with a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is live in moscow good to have you with us this hour. reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the libyan capital of calls many to believe it is the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold rebel commanders rushed to declare zero zero zero has begun and their forces inside tripoli have started to funnel uprising that someone who witnesses claim the bangs being heard to celebrate through following the government forces repelled the offensive and audiotape out on state t.v. colonel gadhafi congratulated his supporters independent journalist says the reports rebel success could be nato's way of creating panic. that gunfire and fire what's happening and it's gunfire by a way it's celebrate three gunfire and as

a result of. rebels in the. gangs that the libyan government are calling. that have now being cleared out of the city and they are now being captured and the rest of them essentially dealt with gunfire that we're hearing it's integrates become finding any explosions that we're hearing nato air strikes on a 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 it's a is that the. rebels in libya. channels they created sun say. 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 much 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 up the streets which were empty as i said because people were scared inside their homes which creates a sense that they were. in the process of capturing the city then what happens is that of course that many people in tripoli have been on 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 brought under control and so as a result now in green square. compounds that masses have come out and because they feel safe again and as i said they're letting us celebrate to be gunfire. political analyst money doesn't know who is in tripoli says some sporadic

attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion part of psychological wolf. the main point of the attacks in trip we were just for right it is to break down the moral here and cause and in fact the media at the right. now has been part of this information campaign they're talking about. the mainstream media would have 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 with. the infrastructure and it didn't mention the city with the infrastructure i want to well they quoted this foreign national it was a security guard this was misinformation this was not correct. 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 trying its bloody heels almost into the autumn syria. the west has been mounting pressure on

president assad for his crackdown against protesters but all to his correspondent there have found many 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 through 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. so still to come this hour but first violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fire since thursday as 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 says israel's been gripped by

massive social protests for a month now. many protesters. believed the escalation of violence with girls that could be used to silence public discontent. thousands of people i'm opting here in tel aviv holding candles in memory of the victims of violent demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also into the cinema and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests we've seen happening of the past month the mood here is very somber people are very serious and affective 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 with gaza as an excuse to bring people to speak it's a good look around here people are young many of them are in the reserve forces and if the war was to happen they would be caught up to go to the front and fight

people who have both very strong in the same thing they all still going to be demanding issues of social justice they really are protesting you know that that's a living they're talking about education they're talking about health services they talking about security people here saying that not only do they want these demands of grace but they also want the 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 and go to a website where asking what would the reasons be behind israel's possible offensive against gaza was so false you can see there on screen that the majority of you believe that would be a desire to punish them and then there's an even split between those who think it would be are the an attempt to divert attention from domestic problems or that israel would try to prevent the creation of a palestinian state living or is he feels that israel is just protecting its population and this is what you think it's at all to come.

for years in jail for a riot states is on facebook. british courts are coming down hard on the rioters who spread mayhem last week human rights groups are accusing judges of overreacting something ignored by prime minister david cameron who's determined to mend the country's broken society a bit 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 thing 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 remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes it was 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 part of 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 she needs britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very conscious i mean you know the.

movement would be the force the. country's. 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 after bennett's artsy london. and new ride video has been released showing two men reportedly shooting an unarmed policeman and you can see that in turn video on our website 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 strongest economies met in paris angela merkel and nicolas a 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 so that you can analyst and author william and al believes the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability. 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 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 only austerity and there is no up to 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 that dozens of mortgage bulletins were improperly rated in the lead up to the crisis of two thousand and eight s. and p. has been 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 downgrade told us well it's dead standard and poor's took the u.s. from straight aaa student to one not below for the first time ever bad marks were handed down for the nation's debt and politicians inability to agree on reining it in a tea party downgrade in a lot of it has to do with the failure of the president of the states i think this is a tea party problem the greater in chief says the u.s. is becoming a bit more unpredictable in terms of the conduct proposed to some of the other governments that were a stoic response from the downgrade or that helped ratchet up that the yeah tricks of the debt ceiling debate with the help of the other ratings agencies of course stealing the show from bickering politicians with their eyes on the debt deal 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 where 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 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 tess to the too big to fail banks and insurers during the financial crisis they missed many of the big bankruptcies they gave high investment

. to lehman to bear stearns right to the very end g. they gave a aaa rating to tow 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 debate right now you have the companies that are being judged paying the bill and they get like i'm around in a big old berkshire the mr buffett also pointed out the market requires it because these ratings agencies has been around forever so they're in shrine by government regulations which oh yeah they have a stake in test for objectivity frank legislation the financial reform has

restrictions on rating agencies and the rules that are yet to be written and they care a huge deal about what those rules end up looking like saw it would surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with certain politicians in fact they've 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 burma or the government ran up that debt in part because the bailed out the big banks and a.i.g. back in two thousand and eight remember the one saddled with all of those bad mortgage bonds which the ratings agencies graded triple a when in reality they were a d or an f which makes you wonder if the ratings agencies themselves deserve a downgrade lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. and go to comb for the news you want to watch when you're going to want to pass took anything you've missed here on screen it's online as well so here's a quick look at a couple stories that you the moment should you know gone clear commission

astronomers a wall. comments will hit the earth later this year we're asked to research 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 twenty years ago after an attempt to overthrow the reforming government was staged on the streets of moscow. and. the. street still keeps its

secrets it's time to reveal versions of the soviet files. this week pressure has been mounting again on the syrian leader bashar assad the u.s. and european leaders called for him to step down but russia refused to support the motion saying assad should be given time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of the crackdown on regime protesters but as an ocean of reports from the front line while the west sees a 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 in left after clearing all extremists struck has been terrorizing its citizens for weeks the military claim is that it's bandits blocked the rights put up barricades it became a case for hiding they were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live

in the city of there as 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 way there is 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 agree 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 could still bury 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 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 is not responsible and their 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 know longer. who to trust and want to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience raef notion r t syria. journalist neil clark says the west is not really interested in peace in syria he thinks all it wants is to gain influence in the region. u.s. and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really

genuinely interested in ending the terrible situation of. having dialogue between both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we had present sad said that 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 are is really its foreign policy it's friendly with iran and has good links with russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove assad and install another kind of regime in. syria that have a more progress to align the more syrian celebrate the else thing of rebels form some parts of the country quite a different scenario is developing in egypt and 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 well that's what shuttle for the final day of the international show is underway near moscow in 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. i still see a lot of people pouring in literally to the airfield were ad trying to see the displays here of course everyone is looking forward to the aerobatic show at the you know in the rain is actually quite symbolic gets us a fits of weeping for the last day of max at 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 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 quite a stir and and one of the the the only other plane out there in service that is

that is its closest rival is if the f. twenty two raptor which would also be 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 who just definitely cannot do it he also said that it's 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 the supersets so why super said one hundred we saw it flying in the sky now when i look at these big shots all i could think of is i hope this is the beginning of the end of those eleven hour flights and if the weather does cooperate it's sure we should be hearing engines roaring all throughout the day coupled with of course the heavy rain and the strong waves well you know 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. engine. instruments.

runway. and then it's take off with a russian man to display team. the nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen use. hot dogs somewhere. on drily. he's 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 them the new this they practice most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones look at the form of the stanford or whatever government we come up with stone and then research them but it often turns out that the pins on the four nested of

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 her difficult summer look at you 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 will feel that with erica so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in 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 merely blacked out. white faced but not defeated

i returned to. the. ok ok ok ok ok. ok if the phone but i could also see some of the streams that go through. there there's no ticket than if you know he might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't official to the pilots it's always a difficult job that a test of whether so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilots in some way. from bottom ninety.

and they'll be more from the next show throughout the day here on ati. brings update for the moment so i'll be back with a recap of our main news stories in a couple of minutes from now stay with us live here in the sky.

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the russian capital this is on t.v. twenty four hours a day top stories now heavy gunfire and explosions were heard in the libyan capital as rebels claim they've launched an attack on tripoli with colonel gadhafi is full . of some reports suggest the. repelled the offensive. the surge of violence in the middle east with a deadly exchange between israel and gaza might lead to the jewish state a new ground attack. protesting against social injustice say the government might use the conflict to divert attention from problems at home. and fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to those who only force about taking their own concerns the government's excessive responsible something cool public discontent.