with a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r t live in moscow reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the libyan capital of calls many to believe it's the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold rebel commanders rushed to declare zero has begun and their forces inside tripoli have started to funnel uprising but some eyewitnesses claim the bangs being a breakthrough follow works off government forces repelled the offensive independent journalist was told on t.v. they could all be nature's way of creating panic. gunfire and fire what's happening and it's gunfire it's celebrates very gunfire and as a result of. emergence of rebels in the city. gangs of the libyan government are calling there. that have now been cleared out of the city and they are now being captured and arrested and essentially dealt with.

gunfire that we're hearing is celebrates become finding any explosions that we're hearing nato airstrikes or nato 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 today is that the. rebels in libya. channels they created sun sake. themselves inside claiming that they were inside and create and of course the media then mainstream media and the western media in particular and 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 march 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 with scads inside their

homes which created the sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happened is that of course that many people in tripoli have been 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 a control and so as a result now in green square. compounds that have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said they're letting off celebrates. political analyst money who's in tripoli 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 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 the information campaign there 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 killed here few days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the city we need to structure i want to add they quoted that this foreign national was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct it was changed they have been fueling and feeding this psychological war against this country. well later in the program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring is drag its bloody heels almost into the autumn syria which has been melting first will present the south but its crackdown against protesters and artie's correspondent there found many happy to see the government still demonstrates it's also. 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 apartments because i'm about to see what happens inside the cockpit all the throws of some spectacular airborne stunts on the final day of the mets international. so that all still to come but first violence has flared up again in the middle east with his running guards are exchanging fire since thursday and says it's called off its cease fire with the jewish state due to the continuing occupation 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 says israel has been gripped by massive social protests for months now. many protesters believe the escalation of violence with gaza could be used to silence public discontent. thousands of people are marching here in tel aviv hoping to handle memory of the victims of violent demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in tucson and

a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests happening of the past month the mood here is very somber people are very serious and affected in terms of what the latest wave of violence is 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 latest conflict gone to as an excuse to bring people to give up around here people are young many of them are in the wazoo. find might people have very strong they are still going. to. know that. they're talking about education they're talking about health care they talking about. people here saying that not only do they want great but they also want israeli prime minister. and of

course we value your opinion on the events in the middle east go to our website where you can cost your vote on the reasons behind this latest escalation in violence and to hear the screen so far we can see the forty two percent if you believe that the is is that israel could use this as a way to sabotage the next month's un vote on palestinian statehood also we can see that twenty seven percent so far say that some of the of sees this as an opportunity to provoke a response from the palestinians and it remained divided and think that israel is trying to divert attention from its domestic problems although the attacks an act called for defense of israel simply wants to protect its own people always good to hear your point of view log on to our teeth dot com. four years in jail for a riot status on facebook british courts are coming down hard on the russians who spread mayhem last week he rights groups are accusing judges of overreaction

something ignored by prime minister david cameron who's determined to mend the country's broken society all of a bennett's 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 i worry is that it is an imbalance a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for a previous bodily 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 that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes that governments encourage courts to dish 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 denying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charge so far two thirds have been remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes just 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 move benefits because actually if we are seeing that some of the crime that we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling puerto society not feeling part of our communities then these measures are actually going to push people further away from society further away from our communities and far more

likely to commit crime the facebook case is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west for mobilizing 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 or services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and tunisia britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very conscious. you know the. poor or. me would be the force the. country's. prime minister says this is where britain fights back but its

speed this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's artsy london. and new rock video has been released showing masked men reportedly shooting at an armed policeman you can log on to the website to watch that video and police said the incident took place during the the night flights in the city of birmingham with more than ten shots. this week saw another attempt in europe to try to stop the deepening debt crisis as the leaders of the strongest economies met in paris angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure euro zone members take more financial responsibility they've also pledged to harmonize corporate taxes political analyst

and author if william engdahl believes that the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability so. 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 underline. 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 that has any decision power so it's simply a shimmer 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 the central asian republics china and the rest of asia in the middle east and if that 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 not only austerity there is no up to this crisis the meeting of the need is was more about image building than decision making that's the view of international consultants and full belgian and paid a lot of unused. and went to london biggest economies of the european monetary union get together that is of course always meaningful if only on the psychological level meetings tend to draw the line of should be the eurozone countries at last in general so whatever did decide there is basically taken by the other countries they're not going after the ones that cost the crisis they're not going after the ones that have the money that as we lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about

the raising taxes on those people why no two are talking about putting social demands on these bailouts for banks merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with. the clarity in the in the polls so i think it's also do with the image of building etc not so much for it to finding a real solution the meeting in paris fell to calm traders nerves and together with fears about the possibility of another u.s. recession it forced the global markets to form on friday and china which is the largest owner of american debt is also feeling the pinch investment advisor says washington's troubles are too big for its 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 piling 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 when mr bernanke it prints money. says the value of the u.s. dollar devalues the dollar and makes commodity prices go up and that causes inflationary headaches in asia and those whose very words send the global markets into a spin around the far themselves and this is investigated when the s. and p. is partly behind the two thousand and eight crisis report on growing doubts about the credibility of the ratings agency that's in the next hour. this week pressure has been melting again on the syrian leader bashar al assad the

us and european leaders called for him to step down but russia refused to support the motion saying should be given time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of the crackdown on regime protesters bizarre notion of 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 to have to clear an extremist strip have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks the military claim is that he's bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a city we were hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of the so near the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from armed groups as you can see people are

welcome in the soldiers as the waiters but while tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house a decision has already matured president bashar al 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 there moscow has insisted that assad should be given time to implement promised changes his recent decisions to release political prisoners repeal emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction but external pressure could still bury a fragile transition to sort of a sort of reforms will give sources to syria it will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance they're sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want reforms they need instability

and chaos across the country as long as possible and there pressure works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continuing crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. to stop military operations the syrian people no longer know who to trust and what to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience rif notion r.t. syria. and 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. what the u.s. and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really genuinely interested in ending the terrible situation and having dialogue between both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we had to present a sad said he was going to introduce

a multi-party system in syria he said operations against the opposition. and what do we get instead of us saying well that's good that's a good move we get these calls for him to step down and the great crime of the assad regime in those countries and is really is its foreign policy it's friendly with iran has good links with russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove assad from power and install another kind of regime in. syria that have more progress to line. this week as the trial of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak continued in egypt the judge ruled that the hearings were no longer be broadcast live on television it was a second appearance and called for mubarak once again confined to a hospital bed alongside. both he and his interior minister face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in february uprising well though many see the trial as one of the results of the revolution others argue that mubarak may be gone but the dictatorship is still very much the party's accent a boy could reports. so young to vote yet old enough to die for

his country this boy was just seventeen wanted tips and police killed him on the tough areas where last winter today he's portrayed adorns one of cairo central thoroughfares there's even a talk of naming a street in his name what makes someone and more here and not there well in the age of right now if the date of those gunned down prior to mubarak's resignation celebrated its patron who lives with the brighter future of that country those killed after his ousting sometimes are free to ask criminals to undermine their country's democratic stripes and it doesn't matter that they share the same goals and the age of these days justice is about power and not the other way around this young man also account of himself among the children of the revolution if this older brother he celebrated mubarak's departure from power or to taking it for the

and to the police say three months later he was killed and what his brother believes was a government sanctioned shoot out there and his little bubble and on the snipers shot my brother dead the bullet went through his will hit and it came down to the side and i saw it no one here has a weapon like this only soldiers do like families to victims whose deaths are now being pinned on the bark these people receive no more. compensation for their loss in fact they're increasingly worried that the new military authorities may persecute them a studs is became an all encompassing term for those who don't appreciate the ruling military clique and as a suicide body so we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't mind and scary but instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't expect that all of that if the supreme council of the armed forces as an interim caretaker when mubarak stepped down brought to power by the protests the generals

nevertheless don't show much liking for mass gatherings the cradle of the egyptian revolution is now cordoned off by riot police those caught protesting accused of public disturbance and sent to military trials in the last seven months there have been more people put on military trials than the number of people that were put on military chose under president of the president of war so that's really president mubarak's regime individually of course there are thousands of cases that have been put have been arrested and put on trial and sentenced within the span of two to five days sent horrible sentences starting from three years up to twenty five years a scar on his forehead still hasn't healed but these activists believes he got off lightly from he's encountered with the police a month ago a son of the former presidential contender who was jailed by the mubarak's regime

nor says the new authorities are just a brutalized version of the all and it's extremely clear that there is very little difference between the people who are ruling us now. and that many of the crimes the hosting but are committed to his people are currently being committed. to us by the people who are with the disguise of the revolution it gives these bloody t. shirt as a reminder that the egyptian revolution is far from over the former president is now on trial for his role in the mass killings but the broad is still being built on the streets of cairo it's not a work of art it's. a spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft that's what showed jewel for the final day of the max international air show under way now near moscow it's been running all week and has witnessed thousands of thrilled spectacular spectators

a multi billion dollar deals and a whole host of planes and artie's tom barton ventured on to one of them to see what it's like performing an airborne stunt. engine check. instruments check. runway check. and then it's takeoff for the russian are about to display team. their nine first class pilots of performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all had 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 pilot to get into the present 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 going back it was unforgettable takeoff you on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it. the as moves are always trying to hold

never knew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones like a form of the stanford or whatever don't we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns out that the pins on the four nested over a russian came up with the loop and all the other stunts are based on the loop. however it always comes down to time in the air even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy for the lists one look at when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit what your knees are shaking because it's extremely different stressful and anyone with fuel up with erica so with that gut wrenching fare ringing into my is i was told it was mine for 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.

we did the loop the loop all the planes just meters apart. a. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned to. the. it kick it hate it if i but i could also see some of the strains that go through. your besmirched get the news for you know the might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't a shield to the pilots it's always a difficult job that

a terrorist. so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilots in some way. from bottom r.t. . and more thrills to come as will be taking a knife to the has shown throughout the day here nazi and you can also keep up to speed with max on a website and l.t. dot com. closest. approach. shape the future flights try hard to see to the max air show. for nearly twenty eight minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back with a look at the headlines in a couple minutes from now stay with us life here in moscow.

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sunday morning this is. good to have you with us top stories now the heavy explosions were heard in the libyan capital is rebels claim they've launched an attack on tripoli with. some reports suggest the. forces repelled the offensive. such violence in the middle east with fears and deadly exchanges. to the jewish state and. protesting against social injustice say the government used the conflict to divert attention from the problems at home. and britain. with harsh sentences handed to those who only thought about taking their concerns the government's excessive response will simply fuel discontent.