for the event today it's. welcome this is r t it's nine pm saturday evening here in moscow i'm kevin top story tonight hopes for a mideast peace agreement have been dealt a fresh blow with a mass announcing its pulling out of a dislike to cease fire with israel the statement follows two days of israeli air strikes on gaza that saw more than a dozen killed let's cross live paul the scene with the latest how are these most recent developments affecting what's already of course a volatile situation in the region. well kind of the back of it to the palestinian administration is that cairo is putting pressure to try and calm tensions on both sides we know that an initial agreement has been signed between calibrate and cairo we have no details of that at the moment but we do know that

earlier the head of the egyptian mission here was withdrawn he was called back and it was also talk of egypt pulling back its ambassador not come or has been insisting on and a formal apology from his role it also says that it wants not only an expression of a great but it wants a commitment from as well that this kind of violence will not happen again the israeli defense minister ehud barak had to take even greater the day of rejection border guards who were killed in the latest spate of violence he also says he has ordered an immediate investigation this is just part of a bigger picture we see tensions on the ground intensifying quickly at least fifteen palestinians have been killed in the past few days dozens have been injured while today alone some fifty grad and some rockets and rained down on southern israel dozens of israeli citizens have been injured so a lot of concern here in the region that this is it and will continue just to intensify paulo within the. so is there going to be gathering for protests across

israel is the way the governments how big this current flare violence likely to be criticized along with the other issues they've got with the government right now or the way they're handling it is. active have started gathering here in tel aviv and in at least another five or six cities around israel we are expecting thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets tonight and they seem almost unanimous that they believe that the government was hoping and is hoping that this is the nation of violence could attract attention away from social economic problems at home but almost every act of the soft spoken to says that the exact opposite is going to happen in fact the plan tonight is that demonstrators will be holding candles and they'll be marching in five and. recognition and in memory of people of both sides who have been killed in the last few days of violence we do know that the middle east quartet has issued a statement while it condemns the attack on tuesday that's false the initial state

of violence and that was an attack that left some eight israeli citizens killed it is also called on israel to stop its attacks on the gaza strip with the cool kids saying that the cairo also needs to take responsibility to step up if it's in the sinai peninsula that could try and bring the curate people curation there under control the arab league is also meeting tomorrow to discuss this is certainly a lot of international interest and a lot of international pressure in terms of what is happening here paula what is this like this escalation of tension means the upcoming u.n. vote on palestinian statehood. well that is exactly what palestinians themselves are concerned about they are afraid that the israeli government is going to use this spate of violence to argue that they shouldn't be recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards when next month in new york the israeli defense minister sorry the israeli foreign minister other don't even say that this is proof that the palestinians are not serious about peace. if they are as serious

as the distance from ramallah to new york now this has been responded to with the word madness by palestinian leaders they say that it is outrageous that israel can go any kind of parallel between the two and they say that it feeds into a particular point of view that is always trying to try and gone at international support not to see the palestinians to play that they come september the schools middle east policy of thanks for bringing us up to date tonight from tel aviv. but as i was spoke to israeli journalist shows have done a told me that if the crisis deteriorates and israel launches an offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance as young people are reluctant to fight for the government. i think that the next week is going to be an incredibly important dramatic and almost a volatile week in this region especially in terms of the david bush if the demonstrations in the west bank get out of hand or get very violent i think there will be a reserve call up in israel which will directly affect the constituents of the

temperatures keep in mind that most of the people protesting for social justice in the streets of tel aviv and jerusalem are of age to go into the reserves and so if there is a call up for either a ground invasion into gaza or any sort of outbreak of violence in the west bank it will be the ten protesters and they will have to ask serious questions about whether or not they're going to fight for a government that has so far ignored their demands for for economic reallocation inside of israeli society. this is a sore i would like your opinion on to be very much value your thoughts on the ongoing events in the middle east if you'd like to let us know what you think take on our web site you can cast your vote right now on the reasons behind what you think is israel's attacks on gaza staying in the middle east a russian delegation arrived in syria to assess the situation on the ground with reports of dozens of new deaths during the latest spate of anti-government protests that's despite president assad's claims that army operations against civilians have

ended the international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite moscow's refusal to support the u.s. initiative dividing with assad step 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 denselow told us such measures could now prove decisive. the americans have been very clear they know their influence and ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said that have to reach out to countries that are closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country at that so i think the americans we're now in the european specially really have to work hard to persuade the russians that they are rights on syria and that russia is currently right. 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 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 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 on r.t. this marking history is twenty years since an attempt to overthrow. the soviet union's government was thwarted the second divorced special series of reports for you just ahead. next the world stock markets have plummeted amid signs of a possible u.s. recession and renewed worries over the health of europe's banks investor confidence has been dealt a severe blow and sparked a massive sell off at the end of last week here's artie's miniport explains next global 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 the fact of what it is doing to the eurozone 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 it 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. he said 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 to investors of his report new york fears of a rip into the financial crisis of two thousand and eight are spreading global panic dr jason johnson is a professor of political science he told us he things we might see a recession in the u.s. if investors aren't reassured 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 while the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it or 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 if legislation can be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy debts are less of a problem to people's 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 they're still better than fifty percent which would mean that 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 was the markets don't just affect traders of course with private investments and pension funds on the line our very own resident in new york us 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 with i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette that's when you have a chance you have faith if you have the cash now's the time to buy everything slow 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 end economy is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market is not safe so where's your money out of my mattress the way it goes up and down it's really it's just. so i have no faith in it is there 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 have put out of the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about in gold's you could put seven goals 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 to matter where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely in violence.

that has art to moscow coming up the sky is the limit. it's the two thousand and eleven a max air show just outside of moscow here with me rule research on t.v. it's really heating up out here high flying. jets putting massive g. forces i've been watching it for hours i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with aussie. warrior. just a bit but before that kim jong il has rolled into russia by train in a rare trip aboard for the north korean leader he'll be meeting president of the two invertor for talks in a few days time now that visit comes as pyongyang struggles under a set of western sanctions right now while military tension on the korean peninsula continues to rumble on r.t. jake agrees reports. thought that energy cooperation is largely central to these discussions is indeed some of the present method of his selfish champion quite

recently and when it comes to these two countries are always in the background this is the 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 because kim jong il himself wolf backs this is his third visit to russia his 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 prism it better in fact the first time these leaders are going to meet face to face and that's expected to occur next week in the russian republic with the reason for this timeline well kim jong il he likes a child by train is 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 that just arrived

yesterday in north korean ports. also the headlines tonight libyan rebels are closing in on the capital tripoli after reportedly taking full control of the western city of zawiya they're now pushing colonel gadhafi troops back on the road to tripoli that's fifty kilometers to the east it follows the statement the strategic alternatives breggin is now under their full control after more than a week of fierce fighting the civil war which started over six months ago with the plate would have been the march has claimed the lives of over two thousand people. a group of government ambushed a bus in karachi carrying plainclothes police officers it's killed at least six and injured fifty the officers are on their way to carrying out a raid when armed men surrounded them opened fire came as crutches police chief announced fifty two people being killed in the city within the past three days pakistan's largest city has a long history of political and ethnic violence over three hundred people have been killed in karachi in july alone. a passenger bus overturned that a mountain highway in southern afghanistan leaving thirty five dead and injuring

dozens some of them critically the bus rolled over several times after the driver lost control during the journey from the city of kandahar. officials say reckless driving was the most likely cause of the crash. of the ten thousand people gathered in new delhi in support of a prominent activist who is on his fifth day of a hunger strike now and those are he says he is physically weak but will not renounce his fight for tougher anti corruption wars in india a campaign a started his fast in jail after being arrested for planning a protest without police approval as arias says indians are fed up with government bribery and has threatened to starve himself to death unless passing this legislation. twenty years to the day history was in the making here on the streets of moscow the city was under military curfew then on the second day of an attempt to overthrow be called gorbachev then president of the soviet union. looks back at the attempted coup that prove 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 with 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 thought 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 dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after the and that he jumped into the vehicle free 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 were bizerk we pumped out later that petrifying nearby car there poor patrons of bottles set in the more 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 expected assault on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just here a 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 but. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the august coup had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom barton party.

it's a mere twenty four hours to go now before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but nonetheless the action showing no sign of waning death defying instance of multibillion dollar deals just some of the highlights the thousands of spectators watching you know on the ground. who shay's artie's out of the show. back in 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 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 you can try to simulate the machines they are here as well so 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 is 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 oh you got a person off with an insightful story about the sukhoi superjet one hundred passenger liner apparently giving boeing a run for his money his r.t.c. go to chris going to. uproot a time just a year ago. is now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from the lines in russia and from now we have an. image that the company

can put out a lot of major. so we are now more affordable and more let's say optimistic and positive about the next couple yes a joint project between russia's aviation giants 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 where 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 market which was sold to an airline it was named after regarding 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 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 whole new level of comfort compared to this plane to me validated rivals which are the cheap one 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 sukhoi superjet 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 us a nifty little aircraft 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 is going to r d moscow region. and if you

can get the show in person you can find a lot more about the stars of the international air show on our website our coverage there for you can also of course as well keep up today with the latest updates so many of those videos more stories too. next it's a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian theater director but it's taken place offstage rather than on it robert strew as been fired after making critical comments about the president mikhail saakashvili officials deemed the design of phobic but opposition into producing say he's being punished for his anti-government views r.t. sarah firth has got the story. of. all the world's a stage but the famous georgian theater 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 that the georgian culture minister restore him to his position in comments he made in an interview the direction of being outspoken against the government said the president saakashvili being armenian meant he was not able to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism too far and the government branded him sena favorite and told him to exit stage left the many fear he simply being punished for his anti government. authorities took advantage and so 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 satisfy it is

a pain and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced used. to release him for a short period of time it will be a major loss for georgia 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 conference here 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 been off the top spots most case gain but below very heavily felt by many in georgia surf say. just ahead tonight we take you back to ninety ninety one of the turbulent times in a dramatic coupe was attempted here in moscow that program's coming up shortly before but all of day two of the news headlines this out of the evening and moscow one is kevin all in thank you for watching r.t.

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thankfully without seats and let me have big headlines tensions rise in the middle east. cease fire with israel in response to days of deadly airstrikes on gaza israeli activists are gathering for a peace demonstration across the country to protest against government policy and the focus some from mr problem. it's been another turbulent week for the world's markets says fears about the u.s. and europe are on the brink of another devastating. invest the public couldn't make economic outlook from the past self which. is all about maxing it out to the international auto show to moscow with gravity defying action and a lucrative deal by picking up multi billion dollar contracts of the making public to russia's. just such.