each began a journey. where did it take. the main point of the attacks in tripoli just for writing is to break down the moral here in cause and as libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli signal gadhafi is fall is approaching some reports from there suggest it's just part of nato his plan to play havoc in the city. and other stories that shape the past week a surge of violence in the middle east with fears of a deadly exchange of fire between israel and gaza might lead to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. also bringing fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to even those who just thought about taking cost but many saying the government disproportionate response will simply fuel public discontent and the

collective the economic government that merkel and sarkozy are talking about is really a desperate political ploy to try to create the illusion of stability a fresh attempt to save the european economy fails to live up to expectations as this week's meeting between the french and german leaders promised a further drop in the markets. 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 have caused many to believe it is the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold rebel commanders rushed to declare zero has begun and their forces inside tripoli have started the final uprising but some are witnesses claim the bangs being heard. from followers of the government forces repelled the offensive

in the north. congratulated his supporters. and says the reports of the rebel success could be nature's way of creating panic. by and by what's happening and. it's celebrates the bum fire and as a result of. emergence of rebels in the. gangs the libyan government are calling them. that have 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 it celebrates become finding any explosions that we're hearing nato airstrikes or nato start sound poems 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. in libya.

channels they created some state. of themselves inside claiming that they were inside and. i know the media then mainstream media the western media in particular these reports which creates a sense of panic among people so they went inside. in fear and then a number of armed gangs and much which are essentially sleeper cells of rebels inside the c.c. and began firing randomly and setting things on fire and threatening very 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 created the sense that they were. capturing the city then what happened is that of course many people in tripoli had been on by the government and so these people came out to defend capital and then the government. ok now i need. to brace

and have. had time to control and so as a result now in green square. compounds. have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said they're letting us penetrate. political analyst money who's in tripoli says some sporadic attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion they're 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 now has been part of this information campaign they're talking about earlier the mainstream media we're not going to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted one point national was killed here two years ago when nato was intensely bonds between infrastructure and he didn't mention this in doing the infrastructure i want to make this more national was

a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct it was changed they had been fueling and heeding this psychological war against this country. well later in the program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring has dragged its bloody heels almost into the syria the west has been mounting pressure on president sad for his crackdown against protesters with all of his correspondent there many happy to see the government stopped the demonstrators also still comes out of. 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 moments because i'm about to see what happens inside the cockpit for all the thrills of some spectacular borne starts on the final day of the next international airshow. violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fire since thursday and i 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 israeli government is reported to be considering a possible ground offensive inside gaza with one hundred twenty members of hamas already said to have been arrested in the west bank and says israel's been gripped by massive social protest for months now and it's all these poor sniffen out 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 holding in memory of the victims of violent demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in jerusalem and a number of apple major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests it's been happening apartment the mood here is very calm but people are very serious and effective in terms of what the latest wave of violence is because now according to protesters they say that they are not surprised by the recent spate of violence many telling me that they've been expecting at one time they believe that the

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the latest conflict what's gone there as an excuse to bring people. to people. young many of them are human. and it happened. and white people have very strong in this they are still going to be demanding issues of social justice and mediocrity i think for a living they're talking about it's a case and they're talking about talking about the. people here saying that not only do they want great but they also one israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down the arts television and of course we value your opinion on the events in the middle east you can go to our website where we're asking you how israel might benefit from this latest escalation in violence and looking on screen at the moment you see that forty one percent of you believe that israel could use this as a way to sabotage next month's u.n.

vote on palestinian statehood twenty six percent say that some of the sees it as an opportunity to provoke a response from the palestinians and the major divided and think that israel is trying to divert attention from its domestic problems although the attacks are an act of defense and that israel simply wants to protect its own people those are the responses so far but good to hear from me if you haven't already done so a lot on. the call. for years in jail for a riot status on facebook british council coming down hard on the right as you 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 i'm going to has more for us 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 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 and i worry is that it is an imbalance a four year sentence for example would normally 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 hereditary and not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged cause the dish out harsh sentences by using the public disturbance as an aggravating factor it's meant this man anderson the 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 charged so far two thirds have been

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 it will simply cause more harm than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from housing intern 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 participating not feeling proud or 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 of 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

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 and social media fueled revolutions in egypt and she person called it tomorrow prissy but now the shoe's on the other foot and troubles closer to home i'm very conscious i mean you know the. poor or. i me would be the first we. war. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds these fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's . blunder. and by the way new ride video has been released showing last men reportedly shooting at an armed policeman you can log onto r.t. don't come to watch that video police said the incident took place during the life

riots in the city of birmingham with more than ten shots fired. this week saw another attempt in europe to try to stop the deep in debt crisis is the leaders of the e.u. strongest economies met in paris angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic already which would ensure eurozone members take more choice once again as he pledged to harmonize corporate taxes political analysts in order that every dollar believes the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability species 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 underlying 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 similar 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 will 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 need is more about image

building than decision making as a view of international consultants informant build and pay load of unused. and went to an elitist economies of the european monetary union get together that is all of course full is meaningful if only on the psychological level meeting stanch to draw the line it should be a euro zone countries at large in general so whatever to decide there is basically taken up by the other countries they're not going after the ones that cost the price and 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 under legal why not talking about putting social demands on these bailouts for banks merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with. popularity you know in the polls so i think it's also new with the image of building etc not so much return finding

a real solution and those whose very words send the global markets into a spin on the fog and sells of the u.s. is investigating whether star wars is partly behind the two thousand and eight financial crisis with the growing it's about the credibility of ratings agencies that's in the next hour here on party. 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 notion saying that assad should be given time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of the crackdown on anti regime protesters so what is more if initial reports from the front line while the west sees the government's action as oppression some in syria see it as a liberation. job is done the city liberated there is all in lease of the country has become the last syrian city in left after clearing off extremists that have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks and. hundreds of their rights put up

barricades became a city hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army are living in the city of. the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters and twelve 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 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. 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 a fragile transitional. reforms will give forces to syria and will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance sick and tired of the strong syria and they want to weaken as they don't want reforms they need instability in the fields across the country is not it's possible there pressure works. with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continue to crackdown protestors despite president assad's pledges to the un and his top military operations the syrian people no longer know who to trust and want to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience refinished r.t. syria. this week the trial of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak continued

in egypt the judge ruled that the hearings will no longer be broadcast live on television it was the second appearance in court for the right once again confined to a hospital bed alongside two of his sons both he and his interior minister face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in february uprising many see the trial as one of the results of the revolution others argue that america and may be gone but the dictatorship is still very much there. right now but thought. to. get old enough to die for his country this war was this seventeen and it's absolutely still. on the toughness where last winter they were treated adorns one of. their affairs there's even a talk of naming a street in his name what makes one and more fair and another well in egypt right now it's the date of death those gunned down prior to mubarak's resignation

celebrated its patron who lives with the writer future of their country those killed after his ousting sometimes are very curious criminals who start to undermine their country's democratic strides it doesn't matter that they shared the same goals and they'd have these days justice is about power and knowing the other way around this young man also calls in from south among the children of the revolution if he's older brother he celebrated more boards departure from power on to we're taking you to the and to the police three months later he was killed in what his brother believes was a government sanctioned shoot and there's a rebel and if you shoot my brother dave went through it and he came out to the other side and i saw no one here has a weapon. like sound waves to victims whose that's are now being pinned to mubarak these people receive no monitored compensation for their loss in fact they're

increasingly worried that the military authorities may persecute them or starts became an own compassing term for those who don't appreciate the ruling military. expected the only to intervene to protect just. an instant response and to kill people. who get extended but it's because of the crim council of the armed forces as an interim caretaker when mubarak step down brought to power by the protest the generals nevertheless don't so much liking for mass gatherings the cradle of the egyptian revolution is now. it involved by riot police those spot protesting at least of public disturbance events in military trials in the last seven months there have been more people put on military trials than the number of people that were put in a movie it was under president of the most is the president of course the lead

story in president mubarak's ring individually of course there are thousands of cases that have been put. been arrested and put on trial and sentenced within the span of two to five these sent horrible sentences starting from three years up to twenty five years that's currently is for had still hasn't. actually this believes in god rightly he's encountered middle eastern on free goldens from a culture a son of a former presidential contender was jailed by the mubarak regime noticed as the new authorities are just a brute like the version of they all are and it's extremely if you live there is very little difference between the people who are ruling us now hosting world and that many of the crimes hosting world are committed to speak are currently being committed to us now by the people who are ruling with the disguise

of the revolution because these bloody t. shirt is 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 body is still being spilled on the streets of cairo it's not a boycott artsy it's empty. well in go to a party talk com a website for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it pass chicken a thing you've missed on screen it's online as well here's a quick look at a couple of stories there for you at the moment close to collision astronomers are warning a call it will hit the earth later this year and ask a researcher when it's worth preparing for doomsday. and a look back on how the course of the so we took a major turn twenty years ago after an attempt to overthrow the reforming government was staged on the streets of moscow.

for. the book it was a quarter of. a. street still keeps secrets of the times reveal versions of the soviet files on. a spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft and pilots well that's what's show you all for the final day of the next international ash are underway in moscow sadly the weather hasn't been performing very well though it's raining there just a moment but as artie's tells us in the reports it hasn't put off the spectators.

but i still see a lot of people pouring in literally two of the airfield were ad trying to see the displays here of course everyone is looking forward to the aerobatic show the you know the rain is actually quite symbolic it's us if it's a weeping 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 a russian as well as the swiss performing in the skies 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 quite a stir and and one of the only other planes out there in service of this that is its closest rival is the f. twenty two raptor which was the u.s. air force and i 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 who jets definitely cannot do and he also said that it's a very safe aircraft so safe that it's safe even if it flies tail first out that

would be interesting to see and of course we saw a supersets c.y.c. for that one hundred we saw it in the sky now when i look at these of h.s. all i could think of is i hope this is the beginning of the end of those eleven hour flights if the weather just 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 i'll turn you over to my colleague to tom parsons now he had one heck of a ride with one of those military just let's take a look at the. engine. instruments. runway. and then it's takeoff of the russian robotic display team. the first crash pilots have performed over two hundred times in the cost nineteen years old to staunch someone. andre he's training to join the team

he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first flight as a so i've been without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own ship i had no time to be scared there was no longer any dr who by night it was unforgettable that i've read you take off you on your own and trolling the plane then when you land you've done it. yes moves are always trying to pose nude as they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing it's not a form of attempt to do it never talk but you come out of it stone and then research them but it's all going to turn sorry peepin time to for. a russian not came up with a loop and all the other stunts are based on a loop. however it always comes down to timing. even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy because difficult with smoking when you leave the cockpit and you can squeeze

a gallon of sweat from your seat to look at their knees are shaking because it's a cool stream with the current on the string and any will across america so with that dutch wrenching fare 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 a cockpit. we did the loop the loop all the planes just meters apart. but when it came to the fountain i nearly plucked out. like face football to see said i would still. kick. that hit. ok.

ok ok ok ok it. was like oh so see some of the story goes. good there's no scope of this for you know she might speak for the crowds it was eerie like her dancers aren't social sort of pilots it's always a difficult all the tests but so next time you come see the planes spirit will come to see. somebody. and they'll be more from the max as show from that they hear a nazi well be about with a recap of this week's top stories for you in just a few minutes stay with us live event in the sky.

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