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

bringing you the top news and stories from around the globe direct from moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital according to rebel commanders that the firing signals the start of the final onslaught on foot off the stronghold but i witness is on the ground to say it is all misinformation. and roy a political analyst who's in tripoli says that the reports of fighting is an attempt to destabilize the city. there is gunfire pretty sporadic it's not organized and it's meant to deliberately break down the more elegant population the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the moral here and cause an attack in fact the media here at the rixos hotel where i stay at actually it's called the swiss and now has been part of this information campaign they're talking about airlifts the mainstream media would

happen to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted one point national was killed here two days ago when nato with intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and he didn't mention the city we need to structure i want to well they quoted that this foreign national was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct it was changed later they have been fueling and feeding this psychological war against this country they want tripoli to be in panic that's the whole aim let's not use the word airstrikes let's use the word bombardment of civilian infrastructure they've been part of it but bombing all the civilian 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 and we are closely following developments in that libya will try to bring you more i wouldn't reports live from tripoli in a few minutes away. so also ahead for you this hour top brass and top security north korea's a leader rolls it into russia and his private train for the first time in ten years find out what he's at to do to discuss with russia's president plus. it's the two thousand and eleven a much a show just outside of moscow here with me rule research on it see oh it's really heating up out here high flying believe they did jets c. g. forces i don't want you to i was i feel sick and dizzy love it details to come stay with aussie. hamas launches a rocket attacks on israel killing one and injuring dozens in response to israel's a 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 from cairo said it will dissolve ahead of its definition from tel aviv putting at risk already fall for the glaciers between the two countries tension is running high inside the jewish state as well with mass demonstrations taking place across the country but his policy or hazlitt's. thousands of people are mounting here in tel aviv hoping candles in memory of the victims of the last forty eight hours of mine in the demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in tucson and a number of them have been major cities around israel and stop conflicts that approaches the thing happening on the move here is very somber people are very seriously affected in terms of what the latest wave of violence because i'm not talking to protesters they say that they are not wise by this piece of paper vine and many telling me that they've been expecting it for some time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the

matrix of conflict gone there as an excuse to bring people. to people like young men your family members. and it happened there will be put up to go to the fund and mice. people have very strong painful they all still going see him on the he sees also suggested a reading on the tape think you know that living there talking about education they talking about health services they talking about security people here saying that not only do they want peace in monza great they also want the israeli prime minister binyamin. to skip town to be on scene. so israeli journalist joseph it dana says that israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza so it might face the nest of resistance young people may 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 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 temperature's 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 processors 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 her 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 attack on gaza forty percent of you believe 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 the remaining viewers are divided and think that israel is trying to divert attention from its domestic problems at home or that the attacks are an act of defense and that israel simply wants to protect its own people. now back to our top story according to reports gunfire and explosions are heard in tripoli but i witness is saving information is being wildly exaggerated we can now cross live to our independent journalist feeling to hear her account about the situation on the ground there. welcome thanks for joining us can you confirm at this point that reports the reports that there are heavy gunfire on the ground right now. yes well you might be able to hear in the background i'm not sure if you can that gun fire and fire what's that thing and it's gunfire and it's celebrates gunfire and as a result of the. emergence of rebels in the city with.

gangs as the libyan government are calling them. that have had now being cleared out of his city and they've now been captured and invested in the sense that we'd say the only the only funds by and that we're hearing is going to break to become finding out the explosions that we're hearing nato air strikes overnight so it's not sound poems which are clearly designed to create a sense of panic in the capital city of tripoli now what we're hearing that happens idea today is that the. rebels in libya. channels created by al jazeera post which is that the sense that the media conspiracy against media they created sun sake footage of themselves inside. they were inside and created and of course the media then made the media the western media in particular and i'll just repeat it these reports which creates a sense of panic among the libyan people so they went inside. in fear and then.

later on in areas like. in the prairies a number of armed gangs and much of the surface tension the sleeper cells of people inside inside the city and began firing randomly and setting things on fire and threatening both unary people that if they did not join them that they would be assassinated they then took the city took the streets which were empty as i said because people were scared seaside town homes which creates this sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happened is that of course many people in tripoli have been on private government and so these people came out to defend. and then the government spokesman came out and insisted that the situation had been. there had been signs of control and so as a result now in green square. compounds. have come out

and because they feel safe again and as i said they're letting us celebrate and fireworks and leave them on the back seat just about fifteen twenty minutes ago i spoke to them because they're happy that he has. you mentioned he has actually shown often spoken to the people has made a public appearance now the people are not scared at this moment in time now when he did make a public appearance he spoke live via phone. that he was still alive and well and inside inside the country and whenever he speaks it sends out a level of panic being built up because of course nato isn't having any success on the ground so the only way you can have a semblance of success is to be creating fabrications by a the media so they can support the security council and the international public opinion here is where. people are preparing least on some level

for an assault. well the people he is going to getting at the crisis and preparing to defend themselves from the threats are. making any advances and also from the threats. since the beginning of the crisis people have been taken taking up government the government of constraining and government is. literally on t.v. and the fan back at school and that country and guns and standby. we have seen that million marches across the country there is not here and people are literally prepared to die. all right well thank you very much. for bringing us the latest in there you can see that people are in the streets or you can actually hear behind you the people are back in the streets and chanting as we go we'll keep you up to date as more information becomes available that independent journalists feel and reporting for us and bear it. 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 mikhail gorbachev one 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 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 who provide 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 because a coup plotters had isolated soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and seized control of media outlets one reporter defied the k.g.b. officers in his news room. we switched on our t.v.

camera with various 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 continues through the nineteenth and twentieth of august fears grew of an assault on the white house that you know with 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. those armored vehicles tried to ram their way through barricades and move into a row tunnel near the white house some of the protesters tried to stop the lubov come our force her son dimitriy was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i've been able to see another dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to

cover its vision slits after doing that he jumped into the because re 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 as the we pumped out later that petrify nearby car their poor patrons of bottles set in them a fire throwing them at the tanks the conspirators already wavering lost their nerve. the three men memorialized here have become martyrs for the democratic cause in fact expected assault on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just mere few soldiers were bearing orders. my colleagues and i already saw that the coup was failing so after i got the orders to attack the white house and if we had yeltsin we decided we wouldn't do it but as

the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the oldest coover to come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy dumbarton r.t. . and for more on the birth of modern russian make sure to watch our special report throughout the day right here on our t.v. it is that the latest edition of our series the soviet files that continue to uncover more hidden history. it's a. good. thing

you want to talk about. this street still keeps secrets but now it's time to reveal the issues of the soviet files on the off season. on to america now where after weeks of turbulence stock markets once again closed in the red investors are fleeing of the markets amid concerns of a slow paced recovery and the ailing condition of the euro zone major sell offs are anticipating when the exchanges open next week with traders 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 dr jason johnson a professor of political science thinks a recession in the us is inevitable if investor confidence construct. the companies that have lost stock value over the last two days are to use companies aren't magically not working anymore it's just that people's confidence is at an all time

low so it confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy will the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it most of the u.s. debt right now is owned by china and china is not about to reclaim the state of virginia they're not about to reclaim new york city by calling in their debts they primarily want to see america so if legislation can be passed united states if the president can really sort some control and instill some confidence in our future economy big debts are less of a problem the people's inertia in a build. right now to get the economy moving right now it looks like the chances of brock obama getting real like that 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 more confident if it looks like obama's chances of being reelected are slim big everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might have cost us and 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 do you feel like your money is safe best this week let's talk about that do you have faith in the stock market are you kidding me. i'll go for that i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette that's when you have a chance you have face i'm it's not too much but i'm still worried because they're . following tao but you haven't sold 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 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 the you have money invested on best recovery or 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. 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're put under the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about in gold you can put some in call like warren buffett 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 gold so 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 undermine the currency so is there a chance that we could go back to a system of artery more and more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now

we live in an. the guys who were there. with these there was the money that more is the more things kind of 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 private hands. well it is now less than twenty four hours before this year's international airshow closes in the moscow region but the actions that showing no sign of waning russia's newest fighter jet still classified two hundred 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 looking up in awe one of them was our very own warriors who shaves having a blast his arm now on the ground for. curiosity

of the two thousand and eleven marks international air show the chief if he is in the yes 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 striker still see 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. ideas going up major g. forces. that you see go. there you have it as suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the chief if he is now going about so it secret bunker this is being one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening

and what a love to watch it pull those high g.'s i will be but i have a more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly here when i see but for now my colleague got a piskun off has an insightful story about the three year old russian sukhoi superjet one hundred. only uprooted time just a year ago in a suit whose super jet is now officially in business over two hundred orders already from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have it that. can be touch and be company can put out a flawed nation so we have now more before the more let's say wealthy needs to get close to the next couple yes it's a joint project between russia's invasion giants who for europe's a project 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 to see what all the fuss is about would you sign if you go on

a demo flight to as they say touch the plane ourselves this is actually a universal course a project was started which was sold to an airline it was named after regarding the first man in space on this plane that already made several international flights we're told that this is the basic version of the chairs so nothing special but pretty simple and modern moving the. luggage go cart man so overhead it looks 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 those planes main validated 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 the super super jets would 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 and i got one thing i got a couple of little quip goes over us a nifty little excerpt it's developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help it 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 hugo is going to r g moscow region. sad to say the things of that fly are pretty cool and you can keep up to speed with all of the thrills of the max international air show on our website at r.t. dot com as we continue our coverage all week. hands. closer. trying to. shape the future

flight. our team takes to the max air show. the leader of north korea as a rolled into russia by train his first trip abroad in almost a decade kim jong il will be meeting the president dmitry medvedev for talks in a few days time the visit comes as struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on archy's greets reports it's thought that energy corp is largely 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 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 so 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 last year the reason for this timeline while kim jong il he likes a child by training space form of transport truck bomber training 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 just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. but he's a gentle greaves reporting for us there from moscow also a look at your headlines from around the world tonight. a military ceremony headed by true lasered president sebastian pinera turned violent when dozens of students

tried to disrupt the event security forces in the city of v.a. hold detained twenty people and used water cannons to disperse the crowds the protesters were demanding that the government provide free education and improve its quality she lays education minister has already responded to the students saying the forms will be implemented next week. indian soldiers have killed twelve separate militants while trying to prevent them crossing from pakistan controlled kashmir and to be indian side and shoot out took place at a military controlled line dividing disputed kashmir between the two countries new delhi says it regularly interceptors almost rebels trying to cross at the kashmir border to fight indian rule there. pope benedict of the 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 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 eight degree centigrade heat meanwhile disapproval of the pope's visit is still high as many spaniards say that it costs too much amid the country's raging economic crisis. and you are with r g i'm john thomas coming your way next in the headlines and then our weekend arts and entertainment show must go out after this quick break.

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