near a hotel then the princess in bangkok reticence a chilling cold dream the children killed seven tells him to a grand uncle and specifically children call him friend who told one called closer an evening called a role in your idiot. four years in jail for posting on facebook to bed and britain are locked up for calling for a via that never happened as human rights groups say a judge is going to talk to. european leaders and the new grass issued strong statements calling on syria's president assad to step down just as he announces a halt to all military operations in the country. and we're on the ground of the moscow regions via the international air show where all eyes are and the sky are.

six pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. now to our top story britain has sentenced two young men to four years behind bars after their facebook posts which they said were a joke called 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 ivor 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 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 in our 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 and that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged course 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 thing of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one denying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charge so far two thirds have been remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes which 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 intern 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 porter society not feeling proud working unities then these measures are actually going to push it further away from society further away from more communities and far more likely to commit crime in 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 the mobile. izing 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

cheney 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 the. poor. only when you know we. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it appears this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett artsy london. british prime minister david cameron has defended the sentencing saying they are sending a tough message but investigative journalist tony gosling believes the authorities must not forget 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 who were members of this

elite oxford bullingdon club and i'll quote now one of the things they said back in one thousand nine hundred six was that they smashed the place up and boris set fire to the toilets i think they should take a closer look at themselves and their club that they used to be part of a not for the drinking club where they would smash the prices up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine or 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 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 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 for example as you dipshits 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 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. how the us together with major european countries have urged syria's president bashar al assad to step down in the wake of his country's violent crackdown against protesters the explicit calls have been just ahead of a special u.n. security council meeting which is to focus on it the situation in syria while in syria president assad claims the military operation has now stopped but as art is merely a financial has been finding out the presence of government troops is not always seen as a bad sign. chrissy chill there is order may be liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation and in my family's face bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a case city were hiding would just like hostages for more than a week. before to 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 groups as you can see here the welcome in the soldiers at the waiter's but in other parts of the country the troops little assad's officials crackdown are far less welcome in a similar offensive against so-called terrorists and 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. the syrian army hasn't met a resistance in cities across the country were. maybe there was some so-called

bandits among protestors and maybe they use the momentum to spread but if so where have they been when the army. own groups is just a theory invented by the state they have an excuse in the cities of the work for the new liberated there is so life seems catching back to normal the markets reopened and roads that just days ago were empty i would guess and filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles angst are hard to find and the most obvious one is fear grief notion opti syria all of them cross lots of journalists new york clarke to discuss this now i thank you very much mr carr for joining us first of all let's let's talk about timing president assad has just announced that all military operations have been stopped in the country now why is this call for his resignation happening now. well of all good all along what the u.s.

and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really generally interested in and the miserable situation and i mean dialogue between both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we've had ten days ago president assad said to me introduce a multi-party system in syria today he said the operations against the opposition. and what we consider we were saying well that's good that's a good move we get these clues for him to step down so you're saying they're calling for him to step down now because he's willing to negotiate exactly i mean really really blows the gas so. it's really wants and that is regime change i why do they want regime change in syria is it because of the regime's human rights record but no it isn't because of course there's lots more regimes and also in syria's it's all about syria's foreign policy talking it's a bit more political that well let's just take out a list of those calling for this resignation the u.s. the u.k. france and germany the same countries all with the exception of germany which

pushed the u.n. resolution. through to see the nato campaign there i felt given this what he would expect to follow in syria speaks volumes of what we're all about here is about getting rid of a government and the great crime of the assad regime in those countries and it's really as its foreign policy it's friendly with iran has russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove assad of. another kind of regime to come there and syria would have a more progress than a line ok in a few hours also we're expecting another major international blow for president assad we have the u.n. say human rights chief he's preparing to call for the international criminal courts investigate seriously crackdown on protesters now do you think that investigation could replace the need for any nato military campaign. well i think any nato military campaign would be absolutely outrageous. in class i wasn't libya and i didn't really think the calls for the international criminal court that's going to

present a side is very helpful to the problem we've got an international justice is it's very biased. what we have is a series of indictments issued against regimes which don't toe the line of the u.s. and its allies so we got the last of the. charles taylor the last we really want is to get to know one of these leaders in times of the two biggest war criminals at large tony blair and george bush let's have let's have them indicted first and then we're going to present a side that we have following through on how much you think we can trust the international criminal court on dealing with this particular investigation not much at all because it showed all the way along that we don't really have a very fair impartial system of international justice and people who've been in the dock in the last fifteen years or so have been leaders who just got in the way of the us what about the president of georgia who launched the war aggression against the people of south the sense of three years ago this very week why isn't he been indicted what about. what about bill clinton for the bombing. of iraq you know if

we don't we shouldn't have got an international rule. judgment said the supremes international crime was to launch a war of aggression that is still at large and so let's deal with these people first people who was against iraq against yugoslavia and then we can talk about president assad ok well thank you very much for your insight there neil clark journalist and broadcaster thank you. now israel has closed its border with egypt following a string of shoot outs that have left thirteen dead and over thirty injured while the attacks took place to the southern resort city of that with a gunman opening fire on a passenger bus a private car as well as israeli troops artie's correspondent policy here is in tel aviv 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 third 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 we can even find people dead and twenty six people injured now this happened in southern israel more thought on the egyptian border we're hearing from the israeli prime minister's office that at least three of the gunman has been killed the israeli army is on high alert and they say that this is an it is an orchestrated the operation is ongoing well the israeli defense minister there's no doubt that the fire came from gaza which is which is why some people here are now fearing that there could be another israeli gaza war operation at the same time it only adds to the fear that's already been expressed for several months now as a situation in the sinai peninsula is chaotic and it's part 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 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 americans being smuggled into gaza now but what israeli officials or a lot shipments of all denies and military operations has shades of equipment that are making their way into gaza and of course the question is being asked why was all not better prepared for this but you need to remember that the israeli jets and border is a long border it is not as if we quickly patrolled as the 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 here to say that there is some kind of foreign involvement some kind of foreign expertise in what we've witnessed today. and still ahead for you this hour thanks but no thanks the newest e.u. countries turn their backs on the single currency as it plunges deeper into

a fight for survival. and turning to the skies now which are particularly noisy this thursday in the moscow region the max international air show is hosting all sorts of magnificent men in their flying machines you know vehicle that is there for us to bring us up to speed with the latest developments. one of the highlights 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 nature is going to go 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 the soviet flight instructors. we will be able to check out the insides of the cabin just a moment so 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 is the headliner on this year's airshow marks the fifty is another one lined together with america's f. twenty two and after 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 teachers 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 eighty radars but of course this air show is not just about military aircraft 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 area bosses alongside sue boise bridges and twenty 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 every vote six russian nights. we'll be performing for them together with the use 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 check. instruments check. runway checks and then it's take up with a russian aerobatic display team. the nine first class pilots with 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 of my 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. he has moved who is trying to hold them a new this they practiced most weekends thinking the new tricks and practicing old ones not the form of the temper the work of a company come up with stunts i've been research them but it often turns are you keeping them before mr over a russian came up with the loot 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 end even with years of flying and training experience between them

it never becomes easy because they were the most slow look when you leave the cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit working your knees are shaking because it's extremely different stressful and anyone at all. so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in my ears i was told it was my to the crowds on the ground this is an exciting spectacle but that's not quite the emotion that's going through not 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 defeated i returned.

keep hitting. the. cake. cake. cake. cake. but i could also see some of st so go for it. though there's no secret that if you knew the months before the crowds was eerie like her concerts are unsocial to the pilots it's always a difficult job the terrorists the pilots has to show his skill and that beauty of flight so next time he will come up with the speedy planes spirit will find the teams. from bottom on to. other thing 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 the moscow region. now the republic is the latest e.u. country to back away from the struggling euro zone saying and joining now will be

inappropriate and it's just the latest country to be scared to meet and single currency and sun even ignoring the legal obligations to sign up only three of twelve states that have joined the e.u. sense two thousand four hundred top of the euro and earlier this week and the huckle and the colossus arkell's e call for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure euro zone members take more financial responsibility but the national expert patrick young says the european leaders are clutching at straws and risking the whole currency. the reason people wanted to join the single currency in the first place was because of see if they the idea that they could trade in a single currency across borders under thought would be a hard to treat in currency block what we've seen in the course of the last number of months i mean i actually going over a year or more knowledge has been an increasing number of so much various bail outs every time we end up with this chorus of people telling us that every. over and

we've got frankly a ground opera of the euro that's turning into a farce everybody side of the european union elite understands that the euro is under incredible pressure country like the czech republic thirty four percent debt to g.d.p. 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 council and get rid of places like greece and through the night 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 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 as a reason for some form of bumblers of it's totally completely in the hands of

people like 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 is dead. ok let's now check some other world news this hour thousands of people have gathered in madrid 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 the police and activists bennett of the sixteenth is visiting spain to mark a world youth day the government has not admitted exactly how much it's costing but reports suggest it's more than seventy billion 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 sport shirt shop stuffed and socks and dumped on the street and a former member of the country's ruling party was gunned down as he entered

a restaurant for a post pasty meal all the killings are thought to be linked 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 it comes a day after nine turkish soldiers were killed and over a dozen injured by a rebel group in the kiddie province that's close to the iraqi border kurdish militants had been carrying out attacks against turkey for over two decades demanding autonomy the area. now scientists say they've lost contact with an advanced telecom satellite that was launched early on thursday the joint russian french project dubbed express a blast at all from kazakhstan and should have reached orbit by now according to reports extremely off target meaning the satellite has been lost and the russian space agency has already set up a panel to investigate possible malfunctions express was set to be one of europe's

most powerful eyes in the sky and provide additional t.v. coverage across a large part of russia for the next fifteen years. coming more ahead for you this hour the latest on the a russian teams in the europa league in our sports bulletin but first let's see what's going on in the world of business with korea. i want to welcome to our business update this hour we'll go straight to our top story the markets are taking a tumble with europe in the united states feeding off each other's insecurities their underlying fears of un double over double dip with an organ stanley warning that the global economy is dangerously close to recession the bank has cut its global growth forecast from four point two percent to three point nine percent this year now let's look at the markets wall street is growing at the opening on more signs of economic weakness around the world more americans join the unemployment line last week than week earlier and consumers are under even more pressure at the

register last month an economist thought thanks to high gas prices bank of america is the biggest dollar losing seven point two percent stock markets across europe see sharp falls as well as concerns about the state of the global economy continue to weigh on investors' minds london's pussy is losing over three of over five percent or so of france were down is down over six percent six and a half percent bank shares suffer more shock falls of the european central bank lent dollars to an unnamed eurozone bank in london barclays pro seven point nine percent the world bank of scotland six point three and lloyds banking group over seven percent in germany commerzbank down five point three percent and bush for bank lost over four percent here in russia markets nose dived below four percent trading on the noise it's helping hold it for more than an hour due to technical problems deals came to a stop just after four o'clock moscow time and resumed about sixty minutes later

the r.t.s. suffered a similar problem and a total last year lower oil prices on giving the market much support either. and here's the snapshot of the markets movers all of my six most of the blue chips fell deep into the red energy majors are among the biggest decline is losing support from the crude oil almost. five percent banking stocks are also hit as investors are pricing in the recent decline in futures for s. and p. five hundred spread bank is down nearly eight percent and b. is losing six point eight percent. and some or less sharply down as economic reports point to a kind of squeeze on consumer spending concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on the price however we can dollar is getting some support brant is trading at one hundred seven dollars per barrel while the w.i. as it around eighty three dollars per barrel. now gold is trading at a new record high as uncertainty about the global economy economy is pushing

investors back to safe havens the spot price is now a long thousand eight hundred and twenty four dollars per ounce it's being fueled by reports on morgan stanley and orchard bank which are cut their forecast for china's economic growth also going as well as decided to nationalize its huge gold reserves pushing gold futures to record that central banks all over the world are rushing to buy into bullion in order to hedge against depreciating foreign currency reserves. that's all the business for now will be following the market's performance in the next hour traffic.

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