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. for the back of the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is our live in moscow reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the libyan capital of calls many to believe it's the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold the dr franklin lamb the director of americans for middle east peace who's currently in tripoli told us on the phone a short time ago that the city is quiet at the moment and he reports the rebels are making a move on the capital. i just got back from a two hour trip wandering all over tripoli and most of it there's no heavy fighting now there is a bombing every hour maybe

a little higher or an explosion but it's the rebels are not nato. troops and there were. firing at some of rebellion. but now it's very quiet and explained to the rebels here is not. going to make a move of nato is going to greenlight. and other. leaders you understand like it will be a part. and political analyst. who's also in tripoli says that some sporadic attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion that part of psychological warfare. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the more well your and cause and in fact the media year. actually it's called now has been part of this information campaign they're talking

about earlier the mainstream media would have to be involved i can tell you right now reuters put out a release that was widely quoted one point national was killed here few days ago when nato with. an 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. and feeding this psychological war against this country. later in the program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring has dragged its bloody heels almost into the autumn syria the west of the mounting pressure on president assad for his crackdown against protesters but. many are happy to see the government stop the demonstrations also still to come to. 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. thrills

of some spectacular stunts on the final day of the max international air show. so well that still to come this hour but first the violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fast since thursday 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 the 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's israel's been gripped by massive social protests for a month now. many protesters believe the esc. violence with gaza could be used to silence public discontent. thousands of people i'm option here in tel aviv hoping to handle the memory of the victims of crime and the demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in tucson and

a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests we've seen happening of the paf month the mood here is very somber people are very seriously affected 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 at the same time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the latest conflict gone to as an excuse to bring people to speak it's a good look around here people are young many of them out in the desert and what's to happen they would be caught up to go to the front and fight people who have very strong in the same thing they are still going to be demanding issues of social justice they really are protecting. the 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 great but they also want israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down the on scene television. and of

course we've only your opinion on the events that in the middle east you 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 would be designed to punish us then there's an even split spectrum 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 and you can see that the minority feels that israel is just protecting its population and that is not what you think your point if you don't see the. four years in jail for a riot. status on facebook british courts are coming down hard on the writers who spread mayhem last week human rights groups are accusing judges of overreacting something ignored by prime minister david cameron who's determined to mend the country's broken society either 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 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 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 the 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 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 remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes chris 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 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 are very conscious the news you know the. poor or. movement would be the force that could lead. the. country. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it speeds this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder after bennett's artsy london. and new rug video has been released showing masked

men reportedly shooting at unarmed policeman. consequence that video police said the incident took place during the august the ninth 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 and second analyst and author william bell believes that the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability. you think the collective economic government that mark on 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 i think above all with with russia that 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 there is no up to this crisis the meeting of the need is more about image building than decision making and that's the view of international consultant and former militant and a lot of the newest. and went to london biggest economies of the european monetary union get together that is of course always meaningful if only on up psychological level these meetings tend to draw the line of should the eurozone countries at last in general so whatever to decide there is now basically taken by the 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 as we lost in this crisis i mean why not talk about the raising taxes on those people why not talking about putting social demands on these bailouts for the banks merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems

with their popularity in the in the polls so i think it's also new with the image of building etc not so much rita finding a real solution. and those whose very words the global markets into a spin are under for themselves as the u.s. is investigating whether. the two thousand and eight financial crisis report on growing doubts about the credibility of ratings agencies that's in the next. this week pressures be mounting 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 should be given time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of the crackdown on regime protesters but as ots. reports from the front line while the west sees the government's action as oppression some one serious see it as liberation. job is done the city liberated in lease of the

country has become the last syrian city the army left after clearing our extremists have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks the military claimed. bandits blocked the rates put up barricades became. a hiding just like hostage and it's. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city. near the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over there the city has been freed from groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiter is between the 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 bush 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 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 a fragile transition to sort of a sort of 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 as long as possible and their pressure works for it all up 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 longer know who to trust and what to believe. with

a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience raef notion r.t. syria and journalist neil clark says the west is not really interested in peace in syria he thinks all it wants is to gain influence in the region. what u.s. and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really genuinely interested in ending the terrible situation and 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 has really as its foreign policy it's friendly with iran has good links with russia and the aim of the game is to try to remove assad from power and install another kind of regime in. syria that have more progress to align. 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 broadcast live on t.v. it was the second appearance in court for mubarak once again confined to a hospital bed but he and his interior minister face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters in factories on prising 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 that all he's excited boy could reports. so young to vote yet old enough to die for his country this boy was just seventeen when it tips and police killed him on the toughness where last winter today he's trying to adorn one of cairo central thoroughfares there's even a talk of naming a street in his name what makes someone a mortar and. well in the age of right now if the date of those gunned down prior to mubarak's resignation of celebrating this patriots who lives with

a brighter future of their country those killed after his ousting sometimes are free to ask criminals to undermine that country's democratic stripes and it doesn't matter that they share the same goals and they have these days just so this is about power and knowing the other way around this young man also account of himself among the children of the revolution with his older brother he celebrated mubarak's departure from power or to 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 and is going. to shoot my brother dead and a bullet went through his fool hit and it came out to the side and i saw it was no one here has a weapon like this only soldiers do like families of victims whose deaths are now being pinned on the bark these people receive no monetary compensation for their loss in fact they're in. recently worried that the new military authorities may

persecute them as thugs just became an own compassing term for those who don't appreciate the ruling military clique and as a source about this we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't mind answering but instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't expect that at all felt that it with the supreme council of the armed forces as an interim caretaker when mubarak stepped down brought to power by the protest the generals nevertheless don't show much liking for mass gatherings the cradle of the egyptian revolution is now cordoned off by riot police those protesting at least 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 military chose under president of the president of war so that strain president mubarak's regime individually of course there are thousands of cases that have been put. been

arrested and put on child and sentenced within the span of two to five days sent horrible sentences starting from three years up to twenty five years as current his forehead still hasn't healed but these activists believes he got off lightly from he's encountered the police a month ago the son of the former presidential contender who was jailed by the mubarak's regime nourse as the new authorities are just a brutalized version of the all and it's extremely clear that there is very little difference between the people who are ruling us now and hosting world that many of the crimes hosting were committed to his people are currently being committed. to us now by the people who are ruling with the disguise of the revolution he gives these bloody 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 broad is still being held on the streets of cairo on a boycott artsy. and don't come for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it plus the chicken i think you've missed here on screen it's all online news problem here's a quick look at a couple of stories there for you the moment closer to collision some astronomers are warning the climate will hit the earth later this year we'll ask a researcher whether it's worth preparing for doomsday. someone i'm going to look back on how the pools of the service took a major turn twenty years ago after an attempt to overthrow the reforming government was staged on the streets.

the. street still keeps secrets to reveal the soviet files. a spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some of the world's finest aircraft pilots that's what shuttle for the final day of the max international air show under way near moscow the weather hasn't been performing very well though it's raining there at the moment but. a silly report it hasn't put off eager spectators. we're here at the last day of the max two thousand and eleven air show 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. the copper just running through

the top right there very very close to the people who. see the a lot of very interesting aircraft being launched here we saw the t. fifty the first stuff this generation stealth fighter made by the russians now this is the first of its kind of hard hit so we saw it fly the sky see what it can do that was very interesting one of the test pilots actually talked to george and said that it's bill it is crazy that old just 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 that the aerobatics uses in there a display show here at the max two thousand and eleven we've seen some of them and they've done pretty amazing in data this is the closest i could personally get touching this plane that's a close as i can get my colleague. managed to get closer he went inside one of the

military planes with the russian air about sixty one let's have a look. engine. instrument. runway. and then take off for the russian display team. first class pilots of two hundred times in the past nineteen years. andre is training to join the team he thinks he's nearly good enough now but still remembers his first flight as a solo pilot because the peers there without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own for i had no time to be scared there was no longer an instructor going back it was unforgettable or of a 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 knew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones look at the form of the stanford or whatever the we come up with stone and then research them but it often turns are you peepin done before nested over 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 that even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy for her to put the most cynical 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 than the stressful and any will work 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 meet us apart. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned to. the. it basically it. but i could also see some of the streams that go for. the best route to get the newest you know the might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't to shoot at the pilots it's always a difficult job that terrorists go. so next time you look up at those speeding

planes spare a thought for the pilots and something. from bottom. and they'll be more from the back session i thought the day him on t.v. coming up to twenty eight minutes past the hour now in the russian capital i'll be back shortly with the summer of our main news stories this hour stay with us life here in moscow.

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one thirty pm sunday afternoon here in moscow good to have you with us top stories this heavy gunfire and explosions were heard in the libyan capital as rebels claim that an attack on tripoli with. approaching but some reports suggest the. government forces repelled the offense. such violence in the middle east with fears a deadly exchanges between israel and gaza. might lead to the jewish state launching a new ground attack meanwhile israelis protesting against social injustice say the government could use the conflict to divert attention from problems at home. and britain fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to those who only thought about taking part but are concerned the government's excessive response will simply fuel public because. he continues.