violence with the government laying the blame for all ghosts riots firmly at the door of gangs one london council is talking about making youth workers spy on their members and monitor their social network activities and anything suspicious would be passed to a special anti gang unit but the m.p. for hackney where some of the worst unrest place says it's not the technology to plain when you had drugs in this country the twelve there was no internet and there was no. text message so it is not so you know time of the real causes of riots. and there's the real possibility it will backfire for some young people the used book is a safe haven in the middle east and world and message monitoring could undermine the kitchen relationship between you and vulnerable teen making it less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to get. out slightly crying and violence during the riots social networks like twitter and blackberry messenger were used by rioters to pinpoint the next location in march for destruction the government went as far as proposing shutting down the services while two men wer

violence but the government laying the blame for august riots firmly at the door of gangs one london council is talking about making youth workers on their members and monitor their social network activities and i think suspicious would be passed to a special anti gang unit but the m.p. for hackney where some of the worst and rest place says it's not the technology to play in across this country the club there was no internet in those. text messages so it is not so you know time of the real causes of riots rather than. the messenger and there's a real possibility it will backfire for some young people that use the club is a safe haven in a world that message monitoring could undermine the impatient relationship between us and bugger all teen making it less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to getting overtures and outside at least crying and violence now as has been working at this youth center in east london for two years young people spend time in a relaxed environment and eventually he gets to know them and see when they're in trouble he says money would be better sp

the spoils of libya's vast postwar oil reserves london city executives have been offered lucrative oil and gas contracts as the national transitional council is touting business opportunities to foreign investors archy's laura smith has more from london. the effort to topple gadhafi was an effort that was initially led by the u.k. and also france and the u.k. sent in its air force and it also used its navy to make a naval blockade around libya and now the national transitional council in libya is saying that its friends will be rewarded and these are not just words we've seen a couple of trips in the last two weeks or so earlier this month the u.k. department of trade and industry ledge of working party to libya to have a look around see what needed doing what needed rebuilding and now the national transitional council has come to london to hold a meeting with top city business executives to drum up interest of what they're calling massive opportunities in. libya so what we're seeing really is this direct correlation between participation in the effort to oust gadhafi and contracts that are awarded afterwards we know that libya has the big

london. u.n. security council is reviewing palestine's bid for u.n. membership in new york the motion was filed in september to march you for in the west bank and the deciding vote may come as soon as next week or is paula slipways up on charges. palestinians have resigned themselves to the fact that it's unlikely they going to get the two thirds majority they need in the united nations security council for the statehood bid what this means is that they will not become full members of the united nations and the united states will not be forced to exercise its veto rights there are eight countries amongst the security council who have indicated that they will vote in favor of the palestinian bid these include russia china india south africa brazil levanon nigeria and gabon both the british and the french have announced that they will abstain from the vote there they will abstain alongside portugal and bosnia while germany and colombia might either abstain or vote against it alongside the united states now this really leaves the palestinians with two op

look around see what needed doing what needed rebuilding and now the national transitional council has come to london to hold a meeting with top city business executives to drum up interest of what they're calling massive opportunities to rebuild libya so what we're seeing really is this direct correlation between participation in the effort she ousted saffy and contracts that are awarded afterwards we know that libya has the biggest oil reserves in africa but this seems to give more fuel to that argument seems to make it more obvious that the constant professions of this humanitarian goal seem to have been made a mockery of by this and as someone said to me last we form you know we destroy and now we get the contract to rebuild the place and that there is this seemingly direct correlation as i say and we also heard at the time of reports of evidence of daughter into full nato even got involved in this we've heard reports that the national transitional council told the french that if they sent in their planes then the libyans eventually which awards to tell the french all companies thirty five percen

now with the world energy council based in london, welcome to the broadcast.ow we are 7 billion people on the earth. it seems to sustain that many people and more coming we need three things. they are related. energy, water, and food. what do you see looking into the future? >> you are right. we have something in the energy field recall the water-energy nexus. i think we are now realizing that we have to add food. we will be looking into the future of the water-energy-food nexus. >> water is for cooling power plants, hydroelectric, fracking. is it that set of water uses as opposed to the need for drinking water, etc.? >> yes, there are a number of new resources with biofuels and unconventional gas. they have a higher water footprint than conventional energy sources like the refining of crude oil. the water needs are going up at a time when water stresses are up because of the demand for water for human and agricultural use. >> what do we do about energy in the most deprived areas such as the middle east? -- the first thing is to crea provide access to energy t

look around see what needed doing what needed rebuilding and now the national transitional council has come to london to hold a meeting with top city business executives to drum up interest of what they're calling massive opportunities in. libya so what we're seeing really is this direct correlation between participation in the effort to oust gadhafi and contracts that are awarded off to its we have seen earlier german companies express an interest in taking part in the effort to rebuild libya and the libyan saying no you know you didn't participate in the. in the no fly zone and you had no part in that so you will have no part in the business opportunities either and of course this is the same thing that we saw in iraq conflicts again. and french companies said to the iraqis after the conflict was over that they wanted the opportunity to participate in contracts and the iraqi said no you didn't participate in the war so you won't get to participate in the business afterwards the majority of those contracts were awarded to u.k. and u.s. companies and we have already seen that the u.k. department for