is what i am here moscow. our top story from us launches rocket attacks on israel it's killed one and injured dozens in response to israel's continued strikes on gaza this comes after hamas announces its calling off its cease fire with the jewish state israel's also been dealt a blow on a different fronts cairo said it will withdraw all the head of its a gyptian mission from tel aviv put it at risk already faltering relations between the two countries tensions running high inside the jewish state as well with people venting anger at the government fall asleep as the latest. iraq is putting pressure to try and calm tensions on both sides we know that an initial agreement has been signed between cabinet 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 it wants not only an expression of a great but it wants a commitment from its wealth that this kind of violence will not happen again the israeli defense minister ehud barak has said that he would break 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 rained down on southern israel dozens of israeli citizens have been injured so a lot of concern here in the region that this is and will continue just to intensify activists have started gathering here in tel aviv and in at least another five or six that heat around israel they believe that the government was hoping and is hoping that this elation of violence could attract 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 and 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 one of the initial states of violence and that was an attack from eight israeli citizens killed it is also called on israel to stop its attacks on the gaza strip with a courted 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 certainly a lot of international interest and a lot of international pressure in terms of what is happening here and it's going to not afraid that the israeli government is going to use this nature of mind and that they shouldn't be recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards for next month in new york israeli foreign minister at the door lieberman said that this is proof that the palestinians are not serious about peace not look has been responded to with the word madness by palestinian leaders they say that it feeds into that particular

point of view that israel is trying to try and gone to international support not to see the palestinians declare that they come september. of course they are a middle east correspondent israeli journalist told me that if israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza or it might face domestic resistance because young people may be 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 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 ten processors keep in mind that most of the people protesting for social justice in the streets of fela's these. 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. it's big stories we hear it's going to pan out more over the coming week and we want to know your opinion on the events currently in the middle east on our website you can vote on what you think the reasons are behind israel's attacks on gaza this is what you've been telling us changing quite a bit by the almost half of you that's gone down from fifty four percent few hours ago i believe that the place is a target for a way to sabotage the u.n. vote on palestinian statehood twenty nine percent saying it was an opportunity to provoke a response from the palestinians fifteen percent of you saying you think that the attacks are an act of defense and that israel simply wants to protect its own people and the minority of you've seen percent. in earlier on think that

israel is trying to divert attention from his domestic problems this not what you think about this pressing issue right now at r.t. . nato about rebels in libya battle for the capital tripoli could fall by the end of the month as they take key cities around the gadhafi stronghold forces loyal to the libyan leader claim the colonel is not leaving the country nor the capital and they're also that the rebels will not advance further because the supply routes so far the civil war is reportedly claimed over two thousand lives as opposed to independent journalism is the feeling earlier she told me the western media misinterprets the situation on the ground and underestimate gadhafi forces. these claims that x.y. and z. towns surrounding tripoli have been captured and stories about defections from the libyan government. clearly part of a contained to create confusion part of the psychological operations against libya and the events 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's science or create the perception that it is having some measure of success here no. only so it can try to give the right rebels in negotiations. with the libyan government also so that we can justify to the united nations security council some measure of success in libya well again as i said because the claims about the rebels capturing we are in other towns are a complete and utter. 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 on intense strikes by nato and the minute that the airstrikes subside 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 libyan government and they insist that they are ready to defend their city and they will fight as they say house by house. also the middle east in syria the reports of dozens of new death during the latest spate of anti-government protests despite person claims that operations against civilians have ended international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting now despite most confusion to support a u.s. initiative demanding the side step the russian delegation for to fill. the situation on the ground meantime the u.s. has imposed a fresh set of economic sanctions preparing to target those. told or 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 at that so i think the americans are now in europe in specially really have to work hard to persuade the russians they are right on syria and 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 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 not international still to come in the program with top brass top security north korea's leader rolls into russia in his private trade for the first time in ten years but what is to discuss with russia's

president very shortly plus. it's the two thousand and eleven a max air show just outside of moscow here with me rory sushi for r.t. it's really heating up out here high flying maneuvers major jets pulling 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. . about enjoys his job let's take a look at some more news to america where after weeks of turbulence stock markets once again closed in the red the investors are fleeing the markets with concerns of slow paced recovery and the ailing condition of the euro zone major sell off for anticipated when exchanges open next week with traders now seeing gold as the safest haven me tell america's three major banks have warned of a repeat of the two thousand and eight global recession jason johnson is a professor of political science he told us he thinks a recession in the u.s. is a. never tipple if they invest they come for the keep so i'm dropping. 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 will improve the only problem with that is when someone who actually wants to call it most of the u.s. debt right now is owned by china china is not about to reclaim the state of virginia they're not about to reclaim new york city by calling in their debts they primarily want to see america so it legislation to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and instill some confidence in our future economy but debts are less of a problem than people's inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now it looks like the chances of 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 and the markets to not only have

a trade there's of course with private investments and pension funds at stake it affects all of us our very own resident in new york us people there they're protecting the 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 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 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 car to me is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market is not safe so where's your money under my mattress the way it goes up and down it's really it's just 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. under 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 or more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we live in an. what there would be that might be and that's what is there was the money though that war is the worse things than the end here with what's going on with the economy i think so no matter where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely inviolate. take a look at the history books now twenty years ago history was in the making here on the streets of moscow the city was under military curfew on the second day of an attempt to overthrow gorbachev the then president of the soviet union at his time barton 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 corner tonight you can see perry 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 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 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 have to be in that he jumped into the vehicles very 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 patch of phone 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 had become martyrs for the democratic cause in fact the expected assault on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just mere few soldiers were bearing orders. my colleagues and i already saw that the coup was failing so 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. . and for more on the birth of modern russia and short of watch our series of special reports this hour our next one's on air in just a few minutes time here on r.t. and we're also covering more hidden history in our series the soviet files two is

a bit more about that. if. you. took your daughter. to. the streets still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal that the soviet files on sick. is less than twenty four hours now before the show is international air show closes in the moscow region but the action showing no sign of waning russia's newest fighter jet the still classified t

fifty prototypes been the main headline or of the event with his first public display it made another dramatic entrance indeed earlier on today on saturday with thousands of spectators looking up in or rory sushi's are back on the ground. the reality of the two thousand and eleven max international air show the chief fifty is in the head the james bond of the russian military aviation industry this thing was only unveiled a few days ago no one's allowed inside it except the pilot and the technicians here comes a super strike a stealth t. fifty. major stealth capabilities the plan is to build one thousand of these babies over the next decade also have them in service by two thousand and fifty. and it's going up running mate duty forces. you to go.

there you have it as suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the t. fifty has now gone back to a secret bunker this is being one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a love so watch a pull those high g.'s i will be having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly here when i see but for now my colleague go to this going off has an insightful story about the three year old russian sukhoi superjet one hundred. only uprooted time just a year ago the su who is super gent is now officially in business over two hundred orders already both from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have a day. to meet that and me company can put out a flawless us major so we have now more affordable and more it's a healthy means to get us to 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 school. 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 out 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 looking 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 comfort compared to this plane's main validated rivals which are the chain 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 day i've got a couple of little quip goes over a thing of 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 sixty. is going to have our d. moscow region. and the fear of the planes you can keep up to speed with the wall the thrills of the max international air show on our website as well. we've got

continued coverage all weekend for you. i will. shape the future of flight. our team takes to the max air show. small news now kim jong il's rolled into russia by train in a rare trip abroad for the north korean leader and you'll be meeting president to be to move out of the talks in a few days time the visit comes a pyongyang struggles under a set of western sanctions right now while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on to r.t. jacob greaves reports. thought that energy corporations like to be central to these discussions is indeed some of the present his selfish championed 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 his first occurring in two thousand and one and i was under the quest of prime minister vladimir putin then president he stayed for three weeks came back in two thousand and two it's the third time and this time he's been invited by president made 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 timeline while 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 in the headlines tonight indian soldiers have

killed twelve separatist militants will try to prevent them from crossing from pakistan controlled kashmir into the indian side the shoot took place of the military control line dividing disputed kashmir between the two countries new delhi says it regularly intercepts is limited rebels trying to cross the kashmir border to fight indian room where. pope benedict the sixteenth has met with dozens of sick and disabled people in madrid on saturday is a visit to spain gets into full swing he's now heading to an enormous gathering for world youth day young catholics already flooded into the city region where the prayer will take place in forty degree heat meantime disapproval of the pope's visit is still high as many spaniards say it's costing too much amid the country's raging economic crisis. next is a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian see it's a director but it's taken place offstage rather than on it robert strew it has been fired after making critical comments about the president mikhail saakashvili

officials deemed them of xenophobia opposition in tbilisi says he's being punished presenting government views of the surface the story. all the world's a stage but the famous georgian theater director he saved brilliantly brought to life many of shakespeare's works on 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 send a favor and told him to exit stage left the many fear he simply being punished for

his anti government. authorities took vengeance on stewart 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 israelis a cane and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced those that use. 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 that as 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 theaters where he's been offered top spot. gain but beloved very heavily felt by many in georgia surf.

just ahead tonight we take you back to ninety ninety one of the turbulent times with interim. it was attempted here in moscow before that all of the news headlines for you on our team is kevin owen thank you for watching us here from sco. it's. cool. morning when the t.v. news moves follow my life i am the ring. while the streets of the come. on turning point in russia's history. more than justified move

forward. miming money and since the battle for democracy a monarchy. limited. it's just so. it's just. seemed. safe.

it's one thirty am oscar time it's covered over here in our small to get all top stories for you from us rocket attacks on israel a day after its announcement of calling off its cease fire with the jewish state this is the middle east peace corps heads called now on egypt to help restore security in the region amid escalating tensions. despite reports of a rebel of libya journalists on the ground claim it's a nato distin from ation campaign while progress after forces say they remain ready to fight to the end. also we mark twenty years since moscow was placed under military curfew during an attempt to overthrow mikhail gorbachev who faced fierce resistance then and failed to topple the government but nonetheless change the course of history for the some people. let's continue with that story now it's time for our in-depth.