he's telling. me. dynamic. for. a. month. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is true breakdown the moral here in cause panic. as libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli signal is approaching as some reports from there suggest it's just part of nato 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 night need to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. also britain fights back against recent ronsard 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.

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. 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 prompts a further drop in the markets. a look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. live in moscow reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the libyan capital of course many to believe it's the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold talk to franklin lamb the director of americans for middle east peace and he's currently in tripoli told us on the phone a short time ago. the city is closed at the moment and any reports the rebels are

making a move on the capital a full scale i just got back from a two hour trip wandering all over tripoli most of it there's no heavy fighting now there is a bombing hour maybe a little. over one explosion but it appears that the rebels are not. seems to be true and there were some. firing. some pockets stallion. but now it's very quiet and the rebels here is nonsense. and american nato is going to rely on if obama and other. leaders you want it's going to be a process. and political analyst not he doesn't run who's also in tripoli says that some sporadic attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion as part of psychological warfare the main points of the attack in tripoli which are sporadic

is to break down the morrell here and cause panic in fact the media your hotel where i am actually called the swiss and now has been part of the information campaign there talking about airlift the mainstream media we happen to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release it was widely quoted one for national was chilled here two days ago when nato was intensely bombed if you need for a judge or and he didn't mention the doing infrastructure i want to as well they quoted at this point caution with the security misinformation if was not correct it would change later they have been doing and feeding the psychological war and that country. well later in the program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring is drag its bloody heels almost into the autumn syria the west is enough in pressure in the south for its crackdown against protesters but artie's correspondent there that many are happy to see the government stop the

demonstrations also still to come to. put flowers 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. thrills of some spectacular airborne stunts on the final day of the max international air show . so when that story come this hour but first the violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fire since thursday a mass 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 reportedly 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's as israel's been gripped by massive social protests for a month now and it's all of these paula slip 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 memory of the victims of violent demonstrations are happening not only here in front of it but also in jerusalem and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests anything happening of the past month the mood here is very from but people are very serious in terms of what the latest wave of violence is because now the protesters they say that they're not surprised by this before they took mine and many clingy that they've been expecting at one time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will be. gone there as an excuse to bring people to give up. young many of them. might people have very strong in that they are still going to beat.

mediocrity. living they're talking about it's a case in their talking about how they talking about. people here think not only do they want to be great. great prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and of course we've only rippin on the events there in the middle east and get a website where asking what the reasons be behind israel's possible offensive against gaza you can see there on screen that the majority believe that it will be designed to punish us and then there's an even split spectrum those who think it would be either an attempt to divert attention from the mystic problems that israel would try to prevent the creation of a palestinian state and you can see that the minority feels that israel is just protecting its population and that is not what you think express your point of view doughty. four years in jail

for a riot status on facebook purchase courts are coming down hard on the rioters who spread mayhem last week human rights groups are accusing charges of overreacting something ignored by prime minister david cameron who's determined to mend the country's broken society robert 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 and i worry is that it is an imbalance and 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 distribution territory and that actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the governments encourage courts to

dish out harsh sentences by using a 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 a 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 this is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless as 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 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 to society not feeling proud to work immunities 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 pace bookcase is the first sign of the government's desire to crack down on social media sites like twitter were applauded by the west the 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 causing violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and cheney britain called it to mock crissy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home. i mean you know the. poor. even thought we. thought it. was.

the prime minister says this is where britain fights back put it speeds these fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder i bet it's artsy london. and the news right video has been released showing masked men reportedly shooting at an armed policeman log on to watch the whole concert what's that video police said the incident took place during august the knife riots 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. strongest economies met in paris angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure euro zone members take more financial

responsibility they've also pledged to harmonize corporate taxes things economist and author william engdahl believes that the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability. 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 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 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. meeting of the need is more about image building than they say making when that's the view of international consultant and former militant and pay a lot of interest. and when biggest economies of the european monetary union get together it is all of course always meaningful if only not psychological level these meetings tend to draw the line of should the euro zone countries at last in general so we live it is said here is basically taken under any other countries they're not going after the ones that cost the crisis they're not going after the

ones that have the money that we lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the reason taxes on those people why not talking about it being social demands on these bailouts for the banks and merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with their popularity in the in the balls so i think it's also do with the image of building us are not so much richer finding a real solution and those whose very words send the global markets into a spin are under far themselves as the u.s. is investigating whether s. and p. has put it behind the two thousand and eight financial crisis report on growing doubts about the credibility of rating agencies that's in the next hour. this week pressures be 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 artie's riff or notional

reports from the front line while the west sees the government's action as oppression some in syria see it as liberation. job is done the city liberated there is or in lease of the country has become the last syrian city the army left after clearing off extremists have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks the military claimed. bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a city we were hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of. the 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 it 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 end. 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 can still bury a fragile transition suitable soria reforms will give forces to syria it will make the country stronger but syria's anime's don't want syria to be strong america for instance they are sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want reforms they need instability imperials across the country as long as possible and their pressure works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers

killed across the country and the army's continued crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the un to stop military operations and syrian people no longer know who to trust and what to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience written ocean 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 u.s. and its allies really want is really changing in syria and they're not really genuinely interested in ending the terrible situation. i mean tunnel between both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we've had president assad said he was going to use multi-party system in syria he said gratian. and what we consider the us a good that's a good move we get these coups for him to step down i'm a great part of the assad regime in those countries and i was really it's almost

it's friendly with iran russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove. the current regime there and syria would have more progress to live. and this week the trial of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak continued in egypt the judge ruled that the hearings will no longer be pool cost live on t.v. it was the second appearance in court for mubarak once again confined to a hospital bed but if he and his interior minister face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in factories uprising well that many see the trial as one of the results of the revolution others argue mubarak may be gone but the dictatorship is still very much there. are reports. to go out to vote yet although they did die for this country this war was just seventeen wanted to kill him on the toughest where a lot went to they were treated i don't know one of cairo central thoroughfares

there's even talk of naming a street name what makes someone and more fair and not there. in egypt right now or if the date of those gunned down rioting of arks resignation well it rated as a true balance with a rider here carol back country hill i think is our thing sometimes a great serious criminals who stop to undermine a country democratic thrives and it doesn't matter that they shared the same goals and they'd have these days so this is about our. and not be other way around this young man also accounted for himself among children operate revolution if his older brother he celebrated mubarak's departure from power or talking of taking it for the and to the police three months later he was killed in what his brother believes was a government sanctioned shoot out them in islam and on the snipers should my brother gave him the bullet went through the school he did and it came out on the inside and i saw it and no one here has

a weapon like this only soldiers are like families of victims whose that's now being pinned on the bar these people receive no monetary compensation for their laws in fact they're increasingly worried that the new military authorities may persecute them a studs if it came an hour on campus and term for those who don't appreciate the ruling military and i will say this about these we expected the army to intervene to protect people who just don't mind and spirit but instead he started to kill people. we didn't expect that and if. the supreme council of the armed forces served as an interim clearance acre when mubarak stepped down brought to power by the protest the generals nevertheless don't troll much like him for mass gatherings the cradle of the egyptian revolution is now cordoned off by riot police those protesting the use of public disturbance to military trials in the last seven

months there have been more people put on military trials than the number of people that were put on movie shows on the president of the. president of. president mubarak's regime individually of course there are thousands of cases that have been put. have been arrested and put on trial and sentenced within the span of two to five days sent horrible sentences starting from three years up to twenty five years it's currently or had still hasn't healed these activists believes he got off lightly from season counter going to police a month ago a son of the former presidential contender was jailed by the regime nor says the new authorities are just a brutal eight version of the all and it's extremely few live there is very little difference between the people who are ruling us no horse in world and that many of the crimes the hosting world are committed to his people are currently being

committed to us now by looking people who are really with the disguise of the revolution it is these bloody t. shirt as a reminder that the egyptian revolution is far from over the former president is now on trial for his role in the mass killings but the blood is still being spilled on the streets of cairo and a boycott artsy it's empty. and go to r.t. dot com for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it costs chicken a thing you've missed here on screen it's all online as well and here's a quick look at a couple of stories there for you the moment closer to completion some astronomers are warning the climate will hit the earth later this year we ask a researcher whether it's worth preparing for doomsday. or someone a moment a look back on how the course of the service 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 your thoughts on the. street still keeps its secrets but it's time to reveal the issues in the soviet files and. the spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft and pilots that's what shuttle for the final day of the max international air show under way in moscow the weather hasn't been performing very well though it's

raining at the moment but as artist has a similar reports it hasn't pulled off eager spectators. we're here at the last day of the two thousand and eleven airshow the rain is still pouring but so are the crowds you can see they're still here to see all the military aircraft you can see this massive massive helicopter just running through the. very very close to. see it a lot of very interesting being launched here we saw the t. fifty the first three ration stealth fighter. this is the first of its kind of parents we saw it fly the sky see what it can do that was very interesting one of the test pilots parchments off the board and said that it's for abilities great crazy stunts that old chaps couldn't do and also he said it's so safe so much so that it's safe what flies tails first i'm standing here at the u.s. air force display and right behind me this is the f. fifteen this is the same type of plane aerobatics uses in barrow display show here

at the back seat thousand and eleven we've seen some of them and you were pretty amazing and david this is the closest i could personally get. as a close as i can get. my call the we've managed to get inside one of the military planes with a russian air about sixty one let's have a look. engine. instrument. runway. and then it's take off for the russian display eighteen. first class pilots of two hundred times in the past. andre is training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first one 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 it was no longer an instructor with 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 them anew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing. for me but every boy we come up with stunts and then research them but it often turns i repeat been done before and this third 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 because they were the most smokers when you leave the cockpit and you can squeeze a gallon of swig from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely difficult and stressful and anyone with you'll go through it 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 meet as a part. of. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly black out. like faced but not the seat if i returned. to. keep. the. kid.

but i could also see some of the strains that go from. here there's no script and if you know he might be for the crowds a serial acrobatics armed to shoot at the pilots it's always a difficult job that there are terrorists. so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilots and some make. some bottomed out. and there'll be more from the back session i thought that they. come up twenty eight minutes past the hour now in the russian capital lobby but short of the summer of our main news stories this hour stay with us live here in moscow.

morning when the t.v. news moves my belly. ring while the streets of the come. on turning point in russia this. was a justified move forward. in the air since the battle for democracy. on our cheek.

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