with news from russia and from around the world live from moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour investor confidence has been dealt a severe blow as global markets nose dived on friday stocks have enjoyed a volatile week amid warnings of slow growth and eurozone debt jitters and artie's miniport now explains fears of a new wave of recession amounting. investors around the world may have very little to celebrate this weekend as u.s. stocks and major european share markets closed down on friday of course this capping the turmoil and volatility that continues to be seen in the european economy in the u.s. economy at least being seen for the past few weeks this does not help ease the lack of confidence and lack of trust that is taking place among analysts and investors keeping their eye on the global economy and j.p.

morgan chase morgan stanley goldman sachs are among the three banks that came out with reports were saying their predictions for u.s. and global economic growth they cut those predictions morgan stanley even saying that the global economy is hovering close to a recession and also not helping the circumstances recent reports indicating that the u.s. economy is not doing as well as anticipated manufacturing is that its lowest point since two thousand and nine the housing market is still experiencing a huge slump unemployment is spiraling here in the u.s. more than fourteen million americans are unemployed investors are also very concerned about how european leaders are handling the debt crisis in europe that the fact of what it's doing to the euro zone many believe that did the right decisions are not being made and not being made quick enough clearly this is an

indication that three years after the financial collapse that started here in new york wall street that infected the rest of the world clearly that crisis continues to be having a huge impact on the lives of people all around the world those people that were promised that three years later the economy would be doing much better and now all we see. see that there are a lot of struggles taking place and it's not quite clear if any leader of any country knows how to handle this problem to stop all the volatility turmoil and to bring confidence to investors. report now reporting there and the two thousand and eight collapse of investment giant nomen brothers the largest bankruptcy in u.s. history is on many a financial mind right now is a repeat of sending markets into choppy waters but jason johnson professor of political science things only reassuring investors will save the u.s.

from recession. the companies that have lost stock value over the last two days or two weeks these companies aren't magically not working any more it's just that people's confidence is at an all time lows so if confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it or most of the us right now is owned by china china is not about to reclaim the state of virginia they're not about to reclaim new york city by calling in their debts they primarily want to see america so it just leasing to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy big debts are less of a problem the inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now it looks like the chances of barack obama getting real like that are actually still better than fifty percent which would mean that markets that are concerned with investing right now they're going to feel a bit more confident if it looks like obama's chances of being reelected are slam

then everyone's going to get more nervous risk if you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise. hamas has announced it's putting out from a de facto ceasefire with israel the statement comes after two days of israeli air strikes on gaza more than a dozen palestinians have been killed in the strikes reportedly including children israel began its campaign forming a series of terrorist attacks in the egyptian border that killed eight israelis on thursday officials pin the blame on a gaza based group called the popular resistance committees for the incidents following the first airstrikes palestinians responded by launching more than twenty rocket attacks the rising tension comes less than a month before a vital u.n. vote on the recognition of the palestinian state would be getting a comment live from israel a little later here on. well coming up later in the program and politics don't mix in georgia as the director rob the country state gets the

sack many of those supporting him claim it's because he opposed the president. big business for some a tough job for others but a stunning show for all of our t. takes you through all the highlights of the next international air show near moscow . but first a u.n. humanitarian team is heading to syria to assess the situation there while the latest stream of anti-government protests have reportedly left at least twenty people dead earlier syria claimed army operations against civilians have ended. because rejected from the u.s. and urging president assad to step down saying he should be given more time to enact promised reforms nevertheless a set of fresh economic sanctions have been imposed on syria in response to the government action but the e.u. ready to expand pressure targeting the country's oil sector and this james denselow says that such restrictive measures could prove decisive but do not look realistic . the americans have been very clear they know their ability to change their

behavior is limited they've always said that have to reach out to countries who are close it's a syria and russia is one such country and a very important country at that so i think the americans are now in europe in specially really have to work hard to persuade the russian they are right on syria russia is currently wrong for that is the next important step 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 serious 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 oil makes up some quarter of syria's hard currency budget so it 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. well let's return to one of all top stories this. is putting out from a de facto cease fire with israel and the statement comes just two days after

israeli air strikes on gaza well let's go as promised life to israel and joining me live from there is a peace activist thanks very much indeed for joining us live here on our team no houses analysis no longer committed to a cease fire with israel so how all you know about the situation seriously deteriorating well it's a great challenge first of all we all share the pain of the victim. of the current events. we can say that we didn't expect anything to happen and we all want prepared relatively speaking to them or events. and it happened now. and we're very sorry to hear about what's happened in. ten think it is in the south korean from that and they were asked by the government. the tents and we're all in

this together and i think the greatest challenge now is to keep the unity and the story that i think that we achieved here in our society in such a complicated country in such a complicated situation but today i can say with great confidence that it was still together. as jewish and. relieved and. we're all here together and that's. the greatest challenge and the greatness of what we're seeing we're seeing military action from both sides at the moment you campaigning against military action you say you want to achieve unity how do you think that could be achieved. well so far i think what the process of the protest has done is to change the terminology to make those words left and right quite old fashioned because we're not left and right anymore we not operate as a society i think israel our greatest mistake as

a society was to forget about our inner problems an inner conflict because of the bigger threat that we experience in being part of the me that is being part of a very close area. you may call it and i think what we've done in the last months in the past month was to be together to really take all of our powers from the differences that is in israel and come together united and say we want wealth we want social housing with one social justice in our house in the case and health system we want that and if we'll be here together strong and stronger than ever it will solve our inner conflict i'm sure that the bigger conflict devoid of conflict. will also be solved in the future well i know that all those issues have been expressed during a series of protests in israel recently. demonstrators of course now accusing the government of turning

a deaf ear to their calls now do you think the government actually hear what you have to say during your particular campaign which is occurring on the back of those protests at the moment and what you're planning to might. you know many a social revolution because of. security conflict is over history. i don't think it's going to happen because from what i hear from there almost a hundred tenth it is in israel is that everybody knows that the political situation is strongly related to the cells. in the social struggle is also the political struggle and all comes together i thought you know security is also a political security and i think it was united in that so today tonight we're going to march together in silence you know let's respect the victims of this conflict in silence together and that's the most important thing we're going to march here in tel aviv and also in about twenty other cities around the country and to scream the

same demand there we had. that has been stronger because today we know we're very disappointed by the government's reaction and that immediately said and try to use our pain in order to stop this process and we disagree the social cause is going to continue and we're going to keep fighting for our rights and we're going to keep doing it together and we're not going to allow this conflict to stop us well we'll be following those events and those developments in israel in the meantime thanks very much indeed stuff for joining us live from tel aviv. for many russians this day twenty years ago was full of uncertainty and extreme anxiety tanks were patrolling the streets of moscow as a group of hardline communist officials attempted to seize power but the coup failed eventually leading to the collapse of the whole soviet union and two democratic reforms in russia and takes a look back at the dramatic events. twenty years ago today moscow

was in turmoil tanks on the streets barricades manned outside the russian parliament the white house panic and we're in the end of the soviet army came face to face. face with its own people. the first couple of days were pretty scary that's when we had to go to key points in the city and protect them there were crowds of people gathering and violence was on the verge of breaking out the coup plotters had isolated soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and seized control of media outlets but one reporter defied the k.g.b. officers in his news room. we've switched on our t.v. camera without much hope of being able to go on air tonight you can see barricades being erected. survey's report was shown and spread word of the democratic resistance developing around the reformist russian president boris yeltsin as the standoff continues through the nineteenth and twentieth of august fears grew of an

assault on the white house thank you know well it's the tanks and soldiers in the streets all of it's made to feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour what's going to happen at nighttime as armored vehicles tried to ram their way through barricades and move into a road tunnel near the white house some of the protesters tried to stop them lubov kamar thought her son dmitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i've been able to see another dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after the and that he jumped into the vehicle three a hatchet where he was shot. dimitri was only wounded but the vehicle then ran over his head killing him as two other protesters were shot in the mayhem. that guy was killed in front of thousands of people who went berserk we pumped out

later that petrified nearby car their poor picture into bottles setting them off fire throwing them at the tanks the conspirators already wavering lost their nerve . the three men memorialized here have become martyrs for the democratic cause in fact the expected assault on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just here few soldiers were burying orders. there were my colleagues and i already saw that the coup was failing so after i got the orders to attack the white house and apprehend yeltsin we unanimously decided we wouldn't do it you know when you. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the oldest coup had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom bottom r.t. . the art world in georgia was up in arms after the director of the country state

theatre was fired officially the reason given was for xenophobia statements he's alleged to have made but his supporters claim it was politically motivated after he spoke out against president secretary does rule party sir first takes up the story now. all the world's a stage the famous georgian theatre director he saved brilliantly brought to life many of shakespeare's works and it has been fired from his role in the pride of the georgian theatre robert stewart has been removed from his post allegedly for xenophobic remarks but in fact it was revenge on a political decision we demand of the georgian culture minister restore him to his position in comments he made in an interview directing known for being outspoken against the government said the president saakashvili being armenian meant he was no sable to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism too far and the government branded him sent a favor and told him to exit stage left the many fear he simply being punished for

his anti government. authorities to conventions on stewart for a fusing to support a warship them unlike others this was a political decision. the actions of the thirty three haven't come as a surprise to some it is a canine this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced. leaves for a short period of time it will be a major loss for george and his theater but the government is not worried about this they're really afraid of any moral authority in georgia i mean those people that are brave enough to criticize them but this country forever but they say the show must go on and the internationally acclaimed director could now end up working here one of the most popular this is where he's the top spots they

belong very heavily felt by many in georgia serve. go to war to dot com for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it and i think you've missed on screen here. as well as a quick look at a couple of stories in the mix if you want your college thirty year prison sentence . the u.s. state of indiana is the person convicted for murder is just twelve years old and didn't even pull the trigger. and the two men were sharks in russia's far east and georgia tech could be coming in the south of the country. goes on the rampage for more. best videos. channel. more news today violence again flared up. in these are the images the world has

been seeing from the streets of canada. for racial to rule the day. north korean leader kim jong il has arrived in russia's far east by train and is expected to hold talks with president putin a few days greater energy times are expected to be the main focus of our correspondent jacob greaves has more on this. thought that energy corporations like to be sensual to these discussions is indeed some of the present his selfish championed quite recently and when it comes these two countries are always in the background this is issue of the denuclearize ation of north korea and russia heavily involved here in the six party talks are ongoing trying to meet that end goal because kim jong il himself wolf this is his third visit to russia is first occurring in two thousand and one and i was under the quest of prime minister vladimir putin then president stay for three weeks came back in two thousand so

it's the third time this time he's been invited by president better facts the first time these leaders are going to meet face to face and that's expected to occur next week in the russian republic but the reason for this timeline while kim jong il he likes a child by train is a space form of transport armor train in fact this whole visit comes on the back of russia pledging fifty thousand tons of humanitarian aid to help with north korea's food shortage and the first batch of that just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. she could greaves reporting there more news now from around the world in our world update twenty minutes past the hour a bus has lost control and overturned on a mountain highway in southern afghanistan killing thirty five people more than twenty passengers were injured some of them critically incident happened early in the morning just outside kandahar city on the main road from the capital meanwhile an explosives packed rickshaw detonated near the vehicle of an afghan intelligence

agent killing two and wounding three. libyan rebels say they finally captured the strategic oil terminal in the east of the country they've been fighting for control of the industrial town for more than a week it comes after rebels seized the country's main oil refinery in the city of zawiya the territory still under colonel gadhafi is control has been decreasing dramatically in the. last week with opposition fighters closing in on the capital. at least six people have been killed and fifty others injured in pakistan after unidentified gunmen ambushed a bus carrying plainclothes commandos they were heading to carry out a raid following a tip off when they were intercepted by armed men who were confined vic was attacked on three sides fifty people were killed and eighty five wounded after a teenage suicide bomber detonated his device in the main hall of a mosque during friday prayers. to chilling now in the student protests continue to

shake the country's demonstrators demand free education and changes in school funding dozens of students blocked access to a ferry from a small island for hours in response police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and the rest several people protesting the country started more than two months ago after president proposed weeping education reforms. a missing russian communication satellite has been found by the u.s. space surveillance network or failing to separate from its booster rocket the device never reached its designated albeit experts now fear that the satellite will not have enough fuel to reach its working position the russian space agency is investigating what went wrong scientists will now try to use the u.s. data to establish a communication link with the express. satellite was planned to be one of europe's most powerful and provide coverage across almost all of russia experts are hopeful a device could be sold at least a portion of its planned fifteen year working. the sounds of jet engines have been

roaring around moscow over the past few days but flying machines tearing up the skies in r.t. is that the max international air show to bring you all the highlights. the weather is not perfect but the atmosphere is fantastic here at the annual two thousand and eleven international max so i'm a research a sitting in a very impressive russian alligator fifty two chopper this thing is loaded to the teeth the captain the pilot was telling me earlier it compares to the american apache chopper or even the cobra but i think this chopper is and lee all of its he said to me you can sit in my chopper but do not touch anything. it is so tempting fire find really better behave myself the french use a hit with a rough alf i did jets the airbus a three eighty is here as well also the now world famous just debuted a few days ago the russian stealth striker jet the fifty sukhoi that is taking to

the skies as well lots of people here so they carrying their own brothers they're wearing out the rocks and coats and hats but it's still a beautiful day with amazing aviation machinery all around us here at the two thousand and eleven max international as i know my colleague of his going off has this story all the one year all the sukhoi superjet one hundred. only uprooted time just a year ago the suv who is supergiant is now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have it today. and we touch in the company can put out a lot asking for major so we are now looking for double and more let's say optimistic and positive about the next couple years say a joint project between russia's aviation giants sukhoi europe superjet international and several dozen other companies this is the first civil aircraft

produced in russia from scratch since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and you see what all the fuss is about we decided to go on a demo flight to as they see touched. the plane ourselves this is actually the first of course a project one funded which was sold to an airline it was named after you got in the first man in space and this plane has already made several international flights we're told that this is the basic version of the chair so nothing special but pretty simple and modern looking the. luggage going to work man so overhead it looks pretty spacious stark noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that this is a whole new level of comfort compared to this plane to the main validated rivals which are the change you want thirty four and the forty two. you geared up with some of the most advanced equipment with a maximum range of around two thousand miles the so who is super jet will replace

soviet era aircraft and with a price tag of around twenty five million dollars per piece which is around twenty percent cheaper than its main rivals there's interest in the super jet from foreign airlines as well generally as a flying experience is no different to flying around europe in any kind of modern thing and a couple of little quip goes over well saying nifty electro spy it's developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help it get rid of any teething problems and with a line of orders already secured the promise to deliver over one hundred sixty planes by the end of twenty sixteen hugo is going to have r t moscow region. and stay with r.t. throughout the weekend for the best of this year's max airshow coverage. closer. approach.

shaping the future of flight. our team takes us to the max air show. well despite clouds and rain this weekend the russian capital is known for its scorching hot summers when the sun shining muscovites like to keep cool and moscow team has found out. a plane trip to the center of the city is one the best things to do on a summer's day the journey off is relaxing views of all the major sites and the cool breeze is to have in the warm sun twenty four it is just sort of realized how hot the summers off here in moscow she was for every one of suncream or second. to those can accommodate maybe one hundred people to this exhibit outdoor area as well as a sheltered room downstairs which uses serves refreshments a boat trip on the moscow river is an ideal way to see the city the air is fresh and there are no exhaust pipes around it's just you and the russian capital.

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on a new story on r.t. global markets end the week walloped by a massive selloff and this is panic over forecasts of recession in the us and europe. the middle east is in flames once again as a mass pulls out of a cease fire. exchange of fire between the sides came as israel targeted those it blame for a deadly attack on its territory on thursday. russia marks the anniversary of a crucial turning point for the failed coup by commas hardliners in the bloody resistance of democratic activists twenty years ago open the era of a new post soviet russia. and you can now watch a detailed report of those pivotal dramatic events in our special report that's

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