heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital but independent sources on the ground say it's all part of a needed nato disinformation campaign. here in israel activists are taken to the streets they say they believe the government is trying to use the conflict to divert attention away from to make take issues. this is happening as israel continues its bombardment of gaza with hamas ending its peace treaty with the jewish state. and we explore the events of august one thousand nine hundred one which gave birth to modern russian democracy.

and broadcasting live direct from moscow russia's capital this is r t where it's at three o'clock in the morning now reports of heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital according to rebel commanders of the firing signals at the start of a final onslaught on and off the stronghold but i witness is on the ground say it is all this information from or in the actual situation there we can cross live to muddy. a political analyst who is in tripoli for us now marty can you confirm the reports that there is heavy gunfire right now and shelling in tripoli. there is gunfire pretty sporadic it's not organized and it's meant to deliberately break down the more al of the population the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the moral here and cause panic in fact the

media here at the rixos hotel where i stayed at actually it's called swiss and now has been part of this information campaign they're talking about airlifts the media is talking the quoting the international organization for migratory workers there courting them and saying migratory workers here want to that is not true at all they just want to feed the panic here and make the regime collapse ok now you mentioned this just information campaign called the reports of the deliberate misinformation spread by nato and who else would be involved. and mainstream media would happen to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted saying that one indian for example since it's increased chilled here or bengal from bangladesh i'm sorry one for national was killed here a few days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the city we need to structure i want to well they quoted that this

for national was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct it was changed later they have been doing and feeding this psychological war against this country they want tripoli to be in panic that's the whole aim their snipers here that are better attacking people you know i am here no organized snipers attacking people and there's terrorist attacks here this is just meant to cause trauma here and make people and not just the troops ok now the rebels faced annihilation back in march before nato stepped in right now they're approaching it off his strongholds arguably only thanks to coalition air strikes when nato ends its intervention won't that leave a massive military power vacuum in the country or could the alliance be planning to stay just like it's doing in iraq and afghanistan but let's not use the word airstrikes let's use the word bombardment of security infrastructure they've been barred it but bombing all the city mean checkpoints that are mostly are protected

and manned by volunteers it's nato that's been doing all the fighting so when the media says the insurgents are moving in or the so-called rebels or revolutionaries whatever you want to call them that is not correct it's needled it's doing all the hard work here and they will not come into tripoli the population here will postpone but they want this city to be on the brink of collapse because of the psychological war can you repeat the rest that question well actually my my question now is you're saying that it's nato that is doing the bombing does that mean that the rebels themselves are directed by. nato and that they really have to follow nato's hard line if you will if they do gain control i mean it will be coordinate with nato need always try to deny this but there are nato with proxies on the ground this is a nato operation nato has gone the means here nato has gone the hospitals here they don't why would nato bombed the checkpoints guarding the city these checkpoints

aren't a threat to any civilians here they're here for security and need of bombing in fact the reporters here are giving the locations of the checkpoints and the reporters here when we did. go cations at the checkpoints satellite radios to nato directly nearly a silence with nato headquarters and military officials and the next night the checkpoints were attacked that very night the checkpoints were attacked by both nato and the insurgents so yes the media you're part of war machine right and thank you very much that was more riaa who is in tripoli for us right now we'll keep you up to date as more information becomes available also in the middle east in syria there are reports of dozens of new deaths during the latest spat of anti-government protests that's despite president assad's claims that army operations against civilians had ended international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite moscow's refusal to give us an issue of demanding that assad step 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 and with the e.u. 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 implements and ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said that how to reach out to countries are 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 that they are right on syria and russia is currently wrong so 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 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. and you are with r t still to come on in the program. top brass security north korea's leader rolls into russia in his private train for the first time in ten years to 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 a faulty oh it's really heating up out here high flying with major jets putting super g. forces up and what you could i was i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with oxy. launches a rocket attacks on israel killing one and injuring dozens in response to israel's continued air strikes on gaza this 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 with cairo said it will withdraw the head of its egypt and 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 mass demonstrations taking place across the country such as policy that's the latest. thousands of people in montana and have a pope in candles in memory of the victims created hours of line in the demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in jerusalem and a number of other major cities around this role in stark contrast to the protests we've seen happening of the polish month here is very somber people very serious and afflicted in terms of what the latest wave of violence because now talking to protests if they say that they are not surprised by this recent spate of wine and many telling me that they've been expecting at the same time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the. dons and

the cease fire bring people. on to people like young many of them might remember. it happened they would have to go to the front and might be. very strong they also see him on think he's also suggested they immediately take to know that. they're talking about each case and they talking about health care they talking about. people here saying that not only do they want these two months but they also want is a prime minister. to skip town. israeli journalist joseph dana says that if israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance as young people may be reluctant to sign for the government i 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 off in israel which will directly affect the constituents of the temperate just just 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 demand for for economic reallocation inside of israeli society and of course 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 israel's attacks on gaza. right now almost half of you believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage next month's un vote on palestinian statehood twenty nine percent say it was an opportunity to provoke

a response from the palestinians sixteen percent of you say that israel is trying to divert attention from its domestic problems meanwhile a minority of you which is about thirteen percent think that the attacks are an act of defense and that israel simply wants to protect its own people. moving on to america now where after weeks of turbulence stock markets once again closed in the red investors are fleeing in the markets amid concerns of slow pace recovery and the ailing condition of the euro zone major sell offs are anticipated when the exchanges open next week with traders are now seeing gold as the safest haven meanwhile america's three major banks have warned of a repeat of the two thousand and eight global recession after jason johnson a professor of political science thanks a recession in the us is inevitable if investor confidence to drop. 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 the confidence improves the economy will be open probably that is when someone who 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 regina they're not about to reclaim new york city by calling in their debts they primarily want to see america so here legislation to be passed united states if the president can really sort some control and there's still some problems in our future economy big 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 they're still better than fifty percent which would lean left markets that are conservative investing right now they're going to feel good but we're confident if it looks like obama's chances of being real like that are slim everyone's going to get more nervous because you're no idea when you're ministration might i'll say about. 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 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'm not too much but i'm still worried because they're. following but you haven't pulled out yet you know it will 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's low but what if it just keeps crashing further 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

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 matters the way it goes up and down it's really it's just ok so i have no faith and that is that was 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's you could put some in gold but 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 your money back out from selling the gold so it 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. gold to own the mine the currency so is there

a chance that we could go back to a system of bartering for more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we live in an. there would be money in that with these there was the money though that war is being worth things and 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 in violence. twenty years ago history was in the making on the streets of moscow then the city was under military curfew on the second day of an attempt to overthrow the child then president of the soviet union. looks back at the attempted coup that proved pivotal in the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . twenty years ago moscow was in turmoil tanks on the streets barricades manned outside the russian parliament the white house panicked 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 a key point in the city and protect them there were crowds of people gathering and violence was on the verge of breaking out because 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 switched on our t.v. camera without much hope of being able to corner 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 you know with the tanks and soldiers in the streets and all of it's made you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour what's

going to happen at nighttime. 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 the loop of kamar thought her son dimitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. but judging by documents that i've been able to see i know that mitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its mission slits after the and that he jumped into the vehicle three a hatchet where he was shot. to me to 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 pumped out later that petrify nearby car their poor patrons of bottles sex in the more fire throwing them at the tanks the conspirators already wavering last of.

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 being orders. my colleagues and i already saw that the coup was the ailing so after i got the orders to attack the white house and it ran the else and when are we in now to mislead decided we wouldn't do it. as the plotters admitted it the bloodshed destroyed their cause the oldest who had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy from bottom r.t. . and for more on the birth of modern russia make sure to watch our special report throughout the day here on r.t. it's the latest edition of our series the soviet files that continue to uncover more history.

as. for. your thoughts towards. st studentships it secrets. from revealed in the soviet files on the aussie. it is now less than twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the acts showing again the action is showing no sign of warning. start over no sign of winning russia's newest fighter jet the

still classified fifty prototype has been the main headliner of the event with its first public display it's made another dramatic entrance on saturday with thousands of spectators at looking up in awe one of those was our very own rory su shane who is our man on the ground. the reality of the two thousand and eleven max international air show thirty fifty is n.a.s. 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 or so have them in service by two thousand and fifteen. i mean scaring up. a duty forces. god god you see.

there we have it has suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the chief if he has now gone about so is secret bunker this is being one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a loft to watch a pool as high g.'s i will be having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly here on r.c. but for now my colleague you go to this going off house and cycle story about the three year old russian sukhoi superjet one hundred. only uprooted time just a year ago to sue who is super gent is now officially in business over two hundred orders already from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have a day. to meet that in me company can put out a fraud task major so we have now more before the end that's

a healthy nice to get us to the next couple yes it's a joint project between russia's aviation giant sukhoi superjet international and several dozen other companies this is the first civil aircraft produced in russia from scratch since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and you see what all the fuss is about we decided to go on a demo for. quite to as they say touch the plane ourselves this is actually the first full course of project one hundred which was sold to an airline it was named after the gig i got in the first man in space and this plane had already made several international flights were told that this is the basic version of the chair so nothing special but pretty simple and modern walking being. what it's going to work man so overhead it looked pretty spacious start noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that this whole new level of comfort compared to the plane's main now dated rivals which are the team 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 is interest in the super jet from foreign airlines as well generally as a flying experience is no difference of flying around europe in any kind of modern thing and a couple of little quick goes over all things nifty little aircraft it's developers say they will continue working on the superjet 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 igor he's going to have r t moscow region. and you can keep up to speed with all the thrills of the mass international air

show on our website at r.t. dot com as we continue our coverage all week. closer. approach. shape the future flights. are team takes to the air show. kim jong il has rolled into russia by train in a rare trip abroad for the north korean leader will be meeting with president dmitry medvedev for talks in a few days time the visit comes as playing yang struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on our families jacob griefs reports. this thought energy corporations like to be central to these discussions is the something the president or his self has

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 is first occurring in two thousand and one and i was on the quest of prime minister vladimir putin ben president stated three weeks came back in two thousand and two it's the third time this time he's been barred by president 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 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 shortages and the first batch of just arrived yesterday in north korean ports

and she's due to groups reporting from moscow there also for you in the headlines tonight. indian soldiers have killed the twelve separate militants from are trying to prevent them from crossing pakistan controlled kashmir into the indian side and shoot out took place at a military control line dividing disputed kashmir between the two countries and delhi says it regularly intercepts islamised rebels trying to cross of the kashmir border to fight indian war there. at least five hundred people are reported to have been killed in clashes in south sudan the bloodshed escalated in the eastern state of john the way. nearly forty thousand cattle were stolen by members of a local group hundreds of people die in ethnic fighting in that part of the country each year south sudan is facing major security issues following its reese. separation from the north. pole benedict the sixteenth met with dozens of sick and disabled people in madrid on saturday as his

a 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 since the great 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. you are with r.t. i'm john thomas headlines are next after this quick break stay with us. in. the.

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