under the. lights. marching. through the air show. british courts are cracking down on rioters with some stiff sentences but human rights groups accuse judges of overreacting by dishing out severe penalties and discriminately. party here's the syrian voices that welcomed the army as it moves into their towns despite attempts or national calls to prosecute president assad's regime for human rights violations and atrocities against protesters. on the ground at the moscow region's biannual international air show where all eyes are on the sky. and we're in business are looking at the financial side of maxwell russia russia technology and french

aerospace companies up front see the deal work on the state of the art navigation system join you for a full business full of an impression that. has just suffered five pm here in the russian capital and you're watching our t.v. now britain has sentenced to young men to four years behind bars after their facebook posts which they said were a joke called others to cause trouble in their hometown well now human rights groups are sounding the alarm saying the courts are overreacting by dishing out penalties which are far too harsh a bet 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 and 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. there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory not actually the values are more serious crimes the government's encouraged cause 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 reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes this is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless is their punishment with local governments taking away their houses but many say it's all simply cause more harm than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from housing internet 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 puerto society not feeling proud of our communities in these measures are actually going to push people further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime for 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 she musea britain called it to mark crissy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very current. we knew. who. we thought. was. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it spears this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are definit are under. the british prime minister david cameron has defended the seven sings say they are sending a tough message but investigative journalist tony gosling believes the authorities

must not forget their our past for 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 baby 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 to the toilets i think they should take a close look at themselves and their club they used to be part of a not for the drinking club where they would smash the places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine were smashed each by these people in a park they looked 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 ordinary communications and those kinds of communications which involve incitement to riot into other kinds of criminal behavior well one of the ironies of this is as you try and restrict these internet

sites what happens is that actually if you if you for example as you pictures 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 streets when they have a chance 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. and the un's human rights chief is preparing to call for the international criminal court to investigate seriously done protesters well the u.n. says it's found a pattern of systematic attacks against civilians and has compiled a wrist of fifty alleged perpetrators inside the government of president assad the military operation has now start but starting as many are financial has been finding out the presence of government troops is not always seen as a bad sign. the city of there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last

few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean my family's eyes bandits blocked the raids put up barricades it became a case city were hiding just like hostages for more than a week reclaim the 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 iraqi border. 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 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 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 than. the syrian army hasn't met any 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 carrots but if so where have they been when the army here. armed groups is just a theory invented by the state they have an excuse in the cities. in new liberated there is or life seems question back to normal the markets reopened and roads just days ago were empty are again filled with cars but reminders of the recent struggles arms too hard to find and the most obvious one is fear. syria. a globalization analyst michel chossudovsky says the fire power some of the

protesters have obtained raises questions about their motives and about where the weapons have come from 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 islamists and salafi as well as muslim brotherhood go. shooting at civilians as well as should be good 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 not a protest movement because that seems to be the the media consensus but then they say the protesters are with heavy machine guns and. now since way not peaceful civilian protesters armed with heavy machine guns so the question we have to ask

ourselves who is the source of this killing one of the one of the underlying causes of this hope it of this insurrection. israel has suffered a number of consecutive shootouts sort of left five dead and dozens injured when the attacks took place near its southern border with egypt with a gunman opening fire on a possum for abbas a private car and israeli troops marquees correspondent paula sneer isn't tell of the of with more. and israeli bass was fired on by gunmen using a k forty seven in a separate incident and israeli patrol vehicle drove over a roadside bomb and in a weird incident a private vehicle was fired at by an r.p.g. now we are hearing reports of a fourth incident but this is 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 at this stage with because we are receiving our people dead and twenty six people injured now this happened in

southern israel not thoughtful new direction border we're hearing from the israeli prime minister's office that at least three of the gunman has been killed israeli army is on high alert and they say that this is an it is an orchestrated of course to create an operation the fire is ongoing while the israeli defense minister in iraq says there's no doubt that the fire came from gaza which is which is why some people get on are fearing that there could be another israeli gaza war operation at the same time it only adds to the fear that's already being expressed for several months now that the situation in the sinai peninsula is chaotic and it's sort of an alkie which is the way that some israeli experts have described the situation there just last week egypt and thousands of troops to the sinai peninsula to try and the militants the second time that they have done this ever since the egyptian president hosni mubarak felt and this is an operation that is being supported by israel which is increasingly talking not about wiccans being smuggled into gaza that a lot israeli officials call

a lot shipments of organized military operations has shades of equipment that are making their way into gaza and also question is being asked why i was on the base of them paid for this but you need to remember that israeli egyptian border is a long border it is not as we 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 so. i'm here to say that there is some kind of poem in both and i'm kind of going it in what we witnessed today. and still ahead for you this hour thanks but no thanks would you assume you can please turn their backs on the single currency doesn't just encourage will fight for survival. or turning to the skies now which are particularly noisy this thursday in the moscow region of the max international air show is hosting all sorts of i've never seen them and they're flying machines and all the cobra is there for us to bring us

up to speed with the latest developments. 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 soviet war in afghanistan that am i seventeen that is soon to return to the country in order to help restore security there as nato is going to buy over its range of such helicopters to deploy to afghanistan let's check it out from inside that's pretty 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 a moment so as potential buyers are already here to check it out for themselves i would go. well of course this is not the only military aircraft that is the headliner of this year's air show monks key fifty is another one lined

together with america's f. twenty two and thirty five fighter jets all 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 still kept it secret what we do know is that its most prominent feature is going to be that it's. difficulty detected by raiders but of course this airshow 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 an air boss says alongside the ways that we're jet and asked to enter one so we're expecting a billion dollar deals to be sealed within the next couple of days but of course for the general audience the most exciting part of the show is aerobatics russian

knights performing for them together with the. pilot sounds of one of our correspondents the partner actually found out what it's like to be one going of those planes during the performance. engine check. instruments check. runway check. and then it's takeoff for the russian aerobatic display team b. as moves then nine first class pilots are performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere. and brave the training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough but still remembers his first one was so 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 who wanted back

it was unforgettable takeoff you're on your own controlling the plane then when you learned you've done it i think you're a real pilot at that point. yes moves are trying to hold the maneuvers they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones looking for me but never the work of a book we come up with stone and been researched but it often turns out if you've been gone before mystery of a russian came up with the look i'm told. we understand sir 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 with the most smoke when you leave the cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of swig from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely different and stressful and anyone but you'll go through it so with that gut wrenching fear ringing in my ears i was told it was mine to 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 the seat as i returned to. k k. k k. k. k. k k.

but i could also see some of the strains that go through. there's no ticket but if you know the might be for the crowds serial acrobatics aren't to shoot at the pilots it's always a difficult job that a terrorist a pilot has to show his skill and the beauty of flight so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilot in some way. from bottom on to. other stay with r.t. throughout the day as we bring you more updates on live coverage of the last two thousand and eleven international air show on the moscow region. hands on. approach. shape the future flights i. largely takes to the max air show.

now the czech republic is the latest e.u. country to back away from the struggle euro zone. now would be inappropriate well it's just the latest country to be scared off a debt laden single currency and some even ignoring legal obligations to sign up only three of twelve states that have joined the e.u. since two thousand and four have adopted the euro and it comes after angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy call for ruth of a central economic body which would ensure euro zone members more financial responsibility that's the national expert patrick young says european leaders are quite forgets risking the whole currency. the reason people want to join the single currency in the first place was because of safety the idea that they could trade in a single currency across borders and that that would be a hard truth in currency block what we've seen in the course of the last number of months i mean actually going over a year or more now it has been an increasing number of summers various bailouts

every time we end up with this chorus of people telling us that everything's over and we've thought frankly our 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 countries like the czech republic thirty four percent get to gayety they've got one 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 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 might 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 of the century 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 vandalism tranquilly completely in the hands of people like mr sarkozy mrs merkel. all of those your resume leaders they need to lead they need to demonstrate leadership and they need to demonstrate strength otherwise you're. ok now to some other world news this hour thousands of people have gathered in madrid to notice the pope's visit to spain angry that the cost of the trip is coming out of taxpayers' pockets eight people were arrested in the eleven others injured during clashes between police and that service better so the sixteenth is visiting spring to mark world youth day the government has not admitted exactly how much it's costing the reports suggest it's more than seventeen million euro. to pakistan our fresh rate 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 tortured shot stuffed in sacks 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 fasting meal the killings are thought to be rent to ongoing rivalries between gangs and political parties vying for power. turkish warplanes have attacked sixty sites in northern iraq targeting the kurdistan workers party comes a day after nine turkish soldiers were killed and over a dozen injured by a rebel group it had clearly province that's close to the iraqi border kurdish militants have been carrying out attacks against turkey for over two decades demanding the tommy in the area. well we have more news videos and all the latest updates and i'll go outside that's our team dot com and here's what we have for you on line right now in an exclusive interview to our t.v. the prime minister of the caucasus republic of cars unveils his plans for the presidential election and describes how democracy is taking hold. and just when you

thought it was safe to go back in the water two people are savaged in truck attacks in russia's far east within twenty four hours. and. now scientists say they've lost contact with an advanced telecom satellite that was launched early on thursday a joint a russian a french project dog to express blasted off from kazakhstan and should have reached ordered by now but according to reports it strayed off target meaning the satellite has been lost or the russian space agency has already set up a panel to investigate possible functions expressed as such to be one of europe's most powerful eyes in the sky and provide digital t.v. coverage across a large part of russia for the next fifty years. ok it's time

for all the latest business news with kareena. hello and welcome to the business here in r.t. while the crowds at the oscar show look skyward on the ground more deals are being made a new invention has been announced between russia's ross technology and french air space companies south front the c.e.o. of suffer until business r.t.d. multi-million euro startup will work on state of the art navigation systems. you have very few. reasons you were. musto is that by your. program you do the extremist correct see maybe you should know you're preaching to the pope the whippings i mean gary would go from you all three going to be. able to be a good trip a c.p. and dream. it falls from. here it is very

very significant a spread between what he's. done and crude is losing ground out to climbing to the highest level in almost two weeks concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on the price however the we could dollars to the sun support brand blend is trading at just under one hundred and nine dollars per barrel while the doubling try to sit around in line dollars power stock markets across europe see sharp falls as concerns about the state of the global economy continue to weigh on investors' minds said the firms are down after switzerland's holsten reported disappointing results as five percent lower this hour mining stocks are down with and america losing three percent b.h.p. billiton declining keeper sides after approving investments to spawn a coal mine to call the guy on trading on the mines x. has been told that for more than an hour due to the technical problems deals came to a stop just after four o'clock moscow time and resume about sixty minutes later. suffered

a similar problem in a total last year maybe the break was it was what's needed as investors the beans profit taking on to wednesday's positive session of power or oil prices are on giving the market much support either and here is the snapshot of the markets movers on him isaac's most of the blue chips are heavily in the red and if you major is losing support from crude prongs down more than one and a half percent banking stocks are also lower as investors are pricing in the recent decline in peter's point. for a second five hundred electricity stocks are trying to rally after heavy self past months. russia still joined here as has decided to extend its coal mining business to companies investing almost six hundred million dollars into developing of nine in west siberia the project is expected to reach a production capacity of two million tons of cooking coal i think two thousand and

fourteen. gold is trading at a new record high as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to safe havens spot price is now at one thousand eight hundred eighteen dollars per ounce it's being fueled by reports from morgan stanley and boucher bank which have cut their forecast put china's economic growth also but his wallet decided to nationalize its huge coal reserves pushing gold futures to a record on wednesday central banks all over the world are rushing to buy into bullion in order to hedge against depreciating foreign currency reserves or prior from troika dialog believes gold is a great long term opportunity in the russian market the russian gold stocks drop something like about ten percent in the last two weeks time. gold prices went up eighty percent so i think this is not maybe the. gold stocks right now

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. out of the business is joining in about forty five minutes. from.

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