on the market plunging the first two weeks of august join me for more figures in our business bulletin for. round where on the ground at the mosque a region's international air show well all eyes are on the sky. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow britain has sentenced to young men to four years behind bars after their facebook posts they said were joke call others to cause trouble in their hometowns now human rights groups is sounding the alarm saying the courts are overreacting by dishing out penalties which are far too harsh but as aussies i'm a 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 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 that there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes that governments encourage courts to dish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating factor it's meant this man anderson fernandez could even be sent to jail for theft of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one denying bail

to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charged so far two thirds have been reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes it was just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless as 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 interim move benefits because actually if we are seeing that some of the crime that we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling part to society not feeling part of our communities then these measures are actually going to push people further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime the facebook case is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west for mobilizing the masses in the arab world but they were also instrumental in the

u.k. riots so now the prime minister wants it to stop. we are working with the police the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites or services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and tunisia britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very conscious of the news you know the. movements we would be the force to. the authorities and countries. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's feared this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder are bennett artsy london. of british prime minister david cameron has defended the third saying

it they are sending a tough message about investigative journalists any gosling beneath the off origins is not to forget their own past before condemning up and. i think it's a bit rich coming from david cameron who and the government i mean who are many of whom are we talking about george osborne boris johnson david cameron who are 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 that 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 pub they don't like vandals to me so they shouldn't really go lecturing the rest of us the last thing we need is a knee jerk reaction against our ability to communicate it's quite clear we have to separate the difference between ordinary communications and those kinds of communications which involve incitement to riot 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 ask for example as you gypsies did when they closed down the internet in certain places during the tahrir square the uprising earlier this year is that people actually come out in the 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 with along with a set of fresh economic sanctions the u.s. and major european countries have syria's president bashar assad to step down it comes in response to his country's violent crackdown against protesters well the statements have been sentenced the special u.n. security council meeting on syria is taking place a call for the international criminal court investigation into the regime's handling of the ground is expected to fall but journalist has been monitoring the

situation in the country he says the latest developments are all about forcing regime change at the cost of. u.s. and its allies really want is rejoining in syria and they're not really generally interested in the terrible situation of. having dialogue between both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we've had a ten days ago president assad said he was going to introduce a multi-party system in syria today he said gratian is against the position. and what do we get the u.s. saying they're going to good that's a good move to get these calls for him to step down and the great crime of the assad regime in those countries are is really is it's for. it's friendly with iran has been to russia to be able the game is to try to remove assad from power and install another kind of regime in. syria it would have a more progress to the line. meanwhile in syria president claims the military operation house now but the notion is been finding out the presence of government

troops is not always seen as about flying. the city of there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation having made a nice place bandits block the weights put up barricades it became a gay city we were hiding we were just like hostages for more than a week claim 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 or near 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 led in 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 or whether. 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 carrots but if so where have they been when the army period. armed groups is just a theory invented by the stayed to have an excuse to enter the cities. in new liberated there is or life seems getting back to normal the markets reopened and roads but just days ago were empty are again filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles and to hard to find and the most obvious one is fear reflash

r.t. syria. now the israeli military has launched an airstrike on gaza killing five and accuse palestinians of carrying out a string of fatal attacks well there have been three separate shootouts in the south of the country along the israeli egyptian border on thursday as. for the sleep instead of these. israeli retaliates how time to gather proof that the triple shootouts was the work of palestinians. well these many military has come firming one strike over the southern part of gaza and the latest figures we have all that six palestinians have been killed at the same time there are israeli drones flying over the city of russia which is on the egypt gaza border not none of this comes as a surprise earlier the i.d.f. the israeli defense forces issued a statement in which it said it would bring to book all of those responsible if you

see them at all costs the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is meeting this evening tuesday with defense officials and they are met the way forward but only he did say that this was an attack on a sovereign state and that israel would retaliate and act accordingly now the jordanians that has transpired not so long ago did inform news radio intelligence that they had picked up that there was a cell operating in the south of the country that they were planning such an attack this was in line with israeli intelligence for some time not now israeli security officials has been warning that the sinai peninsula is chaotic and it is an alkie there that range and they've been warning that shipment of weapons has been making their way to gaza the israelis are convinced that this operation and did originate in gaza that they were still and that the man held in a manhunt in the south of the country israeli air forces deployed as well as army foot soldiers and just a short time ago there was

a shootout between some of those shoulders soldiers and militants we're being told that one israeli has been critically. and the number of gunmen so far killed totals seven or eight what i want to do with these means of the peace agreement between the israelis and palestinians. well the gazans deny having any involvement in mosques is in fact issued a statement saying that not only is it not involved but it has warned israel not to attack it having said that though they have nothing to minister has given a directive for his security headquarters to be evacuated for fear that the israelis will retaliate and strike it as one of their targets to quote in one of a statement they say that israel was trying to explore to the crisis and transfer it to gaza now the camps along the border crossing which is the border crossing between israel and gaza that allows for goods to be transported has been closed down there is no love lost between israel and gaza and israel and to must listen

come out came to power in gaza back in two thousand and six all relations between israel and gaza have been kept short israel regarding him as a terrorist organization and hamas continuously insisting to keep the destruction of the jewish state as part of its charter but further than that in terms of his way to tell it stimulations these have been stalled for quite some time the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu with his policy standing settlements is someone that is not welcomed in the palestinian world and certainly the timing of what we saw today just weeks before palestinians go to the united nations to declare unilaterally a palestinian state is a very significant and just as a last would for the past few weeks there have been tens of thousands of these rabies demonstrating here on the streets of his wealth of social justice they were planning demonstrations this saturday we've now been told that those demonstrations have been canceled because of the developments along the israeli gaza and egypt imprint ok so the update sport to say that giving us the latest from israel by the

thousands it's all turning to the. guys down with joan particularly noisy this day in the mosque a region the mancs international air show is hosting all thoughts of magnificent men and their flying machines the town over who is there for you 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 soviets war in afghanistan the am i seventeen that is soon to return to the country in order to help restore security there as nature is going to buy over twenty of such 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 cab in just a few moments as potential buyers are already here to check it out for themselves now we can go. well of course this is not the only military aircraft that is the headliner of this year's air show marques de fifty is another one. together with america's f. twenty two and a half 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 what we do know is that its most prominent feature is going to be that it's very difficult to detect it radars but of course this air show is not just about military aircraft we're talking big money a lots of deals to be sealed during the next three days including today of course

as well we're surrounded by hundreds of warnings an area bosses alongside sue royce that were just. and i am asked to went wild 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 knights will be performing for them together with. pilot sounds of one of our correspondents what i actually found out what it's like to be one one of those planes during the performance. engines check. him stroman check. runway check and then it's takeoff for the russian aerobatic display team. their nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere. andre is training to join the

team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first flight as a solo pilot. without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own i had no time to be scared there was no longer an instructor at my back it was unforgettable takeoff you on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it i think you're a real pilot at that point. he has moves are always trying to hone their maneuvers they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones for me but then for the work of a dog we come up with strong and then research them but it often turns i repeat been done before nested of a russian came up with the loop and all the other stunts are based on the loop the loop is the basis for 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 screw. a gallon of sweat from your suit what if your knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult and stressful and anyone would feel that way. so 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. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned. it.

but i could also see some of the strains that go through for good there's no ticket but just you know the might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't issue to the pilot 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 spirit thought for the pilot inside. tom bottom party. now pope benedict the sixteenth has slammed europe's the moneymaking mentality blaming it for the economic crisis but with the papal visit to hot head spain reportedly costing eight percent to nearly nero and the protesters say it's him

that's costing teen moms well for more on our joined live from the kids by local jenison a grad and their. it is being with us here on r.t. now we're all those young people really demonstrating against the pope's visit is well they say they are not demonstrating against the pope they are the most rating against the fact that his research has been in directly at least funded by by the state but of course they are also part of my straightener against the message which the pope brings which they see as an altar conservative backward to cetera so explained you can differentiate religion from politics so i think they're protesting both things going back to the money in all of their visit is setting taxpayers back some seventy million euros is the visit of the pope important enough for the majority of people in spain to justify that sort of spending. will in the same way that people against it of course there's many people in favor not just the

business which. is a good opportunity a commercial opportunity we're talking about hundreds of thousands of young people at this point in imagery but also it's important for many of the people who may be catholics or maybe not. but a practicing catholic spread they are conservatives they like the idea of having a conservative figure as the pope so so yes you have people for and against undoubtedly now but police are being accused of being somewhat heavy handed in dispersing the demonstrations in madrid how bad could these confrontations gad's. well i don't i don't think there were that heavy handed i was there covering the story myself well there were some scuffles but there was not so much violence not on the part of the police or in the part of the demonstrators i don't think it will get worse but if it does it will become very awkward for the government because we

are just in the run up of a general election the socialist government. it's in a very difficult position they're being criticized by the. guests for their policies and social issues on the other hand if they are too hard on those who protest the they will be criticised by the other side us world so for them they have to strike a very difficult balance between the two let's talk about the position of the government in spain to. all the countries got the highest unemployment rate in the entire year is they do you think that the governments can hold off from how angry and desperate people are feeling in the situation. well again but you said like with the codes of the government. again. it's you know difficult position and they they are now doing the economic policy which runs against their social democratic. views. they have on the one hand to do that because brussels he's pushing very hard

to do that but then they are sympathetic to the to the social protests for there was thirty two measures and the cards and then we have the election so you have a very mixed message coming out from the government at this point of it is because they are not comfortable with the with the policy they themselves are having to carry out at this point and what would you say is the attitude among the spanish population to the country's membership in the day. i will spend is a very pro european country. the fact is that is the only country in which the referendum for the for the. european constitution got a yes vote and it was to a very large majority of people know especially it's not uncomfortable to do you see you look at the problem is that the e.u. may be uncomfortable with the space security country. should it be bailed out

as of course there will be no more need to do that now having said that it is also true that there's a lot of excited spanish dept is not that high is actually lower than the average of europe and the markets are being very hard to explain what was in truth it's a country that is not in such a danger of the fourteen or anything of the sort. that are there many thanks for those thoughts live from madrid many thanks. ok let's check out some other world news in brief air this hour now a series of explosions shake in the center of tripoli the blast reportedly targeted cannot be down near one of the camp. hotels where foreign journalists are based we while rebels clashed with government forces in the city of zawiya and took over. the refinery well the civil war in libya which saw nato intervention in march has claimed over two thousand lives in the space of six months. to

pakistan where a fresh spate of violence over the past twenty four hours in the city of corruption has left at least thirty nine people dead many of the victims were found tortured shot stuffed in fact and then dumped in the street a former member of the country's ruling party with gone down this here to the restaurant for the pope's fasting meal because things of all to be linked to on going rivalries between down example digital parsons vying for power. warplanes have attacked sixty sites in northern iraq targeting the kurdistan workers party it comes a day after nine turkish soldiers killed and over a dozen injured by a rebel group in here the province close to the iraqi people kurdish militants have been carrying out attacks against turkey over two decades demanding ptolemy in the area. now scientists say they. don't quite have time for that story do stay with us next hour for more right now though let's get to business

update with katia. hello and welcome to our business update this hour the markets are taking a tumble with europe and the united states feeding off each other's insecurities european american markets have all been down at least four percent there are underlying fears of a double dip where morgan stanley warning that the global economy is dangerously close to recession gustava bettine from r.b.c. capital markets explains what spurred the sentiment. we've had two bits of information come out this today which is really driving sentiment one in europe has been following did the merkel sarkozy summit they're going to do week is when discussions about whether the second greek bailout is going to be reopened meanwhile in the u.s. even though we've had a decent patch of data over the last couple weeks with retail sales my claims being a bit stronger today is fairly fed index has been very nicely very remember saloon

index in the about two years and because of that we've seen you know i could stumble we've seen new records of those in ten year treasuries and booms and guilds and gold reaching new highs as well whether this is something that a repeat of last week i'm assured of strictly a thing last week we're still in you know post us downgrade mentality we're looking at these to be intervention in spanish and italian paper this week the focus has shifted a bit more towards economics which we had softer european data. and german jew people slightly below market expectations and then the u.s. data today as we said. so stocks are tumbling around the world u.s. stocks deep in the red with the benchmark index is down over three percent on worries about europe and the global economy market sentiment continues to deteriorate amid concerns about the eurozone banking sector bank of america is the biggest fall in losing over seven percent and u.s. economic reports are not much of a help although the number of americans buying new claims for jobless benefits rose

last week stock markets across europe see sharp falls as well london's pussy is a little bit is losing over four percent of the dax is shedding over five percent of banking shares suffer more sharp falls than european central bank e.c.v. led to an unnamed eurozone back shares in some leading banks plummeted with barclays and world bank of scotland down more than ten percent and here in russia markets closed in the red a trading has been halted for more than an hour due to technical problems. came to a stop just after four o'clock moscow time and resumed about an hour later now here's the snapshot of the markets move us all the my six energy majors among the worst performers as you can see also have lost over four percent spare bank banking stocks also hit with a bad bank down over six percent. and need to be lost almost six percent as well

however as gold managed to gain half a percent on strong the precious metals. that's a business update for this hour we'll have more for you in about forty five minutes from now stay with us for headline news. we'll. bring you the latest in science and signal from the realms of. those huge earth covered.

in cell phones now we're here in moscow this is also the british schools the crown came down on the riots is with them still says sentences with human rights groups seeking judges although over reacting i dish ing out severe penalties indiscriminately young men have been given for years and it's the place to me jamie mcintyre thinks that point of people to leave town. israel launches than air strike in gaza killing at least five hundred tonne geisha and first string of deadly shootout in the south of the country israeli officials have blamed palestinian militants for the triple the time that the israeli egyptian border. european leaders in the u.s. issued a strong statement is calling on syria's president assad to step down just.