very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow a britain has sentenced two young men to four years behind bars after their facebook post they said were a joke called on others to cause trouble in their home town now human rights groups is sounding the alarm saying the courts are overreacting by dishing up penalties which are far too harsh but as an artist i have a bennett report that's part of the political drive for tough justice in the wake of the looting in distorter 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 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 think 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 is just ten percent some offenders even being made home. this is their punishment with

local governments taking away their houses but many say it's 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 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. we knew. we would be the. country's. 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 i've been it r.t. london or british prime minister david cameron has defended the authentic saying they're sending at that message they're freelance investigative journalists who can chandan says the harsh response will only bring more violence across. i think it's quite clear that the government was a stand of very draconian message out to young people. who had any sympathy. even with the uprising or the right away if you want to call it that took

place but never again really can the british government legitimacy criticize any other regime in the world for any human rights abuses when people are facing jail time for scoops of ice cream for mineral water one child stealing a dustbin for his mother listen these young people have been ignored and they've been exploited and oppressed and they just have no voice now through in a very traumatic experience through the rioting that they have a voice what is the response again of people is to further criminalize them so if you're going to further criminalize and we're going to get more angry and i'm very regretful to report that the message is going around the street gangs in london and other parts of england is a competition as to who is going to kill the first policeman so this is the this is what we're facing in england now it's a civil war situation which is going to make the writing previously excuse upon look like child's play and nothing is going to stop these young people they're very shocked they've learnt from the student protests that they're not going to be cattle that they're going to hit and run essentially and they'll find other ways of

communicating these these are young people who live in communities with each other so you can stop these social networks or that you like it's not going to have a really fundamental adverse impact on the writing which will come again quite soon . now the u.s. the major european countries have syria's president bashar assad to step down and impose a fresh set of economic sanctions when it comes in response to the regime's a violent crackdown against protesters the same winds have been sent as this special u.n. security council meeting on syria is taking place in new york has been a point neither has more. not only has the u.s. president called for the syrian president to step down he has backed up his words with action and that action includes issuing an executive order thursday morning with fresh sanctions against syria and now according to the new sanctions that have been signed by obama all americans and u.s. corporations are now prohibited from investing operating or having any business

dealings with the syrian government this includes a ban on imports and exports including cereal syrian oil and petroleum products additionally all the syrian assets under u.s. jurisdiction will be frozen so clearly this is some more mounting pressure coming from the u.s. government in terms of financial you trying to corner syria shortly after president obama issued his statement and his executive order we did see germany france britain and the european union all are rapidly issuing statements calling for the syrian president to step down and this all coming just one day after president assad did speak with the un secretary-general ban ki moon are suring him that all military and police operations in his country have halted but clearly this is not stopped or the u.s. and its western allies from putting more pressure on the syrian government the u.n.

security council is meeting today to first discuss findings of a report that was released by the u.n. human rights panel this twenty two page report accuses the syrian government of carrying out of human rights violations since march when the anti government protesters began taking to the streets but one of our correspondents maria is inside syria did speak to some people on the ground there some people who believe that the government security forces are actually helping their lives here's a bit of what she found out. the city of there is sort of maybe liberated but in the last few days it suffered a brutal occupation i mean my place bandits blocked the weights put up barricades it became a gay city we were hiding we were just like hostages for more than a week the military claimed 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 so 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 vicious 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 four to civilians while human rights groups report the number of deaths in the country could be almost as high as two thousand some say assad is simply using his army to silence peaceful demonstrators across the country. the syrian army hasn't met any resistance in the cities across the country work and maybe there was some so-called bend among protesters 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 get back to normal the markets reopened and roads bridges days ago were empty are again filled with cars but reminders of the recent troubles arms to hard to find and the most obvious one is fear reflash an r.t. syria. well for the not too and long life from the us by a political affairs dr benjamin problematical for being with us now part of the intervention in libya and taking on kind of adapting the west is now taking tough action against i thought but why now. well the west has been deeply inconsistent in its approach to these uprisings across the border in libya where there was an

armed insurrection against gadhafi and there's really a civil war we have been and the west has been extremely active using nato forces the air on the insurgents in syria where innocent people have been murdered day after day and week after week no action at all is going to take it because nobody can imagine what it alternative to assad would look like i myself believe that these new sanctions will do very little to stop the regime there is a simple reality in these countries and it is that the governments can either survive or disappear this is a very in survival mode now that's true in yemen it's true in libya it's true in bahrain and it's true in syria there's no option for assad but to put down the resistance in any form the ten and simply to survive because the alternative is not just that he loses power but probably ends up on trial like move iraq or in front of the international criminal court he would say the fact the best the west has

left no alternative but armed battle to these dictators or you say that these sanctions that have been put forward on the tape what i would do very little say what do you think does need to be done north to make a change in syria. well the trouble is very little can be done because we have offered no way out you can't do an all or nothing policy and that will that's what we've done we've said in libya gadhafi can go to the international criminal court or he can go on fighting we have constantly refused to negotiate a middle ground where in our for example and stays in syria nobody has said to assad what the alternative to him continuing to rule would be would it be that he brought up be brought up on charges that the international criminal court should be tried by his own people clearly unless there's an alternative other than the total demise of the individual and his family and that these guys are going to fight on despite sanctions and so on it's also clear that the west isn't really willing to

put its mouth and muscle and money where its rhetoric it is and until it's willing to do that i think you will find that there is very little change in these countries well i owe you then suggesting that some sort of military type intervention is necessary in the country russia has repeatedly said that it will veto any action at the un that could lead to a newbie a military intervention i am totally against military action in the middle east and for that matter in afghanistan and other places i think it's been proven over and over again in iraq and afghanistan that military intervention needs to anarchy chaos and civil war so i'm not advocating that i'm advocating negotiations the problem is the west constantly in effect threatens and says leave office get out whatever happens or threaten something terrible but believes no opening for negotiation the trial of mubarak in egypt is a warning to bashar assad and to colonel qaddafi that if they leave office they're

likely to be brought up on charges and may be executed why under those circumstances would anyone then give up office or leave it. officer step down from power and my complaint is that the west is not engaged in genuine negotiations but is largely empty threats and sanctions that won't work and trying to force people who are in survival mode to give up power when there is a third of the chance they will do that if they want to stay with it negotiation is the way forward but realistically is there a way to push syria towards peace or do you think that the syrian people will simply have to sort this out for themselves well i think you just put your finger on the real answer revolutions can't be made by outsiders people really want you over calm and internal dictatorship they have to do it themselves and be willing to take the consequences we've seen in syria what the consequences are you know the

slaughter of innocent people but the fact is the less we are willing to intervene from the outside which i think is a bad idea ultimately these things have to be settled internally we've seen in libya what has happened just not the ousting of gadhafi but a costly civil war in which more and more casualties are being lost on both sides without any reconciliation which the insurgents are now turning on one another in a tribal war that will make libya look more like somalia i think than the western democracy hopes will ok dr benjamin life from the u.s. many thanks feel thoughts thank you. the israeli military has launched an air strike on gaza killing at least seven nicky's palestinians of carrying out a string of fatal attacks that in three separate shootout in the south of the country along the israeli egyptian border on thursday. in tel aviv with more.

well the twenty minute to come firming one strike over the southern part of gaza at the same time they are israeli drones flying over the rock which is on the egyptian gaza border now none of us. the supply is only at the i.d.f. these may be defense forces issued a statement in which it states it would bring two books one of those responsible to speak to them at any cost the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is meeting the seizing these days with defense officials they are massing on the way food that's the only way he did say that this was an attack on the salzman state and that is well with attenuate and supporting the now the jordanians it has transpired not so long ago did inform news media intelligence that they had picked up that there was a cell operation in the south of the country that they were planning such an attack this was in line with his main intelligence for some time not now israeli security officials have seen warning that the sinai peninsula is chaotic and it is an alkie

there that raid and they've been warning that shipments of weapons have been making their way to gaza the israelis often convinced that this operation and did originate in gaza that there was still a massive manhunt a manhunt in the south of the country the israeli air force of kuwait as well as foot soldiers and just a short time ago they was a shootout between some of those shoulder the soldiers and militants are being told that one israeli has been critically injured and the number of gunmen so far killed totals seven point eight the gazans deny having any involvement in mosques and 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 or his security headquarters to be evacuated for fear that the israelis will retaliate and strike it as one of a target to quote in one of a statement they say that israel was trying to expose the crisis and transfer it to gaza now the template on the border crossing which is the border crossing between

israel and gaza that an ounce of goods to be transported has been closed down. now venezuela's president wants all the countries go being held in european and american banks. to caracas it would be the largest physical movement of gold in recent history hugo chavez said he's trying to protect his country from the financial woes on both sides of the atlantic for more let's talk now see author and research agency and when else areas for us this is what she what do you think is driving chavez to withdraw this huge amount of gold from international banks well i believe that you have to make a double reading on this first of all there's a financial one and the political one the financial one is really quite simple i would imagine seeing the way the markets are growing seen the way the european union the united states economy is going price of gold is above eight hundred fifteen dollars in these last few days so naturally. is the thirteenth largest

holder of gold countries in the world so are they have something like about one hundred fifty four tons of gold in the central bank governor and they have two hundred eleven tons of gold brought so they want to bring that into in a similar and it does coincide with the fact that this has nationalize all the mining and so forth in venezuela so from the point of view of the financial aspect i think it's a very shrewd and intelligent mood move to protect this country's goal acids there is however a political overtone in that he wants to pull out the other financial assets that israel has in the u.k. if the u.s. and britain push in and do what he calls more likable how are russia china and brazil know to me a very big statement being made but in practical terms we're talking about huge volumes here over two hundred tons of venezuelans gold is currently held over seas

so really how can this be executed. well there can be executed and then israel has said very clearly that they will be doing it transitionally and slowly because they want to make sure that the actual goal that they get back is the goal that they originally sent especially after some rumors that there had been some counterfeiting of certain gold. in various especially in america and other parts of europe so i think chavez wants to make sure that the goal he sent out is the goal he's going to be getting back in his central bank vaults there is however another aspect which i think perhaps mr chavis has not measured the potential risk and consequences because this is an outright attack on the u.s. on the on you the u.k. and on the european union as a major financial markets as major areas of safety to keep your goal argentina for example my country has always cold in the vaults of the federal reserve bank of new york now if this could start

a run on keeping gold in america in the european union and in the u.k. and switzerland this might have much more dire consequences than mr chavez imagines because if we go back in history in two thousand and two and november to be exact so then hussein used his billion dollars per annum oil for food and medicine agreement after the first gulf war to. buy oil but he instead of doing it in dollars he did in europe and that could create a run on the dollar as no one would be in the major currency for your mortgage so that was. going to be just to clarify there is the movement all of this amount of gold enough to really affect the market. as i was saying it is if it creates a run on on the gold market and what that point i wanted to sort of very much stress is that when iraq did that in two thousand and two we all remember that in

march two thousand and three saddam hussein ran into a little bit of trouble so very often the reaction. i say this because what we're seeing in syria and in libya all this regime change epidemic clearly stressed from the countries the u.s. and britain will start spreading throughout america and this might be a triggering mechanism then why you can justify a political move to start a regime which throughout latin america which would no doubt start with venezuela so actions such as it is could very well be the triggers for gray reviewable who actions. in november two thousand and two was a trigger for his country actually being invaded in march two thousand and three. researchers talking from where else there is many thanks for those thoughts thank you. turning to the skies now which have been particularly noisy in the mosque a region the ongoing max international air shows hosting all sorts of bad never

thought men and their flying machine. or the third day of the show still multibillion dollar deal sealed on the ground of all sorts of military and civilian aircraft on parade overhead the real max releasing allows private investors to see the flying machines in action before buying them on the spot it's also the scene of death defying dollars from some of the world's leading aerobatics. bossing climbed into the cockpit of one of their planes and lived to tell the tale. engine. instruments. runway. and then it's takeoff for the russian aerobatic display team. they're nine first class pilots have performed over two

hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere and dre 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. the as moves are always trying to hone their maneuvers they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones for me but they're the work of a doctor we come up with stones 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 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. but the most when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult and stressful and anyone will feel that way. so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in my ears i was told it was my turn 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. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned if.

it was. the. case. but i could also see some of the streams they go through. there's no ticket but if you knew the months before the crowds put syria like robots on to shoot to the pilot it's always a difficult job that a terrorist a pilot's hands to shoot 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 county . stay with us here as we bring you more updates from the month twenty eleven and satchel asked so throughout the show ok coming up now business with cutting.

hair a welcome to business update the markets taking a tumble with europe in the united states feeding off each other's insecurities european american markets have all been down a place four percent and there are underlying fears of a double dip with morgan stanley warning that the global economy is dangerously close to recession stubble but a teeny from obviously capital markets explains what sparked the sentiment. we've had two bits of information come out to see today which is really driving sentiment one the in europe has been following did the merkel sarkozy summit they're going to 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 project data over the last couple weeks with retail sales and claims to be a bit stronger today's philly fed in the x. has been very nice 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. gold reaching new highs as well whether this is something that a repeat of last week i'm afraid of squid 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've had softer european data. and germans you people cite people over here speculations and in the u.s. later today as we said. wall street deep in the red in volatile trading the u.s. economic data is pressuring the markets in a broad selloff sectors associated with growth were hit hard drugs of the dow are shares of i.b.m. down over five and a half percent and united technologies down five point seven percent here in russia markets closed in the red as well training otherwise it has been halted for more than an hour due to technical problems deals came to a stop just after four o'clock last time i do see you about an hour later here is

this not shot of the markets move my six energy majors among the worst performers. losing four percent banking stocks also got hit as investors were pricing in the recent decline in futures for s. and p. five hundred as their bank ended six and a quarter percent however point is gold managed to gain half a percent on strong passions. i thought the business use we have for you this thursday night join us. tomorrow for more. it will.

pursers courts are cracking down on rioters with some fifty sentences human rights groups accuse dodges of overreacting by dishing out severe penalties indiscriminately soon young men have been given a four year sentences for posting in jail message or face but calling for people to get. european leaders and the u.s. to issue strong statements calling on syria's president al assad to step down john says the else was a halt to all minute two operations in the country on the un is preparing to call on the international criminal court to investigate the regime's lethal crackdown on protesters. israel launches an airstrike in gaza killing at least seven in retaliation for a string of deadly shootouts in the south of the country it's radio fishelson blamed palestinian militants for the trip.