coming to you live from moscow this is now to our top story world markets have taken a steep nosedive as a wave of bad growth news prompted a stock's fire sale well new 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 slumped as well while unemployment spiraling investors have also expressed concern over the euro zone 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 on american and european growth saying that both were dangerously close to recession patric men for it economics professor at the business school believes that high wrong with cereal 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 elsewhere and so the markets so worried about slow growth but really they shouldn't be too surprised because with the situation of role 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 euro zone and what will happen that goes 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 soon europe i don't think that 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 but on the stock markets we're seeing a sea of red across the board let's get the very latest from marina at our business desk now well asia's the only one trading right now how is it reacting to the global slump. in the markets are still down we're seeing a lot of volatility across the board and of course morgan stanley saying that europe and the u.s. are dangerous closer recession didn't help matters investors what will happen next then they're going for safe haven assets well here in russia of course markets will open in about an hour and everyone's waiting to see if they'll be extending thursday's losses and also a lot of analysts are saying that we perhaps are seen a bear market and that perhaps it's here to stay but we'll have all the latest figures for you and our business update shortly all right thank you marina we'll

see you later then thanks. social networks have played a pivotal role in the revolutions witness so far this year so much so that the u.s. is throwing its weight and dollars behind what it's calling the democratic instruments to improve the world but critics say that washington is motivated not by people's freedom but it desire for greater control scale and for reports. when a wave of revolution crashed over the middle east this spring. many said which ended in the streets began with one hundred forty characters or less and social media like twitter and facebook. to harness the power of 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 would secretary clinton calls a venture capitalists approach to addressing the wide range of challenges to

democracy. see 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 design 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 clearinghouse of confidential documents john young worries that american suitcase servers will serve another purpose the suitcase is meant to give you a loser that you couldn't run fishel economy devices without going through national systems and that may be true but they will they will not be outside of the us 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 is that the united church has 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 emails from defense contractor h.p.

gary federal about the romas coin program from the cohen surveillance project you have. you have. both 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 they'll use that will come to light we. know. the youth who are by would be single person can pretend to be there were other people who were 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 about. other say there's a contradiction between support for internet freedom abroad and subpoenas alleging wiki leaks collaborators at home including private bradley manning. pozner says the

super. this 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 in the release of surveillance video that in san francisco police cut cell phone services on the metro during protests. francisco city. charter is a hot pursuit if you can imagine. well look at the united states that 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 florida

our t. washington d.c. . and still ahead for you this hour a jaws atop in washington waters the second a swimmer is mauled by a great white shark tapper a young man losses for arms in a similar attack stunned to the country. and all eyes are in moscow skies visitors to the city's international air show and joining in the stunning tricks of russian aerobatic experts are to bring you all the highlights of the event. the winter national pressure continues to mount on the syrian government with the u.s. and major states urging president assad to step down a set of fresh economic sanctions have also been imposed by washington in what is the biggest response so far to the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters meanwhile a u.n. humanitarian team is due and damascus on saturday to assess the situation on the ground syria has said that armed alterations against protesters have ended well

something that's yet to be independently verified. heman rights groups say over two thousand people have been killed since march with president assad blame of the unrest on insurgents political analyst dr walid pharez if the syrian president is forced out by a military invasion the situation in the country could follow the libyan scenario it all depends on how president assad quick that power if it's of his own will if he decides to leave like bin ali or quit like barak 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 syria didn't have a regime 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 on august nineteenth twenty years ago muscovites had tanks rolling past their windows as a state of emergency was imposed a group of hardline communist officials attempted to seize power to prevent reforms that eventually led to the breakup of the soviet union as artie's tom barton reports despite the dramatic events unfolding in the capital many were being kept in the dark. 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 mark we were 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. gorbachev's 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 good which often yeltsin and this circle out right treason they were going to ruin our country. 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 . got a bottle of tell me do you realize that you've conducted a could attack they look pretty. very convincing and. they 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 crews to switch sides people flocked to join him and

demand to 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 in the night protesters disillusioned with the communist party rose up to defend their hopes of democracy. of kamaz son dmitri was killed one would believe an out onto the road where his friend legitimate tried to drag him away while the machine rode over my sons had and killed lead to marriage while. the coup had failed and what's more it destroyed trust in the communist party which was then banned in russia in november one thousand nine hundred one by the end of the year the very system they sought to keep alive the soviet union had ceased to exist tom

barton r.t. . follow those three days in august one thousand nine hundred one step by step in our special report coming up in just fifteen minutes time meanwhile there is more on the fallout from the attempted coup on our website that's our dot com people there are those who still feel the fall of the soviet union was a disaster as russia's communist party believes organizers were right there attack saying the empire. and others aren't even aware of the u.s.s.r. is gone that thinking it is still a threat to the west at least that's what republican presidential candidate michele bachmann believes will find out why at our to. now a killing machine has invaded russian waters as two men have so far fallen victim to a 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 have promised 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 if he had the young man's wetsuit service 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 ask you what if 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

bed 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 thought in the sea and as it dragged into 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 shock really comes to waters it's 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 on live t.v.

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 dairy bush r.t. moscow. let's now look at some other world news in brief this hour twenty explosions have 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 kabul gunfire was heard at the scene and witnesses said smoke was rising from the area officials say the british council was the target of the attacks and the taliban claimed responsibility. for israel's military says 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 earlier israeli officials promised a strong response for assaults on a vehicles near egypt's border left seven dead blame was pointed at gaza militants although the hamas government denied their involvement. has officially recognized almost ten thousand more victims of the dictatorship of former military

leader pinochet that officially increases the total number of people killed tortured or imprisoned for political reasons to more than forty thousand in two thousand and four it was determined the survivors deserve monthly compensation of about two hundred sixty dollars from the government for human rights violations they suffered. you know a sudden storm that swept through the popular open air music festival in belgium causing two stages to collapse has left five people dead and more than seventy injured the bad weather also toppled trees and brought down a giant screens at the venue there was panic among the festival goers as rain poured down and winds whipped up organizers estimate sixty thousand people were attending the event at the time. now the scars around moscow have been even busier than usual this real. with the box international air show seeing wind machines performing all kinds of gravity defying stunts and is there for you.

among those stealing the lot but are big names in civilian aviation like boeing air balls and the super boys super just aircraft dealers in getting a billion dollar contracts well pilots and their military and specialist helicopters have also been showing various skills alongside an aerobatic teams like the russian falcons who have torn up the skies with stunning tricks all the rush of the stealth fighter the nine hundred fifty enjoyed its international debut seen as a rival to america's f. twenty two raptor. explains why the jets a top priority for the country's aircraft industry. many have heard about it but until now only a select few had seen it with their own eyes i too have asian fans the t fifty is known as pac this is it is still being developed so most of us technical

specifications are top secret in fact as close as we can get to the real thing is this model right here but during the match there are still visitors to get it sure we can you chose to see the judge 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 were presented to 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 fight that russia is demonstrating to mortals at this year's max air show is strong evidence that russian navy is in a very good state 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 smarter than us 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 want to fly still first the data environment in the cockpit is also news the fighter provides intelligence. ports to the pilots or to 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 those two r.t. . oscar region. to stay with r t throughout the week out for the best of this year's max airshow coverage. shape future flight. our team takes to the max air show now in a few moments you can watch our special report on the events that took place in the russian capital twenty years ago and change the country's history forever but before that all the latest business news with marina.

hello and welcome to business here on our it's you we start of course with the global markets which plunged into another round of volatility with fears of an underlying double dip 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 nasdaq close of a 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 we'll start with the asian voices they need heavy losses following a sharp sell off in the u.s. exporters are among the worst performers on the nikkei with and down two point six percent and citizen over four percent in the right carmakers are no exception with home setting around three percent this hour meanwhile energy stocks are the ones being hit the hardest in hong kong with petro china down around four percent. here in moscow markets will start the trading day in around one hour they nosedive there is they would be r.t.s.

closing almost five percent in the red energy and financial stocks were the worst ones to sell for the biggest losses during the day let's take a look at oil prices they keep falling after an almost six percent decline on thursday concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on crude however that we could dollar is given some supports the w t i is that around eighty one dollars per barrel this one hundred six dollars a barrel this hour a quick look at the precious metals now gold this trading at a new record high level uncertainty about the global economy as push investors back to safe havens the sport prices now at above one thousand eight hundred forty dollars per ounce and silver is also up it's trading slightly below forty one dollars per ounce. and while global indexes continue marching into the record investors are looking for any positive information to change the sun cements got the me from r.b.c. capital markets says there is 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 and the market had a list of all it from village to bank says russia is in a better position to withstand a recession than insist thousand and. 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 that. 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 the level of fiscal reserves the level of for its reserves is somewhat lower compared to two thousand and eight. that's how business looks the south the more stories it and hats are websites are to dot com slash specialists in the meantime states and for the headlines with. its.

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back you're watching our team now here's a recap of today's headlines the world's financial markets can fall spy a fresh wave of selling of the fears of the world economy is the climate experts put a bleak forecast on american and european growth saying both are dangerously close to recession. in. the u.s. russia still harness foreign internet services thought to have played a pivotal role in the arab uprisings but critics say while spending millions to promote on life into a broad washington is out to gain more control over events through the web. russia remembers the attempted coup twenty years ago the pacific state of the breakup of the soviet union and ushered in a new country the failed.