luu. or. tension is high in the middle east as israel continues its bombardment of gaza with hamas ending its peace treaty with the jewish state. while here in israel activists are taking to the street they pay they believe big government is trying to use the conflict to divert attention away from domestic problems joining me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. big things about the rebels capturing we are in other towns complete and private places reports of a rebel advance on tripoli have some claiming it's all a part of a nato and the media campaign. and we explore the events of

august one thousand nine hundred ninety one which gave birth to modern russian democracy. and welcome in. its two am here in moscow russia's capital so we'll get our top stories this hour hamas launches a rocket attacks on israel killing one and injuring dozens in response to israelis continue to air strikes on gaza and it comes after hamas announces its calling off its cease fire with the jewish state israel has also been dealt a blow on a different front cairo said it will withdraw the head of its gyptian mission from tel aviv putting out risk already faltering relations between the two countries tension is running high inside the jewish state as well with people venting anger at the government party's policy or as the latest. is put in place to keep quiet

and calm tension on both sides we know that an initial agreement has been signed between cabinet and we had no details about it moment however has been putting on any formal apology from israel. it also says that it wants not only an expression of a great but once a commitment from as well if this kind of wind and it will not happen again the israeli defense minister would go rock has said that he would break the day on the european border guards who were killed in a two state of violence he also said if you had ordered an immediate investigation this is just part of the bigger picture when 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 here keep grad and some rockets rained down on southern israel dozens of israeli citizens have been injured so a lot of concerns here in the region that this is an eighteenth and will continue just contents of five active have started gathering here in tel aviv and in at least one

out of why of all that heat around israel they believe that the government was posting and is hinting that the situation of violence such attracts attention away from social economic problems at home so it's almost as if we have to start spoken to says if 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 time 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 not one denies the attack comes to say that since its initial states of violence and that was in attacks at least some eight israeli citizens killed it is also called on israel topic attacks on the gaza strip with the cool kids saying that the cairo also needs to take responsibility to fix up if it's in the sinai peninsula that's to try and bring the security situation there under control the arab leaders listen you can to morrow to discuss this is certainly

a lot of international interest and a lot of international pressure in terms of what is happening here how it's going and not afraid that the israeli government is going to use this lake of bait of mind and argue that they shouldn't be recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards for next month. in the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman paper business proves that the palestinians are not serious about peace not 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 all this trying to try and gone at international support not to see the palestinian security based concept came back. israeli journalist to joseph dana says that if israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance as young people might be reluctant to fight for the government 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 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 dissent 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 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. and of course that we value your opinion on the events in the middle east go to our website where you can cast your vote on the reasons behind it is rolls attack on gaza almost half of you believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage un vote on palestinian statehood twenty eight percent say it was

an opportunity to provoke a response from the palestinians while fifteen percent of 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 thirty percent think that israel is trying to divert attention from its own domestic problems. may go back to rebels in libya say a battle for the capital tripoli could unfold by the end of the month as they take key cities around the gadhafi stronghold meanwhile we are receiving reports of heavy gunfire and shelling in tripoli forces loyal to the libyan leader claiming that the colonel is not leaving the country nor the capital they are also certain that the rebels are not advance further as their supply routes been cut so far the civil war has reportedly claimed over two thousand lives independent journalist he says the western media misinterprets the situation on the ground and underestimates gadhafi forces. these claims about x. y.

and surrounding me have been captured and the 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 trying to create the perception that this is having some measure of success here not only so it can try to give the record rebel hands in negotiations. with the libyan government also so that we can. justified to the united nations security council some measure of success in libya well again as i said they could make claims about the rebels capturing other towns are 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 under intense airstrikes by nato airstrikes outside the libyan government and the masses who are in support of the libyan government move back into recent kill those areas but of course if that ever was any real threat the real presence of the rebels inside tripoli the people of tripoli this is the beginning of the crisis has been 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 in the middle east in syria there are reports of dozens of new during the latest. government protests but despite president assad's claims that army operations against civilians. international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite moscow's refusing to order your submission to. the side step down a russian. in syria to assess the situation on the ground the u.s. has imposed a fresh set of economic sanctions with you preparing more penalties targeting the

country's sector analyst james. measures could prove decisive. the americans have been very clear they know their ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said that have to reach out to countries closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans with european specially really have to work hard to persuade the russian they are right. russia is clearly wrong that is the next. i think we should focus on one particular element which is really important could go either way serious or oil exports of the present about nine. it's ten or so serious oil is exported europe so the europeans are now come out united front against assad does that mean that they will no longer accept syrian oil now syrian oil makes up some quarter of syria's hard currency project so could have a huge amount of an impact on the assad regime is ability to control things so ultimately

i do think there is more than rhetoric to what the us and europeans are saying right now and of course you are with r t still to come in the program tough brass and top security north korea's leader walls to russia in his private train for the first time in ten years find out what he's going to discuss with russia's president plus. it's the two thousand and eleven attacks air show just outside of moscow here with me rule research a far see it's really heating up out here high flying believe it's a good jets putting the g. forces i've been watching it for hours i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with r.t. . on to america now where after weeks of turbulence stock markets once again closed in the red investors are fleeing the markets amid concerns of slow paced recovery ailing condition of the euro zone major sell offs are anticipated when exchanges open next week with traders now seeing gold as the safest event meanwhile

america's three major banks have warned of a repeat of the two thousand and eight global recession dr jason johnson professor of political science thinks a recession in the us is inevitable if investor confidence keeps dropping. the companies that have lost start value over the last two days are these companies aren't magically not working anymore it's just the people's confidence is at a mall time low so if confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy the only problem is when someone actually wants to call it most of us right now was owned by trying trying it is not about to reclaim the state of virginia they're not about to reclaim new york city i call. in their debt they primarily want to see america so it legislation can be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy that sort of. inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now it looks like the chances of barack obama getting real like 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 reelected are slim and everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might be that policy but. the turbulent markets are not only a headache for traders of course with private investments and pension funds at stake our very own residence in new york ask people how they protect their savings . as the global economy continues to be volatile we do you feel like your money is they focused this week let's talk about that do you have faith in the stock market are you kidding me i'll go there i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette that's when you have a chance you have face and 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. you don't trust it that much more just haven't got the money if you have the cash now's the time to buy everything so what if it just keeps crashing further you have the money to lose you lose it if you don't don't play it the you have money invested own best we cover your hard times and everything in the end economy is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market is not safe so where's your money under my mattress the way it goes up and down it's really it's just ok so i have no faith in it is there was a why we play a game with our security. called what are your choices what are you going to do with your money your put under the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but about in gold you can put seven gold or go above and says you take something from. under the or you dig it up and all the sudden you put dollars into

it and you have to get your money back out from selling the goal itself it doesn't make sense to me if things were to get that bad so really you have to put your money in gold i don't think the u.s. government would allow. gold 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. well there's the there will be with these there was the money though that war is being was being here with what's going on at economy i think so in the area where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely inviolate. twenty years ago history was in the making on the streets of moscow when the city was under military curfew on the second day of an attempt to overthrow the child

then president of the soviet union party's time looks back at the attempted coup that proved 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 cotter's 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 switched on our t.v. camera without much hope of being able to corner tonight you can see barricades

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 you know all of the tanks and soldiers in the streets all of it to me to feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour 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 he was calm our thought her son dimitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i'd been able to see a noted mitri had climbed on the vehicle to cover its mission slits after the in that he jumped into the vehicle three 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 have deserved we punched out later that petrify nearby car their poor patrons of bottles setting them off fire throwing them in the tanks the conspirators already wavering last of. the three men memorialized here had 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 being orders. my colleagues and i already saw the coup was stale and so after i got the orders to attack the white house and it ran yeltsin we've inanimate he decided we wouldn't do it you know but it was the plotters admitted it the bloodshed destroyed their cause the oldest coup

had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy thom barton party. and for more on the birth of modern russia make sure you watch our special report this hour here on r.t. we're also uncovering more hidden history in our series. if you want to talk to. the streets to keep some secrets for instance revealed the soviet files on oxy.

it is less than twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the actions showing no sign of winning russia's newest fighter jet the still classified t fifty prototype has been the main headliner of the event with its first public display it made another dramatic entrance on saturday with thousands of spectators a looking up in awe our very own rory sushi a is our man on the ground looks like you have a great time. the reality of the two thousand and eleven max international air show the chief if he is it is the james bond of the russian military aviation industry this thing was only unveiled a few days ago no one's allowed inside it it's at the pilot and the technicians here comes a super strike

a stealthy 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 fifteen. and he's carrying out. a duty forces. combat buzy. there we have it has suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the chief fifty has now gone about to a secret bunker this is the one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a loft so watch it pull those high g.'s i will be having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly to see but for now my colleague you 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 to sue for supergiant is now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have it today. and we thought to me company can put out a flawed us major so we have more before that and more that's a help he needs to get us to the next couple yes it's a joint project between russia's aviation giant soup for 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 and to move. quite to as they say touch the plane ourselves this is actually the first force a project was started which was sold to an airline it was named after we 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 it looks pretty spacious stark noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that this is a whole new level of comfort that cared to this plane's main outdated rivals which are the cheap 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 to see who is super jets would replace soviet era aircraft and with a price tag of around twenty five million dollars for a 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 more than say i got a couple of little quip goes over a thing of nifty milica of spam which developers say they will continue working on

the super jet to help 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 sixty you board is going to of forty moscow region. and as always you can keep up to speed with all the thrills of the max international air show on our website at our key dot com as we continue our coverage our week out . hands. closer. i'm. sure the future flight. our team takes to the max air show kim jong il has rolled into russia by train in a rare trip aboard for the north korean leader who will be meeting president dmitry

medvedev for talks in a few days time the visit comes as pyongyang struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on archy's greaves reports. it's thought that energy corp is largely central to these discussions is the summit at present made it his self as champion quite recently and when it comes to these two countries are always in the background this is the issue of the denuclearization of north korea and russia heavily involved here in the six party talks are ongoing trying to meet that end goal because kim jong il himself wolf packs 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 and this time we invited by president better facts 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 the rest of this timeline while enjoy your he likes a trial by train isp a bit of form of transport. 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. pretty good groups reporting for us there now also in the headlines for you tonight indian soldiers have killed twelve separatist militants while trying to prevent them crossing from pakistan controlled kashmir into the indian side a shoot out took place at a military control line dividing disputed kashmir between the two countries new delhi says it regularly intercept islamic rebels trying to cross the kashmir border to fight indian rule there. pope benedict sixteenth met with dozens of sick and disabled people in madrid on saturday as his visit to spain gets into

full swing almost a million young pilgrims celebrated masterful pope as they gathered for world youth day the crowds were sprayed with cooling water as they sought shade from the scorching forty degree centigrade centigrade heat meanwhile disapproval of the pope's visit is still high as many spaniards say it costs too much amid the country's raging economic crisis. it's a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian feeder director but it's taken place offstage rather than on it robert still rural excuse me stood rule has been fired after making critical comments about the president mikhail saakashvili officials at the end. of the opposition in tbilisi says still rule is being punished for his anti government views archies its effort that's the story. all the world's a stage but the famous georgian theater director he so brilliantly brought to life

many of shakespeare's works on it has been fired from his role as the pride of the georgian future 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 directing ninth of being outspoken against the government said the president saakashvili being armenian and he was not able to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism too far and the government branded him senate told him to exit stage left and many feel he simply being punished for his anti government. authorities to conventions 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 friends of the president's critics being silenced those that use the. leaves for a short period of time it would be a major loss for georgia and his theater but the government is not worried about this they're really afraid of any moral authority in georgia i mean those people that are brave enough to criticize them but this country is you 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 places where he's been up there pots but most case gain will be lost very heavily felt by many in georgia. and you are with are. coming your way next to the headlines in our weekend. arts and entertainment show must go out after this quick break.

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