salvias by sharks in just two days attacks that have never been seen there before. it's nine pm in moscow and this is artsy coming to you live no way with our top story russia has refused to back the call made by the u.s. and e.u. urging syria's leader to step down moscow believes president also had to be given time to implement promised reforms and that the country should be left alone to sort out its own political future if notion is in damascus with more. russia's position has always been clear syria definitely needs reforms detainer is definitely needed required in this country but president assad needs time to do that through a display of. promoting democracy is the real thing with the support because

they're rejecting the use of force against bill population in the future or really their first rule ever to be confirmed to be fooled but on the other hand forcibly who are too poor to be right know by the international community to continue to think pressure on the critics for it to inferior but not pushing the fusion in a corner just for the people of syria who have. full right to determine the people who are the ruling class or this. should not be done by any decisions or extra either in washington or in brussels or in more or russian believes that external pressure at all present assad could only deteriorate things here on the ground and could hamper as a transition to democratic state at the same time russia has all the time in reach

rating that aved present our side doesn't keep his promises in that case they social community should react russia's delegation is due in to massacres very soon on saturday to try to find out exactly what is going on here on the ground and to see how assad is full feeling these promises qualification on the ground he's hearing is very complicated and i have to emphasize that the call from the u.s. and e.u. for this really present is tied down comes just hours after president bashar assad has announced that the military operation here in syria is over and had promised more reforms mean witnessed the army withdraw. we've seen at least thirty tanks live in the city and inside the city we haven't seen any ministry laughed police has returned to duty meanwhile we are receiving reports and the media reports.

based on information received from protesters and local residents that the army is still. on the ground in latakia and even the reports that. the soldiers are firing from type to time to peaceful demonstrators but i have to emphasize and this is very important these reports are very hard to verify because international journalists are not allowed to move freely here in the country as the syrian government because it's dangerous so these reports are very. very. also i have to say that we have been able to speak to one of the opposition leaders here in damascus and he has sad that this situation is very hard very difficult but not hopeless because people are going the people needs reform these reforms they want reforms but they have patient and they are ready to wait because they've been waiting actually for more than thirty decades now and they're ready to wait

a little bit more but of course not too much. please i'm illustrates that king's college london james doesn't bode joins us live now to share his perspective on these latest developments in the syrian crisis mr dunne so opinions on how to help syria overcome its crisis are divided obviously the u.s. and e.u. are urging assad to step down with russia saying the syrian leader should be given more time what could be a factor of a split like that be. well it's important that the split is bridged i think that the europeans and americans they've spent five months giving us time to implement reforms and their patience clearly is at an end so i'll be interested to see what moscow says is their kind of timeline in terms of when they think this could possibly happen otherwise the americans have been very clear they know their influence and ability to change syria behavior is limited they've always said they'd have to reach out to countries that are closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans will now and the european

specially really have to work hard to persuade the russians that they are right on syria and that russia is currently wrong so that is the next important step let's read a little bit between the lines what does this latest rhetoric by western nations say about their ambitions in syria. well i think it's important to say it's not just rhetoric because of course the words that have come out are outlining increased sanctions on the country and i think we should focus on one particular element which is really important could go either way syria's oil exports of the president about ninety percent or so syria's oil is exported to europe so the europeans are now come out you know united front against assad does that mean that they will no longer accept syrian oil now syrian oil makes up some a quarter of syria's hard currency budget so could have a huge amount of an impact on the assad regime its ability to control things so ultimately i do think there is more than rhetoric to what the u.s. and the europeans are saying right now. after months of criticism over libya nato

action there the coalition of course is still there we don't see any site and inside i should say to this crisis how could that affect the thinking of the u.s. in the e.u. or will it affect any of the actions they might take in syria. well in libya has certainly affected a number of elements namely the russians inability to believe in the west when they say they want simply assad to stop killing the protesters as they did put afy of course they turned that into more of a regime. change there however i do think things in libya have changed a lot recently in the last couple of days even the roads to tunisia from libya from sort of in tripoli have been cut off so there is talk now of the low because the regime under real pressure which does of course free up the west to increase its diplomatic pressure on syria but remember this all comes against the backdrop of the west saying very clearly that they know there's no military intervention possibility with syria that allows them to sort of run public rhetoric as you

called it without having to concern yourself the same level of commitment but if the u.s. and its allies do get their wish and does step down what would the alternative actually be. well it's a really difficult question to be honest i think it depends on how assad goes i mean if he leaves willingly with his senior regime then you can imagine a scenario much like that in egypt where a military transitional government takes over and essential prepares the ground for free and democratic elections however the other options are a bit more worrying such as the ones that happened in iraq where the regime hands on eventually brings down the state with it and you have a state collapse that could lead to a potential civil war that could take some time however so i think the manner of which assad's departure if that is to happen it will determine exactly who will kind of fill in the vacuum that follows and also iran has strongly criticized nato as operation in libya how might it react to any kind of moves against the syrian regime. well very badly i mean syria is the single biggest arab ally of iran it's

a crucially important piece of its foreign policy gets or not only is a supporter in a proxy ally and as a means of transit and weapons through to. lebanon but also as a way of putting pressure on israel so i think that ultimately will be deeply concerned by increasing pressure on its ally in syria and of course help to try and make up the slack to some degree in terms of economic sanctions can iran help its ally this assad regime's darkest hour write many sexpert james dance about wine from london thank you very much for your input. now it's twenty years ago to the day since a communist hardliner staged a coup to overthrow of then president of the soviet union paul it fell to topple the government it's widely seen as a pivotal factor in the u.s.s.r.'s eventual collapse tom barton takes a look now at how it changed the course of soviet history. if you

turned on your t.v. set in moscow on the morning of the nineteenth of august 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 tank crews themselves. 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 i have on the other members of the emergency committee sat in this very spot 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. everybody will tell me do you realize that you've conducted a coup de tat they work very convincing. it

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 years of in your command are traitors and enemies 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 kamala's son dimitriy was killed one would

believe found out onto the road to where his friend le duma tried to drag him away while the machine rode over my sons had and killed her to marry as well. the coup had failed and what's more it destroyed trust in the communist party which was then 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 on barton r.t. . well despite the fact that it happened twenty years ago there are still some people out there who aren't aware that the u.s.s.r. is no more i can't argue dot com for all the details or find out how some of them are in fairly high places republican presidential candidate zell bachman believes that the u.s.s.r. still exists and continues to pose a threat to think. of my life here today president over chavez wants to bring back all the export of venezuelan gold to the country to protect it from financial

turmoil and the possible consequences. our team. turbulence on the world markets continues as u.s. stocks remain volatile newly released economic data has made grim readings for american traders over the week domestic manufacturing fell to its lowest point since two thousand and nine while the housing market is in a slump and unemployment is spiraling or just more important i reports now from new york. the bad forecast the most recent one is coming from morgan stanley goldman sachs and j.p. morgan chase all three banks in the past day have released reports slashing their expectations for u.s. and global growth now morgan stanley believes that the global economy is hovering

close to a recession j.p. morgan chase says the risk of recession has been elevated now this news of course will only cause investors to lose even more confidence and trust in the markets in the u.s. here and around the world we've been seeing that play out with all the volatility hitting the markets around the world and of course the debt crisis in europe is causing great concern for investors all the debt drama and debate that took place here in the u.s. caused a lot of concern and so all of this of course is not easing the mindset of of americans we have to remember unemployment here in the u.s. is is above nine percent nine point one percent one million people lost their homes in two thousand and ten and another million are expected to have their homes foreclosed on this year so if people are not confident in the market every day

folks they're not going to spend their money all of this is tied together all of this is systemic and of course the united states being the world's largest economy whatever happens here in the u.s. does affect the world we saw that nearly three years ago in two thousand and eight with the financial crisis and collapse and we saw how it had a ripple domino effect around the world and right now many people are wondering why three years later after all the promises all the stimulus plans all the tax cuts nothing has changed and as long as there is a lack of confidence or very little trust it's hard to believe them predict that the u.s. economy and the rest of the world economy is going to bounce back any time soon. well russian markets have also suffered losses today following the downturn in the global exchanges kareena joins us from our business desk to give us a better idea of all these fears of a double dip recession and how they are reflected in the mood of russian traders

well and he said the russian markets it definitely following the global trends what's happening in asia europe and the united states but somehow they recovered from earlier shop for but still ended the week unfortunately in the red them isaac's close just under a percent lower but better than what we've seen during the day it was a sea of red across the board with energy banking stocks among the main decline as bucking the trend though with gazprom that managed to reverse into the black at the end of the trading session after trading two and a half percent in the red during the day now i have more for you more figures in our business for ten very short. the israeli military and guards are exchanging deadly fire after a series of attacks allegedly by palestinians on thursday seven israelis were killed after buses civilian vehicles and soldiers were targeted in the south of the country gaza based political analyst dr honey i think it's significant that the violence comes just weeks before you were vote on palestinian statehood. all

palestinian political factions have deployed i mean link or responsibility with this attack on the israeli side despite this fact we have with this last night military operations against the gaza strip in which syrian policy were killed more than twenty people were wounded i guess there is a link between the. policy. going to the united nations next month trying to talk to him but. i think the israelis are trying to use this as a pretext to launch military takes to get to the scene as he really is and the palestinian factions i think the israeli military would. to do pull guys any policy will do for us to go to the united nations to seek a palestinian state this is why palestinian political. team are trying to call for calm and trying to call for ceasefire with the israeli side in order to prevent

any attacks against girls or that we spurned by the israeli military forces and in order to give a chance for the palestinian authority to go to the u.n. next month to seek a palestinian is to eat. well moscow's ever popular international airshow continues to soar opening its doors to thousands of new spectators on friday some of the most spectacular aerobatic displays are still what had at marks twenty eleven for the show closes in two days' time. now the event isn't just about entertainment of course four days of the show have already seen multibillion dollar deals sealed on the ground box allows private investors to see the flying machines in action before buying them on the spot this yr saw made in public flight of russia's newest fighter jet the team fifty parties are includes the words. many have heard about it but until now only

a select few had seen it with their own eyes to add the fans the t. fifty is known as pac it's it is still being developed so most of its technical specifications are top secret in fact as close as we could get to the real thing is this model right here but during the match there are still visitors to get it sure we can the chance to see the judge in flight the first ever public display for. the jets 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 we're going to look at 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 in the fight of russia's demonstrating two models at

this year's max air show is strong evidence that russian evasion 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 anti aircraft raiders 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. american after twenty two an f. thirty five a run for their money in terms of stealth capabilities maneuverability and cost so much of 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 noses so would fly safely at lol near zero speeds it's safe even one of flies till first to do the environment in the cockpit is also new the fighter provides intelligence support to the pilots or

that 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 even those who r.t. . moscow region. well our reporters are on the ground at the ongoing international air show in the moscow region stay with our team for full coverage of marks twenty eleven as we track the business and arrow backside of the event all through the weekend. now the classic horror movie jaws has become a reality and russell's far east which has been terrorized by a marine predator a cash reward has been offered by the local authorities for the capture of the shark that sabbaths two people are his story of course covert tells the story of the victims who are lucky to be alive. 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 appeared the young man's wet suit served as protection and saved him from death but both his legs were severely wounded. but you heard him crying help help the shark have a big boat but it was tied up so some guys went out on to do the sea of him and gave first date only a day earlier at twenty five year old man lost his forearms trying to defend his wife when the couple were saved witnesses were shocked at what they saw but i would ask you what if it was really scary a country even describe it the man's hands were chewed off and the boat was full of blood. the attacks happened in the far eastern primordial 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 are 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 of blood in the water 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 very brisk over r.t. moscow. well that wraps up our main news block up next it's the latest business

news with kareena stay with r.t. . more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the ground. we've got the future covered.

hello welcome to our business update this hour thanks for joining me russian stock markets lost about fifteen billion dollars in a week the cost of companies including the my six index has to crease by nineteen percent since august first peter weston from the russian forces are just following the global trend. it's the same as they're seeing on a global scale it's really a market that is now driven by fear. the increasing concern that a state of the global another global recession took a real hold on the markets to so many on certain factors right now to some extent you can argue that the the current situation is actually more per korea's study was in two thousand and seven given that policymakers are running out of options china has their own problems in trying to sort of cool down their economy and then you

have different policy options in europe and the u.s. u.s. is probably going to try and stimulate where's europe where there is all about the service fields on top of that i think you know a little looking forward i mean if you look at what's going to happen in europe over the next couple of months you're going to have about four hundred fifty billion euros to be paid in debt by your son countries by the before the end of the year two hundred fifty billion of those come due in september and october so i think for those two months we're going to continue seeing peaceful attilla to the good news i would say though is that we don't see the same kind of panic selling that we saw in two thousand and eight. friday the russian markets have recovered from earlier shop polls but still ended in the red the out here is closed half a percent in the red in my six and just under percent lower but still better than from what we've seen during the day here's this snapshot of the markets movers on them isaac's energy manges among the main decliners quoted ross naf tore down roots hydro ended the day two and

a half percent in the red bucking the trend symbols cost problem that managed to reverse into the black up to trading two and a half percent lower in evening session banking stocks were also worst hit since a bear bank lost three percent. now here's wall street the stock market is back in a low investors wait for the next signals on the u.s. economy and whether it's headed for another recession major indexes swung into positive territory within the first hour of trading then sag again by midday. and markets in europe have recovered the worst of the day's polls enough to steady a stock for us says the footsie ended over a percent in the red while the german dax was down over two percent per day markets push up the lower with polls of more than three percent for some leading indexes and some banking shares were hit again with lloyds down over five percent in london and french of n.p. pre-bought down three point nine percent. that's a business up at this hour i'll be back with more in about forty minutes.

for. the record they wanted to order. the streets to keep some secrets but time to reveal. the soviet files. for the fall we've gone to. the biggest issues get

a human voice face to face with the news makers. here with our t.v. live from moscow our top stories moscow cautions against international calls for a change in syria saying president needs time to implement promised changes. black friday on the markets the world's financial stocks are hit by a fresh wave of selloff amid fears the global economy is in decline comes this expert suggests the u.s. and europe are dangerously close to recession. and swimmers in russia's far east are gripped by fear after two people were samaras by sarkozy in today's attacks that have never been seen before in the country the hunt has begun for what scientists believe put in me a great white shark.