want to destroy the euro was a reason for some form of gondolas it's totally completely in the hands of people like mr sarkozy mr sarkozy mrs merkel and indeed all of those euro zone leaders they need to lead they need to demonstrate leadership and they need to demonstrate strength otherwise the euro we're talking about and hearing to the rules you know you are nearly joined countries are legally obliged to do so as are the single currency once they meet the criteria. maybe that will influence the absence of of the other states who are members of the e.u. but not the euro zone look what's going to happen here is i mean you can always manage to not quite make it so that you're not quite totally one hundred percent in adherence to every last line coleman clause of the rules so therefore clearly we've

already seen the czech republic and indeed the polls are very much backpedaling if you look at opinion polls the government are being told in places like poland that actually now it looks as if a majority of poles want to keep the polish what it in fact there was that there was an opinion poll a couple of months ago where i think ten or fifteen percent of polish citizens suggested that actually the girl who soon should join the hard currency polish what because their currency was better so new government is going to go forward and every different is going to be able to find a way to of void meeting the rules framework through some tiny transgression of the rules that doesn't ultimately affect their all for all fiscal health and of course don't forget that's a very important point here why would a country like poland with only fifty two fifty three percent of debt to g.d.p. or indeed a country like the czech republic thirty four percent debt to g.d.p. they've got one fifth of the debt to g.d.p.

of greece why on earth do they want to join a club that's already being bankrupted by the least organized and worst members of the organization they're not going to do it they can find easily a way to avoid it rather thank you very much for your analysis there that was patrick young investment adviser talking to us live from monica thank you. all right well it's time to look at some other world news this hour thousands of people have gathered to protest the pope's visit to spain angry that the cost of the trip is coming out of taxpayers' pockets eight people were arrested and eleven others injured during clashes between police and activists pope benedict the sixteenth is visiting spain to mark world youth day now the government has not admitted exactly how much it's costing but reports suggest it's more than seventeen million euros. to pakistan now where a fresh spate of violence over the past twenty four hours in the city of karachi has left at least thirty nine people dead many of the victims were found shot

stuffed in socks and dumped on the streets and a former member of the country's ruling party was gunned down as he entered a restaurant for a post plastic meal of the killings are thought to be linked to ongoing rivalries between gangs and political parties vying for power. turkish warplanes have attacked sixty eight sites in northern iraq targeting the kurdistan workers party it comes a day after nine turkish soldiers were killed and over a dozen injured by a rebel group in hockey the province close to the iraqi border kurdish militants have been carrying out attacks against turkey for over two decades demanding the town of me in the area. where we have more news videos and all the latest updates on our website that's our view dot com and here's what you can have complied on life right now and then exclusive interview to our team be a prime minister of the office of public policy on vale's response for the presidential elections describes how democracy is taking place. and just when you

thought it was safe to go back in the water two people are savaged shark attacks in russia as far east within twenty four hours. now scientists say they've lost contact with an advanced russian telecom satellite that was launched early on thursday it's one hundred fifty million dollar xpress am for a border proton and rocket from kazakhstan and should now be reaching orbit bought some reports say it's off to the factory now the russian space agency is investigating possible malfunctions the satellite was set to be one of europe's most powerful and provide coverage for across almost all of russia and the c.i.s. countries. i will be back shortly with

a recap of our top stories right now it's time for the business news. oh welcome to business here now and he thanks for joining me this hour while the crowds of the air show look sky word on the ground more deals are being made and your joint venture has been announced between russia as well stick knology and french air space companies suffer from the c.e.o. of suffer untold business r.t.d. multimillion your start up work on state of the art education systems. so you have very be. a parent reasons or. must feel that by your. program you do it makes prima caressing the baby give him no b.s. brass prescience hope the weapons. very good would go to all three countries why he did beat with c.p.m. to the power of the people from the sun. he was very very

cheeky became the right to do what he's. who is losing ground up to climbing to the highest level in almost two weeks concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on the price however the weaker dollar is given some support brand lens is trading at over one hundred and nine dollars a barrel while the blue sky is in the wrong in seven eighty five dollars a barrel of us dollars in europe the markets are a drop or drop in deeper with no positive news to latch in to us and that from the side down up to switzerland's hold some report of disappointing results it's five percent lower the sound mining stocks are down with i'm going mark on those a three percent b. if people are extended to pining creep over three percent this hour after the investment to expand a coal mine in colombia and in moscow investors see no reason to buy the company to take these enough to have a positive session on wednesday lower oil prices are not supporting it or. here's

the stop shot of the market movers on the rise it's most of the blue chips are heavily in the red energy majors are losing support from cool gazprom is down one point six percent backing stocks are also lower as investors uprising the recent decline in futures s. and p. five hundred electricity stocks are trying to rally the heavy sell off the prospects. out of business for this all but to stay with us go ahead lining up next .

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