groups in local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters who are emmett's that some of them. the groups are called jury a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town but. despite the more atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most are ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that i can to do the opposite effect but they're going to get every weapon much started taking our stories up with young children also will patrols on the streets on the decide if there's not enough police them will help them out and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and that and just push them away because we don't want to go after anyone cause any trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in . the shops up in the road and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have banded together to protect their livelihoods and property sons and daughter

emmett reports from the. london mayor boris johnson o'brien's you know riots devastated to a mixed reception delivering the government's message to rioters that they'll feel the full force of the law to me was you know you're going to see the future of these numbers i mean across england and wales more than eleven thousand police have already been laid off in austerity measures by two thousand and fifteen a total of thirty four thousand will go meanwhile london and other cities are taken over by thugs the police have not been anywhere where the police if the police want it to pick up the bins aren't i think any surprise i think out a little bit that's i don't think they're doing everything they can and i don't mean to be more than eight percent while police numbers are being cut the estimated cost of the war in afghanistan from two thousand and one to the end of last month was thirty billion dollars all taxpayer cash british forces are also heavily involved in libya despite the ministry of defense being requi

neutered shops and torched cars communities decided it's time to take matters into their own hands more emmett's has more. goodness i could sure use a warning to looters if you come out to enfield tonight you'd better be in disguise at the first sign of trouble this is what happens. around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the mob atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most are ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that going to do the opposite effect you're going to get that everywhere very much started to take in our streets are for young children not so well but children on the streets on the decide if there's not enough police then move help them and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go after anyone or root cause any trouble we just one of my sure no one comes in and start smashing the shops up in the road and it's not jus

beat could get fewer and further between while local vigilante groups could take up the slack your emmett's r.t. . and in response to the recent rise of britain's prime minister david cameron to curb twitter and other social networks is as when people use internet media to incite violence they need to be stopped but germy corben from the u.k. neighbor party believes any form of censorship will only make things worse. but you can't stop communication what you have to do is assert a moral value within society and encourage young people to believe that they have some scope and some stake in society and that is the problem it's the social alienation the impoverishment the disillusionment of young people is not exclusive to britain it also happens to be france and spain and italy and in many other countries across western europe there's a very unpleasant agenda surrounding this which david cameron in part is promoting one is the good salesman to social media such as twitter and facebook and then you suggest to bring in water suggests that putting the army on the street all kinds of draconian mea

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dissolution society impatient for reform but some believe it could be much worse off these lower emmett talks to newspaper editor one for his views on recent events . i'm talking to abdel bari atwan who's the editor of the london based upon arabic newspaper al could be he is obviously going to talk to me about libya and he says that there's a huge potential for libya to turn into another afghanistan i missed out on thank you for talking to r.t. today now explain to me what the factors are at play or comparable between libya and afghanistan. lot of similarities here between. afghanistan and libya we have been nato intervention military intervention it is true this intervention is not actually sending troops on the ground but the same as in there are we or another and i to say could and like afghanistan and the other you know libya. could turn to a failed state and afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after that i think we know that there from would be removed from power because you cannot actually i need from something has been called by credibility but the big question here i

the beach could get fewer and further between local vigilante weeks could take up the slack you're emmett's r.t. . and save a cameron told m.p.'s this week that the writing was pure and simple criminality and base just turns and says it's not part of the real criminals are in the rest really would like the british authorities to rethink hard and fast approach their approach needs to be actually addressing the root causes of this which is a forgotten generation these children caught themselves part of this is a mass phenomenon this is this is this is a generation that's been called hoodoos child's. gangster that's the way they've been treated by the system and by people in the community so why are we surprised that they behave in a way that we've left movement for a whole generation it is social nine eleven we can see i mean you know cameron and johnson and miliband were holidaying in mediterranean while they're bombing libya in the south mediterranean a common comes back off of the first day of writing from his national holiday and he calls these young people criminals and the define water

money because downing street will have the final say over whether or not to disclose the results or emmett's read one torture victim who also downs the inquiry will bring justice. walking a tightrope of pain versus gain it's emerged that's how britain security agencies were encouraged to decide when to talk terror suspects. was held by graham in afghanistan and in guantanamo bay between two thousand and two and two thousand and five he says he was tortured and accuses the u.k. of being complicit in that torture only now is the level of the official complicity being revealed i am completely one hundred percent sure that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room had it not been could be involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence offices quite regularly. and they were physically present when i was being abused they saw. me they saw my according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior m i five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information they might obtain with the level of mistreatment a prisoner would suffer a

was the most trying to enforce sharia law in the capital from abstention to amputation ortiz or emmett's being hearing help they want to instill their tough code on the capital. so we are here to tell you that islam. is unstoppable in europe stoning for adultery cutting off hands for stealing the renouncing islam this group of men is trying to enforce shari'a law in the u.k. they've started a campaign to make certain areas of london and other cities islamic law control zones starting with wealth of. muslims will be good of getting even because of these farmers will try to for the most of all muslim community also looking to believe that muslims can live together trade according to the sharia was all their problems. and even police themselves to a large extent hopefully one day to have a summit governments will have authority locally security locally and you provide welfare locally choudhry and his friends are fly posting parts of london with large muslim populations they want to ban drinking gambling and playing music and they say they've got bands of young men ready to patrol and in ful

of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett r.t. london. they received bailout money and they are now reporting profits but the financial recovery of u.s. carmakers isn't filtering down to the streets of the countries once booming automotive capital detroit increasingly looks like a ghost town and its residents are literally surviving on scraps. discovered. this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing market. but today detroit is the third most violent city in the u.s. with unemployment estimated at up to fifty percent according to officials the one swimmers motor city now has more people living in poverty than cars on the streets home foreclosures continue flight to the suburbs which takes the tax base away from the city and there's more and more of that the decline in the school system. is making people leave the cd and so there's no money really in that there are no jobs here and as the u.s. census points out a quarter of a million people have left detroit in the past ten years the economic sca

whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture you are emmett r.t. london. britain has been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rising using facebook they said it was just a game insisting no rioting broke out as a result of their posts but they became the first people to be sentenced by judges for massive alarm arrest that's what england in a separate case remember between sixty miles and two years police in handling stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspects were brought before the courts david bowden a hundred times of decision it's huge five years dot com says he'll have to regain their credibility by. having had both because of the shaken last week with people we've been unable to keep the streets safe i think we're seeing quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities they try to regain that or for it think it's superficial to see people being hounded quite severe sentence is often quite a minor role in the riots and often for crimes such as stealing a bottle of

measures and spending cuts take bite further waves of juvenile delinquency could be approaching as more emmett now reports from london. what ever resources the police need they will get whatever tactics the police feel they need to employ they will have legal backing to do so what we will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order streets prime minister david cameron talked tough on wednesday branding pockets of society sick and pledging to reform them but seemingly unlike cameron people who live in the country's poorest communities saw this on rest coming exacerbated by government policy i think that certain things that we had like swimming used to be fried stuff like that. i think it gave a place for children to go and cuts and stuff like that don't give opportunities for children you are less fortunate to go and enjoy stuff in holidays so they resort to closing that habit so that you know you can't blame you for being fed up in this feeling disenfranchised and there's nothing for them because it doesn't seem to be anything for these days there's no jobs for them there's nothing for t

of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett artsy london. now as the u.k. government is determined harsh justice will shall demand its broken society author owen jones says it's the lead which sets the bad example to those committing crimes is full interview is coming up next hour. we're racing friends in cities on the planet the minimum wage in the country is just not enough to live on you can't support a family with it these are huge social problems that aren't being addressed and we have these problems at a time when people at the top are richer than ever so yes we have a plan because the internet in a crisis we have the politicians you stole from the taxpayer we recently have a new international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists what happened was more disorderly that all but example of things that are the top. they received bailout money and they're now reporting profits by the financial recovery of u.s. carmakers isn't filtering down to the streets of the country's once booming automotive capital detroi

whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture you are emmett artsy. two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rioting using facebook they said it was just a joke insisting no rising broke out as a result of their posts when they became the first people to be sentenced haidar just for the not civil unrest. in a separate case remember jane between sixteen months and seemed years for looting handling stoning kids in the thirteen hundreds is that right is brought before the courts david bowden a commentator for social issues website if you divide is dot com. your party's attempt to regain their credibility has. brought thora to peaceably shaken last week with people we've been unable to keep the streets safe i think we've seen quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities they try to retain that all forward through it superficially seem to be being hounded quite severe sentences for often crime quite a minor role in the riots and often for crimes such

of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett's r.t. london. new york is bracing itself for a what to be and historic storm as approaching hurricane irene has forced the mayor to order evacuations from the city public transport including the subway will also be shut down for the first time ever. explains how people are preparing themselves . more than eight million new yorkers are preparing for what's expected to be a dangerous and possibly disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine pm saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to walk home it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor t

under control for more on the possible causes of these riots in london here's my colleague laura emmett who is in east london last night london's burning riot is in police takeover the capital for a third night as leaches target yet more areas of london in a spiraling cycle of violence on monday night a pilot shoot a few signs of abating in fact it spread further around the city say here in. slugs in hackney where writers set fire to cars and try to break into more shops meanwhile terrified residents of london could do nothing but according to police seal off streets and treat whole areas as crime scenes with local communities trying to come to terms with the wave of looting engulfing north east and south london in enfield rages looted shops making off with whatever they could carry in nearby edmonton a man with stopped south in brixton riots says threw rocks at police and in tottenham where it all began the high street is a burned out shell the police the chops i'm sorry the bags everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that no jobs nothing for th

could get fewer and further between while the local vigilante group could take up the slack nor emmett's r.t. . political activist john breeze here right now providing one of longer part of hope by progress on be long before war does what it wants long cannot function until quote if a program this isn't something that can simply be battened off the streets and water cannon and plastic bullets isn't something that can be and that isn't something that we got rid of by imposing look only in prison sentences we've seen one teen aged forty jail for six months for stealing one pound fifty bottle of water and i live in hackney i live right next to the temporary state which was the main site of. this week so i can tell you that if that happens you can come back to the pembroke state in a moment or two months or six months or year and absolutely nothing will change and therefore the fundamental cause of this is this which will remain the untold story here is not just what happened to mark duggan but glad that this is a a one iceberg when you know there's been three hundred deaths simply that the

interests or western interests or welcomed these interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. meantime asia times correspondent pepe escobar believes as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts but i want to have boots on the ground to secure them. this is the cover story in this story from the beginning was our two peat responsibility to protect there as the basis for u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three there is that neither of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a result based on your fake arab league called nine countries out of twenty two and you can do it you want with bahrain or in saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american in european public opinion especially the chinese the russians we're getting brazil for that now they're not buying they not yet so us need to coordinate our operation without them there will be no victor this will be a still nato go for ever and we have international community sort of basically that lantus this powers taking sides in a civil war so when they knew it could call for months or m

or the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. the scenes of excitement and jubilant celebrations across libya recall those in cairo's tahrir square in february but the high expectations after the revolution have given way to disillusionment and dismay egypt was a facing its first democratic parliamentary election in september but the interim government has delayed it citing the need for more time to prepare. you can comments on how the latest events in libya may have parallels in history. the cadets the regime is crumbling. the rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. you know i loved the revolution when it happened i welcomed the it looked at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by who

could get fewer and further between while the local vigilante group could take up the slack your emmett's r.t. . and i mean time a london based political activist chris knight so it's not restricting social media is not downing street should begin if he wants to. write. this government is closing down through swimming pools it's shutting youth centers and it's vandalizing the economy the rule of law can't be enforced if it's one law for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same law for everyone we have to start with the most powerful criminals and what we've seen recently is politicians on the take chief of police constables on the take. we've we've seen the bankers on the take and these people have to be dealt with and when it comes to the question of violence what i would say is this a legitimate law enforcement does require a certain amount of coercion let's have it it's just so ironic having celebrated the facebook revolution the social media the twitter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly. they've decided to clamp down on the media here

or the west's interests for oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. rebels have reportedly put their flags on top of buildings inside the gadhafi compound and raided weapons stores the part of the city housing the rixos hotel where journalists are staying remains under the control of the gadhafi forces those trapped inside the hotel report heavy fighting outside nato forces say they've hit as many as forty targets in tripoli during three days of fighting the biggest number in a single location since the operation started in march. i just remind you we've got extensive coverage of the situation there in tripoli on our web site you can head to r.t. probably for the latest video analysis and opinion and you can also get up to the minute news problem. libya on twitter page just follow the party under school. call. other news now here in our team at twenty two minutes past the hour a man suspected of organizing the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya has reportedly been arrested in moscow let's get the latest now from he got to pick it off yo

of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett's r.t. london. major cities along the eastern seaboard of the us including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of her. i remain it's expected to flood parts of lower manhattan as public transport including the subway has been shut down well despite it weakening to a category one storm forecasters saying it remains extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic artie's marina port ny has more now from new york. public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called a low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york that are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than t

of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett r.t. london. this is a. program we'll take a trip with our russian close up team so we travel a thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of heroes and the remarkable story of how ninety eight percent of the finds in the family forty six. reports of the first deaths are coming from north carolina and virginia as hurricane irene launches coastal cities in the two states with a hundred and eighty five kilometer per hour winds u.s. authorities say six people including the levon year old boy have been killed so far by falling trees after enormous gusts these storm has toppled polis and almost one million people are now without a victory since and irene is heading to new york were not exhibited in parts of lower manhattan this it is public transport service including the subway has been charged and residents ordered to leave some close to unload line areas. public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for a busy danger

or the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. meantime asia times correspondent pepe escobar believes soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts but i want to have boots on the ground to secure them. this is the cover story in this story from the beginning was our to be responsibility to protect that was the basis for u.n. resolution one nine seventy three there was that bathes of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a resolution based on your fake arab league gold ninety countries out of twenty two and you can do any you want with bahrain saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american and european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many being brazil for that matter they're not buying it they know it's a u.s. nato coordinator operation without them there will be no victor just will be a stalemate they'll go for ever and we have the international community sort of basically deathlands assist powers taking sides in a civil war so when they knew that they could go on for

officials still found space to a little to that train for recording a court hearing on his lawyer emmett's finds out how the country forceful became the one who's financing things. british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scarth he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the whim of a british judge his crime recording a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't accept that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe it was because caesar covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights banning secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and

seen at least thirty five police officers injured and one hundred sixty people arrested parties more emmett is in the british capital. obviously it's much less attractive to shops in the daylight and i think that's part of the one of the factors that has brought this situation much more under control this monday morning we all still hearing reports of talk it's of on rat city. ranging around particularly in the areas of brixton in south london and fields and the surrounding area in the north but mostly what's underway at the moment is a massive cleanup operation after last night's looting and rioting police cars have been smashed up and attacked police themselves have. been reports of actual boulders having been firing at least with me they were attacked by rights is shots with that far too and now i was in enfield last night where that the center of the violence started and there were guying of you ranging through the streets smashing into whatever they could attacking shop fronts particularly shop fronts with attractive things inside it started off on saturday nights in talking and what s

bodies on the beat could get fewer and further between local vigilante we could take up the slack nor emmett's r.t. london. and in the wake of intense violence across england david cameron and aus is considering banning people from social networks if they're found guilty of inciting violence through the web but political activists chris knight says a clamp down on media misses the point and down the line cause. if it needs a revolution to enforce the rule of law so do you the rule of law can't be a force for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same law for everyone is just so ironic having celebrated the facebook revolution the social media the critter revolutions and across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to clamp down on the media here it's absolutely not be a souvenir series inequality the issue is is is that the supposed i mean what kind of society are we to drive eleven year olds fourteen year old kids to watch. mental straight you know to burn the local store that that we actually believe we've actually not weasel politicians words. coming up later a

shops and torched cars and communities decide it's time to take the matter into their own hands nor emmett's how small a good design could surely a warning to loot is if you come out to enfield tonight you better be in disguise at the first sign of trouble this is what happens. around five hundred mainly young men chase down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the more atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that i can to day the opposite effect begin to get everywhere very much started checking out streets up for young children or children on the streets on the decide if there's not enough police them will help them understand everyone a wage the cost to the shops and push them away because we don't want to go after anyone because of the trouble we just want to make sure that no one comes in specially no shops open in the us and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have ban

could get fewer and further between while the local vigilante group could take up the slack your emmett r.t. . or london based political activist chris nice has restricting social media is not where downing street should begin if it wants to stem the threat. this government is closing down through swimming pools and shutting youth centers. round. the economy there's just no ironic having celebrated for facebook revolution the social media the twitter revolution across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to crack down on the media here it's absolutely not the issue serious inequality serious. i mean what kind of society are we to drive to live near zero fourteen year old kids to that's. mental state to you know to burn the local store that we actually we've we've actually not weasel politicians were. plenty more stories ahead this hour on r.t. later we report on the powerful advertising methods the pentagon exploits to make wallet. presented the military for what it was i don't think anyone would join. hollywood and they can do to games industry are all part of the vatican'

interests western interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's the. asia times correspondent. as soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts they will want to have boots on the ground to secure. this is the cover story this story from the beginning was our two pete responsibility to protect there was a basis for a un resolution one hundred seventy three there was a be that the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a result lucian based on your fake arab league called ninety countries out of twenty two and you can do and you want with bahrain or in saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american in european public opinion especially the chinese the russians me putting brazil for where they're not buying it they not you so you asked me to coordinate our operation without them there will be no victory this will be a still neutral go for ever and we have international community sort of basically atlanticist powers taking sides in a civil war so windy new bit big good pool in four months or needy years on at it ok

of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against laura emmett artie london. later in the program we'll take a trip with russia close up t.v. and we travel at thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of carob and they were . ninety percent of the lupins that point of view finally before they turn and say . right now reports of the phones deaths are coming from north carolina and virginia as hurricane irene launches coastal cities in the two states with one hundred eighty five kilometer per hour winds u.s. authorities say six people including in the eleven year old boy have been killed so far by falling trees and enormous gusts this storm has toppled palm lines and almost one million people are now without electricity irene is heading for new york where flooding is expected in parts of lower manhattan the city's public transport system as a service including the subway has been shut down and residents had to leave some coastal unload lying areas. public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new yor