we'll. bring you the latest on science and technology from. the future. point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the more out here and cause any. libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli signaled about his fall is approaching some reports from there suggest it's just part of nato his plan to place havoc in the city. and other stories that shape the past week a surge of violence in the middle east with fears of deadly exchange of fire between israel and girls that might lead to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. also britain fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to even those who just thought about taking part but many send the government's disproportionate response will simply fuel public discontent

. and as turmoil in global markets gathers pace following the u.s. credit status downgrade explores the credibility of the rating agencies themselves our top stories this hour. a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. live in moscow reports tracer bullets and explosions over the libyan capital of course many to believe it's the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold rebel commanders rushed to declare zero hour has begun and their forces inside tripoli have started the final uprising and some eyewitnesses claim the bangs being heard a celebratory fall works after government forces repelled an attack and dependent

journalist says the reports could be nato's way of creating panic. they bang fire and fire what's happening and it's gunfire and it's celebrate three gunfire and as a result of. emergency rebels in the city. gangs of the libyan government are calling them. that had to have now been cleared out of the city and they've now been captured time invested in essentially dealt with the only gunfire that we're hearing is celebrates we can find any explosions that we're hearing nato air strikes or nato sound columns which are plainly 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 teach themselves inside the plane that they were

inside and create and of course the media then the mainstream media and the western media in particular these reports which creates a sense of panic among the libyan people so they went inside. in fear and then a number of armed gangs and much michel ascension the sleeper cells of rebels inside see and take and 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 suicide bombings which created 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 quite a government and so these people came out to defend their capital and then the government spokesman came out and insisted that the situation had been. had been brought under control and so as a result now in green square. compounds. have come out

because they feel safe again and that. i said anything that celebrates me. and political analysts money doesn't grow who's in trouble he says some sporadic attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion they are part of psychological warfare. 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 stayed. actually it's called the swiss and now has been part of 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 in case they do in infrastructure and you can imagine the subduing the infrastructure i want to be quoted at 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.

well later in the program here an r.t. will be looking at another country where the arab spring has dragged its bloody heels almost into the. sea of the west and the mounting pressure on president assad for his crackdown against protesters but parties correspondent than many are happy to see the government stop the demonstrators also this hour. the crowds on the ground this is an exciting spectacle but that's not quite the emotion that's going through my mind at the moment because i'm about to see what happens from inside the cockpit all the frills and some spectacular airborne stunts on the final day of the mets international air show. at all still to come this hour but first violence has flared again in the middle east with israel and gaza thorin at each other since thursday a mass as it's called off its cease fire with the jewish state due to the continual fixation of palestinian lands more than ten people have been killed after three

days of attacks on each side the israeli government is reported to be considering a possible ground offensive inside gaza that's as israel's been gripped by massive social protests for a month now and is a tease paula slip found after many protesters believe the escalation of violence with gaza could be used to silence public discontent. thousands of people are not seen here in tel aviv hoping candles in memory of the victims of violent demonstrations are happening not only here in seattle but also into the cinema and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protest the thing happening a month here is very somber people are very serious concerns about the latest wave of violence not talking to protesters they say that they are not wise by this before make a vine and many telling me that they've been picking up with some time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the latest conflict gone to add an excuse to bring people. around here people are young

many of them might imagine. what happened. and might. be we strong in this team think they are still going to be. living they're talking about it to face and they're talking about talking about the . people here saying that not only do they want the monster great but they also want the israeli prime minister. to step down the arts. and of course we value your opinion on events in the middle east go to our website where you can cast your vote on the reasons behind israel's attacks on gaza and looking at the screen so far we can see that forty two percent believe that the latest attacks are a way to sabotage next month's un vote on palestinian statehood also see that the twenty seven percent saying it was not unity to provoke a response from the palestinians and the remainder of divide and think israelis

punching divert attention from its domestic problems or that the attacks are an act of defense and israel simply wants to protect its own people but here from a party dot com. four years in jail for riot status and facebook british courts are coming down hard on the rioters who spread mayhem last week human rights groups are accusing judges of overreacting something ignored by prime minister david cameron is determined to mend the country's broken society i've ben it reports now from london. four years behind bars for the riot that didn't even happen jordan black sure and perry sutcliffe kenan were banged up for inciting disorder on facebook no one turned up after their invitation to riot which they later said was a drunken joke but now they face sentences even tougher than most looters and our worry is that it is an imbalance and a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for

a previous courtly harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some form of sexual assault so it seems to me that that there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged because the fish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating factor it's meant this man anderson fernandez could even be sent to jail for theft of just two scoops of ice cream because like this one of the lying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charged so far two thirds have been reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes this is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless is their punishment with local governments taking away their houses but many say this will simply cause more harm

than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from housing interim of benefits because actually if we are saying that some of the crime that we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling puerto society not feeling portable communities and these measures are actually going to push it further away from society further away from more communities and far more likely to commit crime the pace bookcase is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west to mobilize. the masses in the arab world but they were also instrumental in the u.k. riots so now the prime minister wants it to stop we are working with the police the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and she needs britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot and

troubles closer to home i'm very conscious i mean you know the. poor. move only would you have thought. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back put it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's artsy london. and new rights video has been released showing mast men reportedly shooting at a policeman you can logon to our website r.t. dot com to watch that video police said the incident took place during the august ninth riots in the city of birmingham with more than ten shots fired.

this week saw another attempt in europe to try to stop the deepening debt crisis since the leaders of the e.u.'s the strongest economies met in paris angela merkel and nicolas a cozy call for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure eurozone members take more responsibility and immediately fell to calm global markets and it and i listed author efforts william bell believes the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability because i think the collective economic government that merkel and sarkozy are talking about is really a desperate political ploy to try to create the illusion of stability where the underlined stability doesn't yet exist there is no political will not in germany nor in the rest of the eurozone countries for as surrendering national sovereignty to a collective entity if it has any decision power so it's simply

a similar that's been thrown out there to try to calm the markets the alternative really is is to get a stable export market relations and i think above all with russia that the central asian republics trying to and the rest of asia in the middle east and if that is is created then you can have a growth vector that leads you out of this debt impasse that the eurozone countries are in without that and so long as as the. dollar system dominates international financial relations that moody's standard and poor's do the rating on sovereign debt for european union countries and that there is no independent european credit rating agency and there isn't is no. growth perspective only austerity there is no out of this crisis. the ratings agency standard and poor's is facing increasing scrutiny in the u.s. justice department is looking to allegations dozens of mortgage bonds were

improperly rated in the lead up to the crisis of two thousand and eight s. and p. is being questioned off the stripping to us of its treasured aaa credit score two weeks ago noughties lower list the reports now growing doubts about just how credible the credit rating agencies can be. breaking news the united states has just lost its top notch triple a credit rating from it was the downgrade heard around the world and the strong reaction to the rating downgrades on a hoss owned u.s. well it's that standard and poor's took the u.s. from straight aaa student to one notch below for the first time ever bad marks were handed down for the nation's debt and politicians inability to agree on rein it in a tea party downgrade a lot of it has to do with the failure of the president of states i think this is a tea party problem a greater in chief says the u.s. is recovery a bit more. for some of the other governments that still work response from the downgrade or that helped ratchet up that the yeah

tricks of the debt ceiling debate with the help of the other ratings agencies of course stealing the show from bickering politicians with their eyes on the debt deal being made being missing really a larger concern because there is growing evidence today that the u.s. credit score is going to get hit now that the u.s. has gotten hit just how much does s.m.p. is mark actually count well not much according to some like investor jim rogers but it's not because the country isn't broke america is going down the tubes we're the largest debtor nation in the history of the world it's because of the source these lead rating agencies have been wrong about nearly everything for the past ten or fifteen years don't pay any attention to them so just how does the report card stack up for the major ratings agencies themselves they are s.n.p. moody's and fitch let's assess test one the mortgage crisis of two thousand and eight these are the same agencies that rated the toxic sub prime dead aaa so i mean

how do we take them with any level of credibility after that. well let's see if they get any from tess to the too big to fail banks and insurers during the financial crisis they've missed many of the big bankruptcy is a good investment good. the women bear stearns right to the very end they gave a aaa rating to the day good grades for firms that collapsed or were bailed out because of bad debt and fact that the mantel crisis inquiry commission said the three credit ratings agencies were key enablers of the financial meltdown and this brings us to test three ethics ratings agencies are paid by the investment firms they grade and moody's and s. and p. are publicly traded which means they may be more driven to increase profits for shareholders raising this to be right now you have the companies that are are being judged by paying the bill and i'm rounding a big goal of berkshire but mr buffett also pointed out the market requires it

because these ratings agencies has been around forever so they're in shrine by government regulations which oh yeah they have a stake in test for objectivity frank legislation the financial reform has restrictions on rating agencies and the rules that are yet to be written and they care a huge deal about what those rules end up looking like sort of it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with certain politicians in fact they spent a combined total of one point seven six million dollars this year logging washington over the regulations which brings us full circle to the downgrade of u.s. credit the u.s. was downgraded by a and p. because of government debt per member the government ran up that debt in part because they bailed out the big banks and a.i.g. back in two thousand and eight remember the one saddled with all of those bad mortgage bonds which the ratings agencies graded triple a when in reality they were a d. or an app which makes you wonder if the ratings agencies themselves deserve a downgrade lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c.

has more fears spread of the possibility of another recession in the u.s. the largest holder of american debt is feeling the pinch chinese stocks fell on friday and according to investment advisor. washington's troubles are too big for his asian partner to ignore. china is extremely skeptical they must be very worried if i was the biggest holder of u.s. treasuries i'd be worried too because the u.s. is in a terrible situation their budget deficit is partly out of control it's almost eight percent of g.d.p. the federal debt is now about ninety six percent of g.d.p. and politicians in washington don't have any will to get the house in order all they know is to prolong the problem to push the can down the road and as long as that is the case we are going to see severe pressure on the u.s. dollar the economy is in asia generally speaking are in a lot healthier state than they are in the us or in europe i'm when mr bernanke

prints money tom davis is the dollar value of the u.s. dollar devalues the dollar and makes commodity prices go up and that causes inflationary headaches and i. go to my website ality dot com for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it plus you can check anything you've missed here and screen its own line for you as well here's a quick look at the stories there at the moment. i thirty year prison sentence shops the u.s. state of indiana was the person convicted for murder was just twelve years only and didn't even pull the trigger. in the room since two men were savaged by sharks emotions for a reason of the choice to be coming in the south of the country as a crocodile goes on the rampage at all to you don't come across more all of our best videos on you choose child.

news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images that have been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations through today. this week pressure has been mounting again on the syrian leader bashar assad the u.s. and european leaders called for him to step down but russia refused to support the motion saying assad should be given time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of the crackdown on regime protesters but as artie's marie financial reports from the front line while the west sees the government's action as oppression some in syria see it as liberation. job is done the city liberated there is or in lease of the country has become the last syrian city of hama left after clearing off extremists have been terrorizing the citizens for weeks the military claimed. hundreds blocked their weights put up barricades it

became a case we were hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over there the city has been freed from groves as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters. tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house and a solution has already matured president bashar assad is the one who's terrorizing the syrian people and that should and the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way not everybody has agreed though moscow has insisted that assad should be given time to implement promised changes his recent decisions to release political prisoners for appeal emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction but external

pressure could still bury fragile transitional. reforms will give sister syria it will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want reforms they need instability and feels across the country is not responsible and they're pressuring works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continue to crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. top military operations the syrian people no know longer. who to trust and you want to believe. with the country at the crossroads again the arm themselves with patience. r.t. syria. journalist neil clark says the west is not really interested in peace in syria he thinks all it wants is to gain influence in the region but the u.s.

and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really generally interested in terrible situation and having dialogue between both sides and that's really happening today because we've had president assad said he was going to use my party system in syria he said gratian is against your position. and you want to get sort of the west bank world records good that's a good move you get these who's going to step down and the great probably those cracking ties really is its own policy it is friendly with iran has russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove. another kind of regime there and syria would have a more robust alive. and well syrian celebrate the l. sting of rebels from some parts of the country quite a different scenario is developing in egypt stay with us here in r.t. and next hour to see help those who fought for democracy are being treated in a post about it. a spectacular

show death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft well that's what schedule for the final day of the max international air show under way near moscow and it's been running all weekend as witness thousands are thrilled spectators multibillion dollar deals and a whole host of planes analyses top and bottom ventured into one of them to see what it's like performing an airborne stunt. engines checked. instruments checked runway checked and then it's take up with a russian aerobatic display team the as models their nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere andre is training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first flight as

a solo highly. without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own i had no time to be scared there was no longer an instructor to my back it was unforgettable takeoff you're on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it. the as moves are always trying to hold them a new vision they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones for me to have a go if you come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns out you've been done before and this thought of a russian came up with a loop and all the other stands are based on the loop. however it always comes down to time in the end even with the years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy because difficult with smokers when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of swig from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely different stressful and anyway what you'll go through and so with that gut

wrenching fear ringing in my ears i was told it was mine the crowds on the ground this is an exciting spectacle but that's not quite the emotion that's going through not mind at the moment because i'm about to see what happens from inside the cockpit. we did the loop the loop all the planes just meat as a part of. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacks out. white faced but not to see to it i returned to. kicking. the can. kick. kick. kick. it.

but i can also see some of the strains that go for. there's no escape and if you know the mites before the crowds it's aerial acrobatics armed to shoot at a pilots it's always a difficult job that a terrorist but oh so next time you look up at those speeding planes spirit full of the pilots in some way. from bottom party. and are more thrilled to come as will be taking you live to the ashes rather than there you can also keep up to speed with max on a website ati dot com. hands. closer. and i approach. shape our future flights by large sea types

to the max air show. coming up to twenty eight minutes past the hour here in the russian capital a recap of the week's headlines for you in a few moments stay with us life in most. of. it here dr slimes policeman smiles ministers was am just very good if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids

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