capital according to rebel commanders the firing signals the start of the final onslaught on khadafi stronghold but i witness is on the ground say it is all misinformation. and roy a political analyst who is 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 moral of the 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 stayed at actually it's called the swiss and now has been part of this 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 foreign national was killed here a few days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the subduing the infrastructure i want to add 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 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 barred 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 nato 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 libya and we'll try to bring you more i wouldn't reports live from tripoli in a few minutes don't go away. also ahead at for you this hour top brass and

top security north korea's leader rolls it into russia in his private train for the first time in ten years find out what he's at a do to discuss with russia's president plus. it's the two thousand and eleven a max a show just outside of moscow here with me rule research a faulty oh it's really heating up out here high flying maneuvers with major jets putting c. g. forces of it what you thought i was i feel sick and dizzy love it details to come stay with oxy. hamas 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 from cairo said it will dissolve ahead of its gyptian 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 a policy or hazlitt's. thousands of people i'm often having to have a pope and candles in memory of the victims in the last forty eight hours of mine and 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 in stark contrast to the protests we've seen happening in the polish month the mood here is very somber people are very serious and affected in terms of what the latest wave of violence because now talking to protesters they say that they are not surprised by this recent spate of violence many telling me that they've been expecting it for some time they believe that the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his government will use a prison break what's gone there as an excuse to bring people to give up on to people like young many of them might remember. what happened they would be quite happy to go to the front and might people. very strong the same thing they all

still going to be reminding you sees all social justice a really awful tasting. of living they're talking about education they're talking about health services they talking about. people here saying that not only do they want these to monstrous but they also want the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu to step down. israeli journalist joseph it dana says that israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza so it might face domestic resistance as 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 ten 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 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 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 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 wouldn't says save the 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 the gunfire and fire what's that happening and it's gunfire and fire away it's celebrates eerie gunfire and file that as a result of the. emergence of rebels in the city. gangs that the libyan government are calling them. that has have now being cleared out of the city and they've now been captured i know rested in the sense to me that we've. gone by and that we're hearing it's going to pray to become finding any

explosions that waving nato or nato stocks down bombs 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 they created by al jazeera force which is being that the sense that the media conspiracy against libya they created some sake footage of themselves inside claiming that they were inside and they scraped and of course the media then the mainstream media and the western media in particular and i'll just hear them repeated these reports which creates a sense of panic amongst the libyan people so they went inside that heartens. and then. run in areas like zuma and. the prey and a number of armed gangs and much which are essentially sleeper cells of people inside inside the c.c.

and began firing randomly and setting things on fire and threatening ordinary people that if they did not join them that they would be assassinated they then took that city took the streets which were empty as i said because people were scads inside their homes which created the sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happened is that of course that many people in tripoli have been on fire the government and these people came out to defend. capital and then the government spokesman came out and insisted that the situation had been. had been brought under control and so as a result now in green square. compounds the masses have come out and that because they feel safe again and as i said they're letting us celebrate to be gunfire and fireworks and gadhafi just about fifteen twenty minutes ago spoke to them because there have been reports that he has fled the country that you

mentioned that off he has actually shown up in his spoken to the people made a public appearance and you're saying that now the people are not scared at this moment in time when he didn't make a public appearance he spoke live via phone to insist that he was still alive and well and inside inside the country and whenever he speaks that tends to be a pattern of a level of panic being built up by the media because of course nato isn't having any success on the ground so the only way it can have a semblance of success is to be creating fabrications via the media and so they can convince like the security council and the international public opinion that it's war here is where while it off these people are preparing least on some level for an assault. well the people here since the beginning of the crisis have been preparing to defend themselves from the threats of the opposition making any advances and also for that from the rights of nato so as i said since the beginning of the crisis people have been taken taking up government the government of weapons

training and government it's. the people of this city in particular literally on city and and read the defend that capital and that country and stand and stand by. we have seen why that million marches across the country there is massive behave here and that people should be prepared to die came in that country all right well thank you very much for bringing us the latest and there you can see that people are in the streets where 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 journalist lizzie feeling reporting for us there thank you. 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 then president of the soviet union archies tom barton 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 monday outside the russian parliament the white house panic and anger were in the on the soviet army came face to face with its own people. the first couple of days were pretty scary that's when we had to go to key points in the city and protect them there were crowds of people gathering and violence was on the verge of breaking out the coup plotters had isolated soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and seized control of media outlets but one reporter defied the k.g.b. officers in his news room. we've switched on our t.v. camera without much hope of being able to 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 you know all of 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 nighttime. as armored vehicles tried to ram their way through barricades and move into a road tunnel near the white house some of the protesters tried to stop them lubov qamar thought her son dimitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i've been able to see another dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after the in that he jumped into the vehicles area 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 petrified a nearby car there poor patrons of bottles set in the more fire throwing them at the tanks the conspirators already wavering lost their nerve. the three men memorialized here 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 because 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 russian make sure to watch our

special report throughout the day right here on our t.v. it is the latest edition of our series the soviet files that continue to uncover more hidden history. think what they want to talk about. this street still keeps secrets it's time to reveal the secrets of the soviet files.

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 pace recovery and the ailing condition of the eurozone major sell off scientists are paid when 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 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 the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it 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 improve so it legislation can be passed united states if the president can sort some controls and instill some confidence in our future economy big debts are less of a problem than people's inertia and in a billet. 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 mean that markets that are concerned with investing right now they're going to feel a bit more confident if it looks like obama's chances of being reelected are slim then everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might act policy wise and the 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 for that i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette that's when you have a chance you have face i mean it's not too much credit i'm still worried because they're. falling down but you haven't pulled out yet you know it'll come back to show you have money invested. they don't trust it that much but i just haven't got the money if you have the cash now's the time to buy everything slow but what if it just keeps crashing further if you have the money to lose you lose it if you don't don't play it do you have money invested on best that we cover the hard times and everything in the car to me is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market is not safe so where's your money under my mattress the way it goes up and down it's really it's just. 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 put out of the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about in gold's you could put seven goals like warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth 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 or more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we live in a less. that's what the is that was the money though that we're seeing we're seeing signs of the end here with what's going on with the economy i think so no matter where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be

completely in violence. well it is now less than twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the actions are showing no sign of waning russia's newest fighter jet still classified 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 and all one of them was our very own henri sushi who's having a blast he is our man on the ground there. here we are at sea at 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 he's going up running mate duty forces. you to go. there you have it as suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the t. fifty has now gone about to a secret bunker this is being one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a loft so watch a pool those high g.'s will be having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly here on a c 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 supergiant is now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have a debt. and we touch and be company can put out a flawed measure so we have now more affordable and more let's say hopefully nice to get posted in the next couple yes 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 from scratch. 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 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 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 well saying nifty little across its developers

say they will continue working on the super jet to help it get rid of any problems and with a line of orders already secured the promise to deliver over one hundred sixty planes by the end of twenty sixty. is going to r t moscow region. sad to say that 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. closer. approach. showing the future. our team takes to the max air show the leader of north korea has a rolled into russia by train his first trip abroad in almost

a decade kim jong il will be meeting the president dmitri 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. thought that energy corp is largely central to these discussions is indeed some of the present method of his selfish championed 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 his first occurring in two thousand and one and i was under 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 this time he's been invited by prism it better in fact it's the first time these leaders are going to meet face to face and that's expected to

occur next week in the russian republic. the reason for this timeline while kim jong il he likes a child by train is spayed but a 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. jacob group is reporting for us there from moscow also a look at your headlines from around the world tonight. a military ceremony headed by chile's 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 cannon to disperse the crowd protesters were demanding that the government provide free education and improve its quality she lays education minister has already responded to the students saying reforms

will be implemented next week. indian soldiers have killed twelve separate militants while trying to prevent them crossing from pakistan controlled kashmir into the indian side the shoot out took place at a military controlled line dividing disputed kashmir between the two countries new delhi says it regularly intercepts islamised 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. 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 it still high as many spaniards say. it costs too much amid the country's

raging economic crisis. and you are with are. coming your way next the headlines and then our weekend. show after this quick break.

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and leave the top news headlines from around the world this is r.t.m. john thomas glad to have you with us heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital blunt independent sources on the ground say it's all part of a nato campaign feel forces say they will remain well armed and are ready to fight to the end. hamas launches a rocket attacks on the israel following the country's a deadly shelling of gaza this comes after hamas announced its calling off its a cease fire with the jewish state meanwhile thousands take to the streets of cities to remember the victims and vent anger at the government. also we mark twenty years since moscow was placed under military curfew during an attempt to overthrow mikhail gorbachev a coup faced.