it's eight am here in moscow and you're watching t.v. now to our top story world markets have taken a steep nosedive as a wave of bad news prompted a stock's fire sale well near a newly released u.s. economic data depress traders the most domestic manufacturing fell to its lowest point since two thousand and nine the housing market slump as well while unemployment spiraling investors have also expressed concern over the eurozone debt crisis well this week's summit of german and french leaders where they suggested bringing the region together under a new economic government failed to quell unease some analysts have even suggested it deepened market jitters as a more active solution was expected meanwhile investment back morgan stanley put a bleak forecast of american and european growth saying both were dangerously close to recession patrick meant for an economics professor at the cardiff business school believes that high road material prices and financial uncertainty is putting

the brakes on. there's been inflation in the world economy and there's been quite a tightening of monetary policy around the world especially in china and india and some of the other emerging markets and that has led to a fall back in growth in those countries and. so the markets are worried about slow growth but really they shouldn't be too surprised because with the situation of raw material prices so high oil prices so high there is a big factor for a slowdown in the world economy there's obviously a lot of uncertainty about the eurozone and what will happen. and go to the eurozone summit wasn't very conclusive all helpful in that respect that's a great deal of uncertainty which is worrying the markets about the situation of buying so in europe i don't think that i think that will be resolved but it may take some time to resolve it that's the problem meanwhile markets are very nervous

well as global finance continues its downward spiral investors are turning to traditional safe havens like gold which has hit another all time high despite plunges on the asian markets their economy still looks more appealing while countries that had been planning to join the euro are now having second thoughts well investment advisor patrick young says europe it needs to get its house in order before inviting in any number of. what we've seen in the course of the last number of months i mean actually going over a year or more has been an increasing number of summits various bail outs every time we end up with this chorus of people telling us that everything's over and we've got frankly a ground opera of the euro that's turning into a farce everybody outside of the european union elite understands that the euro is under incredible pressure and therefore a government like the czech republic well the prime minister is being very pragmatic he's sitting looking at the idea that it's going to cost his country

three to maybe ten or fifteen billion euros to join the euro in one go. if you've got the opportunity to join a private members club and suddenly you see that the swimming pool is broken don the tennis courts look as if they're in disrepair and some people are telling you that the bailiffs are going to come in and actually try and close the club down i'm not sure you want to pay that sort of membership fee the e.u. needs to get its act together it needs to cut the counsellor and get rid of places like greece and through the might of the euro it needs to create a new unstable system and it needs to adhere to the room because all of the euro zone members have essential broken the rules in some way shape or form the markets need confidence this is not caused by markets thinking that they want to destroy the euro as a reason for some form of vandalism it's totally completely in the hands of people like mr sarkozy mrs merkel and indeed all of those euro zone leaders they need to

lead they need to demonstrate leadership and they need to demonstrate strength otherwise the euro is dead. before the latest figures from the world stock markets join our business desk in about twenty minutes time. and social networks have played a pivotal role in the revolutions witness so far this year so much so that the u.s. has thrown its weight and dollars behind what it's calling the democratic instruments to improve the world but critics say while spending millions to promote online freedom abroad washington certainly not doing the same at home as artie's killing four reports. when a wave of revolution crashed over the middle east this spring. of. zero zero zero many said what ended in the streets began with one hundred forty characters or less on social media like twitter and facebook. hoping to harness the power of on line communication the u.s. state department is providing two million dollars in grants for

a quote internet in a suitcase program it's part of what secretary clinton calls a venture capitalists approach to addressing the wide range of challenges to democracy and human rights activists face in internet repressive environments around the world centralized servers like this one can easily be cut by governments but the internet in a suitcase is the sign to give dissidents a mobile web with mesh technology that runs their cell phones and other devices making it harder to cut the founder of his own clearing house of confidential documents john young worries that american suitcase servers will serve another purpose the suitcase is meant to give the illusion that you could run fishel economy devices without going through the national system and that may be true but they will they will not be outside the u.s. system young says the suitcase is just part of so-called liberation technology that has its advantages for the u.s. the prosecutor for being empowered said you know it shows because to watch what

you're doing and probably influence what you're doing and it isn't just governments according to the hackers collective anonymous which released seventy thousand classified e-mails from defense contractor h.p. gary federal about the romas coin program. surveillance approach you have to. go through a single you know national intelligence brand says romas claim is partly designed to manipulate social media one of the really more bizarre and dangerous. storm. the youths. who or what would. you rather not this software would allow the u.s. military to push their agenda by flooding social media forums already influenced by so-called witness bloggers international outrage at the kidnapping of a self declared lesbian blogger in syria had real policy implications until i mean it turned out to be this american man and i feel really guilty of. either say

there's a contradiction between support for internet freedom abroad and subpoenas alleging wiki leaks collaborators at home including private bradley manning. says the suitcase is just part of a larger internet freedom agenda don't shoot the instant messenger. instead address the underlying grievances but these platforms appear less welcome when activists take to the streets at home to release a surveillance video that in san francisco police cut cell phone services on the metro during protests are those who you vote for san francisco city. charter is a hot pursuit and you can imagine. well. you know it's safe to go in following riots in london there is talk of shutting down social media we are working with the police the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality. the u.s.

will spend seventy million dollars on internet circumvention technology in two thousand and eleven abroad even as tough questions remain at home. here in fort r.t. washington d.c. . and still ahead for you this hour a jaws attack in washington waters suckin the swimmers mauled by a great white shark after a young man lost his forearms in a similar attack that stunned the country. and all eyes are in moscow skies the source of the capital's international air show is going to stunning flakes of rough . an aerobatic experts that are to bring you all the highlights of believe that. the u.s. and a major states aversion to syria's president bashar al assad to step down imposing a fresh set of economic sanctions well that's the latest response to the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters a u.n. humanitarian team is due in damascus on saturday to assess the situation on the

ground well dr what did for us from the foundation for the defense of democracies says that if the syrian president quits due to military invasion the situation in the country could follow the libyan scenario it all depends on how president assad quick that power of his own will if he decides to leave like bin ali or quick like mubarak then you going to have a process but even that process is not going to be easy because the international committee doesn't know much about the internal mechanisms of syria. that was open so if he quits on his own which would be the best option for the international community there should be a u.n. sponsored initiative inside syria but if you quit as a result of being militarily defeated which is the less required the less accepted the less wanted. meaning there would be a battle and you would lose that battle then at this point in time one can look at

other cases as in libya for example or what's happening today in yemen and these are the dramatic solutions and i hope that the syrian situation is not go into that direction now when all this is nineteenth twenty years ago russians woke up to see tanks rolling into moscow as the state of emergency was imposed by the group of hardline communists officials attempted to seize power to prevent reforms that eventually led to the breakup of the soviet union or the coup failed after thousands of people bound barricades to defend the path for change artie's tom barton takes a look at the dramatic events which paved the way for a new russia. if you turned on your t.v. set in moscow on the morning of the nineteenth of all this one nine hundred ninety one this is what you would have seen tchaikovsky's swan lake. why are so many muscovites because on the streets this is what was really happening. there was confusion and panic even among the tent crews themselves martin with the

coup ordered to march towards moscow i thought i'd figured out when i get there as we weren't given any information as to what was happening. soviet leader mikhail gorbachev had been shot in his holiday home in the crimea a state committee on the state of emergency declared itself in charge it was made up of high ranking communist party officials including the head of the k.g.b. tribes vice president and the defense minister they were terrified that gorbachev's democratic reforms and the union treaty due to be signed on the twentieth of august would give so much power away from the center to the soviet republics it would destroy the soviet union. but it was an act of treason on the part of god but your finance in and this circle out right treason they were going to ruin our country left. in a press conference later that day they said that gorbachev was ill and that they

would take over in his absence but their show wasn't convincing on the nineteenth of august vice president kennedy and naive on the other members of the emergency committee sat in this very spot and want to since become my offices as he delivered his statement the assembled journalists noticed that his hands were shaking then one twenty four year old journalist blew his official words right out of the water . bottle to tell me do you realize that you've conducted a credit they look pretty. very convincing and. just got mad meanwhile on the streets the russian supremes soviet building the white house had become the center of resistance to the coup boris yeltsin the president of the russian part of the u.s.s.r. had convinced some of the tank crew to switch sides people flocked to join him and

demand to prove the chops return. if yeltsin tells you that both the yeahs of and your commander trait is an enemy's whose always will you have be as night fell on the twentieth of august the curfew ordered by the cool denies is raised fears of an assault on the white house when armored vehicles began moving through a tunnel and night protesters disillusioned with the communist party rose up to defend their hopes of democracy. of kamaz son dimitriy was killed in one would believe an out onto the road where his friend legitimate tried to drag him away while the machine rode out with my sons had and killed lead to marriage wow. the coup had failed and what's more it destroyed trust in the communist party which was then back russia in november one nine hundred ninety one by the end of the year the very system they sought to keep alive the soviet union had ceased to exist

dumbarton. i'll go to artie dot com for the news you want whenever you want and here's some of what we've got lined up for you right now new reports of bravery during the massacre in norway's view count as it emerges two chechen teenagers were throwing stones at anders breivik to save others. and the soviet union is still a threat to the u.s. twenty years after it disbanded at least that's what republican presidential candidate michele bachmann believes to find out why at r.t. dot com. now a killing machine has invaded russian waters as two men have so far fallen victim to a in jaws attack in the country's far east but troll boats are sweeping the area on the lookout for the prehistoric monster while local authorities are promise over three thousand dollars to the person who can catch the creature from the deep. explores the dangers. nothing like this has ever happened here before

russia has never seen a shark attack let alone two in two days this sixteen year old boy was diving one hundred meters off shore when it's the young man's wet suit served as protection and saved him from death but both his legs were severely wounded. but it was time. to do. a first date. only a day earlier a twenty five year old man lost his forearms trying to defend his wife when the couple was saved witnesses were shocked at what they saw but i would estimate it it was really scary a country can describe it the man's hands were chewed off and the boat was full of blood but your marks were all over his body doctors say they'd seen people off the bear and tiger attacks but this is the first time they've dealt with shocks some of the victim does recall finding the shark he saw

a big fish with fins about two metres long he fought in the sea and says it dragged him to the ocean floor twice. the attacks happened in the far east in print more your region that shares a border with north korea it is known for its beaches and clear water and swimming here has always been safe dangerous sharks don't usually go that far north in the sea of japan scientists believe the predator was a white shark a man eater and all trying to work out what it was doing here. this type of show it really comes to waters is a species that lives in tropical and subtropical waters of the ocean but with global warming they're now starting to move more and more to the north out of roughly three hundred sixty species of sharks just over thirty are known to be dangerous to humans the rest are either too small only pretty deep but most experts agree that any shark with sharp enough teeth and longer than one point two metres can cause serious injuries especially if there's food in the water however the

majority of shark experts also agree that the danger from sharks is often exaggerated there are even those who defend the predators saying people themselves are to blame for unwanted visits just work humans have fished out the sharks food supply and lure them in by throwing leftovers overboard but statistics show that fewer than one person per year on average is killed by a shark worldwide but in response we humans killed more than one hundred million sharks every year. and while scientists are looking for the reasons for these recent attacks the swimming season in the area is over at least for the time being . aren't moscow. well let's have a look at some other world news in brief now twin explosions of hit the afghan capital near a compound run by the british government at least three people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives in

a kabul gone far was heard at the scene and witnesses said smoke was rising from the area officials say the british council was a target of the attacks the taliban claimed responsibility. israel's military says the five rockets fired by militants from gaza have landed in the south of the country it comes after the jewish state carried out airstrikes over the strip following a series of deadly attacks six gazans were reportedly killed including a child while a dozen were said to be wounded earlier israeli officials promised a strong response after assaults and vehicles near egypt's border left seven dead was pointed at gaza militants although the hamas government denied their involvement. sheeler has officially recognized almost ten thousand more victims of the dictatorship or former military leader of pinochet that officially increases the total number of people killed tortured or imprisoned for political reasons for more than forty thousand in two thousand and four it was

determined that survivors to serve a monthly compensation of about two hundred sixty dollars from the government for human rights violations they suffered. that was sudden storm that swept through a popular open air music festival in belgium causing it two stages to collapse has left three people dead and more than seventy injured the bad weather also toppled trees and brought down giant screens at the venue there was panic among festival goers as rain poured down and winds whipped up organizers estimated sixty thousand people were tending the event at the time. now the skies around moscow have been even busier than usual this week with the backs international air show seeing flying machines performing all kinds of gravity defying stunts and arty is there for you.

among those stealing the limelight are big names in civilian aviation like boeing the air boss and be a source of projects with the aircraft dealers in king and billion dollar contracts or pilots and their military and specialist helicopters have also been showing their skills alongside aerobatic teams like the russian of falcons torn up the skies with stunning tricks the russian a stealth fighter the eight hundred fifty enjoyed its international debut seen as a rival to america's f. twenty two raptor artie's explains why the drug is a top priority for the country's aircraft industry. many have heard about it but until now only a select few had seated with their own eyes to. ation fans the t. fifty is known as pac but that's it if he is still being developed so most of his technical specifications are top secret in fact us calls this week the get to the real thing is this model right here but during the next airshow visitors get it sure we get

a chance to see the jets in flight the first ever public display for the box but the jet is being developed by the sukhoi design bureau under the watchful eyes of the united aircraft corporation and the entire project is shrouded in mystery in fact representatives of the corporation say the project is so secret they can't even talk on camera about it so it doesn't give us the united states and russia are the only two countries in the world that have the technological potential to implement a large scale national project for the development of a fifth generation jet fighter the fact that russia is demonstrating two models at this year's max air show is strong evidence that russian navy is in a very good state has the jets will reportedly be able to carry out combat duty in any weather at any time of day will feature a special coating which will make it less noticeable to and to aircraft traders and will be able to cruise at supersonic speed but most of the guesswork boils down to

this when fully developed the russian fifth generation fighter will give the american after twenty two and f. thirty five a run for their money in terms of stealth capabilities maneuverability and cost smaller than yours that at this being a new generation fighter it's much more comfortable to fly everything was designed with safety in mind it has thrust vectoring engine noises so it fly safely at low near zero speeds it's safe even with a fly still first the data environment in the cockpit is also new the fighter provides intelligence support to the pilots or the the jets are supposed to be fully developed by two thousand and fifteen it's hoped orders for. roughly six hundred jets will follow with one third of that number going to russian air force but until the final touches to the project are made the only chance to see the hope and pride of russian aviation is the max air show in the r.t.

. oscar region all do stay with r.t. throughout the weekend for the best of this year's max airshow coverage. feature flight. are two types to the max air show and up next is the business update with marina. hello and welcome to business here on the now we start this hour with the global markets which plunged into another round of volatility with fears of an underlying double dip recession now the sentiment was spurred by a bouquet of negative data from europe and the u.s.

the dow jones lost three point seven percent while the us that close to five percent in the red on thursday meanwhile asia has taken the baton of concern let's take a look at the markets in detail right now asian forces move heavy losses following a sharp sell off in the u.s. exporters are among the worst performers on than they carry with them down two point six percent and citizen over four percent in the reg carmakers are no exception hong kong around three percent at this hour meanwhile energy stocks are the ones being hit hard in hong kong with pepper china down around four percent it's. here in moscow markets will start the trading day in less than two hours time the nosedive on thursday with the r.t.s. closing almost five percent in the red energy and financial stocks or the wants to sell for the biggest losses during the day a second look at oil prices keep falling after an almost six percent decline on tuesday concerns about the global economic recovery are weighing on crude however

the we could dollar is given some supports blend is trading at one hundred six dollars per barrel while the w c i is at around eighty one dollars per barrel and a quick look at precious metals gold this treading out a new record high level as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to safe havens the spot price is now at above one thousand eight hundred forty dollars per ounce and silver is also up it's trading slightly below what do you want dollars per ounce this hour. all global and continue marching into the red investors are looking for any positive information to change the sentiments that they need from r.b.c. capital markets says they're still not much to impact the mood. it is august a lot of people on holiday and you know just aren't big events in the calendar where you can see a significant shift we get a little bit of economic data next week we have the p.m.i. is in for four august which will give us

a sense as to whether the slowdown will be more protracted into q three or not we also get the jackson hole conference on friday where we could see some noises out of the fed as to whether q e three is going to become a reality or not. and while fears of a dreaded double dip are once again rising in the market yet us of the civil it from deutsche bank says russia is in a better position to withstand a recession than in two thousand and eight so the comparison in favor of today is with regard to corporate balance sheets and the micro level of individual enterprises i think we're seeing a better picture in terms of less currency risk a less currency mismatches. less leverage less debt. that is accumulated. especially if we're talking about short term debt. but at the same time if you take the sovereign level if you take a country level so to say. we do see that the level of fiscal reserves the level of

for its reserves is somewhat lower compared to two thousand and eight. well that's all the business is for now the headlines are that.

it can hit doctors wives policeman's wives minister's wife and i just. if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm in jail or he's going to kill it.

welcome back you're watching our team now here's a look at some of the main stories we're covering for you today the world's financial markets sarkin falls by a fresh wave of selling and fears the world economy is declining experts put a bleak forecast of american and european growth saying that both are dangerously close to recession. all the u.s. rushes to harness for an internet services fall to have played a pivotal role in the arab uprisings but critics say while spending millions to promote online freedom of blogs washington is out to gain more control over events through the web. russia remembers the attempted coup twenty years ago that precipitated the breakup of the soviet union and ushered in a new country.