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 qaddafi stronghold but i wouldn't say nato is portraying celebre torrie fireworks as a battle for the capital independent journalist lizzy feelin a says that the reports are the alliance is a 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. emergence of rebels in the city. of gangs as the libyan government are calling them. that has had now being cleared out of the city and they've now been captured and i rested and essentially dealt

with the only gunfire that we're hearing is centigrade speak on finding any explosions that way hearing nato air strikes overnight so it's not 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. via the. channels they created sun sake footage of themselves inside claiming that they were inside and tripoli they scraped and of course the media then the mainstream media and the western media in particular these reports which creates a sense of panic amongst the libyan people so they went inside that. in fear and then a number 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 fire 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 creates 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 so 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 scene of celebrates return fire . political analyst body royale 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 an attack 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 happen to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted one foreign national was chilled 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 you are with r t still to come on in the program. press and top 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 month show just outside of moscow here with me rule research a faulty oh it's really heating up out here high flying maneuvers for a good jets putting steve g. forces of what you thought i was i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with aussie. 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 will this is all 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 to its place that has the limits. thousands of people i'm often here in tel aviv hoping candles in 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 it for some time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the may present conflict what's gone there 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 they would be quite happy to go to the front and mice people have very strong in the same thing they are. still going to minding if she's also suggested they really ought to take think you know that. they're talking about education they talking about health services they talking about. people have claimed that not only do they want. that they also want the israeli prime minister. to step down. israeli journalist joseph it 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 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 constituency 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 in for 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 as of right now forty two percent of you believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage next month's u.n. vote on palestinian 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 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 will 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 wasn't just leasing to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy big 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 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 or slam then everyone's going to get more nervous because you have no idea what a new administration might have that policy 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 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 mean 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 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 week of your hard times and everything and 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 there 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 could put some and go like warren buffett says you take something from. under the earth and you dig it up and all of a 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 more more local kind of exchanges of all things so right now

we live in a less. where there's the. money and that's where 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. 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 heil go to charles than president of the soviet union artie's 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 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 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 thank you know well it's 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. 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 kamar thought her son dmitri 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 after the and that he jumped into the vehicle three 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 punched out late as a patch or for near by car their poor picture into bottles sets in them of fire throwing them at the tanks the conspirators already wavering last then of. the three men memorialized here have become martyrs for the democratic cause in

fact they 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 but. 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 bottom. 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. street still keeps secrets. to reveal the soviet files. in less than twenty four hours this year's international air show closes in the moscow region but the action is 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 it was our very own royster shea is our man on the ground. here we are to see the two thousand and eleven max international air show the t. fifty is in the 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 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. that is going up putting major g. forces look out that you go.

there you have it as suddenly a sense of calm in the air as the t. fifty has now gone back to its secret bunker this is being one incredible show here that super stealth is just deafening and what a loft so what you pull those high g.'s will be having more ports from the max two thousand and eleven shortly here we're not see 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 super gent is now officially in business over two hundred orders already built from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have a day. to meet that she and me company can put out a flaw to ask a major so we have now more affordable and more let's say hopefully nice to get close to the both of us next a couple yes it's 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 so. crash 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 of course a project one market which was sold to an airline it was named after a big i 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 looking the. luggage go warm and so overhead it looks pretty spacious scott 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 electro spy it's developers say they will continue working on the super jet to help it get rid of any t.v. problems and with the line of orders already secured the promise to deliver over one hundred sixty planes by the end of twenty sixteen. is going to r d 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 at.

hands. closer. shape future flight. 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 can john l. will be meeting president to meijer medvedev 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 jacob group's reports it's thought that energy cooperation is largely sensu to these discussions is 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 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 becomes kim jong il himself wolf packs this is his third visit to russia is 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 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 but 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 that just arrived yesterday in north korean ports. greaves reporting for us there now taking a look at other news making headlines for you tonight. a military ceremony headed

by chile's president sebastian pinera termed violent when dozens of students tried to disrupt the event security forces in the city of the a hole detained 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 with storms will be implemented next week. at least twelve people have been killed and three others injured after a passenger jet crashed in canada's 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 cite fog as a possible reason to adults and a child were flown to hospital for treatment one of the adults is in critical condition. 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 youth pilgrims is celebrating 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 is crippled autonomy 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 store has been fired after making critical comments about the president saakashvili officials. but opposition in tbilisi say stories of being punished for his anti-government views are two thousand story. all the world's a stage that the famous georgian theater director he saved brilliantly brought to

life many of shakespeare's works and it has been fired from his role as the pride of the georgian feodor 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 no sable to understand the needs of the georgian people it was a criticism. and the government branded him sent a favor and told him to exit stage left the many fear he simply being punished for his anti government. the authorities to evangelise on through and 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 he's a cain and this is the latest in what they call an anti democratic trend of the president's critics being silenced it's those that use the problems to rallies in for a short period of time it will be a major loss for george and his theater but the government is not worried about theirs they're really afraid of any moral authority in georgia i mean those people that are brave enough to criticize them but this country 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 theory it is where he's been at the top spots most case gain but bill lost very heavily felt by many in georgia serve say. you are with r t i'm trying thomas headlines are next after this quick break stay with us.

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and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our chain and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with. heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the libyan capital but independent sources on the ground say it is all part of a nato does information campaign pro get off the forces say they remain well armed and already defined to be on. hamas launches a rocket attacks on israel following the country's deadly shelling of gaza and this comes after hamas announced it's calling off its cease fire with the jewish state meanwhile thousands take to the streets of israeli cities to remember the victims and to vent anger at the government. also remarked twenty years since moscow was placed under military curfew during an attempt to overthrow me hired a group me a pilot got to challenge the crew faced a fierce was.