and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t i'm john thomas glad to have you with us heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital according to rebel commanders it signals the start of a final onslaught on khadafi stronghold but i witness is say the gunfire is sporadic and the explosions heard are victory celebrations of gadhafi loyalists independent journalists lizzi a feeling that says the reports are nato's way to create panic. that gun fire and fire what's that happening and it's gunfire and fire why it's celebrates every gun fire and as a result of the. rebels in the city. of gangs is the libyan government of calling them. that has had now being cleared out of the city and they've now been captured and arrested in ascension e dealt with the gunfire that we're hearing it's going to break become finding any

explosions that way hearing nato air strikes when they sound 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 some sake footage of themselves inside claiming that they were inside and this creates and of course the media then the mainstream media and the western media in particular to these reports which creates a sense of panic amongst the libyan people so they went inside and in fear and then a number of on the gangs and much which are essentially sleeper cells of rebels inside inside the c.c. and began firing randomly and setting things on by and threatening ordinary people that if they did not join them that they would be assassinated they then took the

streets which were empty as i said because people were scared inside their homes which created the sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happens is that of course that many people in tripoli have been on by the government and these people came out to defend the capital and then the government spokesman came out and insisted that the situation had being. had been brought under control and so as a result now in green square. compounds that masses have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said that some of celebrates return fire . political analyst. who is in tripoli says the reports of fighting is an attempt to break 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 carolyn's the mainstream media would have been to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted one foreign national was killed here few days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the subduing the infrastructure i want to add they quoted this foreign national was a security card 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 am let's not use the word airstrikes let's use the word bombardment of civilian infrastructure they've been barred but follow me all the civilian checkpoints that are mostly are protected and then by volunteers it's nato that's been doing all the fighting so when the media says the insurgents are moving in 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 you are with r t still to come on the program top brass 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 on it see it's really heating up out here high flying when they get jets putting steve g. forces but what if i was i feel sick and dizzy loving details to come stay with oxy . hamas launches 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 gyptian mission from tel aviv putting at risk already faltering of relations between the two countries tension is running high inside the jewish state as well with mass demonstrations taking place across the country party's policy or has the latest. thousands of people i'm on scene here in tel aviv hoping to handle the memory of the victims of the last forty eight hours of mine and the demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in jerusalem and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests we've seen happening of the polish month the mood here is very somber people are very serious and afflicted 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 at the same time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the

conflict with dogs as an excuse to bring people to speak it's a good look around here people are young many of them might remember. and it was to happen. that would be would have to go to the fund and mice people have very strong the same thing they all still going to be demanding he sees all social justice they really ought to take think you know that sort 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 monserrate but they also want the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu to step down. israeli journalist joseph dana says that if israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance as young people might 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 will 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 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 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 stock value over the last two days or two weeks these companies aren't magically not working anymore it's just that people's confidence is at an all time low so if

confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy will improve 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 debts they primarily want to see america improve so it legislation can be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy but 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 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 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 ask 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. 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 own best 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 a game so i have no faith in it is it was a why we play a game with our security. well what are your choices what are you going to do with your money you put out of the mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about in gold you can put some in gold like warren buffett says you take something from. on the earth you dig it up and all of a sudden you put dollars into it and you have to get your money back out from selling the goal itself doesn't make sense to me if things were to get that bad to where you have to put your money in gold i don't think the u.s. government would allow. go to on the mind the currency so is there a chance that we could go back to

a system of bartering more more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now we live in a less. well there's the there will be money and that's what is there was the money though that war is the worse things than 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. 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 artie's looks back at the attempted 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 manned 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 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 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. the tanks and soldiers in the streets all of it's 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 road tunnel near the white house some of the protesters tried to stop them you both come are 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 another dmitry had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits have to be in that he jumped into the vehicle three a hatchet 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 they're pouring picture into 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 the 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 apprehend yeltsin we unanimously decided we wouldn't do it but. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the august coup had come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom bottom party. 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 on our series of soviet files that continues to undercover more hidden history.

the. street still keeps secrets to reveal the soviet files. well now it is less than twenty four hours before this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the actions showing no sign of winning russia's newest fighter jet the still classified t fifty prototype has been the

main headliner of the event with its first public display it made another dramatic entrance on saturday with thousands of spectators looking up and all one of those excited spectators was our very own rory sushi our man on the ground there. here we all exceed the two thousand and eleven max international air show the chief fifty is in the the james bond of the russian military aviation industry this thing was only unveiled a few days ago no one's allowed inside it except the pilot and the technicians here comes a super strike a stealth t. fifty. major stealth capabilities the plan is to build one thousand of these babies over the next decade also have them in service by two thousand and fifty. and it's going up running major chief forces. that you see.

there we have it as suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the t. fifty has now gone back to a secret bunker this is being one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a love to watch a pull those high g.'s i 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 a super super jet 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 both from airlines in russia and from abroad and now we have a day. to meet that and me company can put out a lot to ask a major so we have now more affordable and more let's say hopefully nice 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 screw. 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 that look 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 the planes main validated rivals which are the chain 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'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 us a nifty electro spy it's developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help it get rid of any problems and with a line of orders already secured the promise to deliver over one hundred sixty planes by the end of twenty sixty. is going to r d 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. prochoice. sure 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 pyongyang struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on artie's jacob group's reports it's thought that energy cooperation is largely essential to these discussions as david summit at present made it 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 he stayed for three weeks came back in two thousand and two it's the third time this time he's been invited 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 while kim jong il he likes a child by train a space of a form of transport bomb a 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 arrive 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 will be implemented next week. at least a 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 much of the town where the fighting took place has been burnt down the bloodshed escalated in the eastern state of jungle lay as nearly forty thousand cattle were stolen by members of a local ethnic group hundreds of people die enough that 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 gets into full swing almost a million young programs 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. it's a drama involving an internationally acclaimed georgian theatre director but it's taken place offstage rather than on it robert stewart has been fired after making critical comments about the president saakashvili officials deemed them it is in a fall back but opposition in tbilisi say stewart is being punished for his

anti-government views r.t. is the story. all the world's a stage the famous georgian theater director he say brilliantly brought to life many of shakespeare's works and it has been fired from his role as the pride of the georgian future robert stewart has been removed from his post allegedly for xenophobic remarks but in fact it was revenge on a political decision we demand that the georgian culture minister restore him to his position in comments he made in an interview the direction of being outspoken against the government said the president saakashvili being armenian meant he was not able to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism too far and the government branded him senate told him to exit stage left the many feel he simply being punished for his anti government.

authorities to conventions on stewart for refusing to support or worship them unlike others this was a political decision. the actions of the authorities haven't come as a surprise to sack of shit is a cane and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced those that you speak. to rallies for a short period of time it will be a major loss for george and his theatre but the government is not worried about this they're really afraid of any moral authority in georgia i mean those people that are brave enough to criticize them but this country to you forever but they say the show must go on and the internationally acclaimed director could now end up working here one of the most popular theaters where he's been at the top spots most day but below very heavily felt by many in georgia surf city.

and you are with r t i'm sean thomas headlines are next after this quick break stay with us. from the.

morning when the t.v. news most followed my valet. and morning. while the streets of the company be unturned in point in russia. was a justified move forward. remembering many areas since the battle for democracy a monarchy. if. the it is easy to. achieve. it is easy to. see.

and bring you the top news and headlines and commentary from around the world this is our team and sean thomas but i'm. heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital but independent sources on the ground say it is all part of the nato disinformation campaign croquette off the forces say they remain well armed and are ready to fight to the end. launches of rocket attacks on israel following the countries of deadly shelling of gaza is comes after hamas announced its calling off its ceasefire which in the jewish state meanwhile thousands take to the streets of israeli cities to remember the victims and to vent anger at the government. also we mark twenty years since moscow was placed under military curfew during an attempt to overthrow the childhood of a child.