making are picking up pace in the interim a day three of them. live from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital our top story hopes for a mideast peace agreement have been dealt a fresh blow with hamas announcing its pulling out from a defacto ceasefire with israel the statement follows two days of israeli air strikes on gaza that saw more than a thousand killed across live now to tel aviv where are these paula we are joins us paula how will this statement by hamas a fact what's already a very volatile situation. well as you say hamas says it will no longer add here to a truce now they say that there is no proof that these attacks which happened on

thursday originated from gaza in fact they deny that despite the fact that israel insists that gaza is to blame now the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is calling for an emergency united nations security council meeting he's calling on the international community to denounce and to call on is all to stop these attacks the latest figures we have all some fifteen palestinians who have been killed in a round of israeli airstrikes that have been ongoing since late tuesday we are also being told that the situation on the ground is intensifying and there are no indications that the situation will make up any time soon now as far as the israeli side goes they say that hamas the islamic jihad and the popular resistance committees that it holds responsible for thursday's attacks are responsible for more than fifty grad and kasam rockets that have been fired on israel since those days and what we're witnessing on the ground is a situation that is intensifying and intensifying quickly what about the people in

tel aviv where you are how are they feeling about this latest announcement from hamas about the cease fire. well most israelis are very afraid that there could be a pool of full scale war between israel and gaza and in the last complex there were a number of casualties on both sides but having said that it is not more than four weeks and israeli protesters have taken to the streets asking and demanding from the government that it is great they socio economic problem organizers of these demonstrations say that this latest wave of violence is not unexpected they very much anticipated that the israeli government would do anything to distract attention from their complaints and their concerns and earlier we spoke to one of the organizers he said that they will sympathize with the victims of the violence and that they were still standing to go ahead tonight with a candle when i saw a demonstration showing solidarity for those who had been killed it's taken to say . that we're going to march together in silence you know to respect the victims of

this conflict we're very disappointed by the government's reaction that immediately said and tried to use our pain in order to stop this social protest and we disagree the socialist 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 paula what does this latest flare up mean tensions i should say mean for the upcoming u.n. vote on palestinian statehood which of course is expected in less than a month in new york. well palestinian leadership are basically speaking with one voice and they're saying that israel is using this as an excuse to detract attention away from that and to actually try and get international support not to recognize a palestinian state earlier we heard from the israeli foreign minister at the door lieberman and to quote him he said that the palestinian authority which was sponsible for thursday's attacks and for this latest wave of violence and he says that this proves that any kind of palestinian talks about peace and wanting to

resume the peace process is far from reality in fact that it's as far as ramallah is from new york nonna bill shaath and other palestinian leaders have said that this is madness and that is why he's trying to use this as an excuse to not get that you win votes past having said that later today the arab league will be missing in cairo to look at the latest violence and walk can and should be done. but what about the violence on the israeli egypt border about of them as relations between the two with protest at the israeli embassy in cairo what are the implications of that. well the latest word we have is that cairo has decided to record the head of its diplomatic mission here in israel it was earlier talk of the egyptian ambassador being record certainly this is the most serious diplomatic situation we've seen between egypt and israel for quite some time you need to remember of course that egypt and jordan are the only countries

here who are neighbors of israel that the israeli government has diplomatic relations with if this relationship with cairo deteriorates you will have this one in a very serious situation that most of its neighbors now will typically be at war with the country in fact if you think will cause here in israel itself for israelis to deal with what has been termed a crisis very very sensitive meet the any israeli defense official also said that the egyptian peace treaty was to quote him fundamental to israel's existence so certainly a lot of alarm bells sounding here in tel aviv for fear that the current situation could merely deteriorate even further. right ortiz falsely reporting live from tel aviv thanks for that update u.n. delegation is heading to syria to assess the situation on the ground with reports of twenty new deaths during the latest spate of anti-government protests but despite president also claims that the army operations against civilians have ended

but the international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite moscow's refusal to support the u.s. initiative demanding that us and steps down the u.s. has imposed a fresh set of economic sanctions with the e.u. preparing more penalties targeting the country's oil sector analyst james dunsborough says such measures could prove decisive but don't look realistic. the americans have been very clear they know their influence and ability to change syrian behavior is limited they've always said that have to reach out to countries who are closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country at that so i think the americans will now in 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 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 that they will no longer accept syrian oil now syrian oil makes up some a 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. still to come here on our t. marking history in twenty years since an attempt. by the child and the soviet union's government was boarded a second of our special reports is just ahead. but first world stock markets have plummeted amid signs of a possible u.s. recession and renewed whereis over the health of europe's banks investor confidence has been dealt a severe blow in sparked a massive sell off at the end of the week as archie's marine a point i explained gold was economic fears continue to build. 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 interest 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 and the fact of what it is doing to the euro zone many believe that 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 in fact 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. he has 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 and turmoil and to bring confidence back to investors. well fears of a repeat of the global financial crisis of two thousand and eight are spreading global panic dr jason johnson a professor of political science thinks 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 anymore 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 will the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it most of the u.s. debt 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 you have legislation to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future

economy but debts are less of a problem than people's inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now it looks like the chances of brock obama getting real like that are actually they're still better than fifty percent which would mean less markets that are concerned with investing right now now they're going to feel a bit more confident if it looks like obama's chances of being reelected are slim then everyone's going to get more nervous risk if you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise with the turbulent markets don't just affect traders of course with private investments and pension funds on the line our very own residence in new york as people there how they protect their savings. as the global economy continues to be volatile where do you feel like your money is safest this week let's talk about that do you have faith in the stock market are you kidding me. i'll go to i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette

that's when you have a chance you have face i mean it's not too much but i'm still worried because they're. falling down but you haven't pulled out yet you know it will come back to show you have money invested. they don't trust it that much but i just haven't got the money if you have the cash now's the time to buy everything but what if it just keeps crashing further if you have the money to lose you lose it if you don't don't play it do you have money invested on best that we cover the hard times and everything in the car to me is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market is not safe so where's your money under my mattress the way it goes up and down it's really it's just ok so i have no faith in it is it was a why we play a game with our security. well what are your choices what are you going to do with your money you put out of the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well

but what about in gold you can put some in gold like warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth and you dig it up and all the sudden you put dollars into it and you have to get your money back. from selling the gold so it doesn't make sense to me if things were to get that bad to where you have to put your money in gold i don't think the u.s. government would allow. gold to own the mine the currency so is there a chance that we could go back to a system of bartering or more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we live in a low. whether there really be more of us with these there was a moment though that we're seeing we're seeing signs of the end here with what's going on with the economy i think still no matter where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely inviolate.

it's quarter past the hour coming up the sky's the limit our. international air show near moscow with hands on access to some of the events the latest and greatest flying machines. and exit stage left georgia misses its best known theater director over comments made about present history. kim jong il has rolled into russia by train in a rare trip abroad for the north korean leader he'll be meeting president dmitri ms major for talks in a few days time the visit comes as struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on archer's jacob griefs reports. thought that energy corp is largely central to these discussions is something the president made it his self as champion quite recently and when it comes these two countries are always in the background this is

issue of the denuclearization of north korea and russia heavily involved here in the six party talks are ongoing trying to meet that end goal becomes kim jong il himself wolf but it's 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 and two it's the third time this time he's been invited by president better that's 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 paved with 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. where twenty years ago to the day history was in the making on the streets of moscow the city was under military curfew on the

second day of an attempt to overthrow me then president of the soviet union party's tom barton looks back now at the attempted coup that proved pivotal in the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . twenty years ago today moscow was in turmoil tanks on the streets barricades mound outside the russian parliament the white house panic and anger were in the air and the soviet army came face to 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 that you know well it's the tanks and soldiers in the streets all of it made you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour what's going to happen at night. 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 fought her son dimitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i've been able to see another dmitry had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after day in that he jumped into the vehicle three

a hatch 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 have deserved we pumped out late as a picture from a nearby car they're pouring picture into bottles setting them of 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 mere few soldiers were bearing orders. 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 what are you. as the pope has admitted the bloodshed destroyed cools

the oldest who had come close to succeeding which in the end it went the way of. democracy tom boxen. let's take a look now at some other news from around the world this hour libyan rebels are closing in on the capital tripoli from both east and west follows their statement that the strategic oil rigs are now under their full control after more than a week of fierce fighting this follows the recent rebel capture of a major oil refinery in zawiya as well as in the city of. natives continued support as healthy advances by anti gadhafi forces and significantly weaken government troops. a group of gunmen has ambushed abbas in karate carrying plainclothes police police officers killing at least six and injuring fifty eight the officers were on their way to carry out a raid when our men surrounded them an open fire came out garages the lease chief

announced fifty two people have been killed in the city within the past three days pakistan's largest city has a long history of political and ethnic ethnic violence over three hundred people have been killed in karachi in july have known. abbas has lost control that overturned on a mountain highway in southern afghanistan leaving thirty five people dead and injuring dozens some of them critically it happened just outside the city of kandahar on the main road from the capital but officials say reckless driving is most likely the cause of the crash such accidents are common occurrences in the country where roads and vehicles are often poorly maintained. is a mere twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the action showing no sign of waning death defying air stunts and multibillion dollar deals are just some of the highlights with thousands of spectators watching it all on the ground are just words to say is our tease main

man at the show. the max two thousand and eleven international air show is in full swing look at this beauty behind me this is the sukhoi thirty four bomber looks more like a tactical fighter jet but it is called the bomber and then as we mosey on down the tarmac here we have a couple of sukhoi thirty tactical fighter jets serious piece of russian military aviation hardware right here as we are enjoying the two thousand and eleven international air show the weather is not perfect yet the crowds are still here to see the shows fighters cargo planes helicopters noises and beyond noises here we were watching at the french rafael fighter putting some radical turns and twists in the one point i did think it was going to end an absolute tragedy disaster but of course these pilots are professionals and you can try to simulate the machines they are here as well as i have a go flying perhaps an f.

twenty two raptor or even maybe could they have the game of the t. fifty that was debuted days ago russia's super stealth strike in. fifty so it's a lovely day has so far the weather is not bad yet it's cloudy but the game goes on the show goes on and i'll pass it over to my colleague you go to prison off with an insightful story about the sukhoi superjet one hundred passenger liner apparently giving boeing a run for its money his r.t.c. go to prison the. only uprooted time just a year ago the suv whose super giant is now officially in business over two hundred would be built from the lines in russia and from now we have it today. and we touch the company can put out a lot of major so we are now looking for the and that's a help he needs to get lost in the next couple years say a joint project between russia's aviation giants europe superjoint international

and several dozen other companies this is the first civil aircraft would. used in russia from scratch since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and to see what all the fuss is about we decided to go on a demo flight to as they say touch the plane ourselves this is actually the first of course a project one hundred which was sold to an airline it was named after getting our guide 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 interior so nothing special but pretty simple and modern looking the. luggage go warm and 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 the planes main validated rivals which are the change you want thirty four and the forty two. geared up with some of the most

advanced mediation equipment with a maximum range of around two thousand miles the super super jets 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 day 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 the line of orders already secured the promise to deliver over one hundred sixty planes by the end of twenty sixty hugo is going to r d moscow region. we could learn more about the international air show on our website r.t. dot com where you can also get the latest updates and videos on all our stories.

now it's a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian theater director but it's taking place offstage rather than on it robert storer has lost his job after making comments about president saakashvili deemed xenophobic by officials by opposition in tbilisi saying he's being punished for his anti-government views artists are firth has the story. all the world's a stage the famous georgian face a director he say 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 that the georgian culture minister restore him to

his position in comments he made in an interview directing ninth of 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 and the government branded him sent a favorite and told him to exit stage left the many feel he simply being punished for his anti-government views. the authorities to evangelise on through and for refusing to support or worship them unlike others this was a political decision. the actions of the authorities haven't come as a surprise to sack of shit he's a cain and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced when you speak. to rallies for a short period of time it will be a major loss for george and his theater but the government is not worried about

that they're really afraid of any moral authority in georgia i mean those people that are brave enough to criticize them but this country to you forever but they say the show must go on and the internationally acclaimed director could now end up working here one of the most gave the most popular theory it is where he's been off the top spots most case gain will be lost very heavily felt by many in georgia serve artsy. you can watch miles come out in just a few minutes time here on our team but first we're going to take a short break and i'll be back with that.

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a human voice face to face with the news makers. four thirty pm in moscow these are the headlines on our t.v. tensions rise in the middle east as a mosque calls often ceasefire with israel in response to days of deadly airstrikes on gaza. has been another turbulent week for the world's markets as fears are mounting that the u.s. and europe are on the brink of another devastating downturn investor conic out the bleak economic outlook has prompted a massive sell off of shares. of the remark twenty years the day when moscow was placed under military curfew during an attempt to overthrow. the coup faces a fierce resistance and failed to topple the government but nonetheless change.