city of slovyansk on the books in soldiers' historical who tells of its culture in the city streets in the sky calls from milan. as a good until you strove for this little become the virtual. russia cautions against international calls for change in syria the new wasn't easy you urged president johnson to step down. most who says the syrian regime needs time to implement promised changes and should be given the chance to sort out its political future from what would join me in the race notion of from damascus in just a few moments. and it's a black friday on the markets another day of global stock selloff as u.s. shares plummet again after south of the open asia and the new fears of old world's perception. as it's twenty years to the day since an attempted coup by a group of hardline communists against charles helped bring about the end of the

soviet. and swimmers in russia as far east are gripped by terror after two people were savaged by sars in today's attacks that have never been seen there before. it's a loving pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live i mean he's now with our top story and russia has refused to back a call made by the u.s. and e.u. urging syria's leader to step down moscow believes president also should be given time to implement promised reforms and that the country should be left alone to sort out its own political future meanwhile twenty people have reportedly been killed by government troops in the latest fighting for notional is in damascus with

more. precious position has always been clear steer it definitely needs reforms the changes are definitely needed required in this country but president assad needs time to do that really because they have. promote democracy if they really think. they're rejecting you look war against population in the future. there. have to be confirmed it can be proved but on the other hand the court in no way the international community to continue getting pressure on the weaker in syria but not pushing the fusion in a corner you know just for the people of syria will. fall right to the. ruling. by india or.

are there if you weren't or or in brussels or in most russian believes that external pressure on president bush 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 been retreating that eve present our side doesn't keep his promises in that case the social community should react russia's delegation is due into masters very soon on saturday to try to find out exactly what is going on here on the ground and see how assad is full feeling these promises promises change on the ground history is very complicated and i have to emphasize that the call from the u.s. and e.u. all this really present to step down comes just hours after president bashar assad has announced that the military operation he's here is over and has promised more reforms we've witnessed the army please try. we've seen at least thirty tanks live

in this city and inside the city we haven't seen any military laugh at police has returned to duty meanwhile we are receiving reports and the run 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 good these reports are very hard very far because of international journalists are not allowed to move freely here in the country as the syrian government because it's dangerous. well james denselow a mid east analyst space of king's college london says the oil embargo that the e.u. has put in place could be a decisive move against syria the americans have been very clear they know their

influence to change syria behavior is limited they've always said they'd have to reach out to countries closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans are now in europe in specially really have to work hard to persuade the russians they are rights on syria and the russia is currently wrong for that is the next important and i think we should focus on one particular element which is really important could go either way syria's oil exports of the present 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 they will no longer accept syrian oil now syrian or makes up some a quarter of syria's hard currency project 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. live from moscow still ahead this hour four

runner change we were grappling with of course the soviet union took a major turn twenty years ago on this day after an attempt to overthrow the government was staged on the streets of moscow. but first the turbulence on the world markets continues as u.s. stocks or main volatile newly released economic data has made grim readings for america traders over the week domestic manufacturing fell to its lowest point since two thousand and nine the housing market is in a slump and unemployment is spiraling. reports from new york. the that 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. causing a lot of concern and so all of this of course is not easing the mindset of other americans we have to remember unemployment here in the u.s. 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 markets every day folks are 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 in 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 of 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 and predict that the u.s. economy and the rest of the world economy is going to bounce back any time soon. coming up to nine minutes past the hour still to come shark key and the giant jaws there are on the beaches of lots of far east the behind begins with a shark that mauled two grown men in the space of just two days. it's twenty years ago to the day since eight communist hardliner staged

a coup to overthrow of then president of the soviet union well it fell to topple the government it's widely seen as a pivotal factor in the u.s.s.r. as eventual collapse 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 ninety 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. who ordered to march towards in 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. . 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 they would destroy the soviet union. but it was an act of treason on the part of google for near sin and this circle out right treason they were going to ruin our country. in a press conference later that day they said the call betroth 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 as he delivered his statement the assembled

journalists noticed that his hands were shaking then one twenty four year old journalist who his official words right out of the water. a little tell me do you realize that you've conducted a credit card. very convincing. just neb 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 gorbachev's return. if yeltsin tells you that bore the yeahs of your command are traitors and enemies who always will 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 from a row tunnel in the night protesters disillusioned with the communist party rose up to defend their hopes of democracy. of kamaz son dimitriy was killed one republican out onto the road where his friends legitimate tried to drag him away while the machine rolled 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 bam russia and november ninety ninety one by the end of the year the very system they sought to keep alive for soviet union had ceased to exist tom watson 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'm going to argue for all the details well you're find out how some of them are in fairly high places or at least trying to be republican presidential

candidate michele bachmann believes that the u.s.s.r. still exists and continues to pose a threat to the us. all to my mind today president will go chavez wants to bring back all the export of venezuelan gold to the contrary to protect it from financial turmoil and the possible consequences of an action at r t v dot com. look now at some world news in brief for you this hour at least forty people have been killed and over one hundred were injured when a bomb exploded at a mosque in canberra region in northwest pakistan going to teenage boy detonating a device during traditional friday prayers many of the injured are in serious condition no group has admitted responsibility. and all kind of militants are

active in the region. twin suicide blasts have rocked the afghan capital kabul and close to a compound run by the british government the explosions set off a five hour long gun battle between security forces and insurgents with at least ten people killed the taliban which has claimed responsibility so it was marking the anniversary of afghanistan's independence from the u.k. president hamid karzai made no mention of the attacks during events to mark that anniversary urging the people to unite and move the country towards a better future. but. israeli military and gods are exchanging deadly fire after a series of attacks allegedly. howard stern ians on thursday seven israelis were killed after buses million vehicles and soldiers were targeted in the south of the country based political analyst dr honey alba through significant but the violence comes just weeks before

a un vote on palestinian statehood all palestinian political factions have been my . responsibility with this attack on the israeli side despite this fact we have witnessed last night. give us the gaza strip and which syrian policy there were killed more than twenty people were wounded i guess there is a link between the. authority going to the united nations next month praying to. the i think the israeli side trying to use this as a pretext to launch really try to give us the policy is it really is the only policy and for chiz i think the israeli military would like to drupal guys palestinian youth to go to the united nations. this is why on policy and political. throaty are trying to call for calm and try to call for ceasefire with the israeli

side in order to prevent against girls are there were these really military forces and in order to give a chance for the palestinian authority to go to the you need some arms to all seek . 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 ahead at marks twenty eleven before the show closes in two days time and it's not just about entertainment many major contracts are being signed as well because of their. there are sounds of jet ten propeller engines in the skies scores of various types of aircraft on the ground it means the march two thousand and eleven air show has opened its doors to the public but first today's function mainly for official and

business delegations inking out those billion dollar contracts with some of the biggest names in civil and military aircraft producers from across the world but now ordinary people can see and even touch some of these planes themselves and there's a huge variety of them from all the ones for example this plane is from the times before the second world war some of the most advanced ones like the air was a three eighty jumbo jet all eyes are on the skies there's a huge program in store for all the visitors i've already seen stunning performances by aerobatics teams from across the world including the russian knights swifts and falcons we're expecting more from them and others in the next few days as well. for those who can't pilots planes but would really want to know just the little bit what it feels like there are seemingly interesting here as well for example this one gives an idea of what sort of

hardware will be installed on airplanes over the next generation in this case violence won't even need to go out the window all the needed information about the flight will be displayed in the cockpit it's not clear whether some of this hardware is installed on board or one of the headliners of the march two thousand and eleven but it's just still top secret generation stealth fighter jets t. fifty and r. g.'s if you know which group tried to with the curtain of mystery i know at least a little bit about this plane. many have heard about it until now only a select few. who had seen it with their own eyes to add the fans the teeth fifty is known as pack that's it if he is still being developed so most of his 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 next day or so visitors get it sure we get a chance to see the judge in flight the first ever thought the display for parts of

. 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 give us the united states and russia are the only two countries in the world that have a technological potential to implement a large scale national project for the development of a fifth generation jet fighter the fight of russia has demonstrated two models of 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 traders and will be able to cruise at supersonic speed but most of the guesswork boils down to

this when polly 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 smother and if that 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 nozzles so it flies safely at lower near zero speeds it's safe even with a fly still first the data environment in a cockpit is also new the fighter provides intelligence support to the pilots or to the jets are supposed to be political 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 media the only chance to see the hoovering pride of russian aviation is the max air show in the cusco r t v called ski school 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 aerobatic side of the event all through but we can. now that classic horror movie jaws has become a reality in russia'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 sharks that savage two people are actually very brisk over tells the story of the victims who are very lucky to be alive. nothing like this has ever happened here before russia has never seen a shark attack let alone to intimidate this sixteen year old boy was diving one hundred meters off shore when it appeared the young man's wet suit service protection and saved him from death with both his legs were severely wounded. who cry help help and shock. but it was tried out so some guys went out on to do

receive him and the first day. only the area 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 them 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 east and primeau 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 signed as a leave 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 trouble in subtropical waters of the ocean but with global warming they're now starting to move more and more of them out of roughly three

hundred sixty spaces of sharks just over thirty are known to be dangerous to humans the rest are either too small only to give but most experts agree that any shark with sharp enough teeth and longer than one going to need as can cause serious injuries especially if there's food 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 carried over r.t. moscow. care of this hour's main news block careers here next with the latest business. i don't work for a business reporter here in moscow it's been called the largest infrastructure projects in europe the first part of the russian nord stream gas pipeline is finished. first witnessed the final stages of construction. but this is the

very last weld in the first flight of the new extreme pipeline there's a gulf hundred thousand of the in this life this unfolding golden well not only because it if i don't want it also because the rest of them have been tested when they bring water through the pipeline previously this one has to be golden because it's going to get its first test when they feed a russian natural gas for the first time directly to europe and that's going to be happening very shortly i during september it's not only the world's longest pipeline a bit twelve hundred kilometers low it's also the mates withstand extreme conditions including temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees celsius it shovels under the both takes a course an economic zones that five states and it's been described as an example of multilateral cooperation and energy currently russia supplies around a good year it's just and there are concerns that we are to become even more

dependent on russian hydrocarbons now russia's oncet this by saying that this is really a new stage in energy and gas security they're going to be able to buy cars transit countries in the problems that we've seen in the past and they have to i right delivery of russian natural gas to the european customers. global indices of seen some wild swings this week with fears of a double dip that was fueled by poor data from europe and the united states let's take a look at how the markets performed on friday here's wall street where stocks are down with the standard and poor's five hundred heading to a fourth week of losses as fixation on the libyan union and its banks in spain news after climbing as much of that as one hundred twenty points the dow jones industrial average lost one point two percent with nineteen of its thirty components falling european markets have recovered the worst of the day's falls out to a steady start for u.s. shares the footsie ended over

a percent in the red while the german dax was down over to our side some banking shares were hit again with more it's down five point four percent in london and france has been p. parivar down nearly four percent. here in moscow the markets have recovered parolee a sharp fall but still ended in negative territory p.r.c.'s closed half a percent in the red and in the eyes of the just under a percent lower but still better than what we've seen throughout the day straight russian stock markets lost about fifteen billion dollars of the week cost of companies including the my six index has increased by nineteen percent since august first and here's the snapshot of the markets movers otherwise next banking stocks on worst hit spread bank lost nearly three percent and you may just go as well will call the roll snipper down hydrocele the most two and a half percent and gazprom pushed up a bit after trading put out percent lower in evening session. and last minute selling takes all lower leaving behind modest gains that's on the back of

a reprint dollar crude first attempt delivery retreated call senseful point two percent to eighty two dollars twenty nine cents a barrel in new york oil has settled below are three out of the week's of the week's five sessions a week will also point seven percent. and gold is trading at a new record high level with prices now at about one. thousand eight hundred fifteen dollars per ounce and so was also all that's gaining four and a half percent nearly as. your sneakers offer to buy back fifteen percent of the chairs on bellamy and producer deals worth eight and a half billion dollars and prices in and prices know it shares at a little over three hundred dollars as part of the long running battle between billionaires like you know proponent and ross and was also electric cars cut over control of norilsk most all of them till the beginning of next month to accept the deal otherwise the world's largest nickel producer will go to slaughter holders for

the same offer. as our business out there for this for this hour for this week i. will be back with more next week but until then you can always log on to our web site. of. the.

culture is the same up charge you can go right to the nerdy was the one thing we're trying to sneak in failed to change everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me hoping to channel stafford's reform so be. joining in the t.v. news i'm installing my belly. ring while. the streets and the count. on turning point in russia's history. was a justified move forward. remembering when you sense the battle for democracy a monarchy. if. wealthy british style.