then the princess invent cold medicine for a chilling cold dream which will bring cold so if it's else until a grim going cold and pacific a chill going cold remember enter told one cold closer than even called a roll in your idiot. the headlines on r t four years in jail for posting on facebook to men and women are locked off for calling for a riot that never happened as human rights groups say the judges are going too far . european leaders and the u.s. issued strong statements calling us syria's president assad to step down just as he announces a halt to all military operations in the country. business start stumble around the world on the more signs of economic weakness there the drop marks a return to the volatility that sent the market plunging in the first two weeks of august joining me for more on that in our the last. and were on the ground up the

pasta regions by annual international air shows where all eyes are on the sky. just a little after seven pm here in the russian capital and you're watching our t.v. now britain has sentenced two young men to four years behind bars after their facebook posts which they said were joking calling others to cause trouble in their hometowns well now a human rights groups are sounding the alarm saying the courts are overreacting by dishing out penalties which are far too harsh or better 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 looters and i worry is that it is an imbalance and a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for a previous portly harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some from sexual assault so it seems to me that that there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the governments encourage courts to dish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating factor it's meant this man anderson fernandez could even be sent to jail for theft of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one of the nine 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 this 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 saying that some of the crime that we saw in the streets is an expression of people not feeling puerto society not feeling part of our communities and these measures are actually going to push it further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime the facebook case is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west the 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 and 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 and troubles closer to home are very conscious i mean you know the. poor. movements only would you have thought we thought the. country's. prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are prevented r.t. 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 baby cameron 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 close look at themselves and their club they used to be part of an oxford drinking club where they would smash their places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine were smashed each by these people in our face 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 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 that actually if you if you have for example as you

just did when they closed down the internet in certain places during the terror 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. now law with a set of fresh economic sanctions the u.s. and major european countries have urged syria's president bashar al assad to step down it comes in response to his country's violent crackdown against protesters all the statements have been sense as the a special u.n. security council meeting on syria is taking place a call for the international criminal court at best to give the regime's handling of the grass is expected to follow a journalist revealed the market has been monitoring the situation in the country says the greatest of all of our all about forcing regime change at the cost of.

regime change in syria and the not really generally in terms of direction i mean the both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we had a ten days ago president assad said he was going to use my party system in syria today he said graciously going through. and what we get to the west bank records good actually we get these clues that you just don't have a great run if you start breaking those countries are is really is it's for almost as friendly with iran as with russia the aim of the game is to try to remove assad . another kind of regime in. syria. meanwhile in the syria president assad claims the military operation has now stopped. 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 nightly seized by spaniards block their rights put up barricades it became a paste city hiding who was just like hostages for more than a week 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 there as though near the iraqi border mr officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from on groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters but in other parts of the country the troops little assad's officials crack down 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 gas 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 voice of the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in cities across the country were. maybe there was some sort of . protest maybe they use the momentum to spread cancer but if so and the where have they been where the army. the armed groups is just a theory invented by the story and they have an excuse in the seedings of the work for the new liberated there is so life seems catching back to normal and markets reopened and roads that just days ago were emptied out and filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles on still hard to find and the most obvious one is fear refuel shakti syria. no easier all is pointing the finger at gaza

following a string of shoot outs that have left thirteen dead and over thirty injured near the southern resort city of that's close to the border with egypt which has now been shocked gunmen opened fire on a passenger abbas a private car as well as israeli troops let's cross live to our cheese policy or who is it at tel aviv right now hi there are a whole lot of multiple attacks on israel in one day and what kind of response should we expect here. well it certainly does seem as if the israelis will respond in some kind of retaliation operation and that that was will come soon the i.d.f. israeli defense forces has issued a statement in which it says it will consume at all costs all of those responsible for this action at the same time the united nations is mobilizing that start on the thing gaza they plan to evacuate in and the carom border crossing which is the border crossing that allows for the passage of goods from israel to gaza has been closed now the israeli defense force minister ehud barak has said that they are

region of these attacks are clearly in gaza and there's a lot of points to an alkie and chaos in the sinai peninsula and the fact that egypt is no longer able to control that territory and this is a view that has been echoed by the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu he will be meeting tonight thursday with the top echelon of his defense ministry they will be deciding on some way forward looking at the statements netanyahu said earlier in the day and he said that this was an attack on a sovereign state and that the country would act accordingly it certainly seems as if hamas is running scared there has been an internal order among the massive visuals to evacuate or the massacre to buildings in the gaza strip they have issued a statement saying that they were not responsible for these attacks and they also want israel against attacking them so just a reminder we're talking here of a three pronged attack on an israeli civilian car an israeli civilian bassam also on any israeli army patrol dozens of people have been injured and the number of did

just keeps growing and growing and the whole self of these old is currently on high alert are color this having a hotter the closer the a border with egypt what could this mean for israel egypt relations. well egypt has said that it was not in any way involved in these attacks pointing to the fact that it is a gunman operated on within israeli soldiers simple months now there's been growing concerns particularly here in israel regarding israeli egyptian relations which has been on the decline since the film egypt's president hosni mubarak was ousted earlier this year just talking to several israeli experts their concert is really odd that the sinai peninsula is now in disarray they talk about shipments of arms being smuggled to the gaza strip maybe not even smuggled because they say that that area we had so little egyptian control just last week egypt in thousands of its soldiers to convince you know this is that they can time have done so in recent

months as is the music supported by israel that it doesn't seem to satisfy the israelis to the extent if we call this activity happening today is also saying that it believes that islamic jihad and al qaeda cells are operating in gaza and certainly the feeling is that what has transpired today was really just something in the making it was really something was going to happen sooner or later all right thank you very much for that update artie's wallace leroy bringing us the latest from israel thank you. it's still have for you at this hour thanks but there was the new countries turned their backs on the signal per se as it runs in deeper into a fight for survival. and turning to the skies now which are particularly noisy this thursday in the moscow region and max international air show is hosting all sorts of magnificent men and their flying machines. is there for us to bring us up to speed with all 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 soviets 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 buy over its range of such helicopters to deploy to afghanistan let's check it out from inside that's chris a 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 to overcome in just a few moments as essential 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 marks t fifty is another one line dubs are

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 it secret we do know is that state's most permanent feature is going to be that it's very difficult to detect it by any radars but of course this airshow 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 and air bosses alongside throughways the bridges and twenty one so we're expecting a billion dollar deals to be sealed within the next couple of days that of course for the general audience the most exciting part of the show is aerobatics russian

knights will be performing for them together with groups of pilots and one of our correspondents barton actually found out what it's like to be on one of those planes during the performance. engine. instruments. runway. and then it's takeoff with a russian and robotic 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 at 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. yes moves are always trying to hone the maneuvers they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing all want to look at the form of the temple doing whatever we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns out people in town before mystery of a russian came up with the look and all the other stunts are based on the loop the loop is the basis for all aerial acrobatics. however it always comes down to time and again even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy because the program was slow work when you leave the cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit look at their knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult stressful and anyone with you. so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in my ears i was told it was my to put 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. a. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned. a cake cake cake cake cake. cake. cake. cake cake. cake. cake. cake. but i could also see some of the strains they go through. there's no ticket but if

you knew the months before the crowds was eerie like robotics arm for shoots at the pilots it's always a difficult job at tests pilots has to show his skill or fly so next time you look up at them speeding planes spitter thought for the pilots and somebody. from bottom. to say that r.t. throughout the day as you bring you more updates and live coverage from the max two thousand the evidence for national air show in moscow reaching. their shock republic is the latest e.u. state to back away from the struggling euro zone saying joining now would be in appropriate what's another contrary to be scared off the debt laden single currency and song 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 earlier this week on the article and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which would have shore and euro zone members to make 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 that would be a hard to trade 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. in 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 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 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 vandalism 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. ok let's now look at 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 i love and others injured during clashes between police and activists pope benedict the sixtieth is visiting spain's mark world youth day now the government has not admitted exactly how much it's costing but reports suggest it's more than seventy million euros. to practice on our fresh meat of violence over the past twenty four hours in the city of karachi has left at least thirty five people dead and many of the victims were tortured shopped 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 the killings are thought to be linked to ongoing rivalries between gags and political parties vying for power. turkish warplanes have attacked sixty sites in northern iraq and 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 her key province that's close to the iraqi border kurdish militants have been carrying out attacks against turkey for over two decades demanding autonomy in the area. the scientists say they've lost contact with an advanced telecom satellite that was launched early on thursday a joint russian french project dubbed express blasted off from kazakhstan and should have reached orbit by now but according to reports it strayed off target meaning a satellite has been lost or the russian space agency has already set up a panel to investigate possible projects now the express was said to be one of europe's most powerful in the sky and provide digital t.v. coverage across a large part of russia for the next fifty years. we have one music videos abba leave us updates on our website. dot com and here is what you can find online right now the heart of a study path to democracy watch our teens exclusive interview with one of the

leaders of the caucasus republic. on our website. and jaws the sequel cops are russia's far east where two people were savaged in a shark attacks within twenty four hours. and up next kareena is here with all the latest chris. how i welcome to business here in r.t. the markets are taking a tumble in way of europe and the united states feeding off each other in each other's insecurities european and american markets have all been down at least four percent their underlying fears of a double dip are not instantly warning that the global economy is dangerously close

to recession and i'm now joined by gustavo got timi european economist r.b.c. capital markets to start with thanks for joining the program so what's going on in the markets right now and how much is this year we had last week self. but we had two bits of information come out this today which is really driving sentiment one in europe has been following did the merkel circles the summit earlier in the week has been discussions about whether the second greek built is going to be reopened this the issues that the finnish and the greek government together negotiated a collateral plan for the finish contribution to the second bailout and other european countries or say well actually if it's been in could do that and essentially do away with their contribution well we want that to mean well in the u.s. even though we have had a decent patch of data over the last couple weeks with retail sales and i can claim to be a bit stronger today still the fed index has been very nasty very ugly number so lower index in about two years and because of that we've seen you know i could you

stumble we see a new record that goes in a ten year treasuries and booms and fields and gold reaching new highs as well so i'm just wonder this is what the this is something that a repeat of last week i mustered of thing last week we're still in you know post u.s. downgrade mentality we're looking at the e.c.b. intervention in spanish and italian paper this week the focus has shifted a bit more towards economics which we have softer european data. and german people slightly below her expectations that the u.s. data today as we said. ok but what's going to be the turning point and when. well that's a difficult question part of it is you know it is august a lot of people are on holiday and you know they're do just aren't big events in the calendar where you can see a significant shift we get a little bit of economic data next week we have to p.m.i. is in europe for august which will give us a sense as to whether the slowdown will be more protracted into q three or not we

also get the jackson hole conference on friday where we could see some noises out of the fed as to whether q e three is going to become a reality or not ok so tell me what investors go when the market is like this what are they doing. well obviously i mean it depends on the risk out there of investor but it's quite clear that and we've been recommending that you stick to the more liquid instruments right now you know the there's definitely that flocked to the safe havens that we've seen that as i said before with. these record lows in treasuries and guilts we've seen similar moves in the currency market as well when and central banks around the world have been have been trying to make intervention because of that but it's very difficult because there does seem to be a beautiful buyer strike if you will. ok and what about gold what about gold as a safe haven. i think so i think there's a before gold is one of the things that investors have definitely been flocking to

we've seen that on the upside of most commodities always on the downside but again to go after with. the more liquid instruments is probably the safer bet right now we thought if your risk appetite isn't very high visitor a lot of opportunities for investors who you know do have a bit more of a risk but i but. these are few and far between. ok good style of getting a european economist obviously capital markets thanks for sharing your thoughts with us thanks very much thank you i live so all the businesses for now be looking at the markets in the next program so join me in about twenty five minutes from. the.

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