and welcome in is r t it's two am here in moscow russia's capital i'm john thomas took a look at our top stories this hour. hamas launches a rocket attacks on israel killing one and injuring dozens in response to israeli's continued airstrikes on gaza this comes after hamas announces its calling off its cease fire with the jewish state so israel has also been dealt a blow on a different front cairo said it will withdraw the head of its mission from tel aviv putting at 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. iraq is putting pressure to try and calm tensions on both sides we know that an initial agreement has been signed between tel aviv and cairo we have no details of that at the moment commer has been insisting on any formal apology from israel it also says that 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 has said that he would break the day of the 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 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 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 active have started gathering here in tel aviv and in at the from out of five or six cities around israel they believe that the government was hoping and is hoping that this equation of violence could have tracked attention away from social economic problems at home but 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 fine and in recognition and in the. memory of people on both sides has 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 some eight israeli citizens killed it is also called on israel to stop its attacks 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 to cry and bring the security situation there and to control the arab leaders 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 palestinians are afraid that the israeli government is going to use this nature state of mind and argue that they shouldn't be recognition of a palestinian state which is on the cards for next month in new york and israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman 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 is always trying to try and gone to international support not to see the palestinians declare that they come september. israeli journalist joseph says that israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance as young people might 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 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 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 next month's 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 view thirteen percent think that israel is trying to divert attention from its own domestic problems. nato backed 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 will not advance further in their supply routes have 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 that x.y. and z. towns surrounding. stories about defections from the libyan government clearly part of a commentator create confusion part of the psychological operations against events on the ground 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 a science a create the perception that's it's having some measure of success here not only so it can try to give the record rebels 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 because the claims about the rebels capturing and other towns are a complete and utter media subrogation provocations 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 airstrikes subside the libyan government and the masses who are in support of a libyan government move back into research various 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. also in the middle east in syria there are reports of dozens of new deaths during the latest spat of anti-government protests that despite president assad's claims that army operations against civilians have ended international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite moscow's refusal to support a us admission of the men being held aside stepped down a russian delegation is 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 oil sector analyst james denselow says such measures could prove decisive . the americans have been very clear they know their influence and ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said that have to reach out to

countries who are closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans will now europeans especially really have to work hard to persuade the russians they are right on syria and russia was clearly 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 it 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 of course you are with r t still to come in the program top 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 due to discuss

with russia's president plus. it's the two thousand and eleven showed just outside of moscow here with me rule research over r.t. it's really heating up out here high flying. major jets putting massive g. forces i've been watching it now as i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with aussie. 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 and the ailing condition of the euro zone major sell offs are anticipated when exchanges open next week with traders now seeing gold as the safest haven meanwhile america's three major banks have warned of a pitiful 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 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 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 debt they primarily want to see america so it just leasing to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and instill some confidence in our future economy debts are less of a problem to 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 less 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 big everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise. the turbulent markets are not only

a headache for traders of course with private investments and pension funds at stake our very own resident in new york asks people how they protect 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 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 but 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 we cover the hard times and everything in the end economy is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market it's 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 put out of the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about in gold you can put seven goals like warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth and 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 if things were to get that bad 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 more more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we live in a less. whether there will be lover money and that's what is that was the money though that war is the worst things done to the end here with what's going on with the economy and i think so no matter 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 me i'll go to charles then president of the soviet union party's tom barton 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 monday outside the russian parliament the white

house panic and anger were in the when 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 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 little tanks and soldiers in the streets

all of it made you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour or what's going to happen and might. 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 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 dmitry 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 petrify nearby car their poor picture into bottles setting them off 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 the expected assault on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just here few soldiers were baying 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 you know that 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 bottom. 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 the soviet files. over

. here this street still keeps secrets. revealed in the soviet files. it is less than twenty four hours before this year's international airshow 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 and all our very own rory is our man on the ground looks like you have a great time. here we are to see 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 major chief says lookout that you see.

there we have it has 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 loft so what you 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 to sue who is super gentle he's now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from airlines in russia and from abroad now we haven't let. me touch him me company can put out a flaw ask major so we have now more before the and more it's

a help he needs to get posted about the next couple years say a joint project between russia's aviation giants who for europe super jet international and several dozen other companies this is the first civil aircraft produced in russia school from. since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and to 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 full force of project one hundred which was sold to an airline it was named after regarding 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 for men so overhead that will be 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 compared to the planes main validated rivals which are

the change you want thirty more 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 thing and a couple of little quip 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 sixty. going to our de 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 r.t. dot com as we continue our coverage all week at. hands. closer. should 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 he'll 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 artie's jacob grieves reports. it's thought that energy cooperation is largely

central to these discussions is david summit present his self as champion quite recently and when it comes these two countries are always in the background this is the issue of the denuclearization of north korea and russia heavily involved here in the six party talks are ongoing trying to meet that end goal because kim jong il himself wolf 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 he stayed for three weeks came back in two thousand and two it's the third time this time he's been invited by prism it better if that's the first time these leaders are going to meet face to face and that's expected to occur next week in the russian republic. the reason for this timeline well kim jong il he likes a child by train a space form of transport armor train in fact this whole visit comes on the back of russia pledging fifty thousand tons of humanitarian aid to help with north korea's

food shortage and the first batch of that just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. parties 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 the shoot out took place at a military control line dividing disputed kashmir between the two countries new delhi says its regularly intercepts islamised rebels trying to cross the kashmir border to fight indian rule there. pope benedict sixteenth met with dozens of sick and disabled people in the dritte on saturday as his visit to spain gets into full swing almost a million young pilgrims celebrated mass with the 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 the theater director but it's taken place offstage rather than on it robert still rural excuse me stood rula has been fired after making critical comments about the president mikhail saakashvili officials deemed. by the opposition in tbilisi says is being punished for his anti government views. the story. all the world's a stage but the famous georgian theater director he say brilliantly brought to life many of shakespeare's works and it has been fired from his role in the pride of the georgian 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 directing knowing to 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 sent a favor and told him to exit stage left the many fear he simply being punished for his anti government. authority is to evangelise 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 of shit is a pain and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced those that use the problems to rallies in 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 they're really afraid of any moral authority in georgia i mean those people that are brave enough to criticize them but this country to 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 theaters where he's been at the top spots most gain belongs very heavily felt by many in georgia serve. and you are with are. coming your way next to the headlines and what are we can go . arts and entertainment show must go out after this quick break.

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and bring you the top news headlines from around the world direct from the heart of moscow this is our dad with his let's take a look at those headlines right now. hamas launches a rocket attacks on israel a day after its announcement of calling off its a cease fire with the jewish state meanwhile the middle east peace has called on egypt to help restore security in the region amid escalating tensions. despite reports on a rebel advance in libya journalists on the ground claim it's a nato dissin from asian campaign. forces say they remain well armed and are ready to fight. also remarked twenty years since moscow was placed under military curfew during the intent to overthrow. the coup faced fierce resistance and failed to topple the government but nonetheless change.