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tensions rise in the middle east tonight as some us calls often ceasefire with israel thawing days of deadly airstrikes on gaza. while here in israel after that are taking to the street they pay they believe the government is trying to use the conflict to divert the kids in a way to fundamental problem going in a few moments and i'll bring you more. also it's been another turbulent week for the world's markets as fears of mounting the big u.s. and europe are on the brink of another devastating downturn. we continue our coverage marking the twentieth anniversary of the attempted coup against mikhail gorbachev which changed the course of history for the soviet.
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welcome very good morning for me kevin owen here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story the violence in the middle east is on the rise as have massive fire rockets towards israel in response to days of airstrikes on gaza international mediators from the u.n. russia the u.s. and the e.u. have called on egypt now to try to help its neighbors establish a cease fire he's paula slayer as war from tel aviv. cairo is putting pressure to cry and calm tensions on both sides we know that and initial agreement has been fined between tel aviv and cairo we have no details of that at the moment cairo has been insisting on any formal apology from israel it also says that it wants not only an expression of a great but of once a commitment from as well if this kind of wind will not happen again the israeli
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defense minister with the rock has said that he would great if there are three european border guards who were killed in a state of violence he also says he has ordered an immediate investigation expulsion of the bigger picture we keep tensions on the ground intensifying we keep at least fifteen californians have been killed in the past few days dozens have been injured while today alone some fifty the grad and some rockets rained down on southern israel dozens of israeli citizens have been injured a lot of concern here in the region that this is if you're eighteen and will continue just in terms of life activists have thought of gathering here in tel aviv and in a deep going out of five or six cities around israel they believe that the government was posting and is hinting that the situation of violence to detract attention away from social economic problems at home it's almost as if you have to start smoking to sit at the exact opposite is going to happen if that's the plan tonight is that demonstrations will be holding candles and they'll be marching confinements into it
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recognition and in memory of people of both sides who has been killed in the last two days of violence we do know that the middle east quartet has issued a statement why it didn't is the attack on to say that since a few mishal places like this and that was an attack at least some eight israeli citizens killed it is also called on israel topic attack 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's try and bring the security situation there and to control the arab league because when you continue to discuss this is taking a lot of into. national interest and a lot of international pressure in terms of what is happening here kind of thing in thomas trade that the israeli government is going to use this latest fate of mine in. recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards for next month in new york the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman this is proof that the palestinians are not serious about peace now and this has been responded to with the word magnet by
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palestinian needed they say that it into a particular point of view that is always trying to try and gone it international support not to see the palestinian security that face come september. some middle east correspondent paula slee i spoke to israeli journalist jim suv donna who told me that if the crisis does deteriorate and israel launches an offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance because young people are reluctant to fight for the government right now think that the next week is going to be an incredibly important dramatic and almost volatile week in this region especially in terms of the palestinian statehood push 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 sense protesters 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 in for the reserves and
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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 temperature sensors 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 an israeli society. well of course what we want to know your opinion on these stories all of our news and particularly this one basket we're asking online tonight what do you think about the events in the middle east and what's going on there right now cast your vote. for the past couple of hours what do you think the reasons are behind israel's attack on cars if this is what you've been telling us ok let's say those votes are putting out almost half of you believe that the. believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage the next month's un vote on palestinian statehood so more of you change your mind about that fifteen percent of you think that the attacks are an act of defense of israel simply wants to protect its people twenty eight percent of you telling your suit was not a trinity to provoke
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a response from the palestinians so far the minority of nine percent of you think that israel is trying to divert attention from its domestic problems by doing this keep those votes going go it's always good to hear what you think about the stories we bring you. to libya where the rebels are reportedly making a massive push towards colonel gadhafi strongholds rebel leaders say they may be ready to launch a decisive assault on the capital within days let's cross to the present journalist lizzy field she's covering the civil war for us from tripoli lizzie good to have you on the program tonight thanks for being on r.t. international what are people saying on the streets around you there in the libyan capital do they sense a battle approaching what are they telling me. thank you for having me well it's clear that obviously the libyan people on immune from the media war that is currently in full force against the libyan government and the libyan people but these claims that x.y. and their towns surrounding it certainly have been captured and stories about
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defections from the libyan government they clearly part of a can tame to create confusion part of the psychological operations against libya and to give you one example of that today on al jazeera we had a rebel from london claiming that. maybe a well known leader in libya was leaving the country. under the protection of nato now the reason why this is are lawful was because actually in a couple of days maybe far from work in with nato is actually taking legal action against nato paul the massacre of his grandchildren so as i said this is vents on the ground here are clearly not in favor of nato so nato is in fact trying to create invent which are in favor of it and this is because nato has been unable to find a military solution inside inside libya so it is trying to create the perception that it is having some measure of success here not only so it can try to give the right rebels
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a hands in the going on with the libyan government but also so that it can justified through the united nations security council some measure of success in libya so it can justify intervention inside syria and it's also important for nato to be able to convince western and arab public opinion can have success in libya however it is of course facing a big spanner in the works at the moment as we as we have seen how much has broken the two year cease fire with israel and we've seen the killing of egyptian policemen and this serves to remind the world that the arab revolution is not about overthrowing villepin government or the syrian government government arab wrote the heart of our revolution is about over for in the zionist state of israel and in spite best ability of the libyan government understood the syrian government is really against zionist interests. you want a bit of a roll over but i want to ask you a few more questions of may. the nato led coalition break began its military
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intervention back in march on the pretext of protecting civilians to revenge what they called an impending massacre in bengazi but now with the rebels moving closer towards tripoli over the last few days it is a real danger we could witness a massacre happening. very watch in the libyan capital is the real fear of. well again as i said because the claims about the rebels capturing other towns are complete and utter media fabrication five occasions in fact what is happening is that when we hear about these towns being captured all that is happening is that they are coming under intense strikes by nato and the minute that the air strikes outside the libyan government and the masses who are in support of the libyan government move back into respect to those areas but of course if that ever was any real threat the real presence of the rebels inside tripoli the people of tripoli since the beginning of the crisis have been on in the millions with weapons by the
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libyan government and they insist that they are ready to defend their city and they will fight as they say house by house to keep the rebels out of tripoli so there is there is the danger that of course if they do happen there will be a very real and bloody battle here in tripoli coming to the church. of the media war going on here very professional there as well because i can assure you that what we show is what's actually happening. and we're not going to talk about other problems we want to. just really want to get the same from you what is the real feeling on the ground there what the rebels making good progress there is being reported is that what you're saying. yes well i mean of course as i said believe me and people like in the beginning of the crisis they are opposed to the mainstream media around them but it becomes very clear very quickly here that if it came that the rebels that we've been hearing for the past week that the rebels were they away
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or a couple of days away from coming into tripoli and see we've been hearing over the past five months but gadhafi is ready to fall in a couple of days and as i said this clearly hasn't happened and this is because. the united states france and britain clearly have woken up to the fact that they underestimated the libyan government and the libyan people. this is because they really didn't understand the level of popular support that could be in two ways and also they underestimated the libyan government's military strategy which as i say the central plank of which was the last is and clearly this was a government that was hated by its heat they obviously would not be handing out class and archimedes any man or woman over the age of eighteen was qualified. so this time i was really interested to get your thoughts and your insights in other perspectives lizzie feel an independent journalist covering what's going on in the libyan capital thank you for being on our things pre-show thank you very
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much. of the middle east the russian delegation's arrived in syria to search the situation on the ground there with reports of dozens of new deaths during the latest spate of anti-government protests that's despite president assad's claims that operations against civilians had ended the international pressure of the syrian leader is despite moscow's refusal to support the u.s. initiative to bother going to sidestep that the u.s. imposed a fresh set of economic sanctions with. more penalties to recruit was also. told of such measures could prove decisive. the americans have been very clear they know their implements and ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said it had to reach out to countries closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans will now in europe and especially really have to work hard to persuade the russian they are right on syria and russia
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is currently wrong for that is the next important step i think we should focus on one particular element which is really important could go either way syria's or 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 and instead this is r.t. and coming up in the program. top brass security north korea's leader rolls to russia in his private trade for the first time in ten years find out what he's due to discuss with russia's president that's coming up for you on this too. it's the two thousand and eleven a max air show just outside of moscow here with me rule receiver r t it's really
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heating up out here high flying. jets putting massive g. forces i've been watching it for hours i feel sick and dizzy i'd love it details to come stay with r.t. . no worries it is a bit catching up with a bit later and we'll start markets 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 it sparked a massive selloff on friday european bank shares are among those taking a battering a meeting between the french and german leaders failed to ease worries after plans for a new economic system on the continent were discussed me tell investment bank morgan stanley's put a police forecast on american and european growth saying both were quote dangerously close to recession now political scientist dr jason johnson told us he thinks the u.s. might hit another devastating downturn in less investors reassured. the companies that have lost start value orbital last two days or two these companies aren't
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magically not working anymore it's just that people's confidence is at an all time low so if confidence these what we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it most of the u.s. 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 he just leashing to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy. inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now it's. looks like the chances of brock 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 they're going to feel a bit more confident if it looks like obama's chances of being real like that are slim everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise well in terms of market because just affect traders with private investments and pension funds on the line our very own
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residence in new york people next how they're protecting a savings. as the global economy continues to be volatile we do you feel like your money is safest this week let's talk about that the u.s. base in the stock market but 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 faith if you have the cash now's the time to buy everything 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 so you have money invested on best week of your 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 i don't know 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
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a why we play a game with our security. well what are your choices what are you going to do with your money you're put on a mattress i don't think that's going to work to growl but about in gold you can put seven gold what warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth you dig it up and all the sudden you put dollars into it and you get your money back. from selling the gold so it doesn't make sense to me and i don't where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely in violence. twenty years ago to the day pastry was in the making here on the streets of moscow city was on the military curfew then on the second day of an attempt to overthrow because gorbachev or the president of soviet union. looks back of the attempt to prove pivotal in the collapse of the u.s.s.r.
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. 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 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 keep points in the city and protect them there were crowds of people gathering and violence was on the verge of breaking out in a 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 corner tonight you can see barricades being erected. sergei's report was shown and spread word of the democratic resistance developing around the reformist russian president boris yeltsin as the
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standoff continued through the nineteenth and twentieth of august fears grew of an assault on the white house. the tanks and soldiers in the streets all of it made you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in a manner what's going to happen i might tell you. those 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 and you both come are for 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 the 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. even though that guy
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was killed in front of thousands of people we're bizerk we comes out late as a patch of a nearby car the poor patrons of bottles sets in them a fire front of it the tanks the conspirators already wavering lost ten of. the three men memorialized here have become martyrs for the democratic cause in fact expected assaults on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just mere few soldiers were being orders. my colleagues and i already saw that the crew was failing so after i got the orders to attack the white house and it ran yeltsin we denied him as he decided we wouldn't do it. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the august crew had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom watson. well for more on the birth of modern
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russia make sure to watch our special report coming up next hour here on this channel where also in covering more hidden history two in our series the soviet files. from. the. streets to keep some secrets trying to reveal that the soviet files. efficient thousands of spectators multibillion dollar deals and
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a whole lot of planes and talk about the max international air shows running all week and it's not over yet sunday promises to be a final spectacular show of death defying aerobatics before most of the world's finest aircraft or sushi is a man of the event of an it is rather life for you. what a day it has been a good high flying maneuvers acrobatics we've seen the elusive t. fifty the james bond the super the stealth fighter jets of course that is the sukhoi russian t.v. 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 he just looked like it could lie over the whale that is which was going to drop out of the sky you 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 measure schmidt's and spit fires and b.
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fifty two is absolutely sensational time here at the back to two thousand and eleven but it's not all over tomorrow is yet another day of these tests are syria will be broadcasting live feeds throughout sunday the finale the climax of the march two thousand and eleven and i do just want to say for a moment it's been a true honor a privilege to be here for this event my second day here at the march two thousand and eleven and truly from 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 r.t. television for tomorrow for sunday sonali tonight three thousand and eleven for now though are headed over to my colleague artie's you're going to piss going off with his story about a rather new sukhoi superjet one hundred teaching you see that you cheeky monkey this is god to be. uprooted time just a year ago. is now on. officially in business over two hundred orders already
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bought from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have a let. me touch and me you can't buy a can put out of lot ask major so we are now more affordable and more that's a call to nice to get lost at the next couple yes it's 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 say touch the plane ourselves this is actually the first of course a project which was sold to an airline it was named after me guiding the first man in space and this plane has already made several international flights were told that this is the basic version of the chairs so nothing special but pretty simple and modern walking the. luggage go for men so overhead it looks pretty spacious
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stark noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that the whole new level of comfort here to this plane main outdated rivals with charlie sheen who was 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 be placed 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 any kind of modern day and a couple of little quick those overrules a nifty milliken of its developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help me get rid of the. cheatin problems and with
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a line of orders already secured the promise to deliver over one hundred sixty planes by the end of twenty sixteen you go to school of our g. moscow region. has already said tess is reporting there are tomorrow for you and you can keep up to date so with the speed and thrills of everything at the max international air show our website as well as our t. dot com as we continue our coverage all we can. shape the future flights. are two tapes to the max air show. now the bit of news here tonight north korean leader kim jong il's cross the russian border by trade on his way for talks with president hamid trade with their lives but it goes he ations it have been postponed several times
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in recent months are due to take place now on choose day the visit comes as pyongyang struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on r.t. jake agreed this report. thought that energy corp is largely central to these discussions is the something the president himself has championed 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 because kim jong il himself backs this is his third visit to russia his first occurring in two thousand and one and i was on 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 we've been barred by prism it 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 of
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the ridiculous time like well kim jong il he likes a child by train is maybe a 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. greaves or of course this is also international with me kevin owen coming your way very soon but headlines for me and then are we cannot seem to tame and show moscow up after this quick break.
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