new for me kevin owen here in moscow tonight you're watching r t international it's eleven pm moscow time and our top story violence in the middle east is on the rise as a mass fires rockets towards israel in response to days of airstrikes on gaza international mediators from the un russia the u.s. and the e.u. have called on egypt to help its neighbors establish a cease fire tonight paul asli has more from tel aviv. cairo is putting pressure to try and calm tensions on both sides we know that an initial agreement had been fine between tel aviv and cairo we have no details of that at the moment commer has been insisting on any formal apology from israel it also says that if one thought it would be an expression of a great sort of once a commitment from as well that this kind of wind will not happen again the israeli

defense minister would go rock has said that he would break the day european border guards who were killed in the nature of violence he also says he has ordered an immediate investigation this is just part of the bigger picture when we keep tensions on the ground intensifying we keep at least fifteen palestinians have been killed in the last few days dozens have been injured while today alone some fifty grad and some rockets rained down on southern israel dozens of israeli citizens have been injured so a lot of concern here in the region that this is if they can and will continue just intensifies active have started gathering here in tel aviv and in at least an out of five or six cities around israel they believe that the government was posting and is hinting that the situation of violence to distract attention away from social economic problems at home that's almost fifty after the soft spoken to says that the exact opposite is going to happen if in fact the plan tonight is that demonstrators will be holding hands and they'll be marching in five minutes it

recognition and in memory of the people of both sides who have been killed in the last few days of violence we do know that the middle east fortis has issued a statement while it continues the attack on to say that since the initial states of license and that was an attack at least some eight israeli citizens killed it is also called on israel to stop the contact on the gaza strip with the quartet saying that the cairo will to me to take responsibility to step up if it's in the sinai peninsula to try and bring the critique of creation there under control of the arab league is also meeting tomorrow to discuss this is taking a lot of ink. national interest and a lot of international pressure in terms of what happening here palestinians are afraid that the israeli government is going to use this nation state of mind and to argue that they shouldn't be recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards for next month in new york the israeli foreign minister added don't even mention that this is proof that the palestinians are not serious about peace not this has been responded to with the word madness by

palestinian needed they say that it's seen in to a particular point of view that islam is trying to try and gone that international support not to see the palestinians to play that tape comes to pay him back. but some of these correspondent paula sleep spoke to israeli journalists josephs donna he told me that if the crisis to tell you rights in this really is an offensive on gaza or it might face domestic resistance as young people are reluctant to fight for the government right now if the demonstrations in the west bank get out of hand or get very violent i think that we'll see a reserve call up in israel which will directly affect the constituents of the ten processors 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 you there are a ground invasion into gaza or any sort of outbreak of violence in the west bank in 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 demand for for for economic reallocation inside of israeli society. of course as ever we've all your opinion now on the news stories we're covering including this one the events in the middle east on our web site tonight you can cast your vote by what you think of the reasons behind israel's attacks on gaza thanks for voting of the last few hours this is what you've been telling us we just updated that graph over half of you believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage next month's u.n. vote on palestinian statehood that's gone up by fifty percent last hours has gone on for some creasing number of you thinking that this hour twenty seven percent of you think it's not but unity to provoke a response from the palestinians twelve percent of you think that the attacks are an act of defense or that israel simply wants to protect its own people and so far just seven percent of you think that israel is trying to divert attention from its domestic problems again that's up a tad from last as well your votes count on here you can make it change tell us

what you think at r.t. dot com tonight. stay in the middle east go to syria now where tanks have reportedly entered the city of homs despite president assad's claims that the military operation against civilians had been stopped opponents of damascus meanwhile beating in turkey to launch a national council to try to work together towards toppling the regime a russian delegation's in syria assessing the situation on the ground with reports of more than twenty deaths during the latest spate of anti-government protests the international pressure on the syrian leaders mounting despite moscow's refusal to support the u.s. initiative demanding that assad 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 denselow told us such measures could 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 so i think the americans right now in the europeans especially really have to work hard to persuade the russians they are. writes 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 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 oil makes up some a quarter of syria's hard currency budget so could have a huge amount of an impact on the assad regime its ability to control things so ultimately i do think there is more than rhetoric to what the u.s. and europeans are saying right now. this is r.t. for moscow with me kevin zero in this hour and coming up barking history it is twenty years of attempted mikhael gorbachev of the soviet union government was brought in we've got the second in our special series of reports for you just ahead

. world stock markets of plummeted amid signs of a possible u.s. recession new worries over the health of europe's banks investor confidence has been dealt a severe blow and it sparked a massive sell off on friday and that is report now explains 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 at 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'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 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 a corresponding new york city one of their world fears of a repeat of the financial crisis of two thousand and eight her spreading global panic dr jason johnson is a professor of political science he told us see things we might see a recession in the u.s. if investors aren't reassured soon the companies that have lost 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 low 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 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 it 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 of 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 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 slim then everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise. well the target markets don't just affect trade as of course with private investments and pension funds on the line

our very own resident in new york city people there they're protecting their savings right now. 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 washington 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 credit i'm still worried because they're. falling down but you haven't pulled out yet you know it'll 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's well but what if it just keeps crashing for that 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 and economy 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 a game 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 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. on the earth you dig it up and all of a sudden you put dollars into it and you have to get your money back out from selling the goal itself doesn't make sense to me if things were to get to where you have to put your money in gold i don't think the u.s. government would allow. go to on the mind the currency so is there a chance that we could go back to a system of bartering for more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now

we live in an. where there's the. money and that's what the is there was a money though that lowers the risk being stunned at the end here with what's going on in the economy i think still the matter where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely inviolate. this is our team moscow coming up the sky's the limit. it's the two thousand and eleven a max air show just outside of moscow here with me rule research a for r t it's really heating up out here high flying maneuvers with major jets pulling massive g. forces i've been watching it for hours i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with r.t. . more from rory very soon some news now though kim jong il has rolled into russia by trade in a rare trip abroad for the north korean leader he'll be meeting president dmitri

movement of for talks in just a few days' time that visit comes as pyongyang struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on jacob graves reports. this thought that energy corporations like to be sensual to these discussions is indeed something that present his self as champion quite recently and when it comes 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 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 prism it better if 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. the reason for this time like well kim jong il he like the 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 of that just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. also in the headlines tonight libyan rebels are closing in on the capital tripoli after the taking full control of the western city of zawiya the now pushing colonel gadhafi troops back on the road for fifty kilometers to the east it follows the statement the strategic alternatives brigade is no one in the full control after more than a week of fierce fighting the civil war which started over six months ago with nato intervening in march so far claimed the lives of over two. indian soldiers have killed twelve separatist militants were trying to prevent them from crossing from pakistan controlled kashmir into the indian side the battle took place along the

military control on the divides disputed kashmir between the two countries new delhi says it regularly intercepts is in the midst rebels trying to cross the kashmir border to fight indian room where. over ten thousand people have gathered in new delhi in support. of a prominent activist who is now in its fifth day of a hunger strike and has ari says he throws it clee week but will not renounce his fight for tougher and the corruption more than india the campaign has started his fast in jail after being arrested for planning a protest without police approval as arias says it is a fed up with government bribery and has threatened to starve him selfe to death unless parliament passes his legislation. twenty years ago to the day history was in the making here in the streets of moscow the city was under military curfew on the second day of an attempt to overthrow mikhail gorbachev the president of the soviet union artist tom barr looks back now 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 manned outside the russian parliament the white house panic and anger were in the air when the soviet army came face to face with its own people. but our 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 with votes much hope of being able to call in here tonight you can see barack kids being erected. surveys 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 you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour what's going to happen that might. 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 day in that he jumped into the vehicles area 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 late as

a patch of phone near by car there poor picture and 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 i asked for i got the orders to attack the white house and apprehend yeltsin we unanimously decided we wouldn't do it. 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 r.t. . it's features thousands of thrilled spectators multibillion dollar deals and

a whole lot of planes the max international air shows been running all week and it's not over yet sunday promises to be a final spectacular show of death of pi aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft outings rory sushi is our man at the event for us is roundup of the highlights for you. what a day it has been you know high flying we knew it was acrobatics we've seen the elusive t. fifty the james bond of the super stealth fighter jets of course that is the sukhoi russian t.v. fifty we've seen the cargo planes the big gave us a three eighty three story during these extreme slow low altitude when he was way behind so hard there were times it just looked like the goliath of the whale that is which is going to drop out of the sky we see the other cargo planes we've had the world war two planes cruising by here that dumping diesel and use it takes you back to a time of messerschmitt sand spit fires and be fifty two is absolutely sensational

time here at the max of two thousand and eleven but it's not all over tomorrow is yet another day of these tests are still it will be broadcasting live see throughout sunday the finale the climax of the mac two thousand and eleven and i do just want to say for a moment it's been a true on a privilege to be here for this event my second day here at the max two thousand and eleven and it truly for a man's point of view from a boy's point of view i don't know the last time i've had so much fun so i do hope you'll join us either in the flesh or certainly on our to television for two more of a sunday's finale to the max two thousand and eleven for now though i'll hand it over to my colleague auntie's you go to his going off with his story about a rather new sukhoi superjet one hundred did you see that you cheeky monkey this is artsy. only uprooted time just a year ago who is super jet is now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from airlines in russia and from abroad now we haven't let. me touch

them the company can put out of last major so we have now more before the end they say hope to me see again most of them over the next couple yes days. 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 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 market which was sold to an airline it was named after a big i 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 walking the. luggage go warm and so

overhead that look pretty spacious stark noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that this whole new level of bumper compared to this quaint main validated rivals which are the champ one thirty four and the forty two. geared up with some of the most advanced 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 standard couple of little quick goes over a thing of nifty little extra 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 you can learn more about the stars of the international issue on our website r.t. dot com while there as well you can also take a selfie of course with all our latest videos news stories too. it's a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian fear to direct a bird it's taken place offstage rather robert store has been fired after making critical comments about the president because saakashvili officials deemed the xenophobia good but opposition in tbilisi says he's being punished presenting government views r.t. sara first reports. all the world's a stage that the famous georgian theater 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 future roberts to iraq 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 restored 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 center stay back and told him to exit stage left then many fear he simply being punished for his anti government. authorities took advantage and songs to run 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 is a cane and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced it's those that you speak with if problems to release him for a short period of time it will be a major loss for georgia and his theatre 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 you must go and the internationally acclaimed director could now end up working here one of the most case most popular this is where he's been at the top spots most case gain but below is very heavily felt by many in georgia surf say. just ahead our interview show spotlight for you where we hear from newsweek small scope bureau chief elwood matthews as well as reporting from russia he's also digging up his family tree with some very intriguing results as you can find out if

you stay tuned for that program in a couple of minutes time it's on arafat so after i've updated the headlines you're naughty from moscow. last time the close up team was in our movie where the gold rush still gets people

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no one here at r.t. h.q. tonight in central moscow thanks for being with this let me update you if you will on our top news stories the international community calls on egypt to help restore security in the region is gaza and israel exchanged deadly fire after days of violence in israel activists are taking to the streets across the country in protest against government policy demanding more focus on domestic problems. it's been another target a week for the world's markets as fears are mounting of the u.s. and europe on the brink of another devastating downturn investor panic at the bleak economic outlook has prompted a mass elephant share. with mark twenty years to the day when moscow was placed under military curfew during the attempt to overthrow mikhail gorbachev who faced fierce resistance and failed to topple the government plan but nonetheless did change the course of history.