you. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is true break down the moral here and cause panic as libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli signal gadhafi is full is approaching some reports from there suggest it's just part of nato his plan to play havoc in the city. and in all the stories that shapes the past week a surge of violence in the middle east with fears of deadly exchange of profiteering israeli gaza might lead to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. also britain fights back against recent roger parsons

is handed to even those who just thought about taking part in the many saying the government's disproportionate response will simply fuel public discontent. that is 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. back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. live in the sky reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the libyan capital of course many to believe it is 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 somebody witnesses claim the bangs being celebrated fireworks off the government forces repelled the offensive in an

audiotape aired on state t.v. colonel gadhafi congratulated his supporters independent journalist lizzie phelan says that the reports of the rebel success could be nato is a way of creating panic. gun fire and fire what's happening and it's gunfire by whites is celebrates every fire and as a result of. emergency rebels in the. gangs the libyan government are calling them. that had to have now been cleared out of the city and they've now been captured and arrested and essentially dealt with gunfire that we're hearing is celebrated become finding any explosions that we're hearing nato airstrikes or nato sites down 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 state pretty much themselves inside saying that they were inside and tripoli created and of course the media then the mainstream media the western uganda these reports which creates a sense of panic amongst the libyan people so they went inside. in fear and then a number on gangs and much which are essentially sleeper cells of rebels inside the city 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 bend took thirty two of the streets which were empty as i said because people were scared inside their homes which created the sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happens is that of course many people in tripoli have been ons by the government and so these people came out to defend capital and then the government spokesman came out and insisted that the situation had been and had

been brought under control and so as a result now in green square. compounds masses have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said then i think it's going to be to be confined. and political analyst modernism row 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 panic in fact the media here at the rixos hotel where i stay at actually it's called now has been part of the information campaign they're talking about airlifts the mainstream media we're not going to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release it was widely quoted one foreign national was killed here few days ago when nato with. the infrastructure and it didn't mention the city with the

infrastructure i want to be quoted to this or national was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct change. heeding this psychological war against this country. well later in the program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring is trying its bloody hills almost into the altar in syria the west has been mounting pressure on president assad for his crackdown against protesters but he's correspondent there many are happy to see the government stop the demonstrators also to sell 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 thrills and some spectacular stunts on the final day of the next international air show. or still to come for you but first violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fire since thursday says it's called off its cease fire with the jewish state due to the

continuing occupation of palestinian learns more than ten people have been killed after three days of attacks on the site israeli government is reportedly considering a possible ground offensive inside gaza says israel's been gripped by massive social protests for a month well. many protesters believe the escalation of violence with gaza could be used to silence public discontent. thousands of people on martin here in tel aviv holding candles in memory of the victims of. the demonstrations are happening not only here inside of it but also in jerusalem and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests that's been happening of the past month the mood here is very somber people are very serious in the flicker in terms of what the latest wave of violence that's caused now talking to protesters they say that they're not surprised by this before they took violence many telling me that they've been expecting it was a fun time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his

government will use the latest conflict gaza as an excuse to bring people the people to be looking around here people are young many of them are human. and it's going to happen they would be the ones and might people here are both very strong in the same thing they are still going to be the modern issues of social justice they really are protecting you know that the living they're talking about education next talking about health services they talking about currency people here think that not only do they want great but they also want israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down the on scene television and of course we value your opinion on the events in the middle east you can go to our web site where you can cost you will vote on the reasons behind this latest escalation in violence and as you can see there will screen at the moment the responses so far forty one percent of you believe that israel could use this as a way to some a time for next month's u.n. vote on an instance they hope you can see voted twenty six percent say that sort of

gives sees it as an opportunity to provoke a response from the palestinians and the remainder of the violence and think israel is trying to adverse attention from its domestic problems all that the attacks are next in the sense that israel simply wants to protect its own people because i hear from the cultural vote. four years in jail for a riot status own face. book british courts are coming down hard on the writers who spread mayhem last week human rights groups are accusing judges of overreacting something ignored by prime minister david cameron who's determined to mend the country's broken society over bennett now reports 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 and 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 in our

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. there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged course 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 of denying 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 are being reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes which 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 a very unwise the move to remove people from housing interim move 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 proud of our communities then these measures are actually going to push it 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 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 or services when we know they are plotting

violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and she person called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very. i mean you know the. poor. movements you know we if we. walk. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder either bennett's artsy blunder. and you're right video has been released showing last men reportedly shooting at an armed policeman and on to article com a website to watch that video police said the incident took place during the august ninth that's 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 e.u.'s strongest economies met in paris i did american and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure euro zone members take more responsibility they've also pledged to harmonize corporate taxes will change planning this is north a win and al believes that the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability. he said morny falls i think the collective economic government that american 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 that has any decision power so that it's simply a shimmer of that's being thrown out there to try to calm the markets the alternative really is is to get a stable export market relations i think above all with russia of the central asian republics trying to 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 and only austerity there is no out of this crisis the ratings agency standard and poor's is facing increasing scrutiny in the u.s. the justice department is looking into allegations dozens of mortgage terms were

improperly rated in the lead up to the crisis of two thousand and eight s. and p. is being questioned off the strip in the u.s. and its traded aaa credit score two weeks ago all these lower list now reports on growing doubts over 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 in a strong reaction to the rating downgrades on a hoss of us 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 that marks were handed down for the nation's debt and politicians inability to agree on reigning it in a two party downgrade a lot of it has to do with the failure of the president a stage i think this is a tea party for the greater in chief says the u.s. is becoming a bit more. stoic

response from the downgrade or that helped to ratchet up the 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 they need 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. and p's mark actually count well not much according to sun like investor jim rogers but it's not because the country isn't broke america is going down the tubes where the largest debtor nation in the history of the world it's because of the source these low 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 debt 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 tests to the too big to fail banks and insurers during the financial crisis. a bankruptcy is that if i invest mature. ratings to women to bear stearns right to the very end he gave a aaa rating to almost the day of collapse good grades for firms that collapsed or were bailed out because of bad debt in fact the financial 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 judge of paying the bill and i think. 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 on the rules that are yet to be written and they carry a huge view about what those rules and. it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with politicians in fact they spent a combined total of one point seven six million dollars this year lobbying washington over the regulations which brings us full circle to the downgrade of u.s. credit the u.s. was downgraded by s. and p. because of government debt or 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 and makes you wonder if the ratings agencies themselves deserve

a downgrade lauren lyster r. t. washington d.c. . and you can go to a few dot com for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it plus check anything you've missed on air it's all online as well for you now here's a quick look at a couple of stories there at the moment should you log on close to collision astronomers warning a comet will hit the earth later this year the research of whether it's worth preparing for doomsday. and look back at how the course of the soviet union took a major turn twenty years ago after an attempt to overthrow the reforming government was staged on the streets of moscow. the morning when the t.v. news this followed my boy. for a. while that the streets of the kept. on turning point in russia's history. wasn't justified move forward. remembering the news since the battle for

democracy on our key this week pressure is being nothing again on the syrian leader bashar al 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 and this comes in the wake of the crackdown on anti regime protesters but as artie's rif an ocean 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 and city liberated there is only so the country has become good last year in city after after clearing off extremists have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks and claimed that he's earned a spot the rights put up barricades it became a case in the hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live by in the city of the iraqi border there's a referee has

a say in operation is now over that the city has been freed from groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiter is a tall tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house decision has already matured president bashar al assad is the one who's terrorizing the syrian people and that 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 repeal emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction but external pressure groups to bury a fragile transitional. reforms would give forces to syria it will make the country stronger syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance you're

sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken as they don't want rebels they need instability and reveals across the country as knowledge possible and their pressure words that i would up with contradictory points about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army's continued crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. that his top military operations the syrian people no know longer. who to trust and like to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the arm themselves with patience and risk 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. but we. are the normal. situation. and that's the

reason it's happening today because we've had presidents said he was going to use a multi-party system in syria he said. he would be good. good that's a good move we get these calls for him to step down i'm a great. friend even iran russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove assad. regime in. syria. from some of the country quite a different scenario is developing in egypt. for democracy and being treated in a post egypt. a spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's funniest pundits well that's what's shojo for the fun of the international.

is there for us and she joins us. spectacular performances over the weekend at the moment as we can see the weather is not performing very well as it is actually going to threaten. things. far as i can see i mean i still see a lot of people pouring in literally. trying to see the displays here of course everyone is looking forward to the aerobatics you know what the rain is actually quite symbolic of we think for the last day of two thousand and eleven but you know what i will be weeping if i don't see an aerobatic ships i've never seen one in my life believe it or not so we are expecting to see the russian. the swiss performing in disguise again today for the public let me run you through some of the highlights of the past five. days now we've seen the debut of the a t fifty that's the a fifth generation a stealth fighter russian made now this is really quick created a quite a star and and one of the only other planes out there in service of the that is its

closest rival is if the f. twenty two raptor which was the u.s. air force now want to be a test pilots who tried the t. fifty actually told r.t. that this plane has a very good maneuverability it can do crazy stunts of people jets definitely cannot do and he also said that it's a very safe aircraft so safe that it's safe even when it flies tail first now that would be interesting to see we also saw the m.s.o. twenty one a that is the a medium range of russian aircraft will go head to head with the likes of be a three twenty and of course we saw a super super super tired one either we saw a sign of the sky and now that is a jumbo shot that will go head to head with the air dreamliner of boeing as well as the airbus a three eighty now when i look at these pictures all i could think of is i hope this is the beginning of the end of those eleven hour flight i think a lot of us have been through though so hopefully when you see these flying in the skies will be more comfortable now if if we if the schedule is to our plan now

today of the weather does cooperate it should we should be hearing engines roaring all throughout the day coupled with of course the heavy rain and the strong winds well you know what i'll turn you over to my colleague tom barton now he had one heck of a ride with one of those military just let's take a look at the. engine check. instruments. runway. and then the takeoff for the russian and robotic display team. the first crash pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years put a stop 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. without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own for pilot had no time to be scared there was no longer any structure to be

magic it was unforgettable you take off on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it. yes moves are always trying to hold them i knew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing. not a performer but hampered the work of a company come up with stunts and then research them turns out if you've been gone before the mystery of a russian came up with the loop and all the other sponsor based on the loop. however it always comes down to time in the even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy because they were the most smokers when you leave the cockpit and you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely different stressful and any will go through the hoop so with that gut wrenching fear ringing in my ears i was told it was mine to 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 meters apart. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not to see to it i returned. k. k. k. k k. k k. but i could also see some of the strains that go through. but there's no script and

if you know he might be for the crowds of aerial acrobatics aren't to shoot at 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 pilot in some way. from bottom to. be more from the match a throughout the day here on a latte i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories in just a few minutes from now stay with us life here in moscow.

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