this is a system with. one hundred. sixty which began a journey. where did it take to. be any gunfire that we're hearing it's integrates become finding any explosions that we're hearing. all in a place that sound exactly he designed so you 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 and come up taken to the streets they say they believe the government is trying to use the conflict to divert attention away from to make 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. the the top news and headlines and commentary from around the world this is r.t. i'm sean 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 wouldn't say nato is portraying celebre for a fireworks as a battle for the capital independent journalist lizzy feel it says that the reports are the alliance is a way to create panic. gun fire and fire what's happening and it's gunfire by way it's great to be gunfire and as

a result of. margins of rebels in the. gangs the libyan government now calling them. that had to have now being cleared out of the city and they now being captured an arrest and essentially dealt with the only fun fire that we're hearing is centigrade speak on finding any explosions that we're hearing nato airstrikes or nato it's not 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 the. rebels in libya. channels they created sun sake for teach themselves inside the plane that they were inside and cheerfully create and of course the media then mainstream media and western media in particular that he takes these reports which creates a sense of panic among the libyan people so they went inside. in fear and then

a number on the gangs and much which are essentially sleeper cells of rebels inside inside the cincy 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 streets which were empty as i said because people were scared inside the homes which created the sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happens is that of course many people in tripoli have been on quite a government and so these people came out to defend the capital and the government spokesman came out and insisted that bit situation had been. had been both times of control and so as a result now in green square. compounds and i ses have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said that it's not celebrates return fire . political analyst. 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 panic 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 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 days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure they ended it mention the city we need to structure i want to have well be quoted to this point 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 securing the infrastructure they've been barred

it but bombing all the civilian checkpoints that are mostly are protected and manned by volunteers it's nato it'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 oppose don't but they want this city to be on the brink of collapse because of the psychological war. and you are with archie still to come on in the program. some press and talk security north korea's leader rolls into russia in his private training 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 maneuvers a major jets putting steve g. forces i don't want you but i was i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come

stay with r.t. . hamas a 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 was the solve the head of its gyptian mission from tel aviv putting up 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 which means it's the price for let's. cows or the people of mountaineering have a holding 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 into cinema and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the princes the thing happening upon the move here is very fun but people are very seriously

affected in terms of what the latest wave of violence and support is now talking to the protesters they say that they are not wise by this week 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 latest conflict gone to as an excuse bring people to be around here people are young many of them might remember. what happened they would be quite happy to go to the front and. mice people have very strong they are still going to be some are going to see suffer some just as a reading up and say think you know that i'm living there talking about it's a case and they talking about health services they talking about security people here saying that not only do they want to monserrate that they also want is a prime minister. to skip town. israeli journalist joseph dana says that if israel launches a full fledged offensive on gaza it might face domestic resistance as young people

may be reluctant to 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 indian 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 dissent 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 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 as of right now forty two percent of you believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage next month's un vote on our stimulus statehood twenty six 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 own domestic problems or that the attacks are an act of defense and that israel simply wants to protect its own people. on to america now where after weeks of turbulence stock markets once again closed in the red investors are fleeing the markets amid concerns of slow paced recovery and the ailing condition of the eurozone major sell offs are anticipated way exchanges open next week with traders now seeing gold there as the safest haven meanwhile america's three major banks have warned of a repeat of the two thousand and eight opel recession dr jason johnson a professor of political science thinks

a recession in the us is inevitable if investor confidence he dropped. the companies that have lost start by your glass two days or two weeks he's 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 an insult and we actually want to call it or most of us there 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's not just leasing to me past united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy that's a problem but people 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 less markets that are concerned with investing right now they're going to feel more confident if it

looks like obama's chances of being real like that are slim and everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea when you're ministration might acknowledge he was 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 very 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 you have begun without market are you kidding me. i'll go to washington 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 . 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 hire things well what if it just keeps crashing further if you have the money to lucia lose it if you don't don't put it do you have money invested on best week of your hard times and everything in the end economy is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market starts saying 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 face and it is it was a why we play a game with our security. well what are your choices are you going to do with your money or put on a mattress i don't think that's going to work too well but what about in gold you can put some in gold but warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth. the sun 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 to where you have to put your money and go 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 live in an. well there's the. idea that with these there was the money though that war is the most been kind of the end here with what's gone out of 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 me how good of a child the president of the soviet union are. 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 around outside the russian parliament the white house panic and anger were in the air under soviet army came face to face with its own people. the first couple of days were pretty scary that's when we had to go to a key point in the city and protect them there were crowds of people gathering and violence was on the verge of breaking out because the coup plotters had isolated soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and seized control of media outlets but one reporter defied the k.g.b. officers in his news room. we switched on our t.v. camera with us much hope of being able to call in here tonight you can see barricades being erected. survey's report was shown and spread word of the democratic resistance developing around the reformist russian president boris yeltsin as the standoff continues through the nineteenth and twentieth of august

fears grew of an assault on the white house you know with the tanks and soldiers in the streets and all of it made you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour what's going to happen at nighttime. those armored vehicles tried to ram their way through barricades and move into a road tunnel near the white house some of the protesters tried to stop the loop of kamar force her son dmitri was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that had been able to see another mitri had climbed on the vehicle to cover its mission slits after the in 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 have deserved we pumped out

late the petrified by car their poor picture into bottles setting them off 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 here few soldiers were baying 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 didn't animists he decided we wouldn't do it. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed their cause the oldest coup but come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom barton r.t. . and for more on the birth of modern russia make sure to watch our special report

throughout the day here on r.t. it's the latest edition of our series the soviet files that continues to uncover more hidden history. the. book it's called the. street still keeps its secrets but some reveal that the soviet files on oxy are going. in less than twenty four hours this year's

international air show closes in the moscow region but the action showing no sign of waning russia's newest fighter jet the still classified t fifty prototype has been the main headliner for the event with its first public display it made another dramatic entrance on saturday with thousands of spectators looking up in all one of them like a kid in a candy store was our very own words to say he's our man on the ground. give me oh it's easy two thousand and eleven knox international air show the chief fifty is in the james bond of the russian a 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 c. 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

fifteen. i don't care enough money plane two g. forces. you see. there we have it as suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the chief is now going about to a 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 having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly here when i see but for now my colleague i go to his going to has an insightful story about the three year old russian sukhoi superjet one hundred. only uprooted time just a year ago sue who is super jet is now officially in business over two hundred orders already both from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have

a day. to meet that and me company can put out a flawed us major so we have now more affordable and more let's say hopefully nice to get us to the next couple yes a joint project between russia's aviation giants sukhoi europe superjet international and several dozen other companies this is the first civil aircraft produced in russia from scratch since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and to see what all the fuss is about we decided to go on a demo. quite a few as they say touch the plane ourselves this is actually a universal course or just one but it was sold to an airline it was named after we got in the first man in space and this plane had already made several international flights we're told that this is the basic version of the chair so nothing special but very simple and modern walking the. walk to show work men so overhead to 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 just plain mean now all data rivals which are the cheap 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 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 your fanatic on a modern day i've got a couple of little quip goes over us a nifty little aircraft each 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 g moscow region.

and you can keep up to speed with all the thrills of the max international air show on our website at r.t. dot com as we continue our coverage all week it. hands. closest. approach. should the future flight. our team takes to the max airshow the leader of north korea has a role in the russia train his first trip abroad in almost a decade will be meeting president to me to move for talks in a few days' time the visit comes as plung yang struggles under a set of western sanctions while military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on artie's groups reports this thought that energy corp is largely

censuring to these discussions as being something the president or his self has championed quite recently and when it comes to these two countries always in the background this 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 on 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 and this time he's been fired by present material facts the first time these leaders are going to meet face to face and that's expected to occur next week in the russian republic of korea the reason for this timeline while kim jong il he likes a child by training space form of transport 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 of just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. greaves reporting for us there now and taking a look at other news making headlines for you tonight. in 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 the beholder to twenty people using water cannons to disperse the crowd the protesters were demanding that the government provide free education and improve its quality education minister has already responded to the students saying the storms will be implemented next week. at least twelve people have been killed and three others injured after a passenger jet crashed in kind of as arctic region the boeing seven thirty seven carrying a total of fifteen hit a hill near resolute bay airport minutes after its last radio contact with ground

control investigators say the cause of the accident is yet unknown but some experts sighed fog is a possible reason to adults and their child were flown to hospital for treatment one of the adults is in critical condition. pope benedict of the sixteenth met with dozens of sick and disabled people in the dritte on saturday as his visit to spain gets into full swing almost a million pilgrims is celebrating 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 the tonally can't afford it on the part of arrived on wednesday around twenty thousand people took to madrid streets for a protest march that ended with police dispersing the crowd. it was 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 are being developed

xenophobic but opposition in tbilisi say story is that being punished for his anti-government views archies surfer thoughts the story. all the world's a stage but the famous children's theater director he saved brilliantly bought so like many of shakespeare's works and it has been fired from his role in the pride of the georgian theatre 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 and 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 and many theer he simply being punished for his anti-government views. authorities to conventions once touring for a fusing to support a war shivam unlike others this was a political decision. the actions of the authorities haven't come as a surprise to sack of shit he's a cane and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced just as the us is probably through a leaves in for a short period of time it will be a major loss for georgia and is the editor but 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 as 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 off the pot sports

gain belongs very heavily felt by many in georgia serve. you are with r.t.d. on sean thomas the villains are next after this quick break stay with us. from.

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