violence in the middle east is on the rise as hamas fire rockets towards israel in response to days of airstrikes on gaza international mediators from the un russia the us and the you have called on egypt now to try to help its neighbors establish a cease fire and he's paulus lir as more from tel aviv. cairo is pushing pressure to try and calm patient on both sides we know that an initial agreement had been signed between tel aviv and cairo we have no details of that at the moment commer has been insisting on and a formal apology from israel it also says that if once not only an expression of a great but once a commitment from as well that this kind of wind will not happen again the israeli defense minister a good rock has said that he would break the day off the board of gods 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

past 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 to intensify the action of 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 hoping that this its relation of violence to detract attention away from social economic problems at home that's almost if we have to 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 minutes it 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 to say that since the initial states of silence and that was an attack at least some eight israeli citizens killed it is

all support on the israel stop attacks on the gaza strip with the quartet saying that the cairo also needs to take responsibility to step up efforts in the sinai peninsula to try and bring the security situation there under control the arab league is also meeting tomorrow to discuss this is sticking a lot of into. national interest and a lot of international pressure in terms of what is happening here palestinians not afraid that the israeli government is going to use this latest state of mind and to argue that they shouldn't be recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards next month in new york the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman that this is proof that the palestinians are not serious about peace now and this has been responded to with the word madness by palestinian leaders they say that it 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 state come september. as a middle east correspondent paula slee i spoke to israeli journalist donna earlier

who told me that if the crisis does deteriorate in 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 temp 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 either a ground invasion into gaza or any sort of outbreak of violence in the west bank it will be the temperatures 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. well course what we want to know your opinion on these stories all of our news particularly this one bus we're asking online tonight what do you think about the events in the middle east and what's going on there right now you cast your vote those lines but over the past couple of hours what do you think the reasons are behind israel's attack on cars or this is what you've been telling us. almost half of you believe that the. believe that the latest attacks in a way to sabotage next month's u.n. vote on palestinian statehood so more if you change your mind about fifteen percent of you think that the attacks are an act of defense that israel simply wants to protect its people twenty eight percent of you are telling your suit was not unity to provoke a response from the palestinians so far the majority 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 now 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 independent journalist lucy 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 you. thank you for having me well it's clear that obviously the libyan people on a new friend media war that is currently in full force against the libyan government and the libyan people but these claims that x.y. and that town surrounding. have been captured and stories about defections from the libyan government clearly part of the 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. well known leave libya was leaving that

country. under the protection of nato now the reason why this is so laughable was because actually in a couple of days mr howard made the offer and working with nato was actually taking legal action against nato for 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 an event which are in favor of it and this is because nato has been unable to find a military solution inside inside libya so it's trying to create the perception that it is having some measure of success here not only so it can try to give the rest rebels the upper hand in negotiations. with the libyan government but also so that it can justified to 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 wax 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 education policemen and this serves to remind the world that the arab revolution is not about overthrowing believe in government or the syrian government the heart of our revolution is about over for the zionist state of israel and then fight this the ability of the libyan government and the stability of the syrian government is really against zionist interests. you want a bit of a role but i want to ask you. the nato led coalition began its military intervention back in march on the pretext of protecting civilians to reverse the time what they called an impending must secure rebellion go but now with the rebels moving closer towards tripoli over the last few days is really real danger we could

witness. very watch in the libyan capital is the real fear of. well again as i said there could be claims about the rebels capturing and other towns are a complete and utter. subrogation 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 there ever was any real threats or 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 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 coverage of the. kind of

a media war going on. there as well because i can assure you that what we show is what's actually happening. and we're not going to travel as we want to. just really want to. show you what is the real feeling on the ground there what the rebels making the progress video is being reported is that what you're saying. yes well i mean of course as i said the libyan people like in the beginning of the crisis they were vulnerable to the mainstream media around them but it becomes very clear very quickly here that they claim that the rebels that we've been hearing for the past week that the rebels were a day away or couple of days away from coming into tripoli and if we've been hearing over the past five months that 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. and this is because they they really didn't understand the level of popular support that gadhafi in two ways and also they underestimated the libyan government's military strategy which as i say the central plank of which was their last is and clearly this was a government that was hated by its people they obviously would not be handing out. an r.p.g. any man or woman over the age of eighteen is qualified. so there's a lot of times that really interested to get your thoughts and your insight there is another perspective lizzie feel an independent journalist covering what's going on in the libyan capital thank you for being on our show thank you very much. still in the middle east the russian delegation's arrived in syria to 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 mounting despite moscow's refusal to support the u.s. initiative demanding that the. u.s. has imposed a fresh set of economic sanctions with. more penalties to the country's oil sector . slow told of 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 how 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. russia is currently wrong for that is the next important 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 europeans are saying right now. this is r.t. and coming up in the program. top 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 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 out of there catching up with again

a bit later and we'll start markets of 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 sell off 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 meantime investment bank morgan stanley's put a bleak full cast 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 and less investors are 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 low so if confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it 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 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 or less of a problem people inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now. 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 or slam then everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise well in terms of markets sort of course just affect traders with private investments and pension funds on the line our very own resident in new york people next have people there protecting 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 but 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 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 week of your hard times and everything academy 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 you could put seven gold like 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 have to get your money back. from selling the gold so it doesn't make sense to me no matter where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely inviolate. twenty years ago 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 because gorbachev the then president of the soviet union. looks back at the attempt to 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 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 thought her son dmitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i've been able to see another dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after the 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 went berserk we pumped out later that picture for nearby car their poor picture into bottles set in them a 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 mere 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 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 r.t. . well for more on the birth of modern russia make sure to watch our special report coming up next hour here on this channel we're also uncovering more hidden history into in our series the soviet files.

think they want to talk to. the streets to keep some secrets. to reveal the soviet files on. efficient thousands of thrill spectators multibillion dollar deals and a whole lot of planes we're talking about the max international air shows and running all week and it's not over yet sunday promises to be a final spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performer some of the world's finest aircraft. amount of the event he's loving it to his right to put the lights

for you. what a day it has been a get a 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. fifty we've seen the cargo planes the big in a box 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 good lie of the whale that is which is 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 messerschmitt sun spit fires and upbeat 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. these tests are silly it will be broadcasting live 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 tomorrow for sunday's finale to the max two thousand and eleven for now though i'll hand it over to my colleague r.t. as you go to press going off with his story about a rather new sukhoi superjet one hundred did you see that you cheeky monkey this is artie. only uprooted time just a year ago the soup who is super giant is now officially in business over two hundred orders already both from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have a let. me touch me company can put out of lot to ask major so we are now more affordable and more let's say hopefully nice to get close to the next couple years

say a joint project between russia's aviation giants super europe super jet 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 actually see 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 me guiding 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 that will be pretty spacious stark noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that this whole new. level of comfort level here to disappoint me now did it rivals which are the team you want thirty more than 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 is an 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 i got a couple of little quick goes over all things nifty little aircraft it's developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help it get rid of any 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 offer r t moscow region. has already said tess is reporting there are tomorrow for you and you can keep up to date with the speed and thrills of everything the max international airshow our

website as well as our t. dot com as we continue our coverage or we can. close a. pro-choice. shape the future flight. our team takes to the max air show. now the better news here tonight north korean leader kim jong il's cross the russian border by trade on his way for talks with president to me to preventive that i go see a shows that have been postponed several times 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. it's thought that energy corporations largely central to these discussions is indeed some of the present his selfish championed 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 will fax this is his third visit to russia is 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 he's been barred 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 of korea the reason for this timeline well kim jong il he likes a child by train a space of 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 just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. to greaves a reporter this is art international with me kevin owen coming your way very soon the headlines from me and then are we cannot seem to tame and show moscow after this quick break.

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this is r t moscow these are all top stories the international community calls on egypt to help restore security in the region is gods are in israel exchanged deadly fire up to days of violence in israel activists are taking to the streets across the country in protest against government policy demanding more focus on domestic. put 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 down to an investor panic at the police economic outlook prompted a mass sell off of shares. and remarked twenty years to the day when moscow was placed under military curfew during the ten to overthrow seek to face to face resistance then and fail to topple the government but nonetheless change the course of history for the soviet. teams making a bit of a splash as they visit the best.