disintegrates into the. what how did you train. to be generator. where did it take. any gun fire that we're hearing it's been a great week on finding any explosions that we're hearing nato airstrikes all in a place that's down bombs which are clearly designed to create a sense of panic in the capital city of tripoli heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital but independent sources on the ground say it is all part of a nato this information campaign. here in israel at the best cupcake you can do anything they say they believe the government is trying to use the conflict to divert attention away from to make take issues of. 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 a live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. i'm trying thomas glad to have you with us heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital according to rebel commanders and it signals the start of a final onslaught on khadafi stronghold but i witness is saying the gunfire is sporadic and the explosions heard are victory celebrations of gadhafi loyalists independent journalists feeling says the reports are nato's way to create panic. gun fire and fire what's happening and it's gun fire and fire it's celebrates three gun fire and as

a result of. emergence of rebels in the city. gangs if the government are calling them. that had to have now been cleared out of the city and they are now being captured and arrested and the stench knee dealt with. gunfire that we're hearing a set of weights become finding any explosions that waving nato air strike or nato start sound columns 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. in libya. channels they created some state. themselves inside claiming that they were inside and really create it and of course the media then mainstream media and the western media in particular these reports which created a sense of panic among the libyan people so they went inside their homes in fear

and then a number of armed gangs and much which are essentially sleeper cells of inside. and began firing randomly and setting things on by and threatening both unary people that if they did not join them that they would be assassinated they then took up the streets which were empty as i said because people were scared inside their homes which creates the 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 by the government and so these people came out to defend their capital and then the government came out and insisted that the regime had been at. times of control and so as a result now in green square. compounds masses have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said let's not celebrate to be. a political analyst on what roy who is in tripoli says the reports of fighting is an attempt to

great to the city's spirit. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the moral here and cause and effect in fact the media here at the rixos hotel where i stayed. 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 have 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 was intensely bonds to doing infrastructure and it didn't mention the city with the infrastructure i want to have. this for national was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct changes 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 but let's not use the word airstrikes let's use the word bombardment of civilian infrastructure they've been part of it but probably all the civilian checkpoints that are mostly are protected and they

fight volunteers it's nato that's been doing all the fighting so when the media says the insurgents are moving in with 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 post on what they want this city to be on the brink of collapse because of the psychological war. and you are with r t still to come on the program top brass and top security north korea's leader rolls into 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 a max air show just outside of moscow here with me rule research a faulty oh it's really heating up out here high flying believe major jets putting the g. forces but what if i was i feel sick and dizzy looking at the details to come stay

with oxy. i must 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 cairo said it will withdraw the head of its egyptian mission from tel aviv putting at risk already psalter in relations between the two countries tension is running high inside the jewish state as well with mass demonstrations taking place across the country of his policy or has the latest. thousands of people a month in here in tel aviv holding candles in memory of the victims 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 other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests the thing happening a month the mood here is very somber people are very seriously affected in terms of

the latest wave of violence of course not talking to protest if they say they've been not wise by the later violence 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. pick what's gone there as an excuse to bring people to be around here people are young many of them might remember. and it was a happy. would have to go to the front and mice people here are very very strong they are still going see him on the he sees also suggested they really ought to take think. of living they're talking about it's a case in itself health this is a talking about security people here saying that not only do they want. that they also want the israeli prime minister. to step down beyond. israeli journalist joseph dana says that if israel launches

a full fledged offensive on gaza it might face the mystic resistance as young people might be reluctant to sign 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 sense 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 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 demand for for economic reallocation inside an 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. currently forty one percent of you believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage next month's un vote on palestinian statehood twenty seven 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 or that the attacks are an act of defense and that israel simply wants to protect its own people. on the american now where after weeks of turbulence stock markets once again closed in the red investors are fleeing the markets amid concerns of a slow paced recovery and the ailing condition of the euro zone major sell offs are anticipated when 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 dr jason johnson

a professor of political science thinks a recession in the u.s. is inevitable if investor confidence keeps dropping. the companies that have lost your bill 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 us 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 debts they primarily want to see america so he had legislation to be passed united states the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy but debts are. 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 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 is going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might act cos it was a turbulent markets are not only a headache for traders of course with private investments and pension funds at stake our very own president 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 it i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette that's when you have a chance you have face and it's not too much but i'm still worried because they're . calling down but you haven't pulled out yet you know it'll come back to show you

have money invested. you don't trust it that much 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 if you have the money to lose you lose it if you don't don't play it do you have money invested own best we cover the hard times and everything in 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 why we play a game with our security. well what are your choices what are you going to do with your money you have put out of the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about gold you can put some in gold like warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth. you put dollars into it and. you get your money back out from selling the goal itself doesn't make sense to

me if things were to get that bad where you have to put your money in gold i don't think the u.s. government would allow. gold on the mind the currency so is there a chance that we could go back to a system of artery or more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we're living in an. where there's the. money and what is there with the money that war is being with been kind of the end here with what's gone our economy i think so the 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 soviet union president or he's at time barred was that of your temple coup and 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. 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 in the 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 without much hope of being able to corner tonight you can see barricades being erected. surveys report was shown and spread word of the democratic

resistance developing around the reformist russian president boris yeltsin as the standoff continues through the nineteenth and twentieth of august fears grew of an assault on the white house. 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 i might tell you. 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 them. both 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 dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after the and 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 who went berserk we pumped out later that petrify nearby car poor patrons of cottle's set in them a 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 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 it ran yeltsin we denied him as he decided we wouldn't do it. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the oldest coup had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom watson 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.e. it's the latest edition on our series of soviet files that continues to undercover more history. for. your thoughts or your. street studentships secrets of the times revealed the soviet files on oxy.

or now it is less than twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the last a region but the actions are showing no sign of waning forces newest fighter jet that's 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 looking up and on one of those excited spectators was our very own roy sushi our man on the ground there. the reality of the two thousand and eleven max international air show the chief fifty is it is the james bond of the russian military aviation industry this thing was only unveiled a few days ago no one's allowed inside of it said 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 fifty. that is going up putting money to achieve forces. 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 its secret bunker this is the one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a love so watch it pull those high g.'s i will be having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly to see but for now my colleague go to his get 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 haven't let. me touch him the company can put out a flawed us major so we have now more before the and more it's a help he needs to get posted in 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 from school. 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 flight to as they say touch the plane ourselves this is actually the first of course a project was started which was sold to an airline it was named after he got in the first man in space and this plane has already made several international flights we're told that this is the basic version of the chair so nothing special but

pretty simple and modern awarding the. luggage go warm and so overhead it will be pretty spacious stark noisy the seats the seats are pretty comfortable overall i have to say that a whole new level of comfort paired to this plane's main validated rivals which are the new one thirty four and the forty two. geared up with some of the most advanced limitation equipment with a maximum range of around two thousand miles just to project what we place soviet era aircraft and with a price tag of around twenty five million dollars for peace 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 difference of flying around you're going to take on one thing and a couple of little quick goes over anything nifty little aircraft it's developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help me 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 percent of our g. moscow region. and you can keep up with the 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. than i. should the future flight. our team takes to the max air show. the leader of north korea has rolled into russia by train his first trip abroad in almost a decade kim jong il will be meeting president dmitri medvedev for talks in

a few days time the visit comes as a plan yang struggles under a set of western sanctions one military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on jacob groups reports it's thought that energy corporations like to be central to these discussions is the something the president or his self as champion quite recently and when it comes to these two countries 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 say three weeks came back in two thousand so it's the third time and this time he's been barred by prism it better 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 time like well kim jong il he likes a trial by training space form of transport. train in fact this whole visit comes on the back of russia pledging fifty thousand tons of humanitarian aid to help with north korea's food shortage and the first batch of just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. jacob graves reporting for us there now also in the headlines for you 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 cannons to disperse the crowd the protesters were demanding that the government provide free education and improve its quality chile's education minister has already responded to the students saying reforms that will be implemented next week. at least the five hundred people are reported to have been killed in clashes in south sudan hundreds of people have been

wounded and more than two hundred kidnapped mainly children out of the town where the fighting took place has been burnt down by bloodshed escalated in the eastern state of jungle lay as nearly forty thousand cattle were stolen by members of the local ethnic group hundreds of people die and i think fighting in that part of the country each year. pope benedict the sixteenth met with dozens of sick and disabled people in madrid on saturday as his visit to spain it's in the full swing almost a million young pilgrims celebrated mass with the pope as they gathered for world youth day meanwhile many spaniards still disapprove of the pope's visit as they say the country's crippled economy can't afford it when the pontiff arrived on wednesday around twenty thousand people took to madrid streets for a protest march that ended with police dispersing. it's a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian theatre director but it's

taking place offstage rather than on it robert stewart has been fired after making critical comments about the president saakashvili officials deemed of them it is xenophobic but opposition in the police say stewart is being punished for his anti-government views r.t. is sarah ferguson the story. all the world's a stage but the famous children's theater director he saved brilliantly brought to life many of shakespeare's works and it has the five from his role in the pride of the georgian theatre robert stewart has been removed from his post allegedly for xenophobia remarks but in fact it was revenge on a political decision we demand that the georgian culture minister restore him to his position in comments he made in an interview directing ninth of being outspoken against the government said the president saakashvili being armenian and he was not

able to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism t. far and the government branded himself a bit and told him to exit stage left the nanny theer he simply being punished for his anti government. authorities took advantage and songs to run 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 if it is a cane and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic friends of the president's critics being silenced as those that you speak of is probably to rallies in for a short period of time it will be a major loss for georgia and is the editor for 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's here forever but they say the show must go on and the internationally acclaimed director could now and

that working here one of the most popular this is where he's being offered hot spots gain beloved very heavily felt by many in georgia serve. and you are with r.j. i'm sean thomas headlines are next after this quick break stay with us. for the.

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