we'll. review the latest in science and technology from. the future of. the main points of the attacks in tripoli sporadic is to break down the moral here in cause and effect as libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli signal gadhafi is four is approaching some reports from there suggest is just part of nato his plan to play havoc in the city. and other stories that shaped the past week a surge of violence in the middle east with fears of deadly exchange of fire between israel and gaza 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 saying

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 politics rules the credibility of the rating agencies themselves our top stories this hour. with a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. live in moscow good to have you with us this hour. 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 hour has begun and their forces inside tripoli have started to find an uprising at some eyewitnesses claimed the bangs being heard to celebrate the government forces

repelled the offensive in an audiotape aired on state t.v. colonel gadhafi congratulated his supporters independent journalist lizzie phelan says the reports of the rebel success could be nato's way of creating panic. gun fire and fire what's that happening and it's been fine celebrates the gunfire and as a result of. emergence of 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 him essentially dealt with gunfire that we're hearing is sent away to become finding any explosions that we are hearing nato air strikes all 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 idea today is that. in libya.

channels they create its own sake. of themselves inside but they were inside and created i know who is the media then the mainstream media but western uganda fakelaki to these reports which creates a sense of panic among the libyan people so they went inside. in fear and then a number of gangs which are essentially secret cells inside the safety 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 bend. 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 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 spokesman came out and insisted that bit situation had been. had been brought under control and so as

a result now in green square. compounds in masses have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said nothing of celebrates a. political analyst who's in tripoli says some sporadic attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion part of the psychological warfare. the main point of the attacks in tripoli were just for right it 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 the swiss and now has been part of this this information campaign they're talking about airlifts the mainstream media would happen to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted one point national was killed here days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the same thing we need to structure i want to have well they quoted that this for national

was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct it was changed later they had been fueling and heaving a psychological war against this country. later in the program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring has turned its bloody heels almost into the autumn syria. the west has been mounting pressure on president assad for his crackdown against protesters but also his correspondent and many are happy to see the government stop the demonstrators also. the crowds on the ground this is an exciting spectacle but that's not quite the emotion that's going from my mind at the moment because i'm about to see what happens from inside the cockpit. all the thrills of some spectacular stunts on the final day of the max international mission. still to come this hour but first violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fire since thursday and that says it's

called off it seems far 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 that is israel's been gripped by massive social protests for a month now kind of found out 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 memory of the victims like many demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also into muslim and a number of other major cities around this role in stark contrast to the protests happening of the past month here is very calm but people are very serious in the flick in terms of the latest wave of violence because now talking to protesters they say that they're not wise by this week's spate of violence many telling me

that they've been expecting at the same time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the conflict was as an excuse to bring peace. all the people around here people like young many of them might remember. what happened that would be up to the minds and white people had grown very strong in that they are still going to be demanding issues of social justice they really are protecting. a living they're talking about it's a case and they're talking about health care they talking about the. people here think not only do they want to be in the monastery but they also want israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down. and of course we've only your opinion on the events in the middle east you get a website where asking what would the reasons be the hind israel's possible offensive against gaza was so far you can see there on screen that the majority of you believe that would be a desire to punish the mats and then there's an even split between those who think

it would be either an attempt to divert attention from domestic problems or that israel would try to prevent the creation of a palestinian state in the minority feels that israel is just protecting its population and what you think a lot in the camp. for years in jail for a riot status on facebook british courts are coming down hard on the right as you spread the 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 bennett 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 naive 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 not 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 think 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 are being 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 it's all simply cause more harm than good i think this is a very unwise the move to remove people from hosing interim of benefits because actually if we are seeing that some of the crime that we saw in 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 it further away from society further away from more 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 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 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 when troubles closer to home are very conscious. or. move only would even thought we we thought it. was. 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 are given its artsy london. and new right video has been released showing moss to men reportedly shooting at an armed policeman and you can see that it's a pretty on a website or party dot com police said the incident took place during the all just the night flights 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 as the leaders of the e.u.'s strongest economies met in paris hilton of merkel and nicolas of cause he 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 and as an analyst and author william engel believes the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability. that i think the collective economic government the 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 sham or that's being 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 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 the 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 but there is no out of this crisis. well 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 loans were improperly rated in the lead up to the crisis of two thousand and eight let's impeach is being questioned off the stripping the u.s. of its treasured aaa credit score just two weeks ago lorna's to reports now and 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 house called us well it's dead and 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 present united states i think this is a tea party problem the greater in chief says the u.s. is becoming a bit more unpredictable and conduct. a

stoic response from the downgrade or that helped to 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 they may be 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 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 late 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 many of the big bankruptcies they gave her investment goodwill. the women bear stearns right to the very they gave a aaa rating to toll almost the day of class 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 debate right now you have the companies that are being judged for paying the bill and they get like i'm rounding

a big bird 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 for legislation the financial reform has restrictions on rating agencies and the rules that are yet to be written and they carry huge rules and up looking like so it would surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with alterations 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 us impede because of government debt or member of the government ran up that that in part because they bailed out the big banks then 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 after which makes you wonder if the ratings agencies themselves deserve

a downgrade lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . don't comb for the news you want to watch when you want one chip check anything you've missed here on screen it's online as well here's a quick look at a couple stories that you the moment you know gone clear commission a storm is a one. winning a comet will hit the earth later this year we asked the research of whether it's worth preparing for doomsday. angles on the website a look back on how the course of the soviet union took a major turn forty years ago after an attempt to overthrow the reforming government was staged on the streets of moscow. something.

that it. took your thought or the words. to. this street still keep some secrets of the times and reveal versions of the soviet files on oxy. this week pressure has been 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 as comes in the wake of the crackdown on regime protesters but as artie's marissa 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 it is all in lease of the country has become the last syrian city and

left after clearing off extremists to have been terrorizing its citizens to weeks the military claims that he's bandits bought the rights put up barricades it became a case in the hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of the store 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 get 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 though moscow has insisted that assad should be given time to include months

promised changes his recent decisions to release political prisoners repeal emergency law and allow peaceful demonstrations have indicated the right direction and external pressure goods to parry a fragile transitional. reforms will give forces to syria it will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance is 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 their pressure works. with contradictory reports about police and security officers killed across the country and the army is continue to crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the un to stop the tree operations the syrian people no know longer. and to trust and want to believe. with their country at the crossroads

again the on themselves with patience and refresh our 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 us and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really generally interested in ending the terrible situation and having dialogue between both sides and that's the reason it happened today because we had present sad said that he was going to introduce a multi-party system in syria he said. and what did we get sort of us say well that's good that's a good move we get these calls for him to step down and a great crime of the assad regime in those countries eyes really is its foreign policy it is friendly with iran as russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove assad. another kind of regime there and syria would have a more progress to life. from all syrian celebrate the ousting of rebels for some

parts of the country quite a different scenario is developing in egypt they would r.t. . in the next hour to see how those who fought for democracy are being treated in a post. spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft pilots when that's what should you wait for the final day of the international airshow is underway and there moscow and the weather hasn't been performing very well though it's raining there at the moment but as our reports it hasn't put off eager spectators. but i still see a lot of people who are going 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 we thing 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 we better not so we are expecting to see via russia nights 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 a quite a star and and one of the only other planes out there in service that is 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 a vehicle jets definitely cannot do and he also said that it's a a very safe aircraft so safe that it's safe even when it flies tail first out that would be interesting to see and of course we saw as the super ships c.y.c. for that one hundred we saw a flying in the sky now when i look at these of the 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 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 i'll turn you over to my call he could tom parker now he had one heck of a ride with one of those military jets let's take a look. engine. instruments. runway. and then it's takeoff for the russian aircraft to display team. the nine first crash pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they have stopped somewhere. andre is training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first fun as a solo pilot. 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. yes moves are always trying to hold never knew this they

practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones not conforming but there for the work of a doctor who come up with stones and pain research them but it often turns are you peeping down before instead of a russian came up with a loop and all the other stunts are based on the loop. however it always comes down to time in the end even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy. or difficult with some work and when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit what if your knees are shaking because it's extremely different stressful and anyone but you look with america so with that gut wrenching fare 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 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 plax out. white faced but not defeated i returned. to. get him. if it hit k.k.k. it basic aka if. but i can also see some of the streams that don't fit. there's no escape and if you know the might be for the crowds it was eerie like robotics on social set of pilots it's always a difficult job that tests go. so next time you look up at those speeding planes

spare a thought for the pilots in some way. from boston. and they'll be more from the mets asho thought the day here on t.v. . but temperance update for the moment so i'll be out of the recap while main news stories in a couple of minutes from now stay with us live here in the square. i'm

going to approach. the future flights up the artsy types to the max air show. last time the close up team was a phenomenal beach where the gold rush still gets people talking. this time far she goes to church of region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. cleared every office will be a dump.