the european economy fails to live up to expectations as this week's meeting between french and german leaders from a further drop in and. with a look back at the past week's top stories and latest developments this is our team live from moscow reports of traits of bullets and explosions over the libyan capital have caused many to believe it's the beginning of the end for colonel gadhafi stronghold but dr franklin lamb the director of americans for middle east peace was kind of the in tripoli told us on the phone a short time ago the city is quiet now and any reports the rebels are making a move on the capital awful 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 every hour maybe

a little higher one explosion but it appears that the rebels are not nato bombs help that seems to be true and there were some i mean crap firing at some pockets of rebellion it say but now it's very quiet any claim that the rebels are here is nonsense it's going to make a move if nato is going to greenlight and if obama and other. leaders u.n. is kind of dreamlike it will be a question a lot of political analysts monday november who's also in tripoli says some sporadic attacks may actually be happening but in his opinion they are part of psychological warfare. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the moral here and cause and in fact the media here at the rixos hotel were. actually it's called the swiss and now has been part of the 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 foreign national was killed here few days ago when nato was intensely bombing civilian infrastructure and it didn't mention the city we need to structure i want to well they quoted this for 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. program we'll be looking at another country where the arab spring has dragged its bloody heels almost into the all to syria the west has been mounting pressure on president assad for his crackdown against protesters but. they're found 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 through my mind at the moment because i'm about to see what happens inside the

cockpit. of thrills of some spectacular airborne stunts on the final day of the lax international. violence has flared up again in the middle east with israel and gaza exchanging fire since thursday as it's called off and ceasefire with the jewish state to do 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 the rest in the west bank that says israel's been gripped by massive social protests for a month now and as. fall asleep or found out many protesters believe the escalation of violence with gaza could be used to silence public discontent. thousands of people are not seen here in tel aviv holding candles in memory of the victims of

mind then the demonstrations are happening not only here in tel aviv but also in jerusalem and a number of other major cities around israel in stark contrast to the protests we've seen happening of the possum and 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 will some time they believe that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government will use the latest conflict what's gone to as an excuse to bring people the people to look around to people are young many of them are in the midst of office and it was to happen they would be brought up to go to the front and fight people have grown very strong in the sense that 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 for the on scene television. and of course we value your opinion on the events in the middle east go to a website as heat or cold where we're asking what could the reasons be behind israel's possible offensive against gaza well so far the majority believe that would be an attempt to divert attention from domestic problems a third think israel would try to prevent the creation of a palestinian state twenty percent feel a new offensive would be a desire to punish hamas while the minority believes that israel is just protecting its population let us know what you think cast your votes. for years and. 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 is determined to

mend the country's broken society i have been to 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 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 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 charge so far two thirds have been remanded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes just 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 intern 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 participating 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 to

mobilize. 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 tunisia 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. poor or. movement we would be the force to complete. the. country we're trying to walk. 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 either bennett's artsy london. new ride video has been released showing

masked men reportedly shooting at unarmed policemen log onto r.t. dot com to washington police said the incident took place during the august the ninth riots in the city of birmingham with more than ten by. this week saw another attempt in europe to try to stop the deepening debt crisis has 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 a more financial responsibility and also pledge to harmonize corporate taxes and political analyst on offer as william and all believe the proposed measures just create an illusion of stability for us and i think the collective economic

government that american sarkozy you. 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 the meeting of e.u. need as was more about him is building then decision making that's the view of international consultant and former belgian m.p. nor divina last. and went to into the biggest economies of the european monetary union get together that is of course always meaningful if only on the psychological level these meetings tend to draw the line of should be the euro zone countries at last in general so whatever to decide there is 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 the people why not too are talking about putting

social demands on these bailouts for banks merkel and sarkozy are facing huge problems with their popularity in the in the thoughts so i think it's also do with the image of building a not so much richer finding a real solution those whose very words the global markets into a spin under fire themselves as the u.s. is investigating whether s. and p. is partly behind the two thousand and eight. we report on growing doubts about the credibility of ratings agencies that in the next hour. this week pressure has been mounting again on the syrian leader bashar al assad u.s. and european leaders called for him to step down or russia refused to support this motion saying that a sad should be given time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of a crackdown on anti regime protesters but as artie's money from national reports from the front line on the west sees the government's action as oppression some in

syria see it as liberation. job is done the city liberated there is all in lease of the country has become the last syrian city in left after clearing all extremists struck have been terrorizing its citizens for weeks the military claimed . bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a case of the 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 waiters patois 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 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 that 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 transitional. reforms will give sister syria it will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want they need instability in the country as long as possible and their pressure work stories 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 u.n. to stop military operations the syrian people no longer know who. trast and learn

to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the on themselves with patience raef notion r t syria. journalist neo clarke says the west is not really interested in peace and syria he thinks all it wants is to gain influence in the region. what the u.s. and its allies really want is regime change in syria and they're not really genuinely interested in ending the terrible situation. between both sides and that's the reason it's happening today because we've had present sad said that he was going to introduce a multi-party system in syria he said gratian so against the opposition. and what do we get instead of us saying well that's good that's a good move we get these coups for him to step down and the great crime of the assad regime in those countries are really is it's foreign policy it's friending with iran he 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 would have more progress to line

. this week the trial of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak continued in egypt the judge ruled that the hearings will no longer be broadcast live on television it was the second appearance in court for mubarak once again confined to a hospital bed in his in that area minister to face charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters and the reason uprising many see the trial as one of the results of the revolution. mubarak may be gone but the dictatorship is still very much that it was. so young to vote yet old enough to die for his country this war was just seventeen when it tips and police killed him on that tough place where last winter today his portraits adorns one of cairo central thoroughfares there's even a talk of naming a street in his name what makes someone

a more fair and. well in the egypt right now if the date of those gunned down prior to mubarak's resignation f.l. liberated airspace gave out that live with a brighter future of their country those killed after his ousting sometimes afraid to ask criminals to stop to undermine their country's democratic strife if the. doesn't matter that they shared the same goals and they'd have these days just this is about power and not the other way around this young man also counted himself among the children of the revolution if his older brother he celebrated mubarak's departure from power or to take the need for the and to the police state three months later he was killed in what his brother believes was a government sanctioned shoot out the main islam and on the sniper showed my brother dead the bullet went through his will hit and it came out on the side and i saw it was no one here has a weapon like this only soldiers. like sam least of victims whose deaths are now

being pinned on mubarak these people receive no monetary compensation for their loss in fact they're increasingly worried that the new military authorities may persecute them studs became an own compassing term for those who don't appreciate the ruling military clique and as. 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 if 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 accused 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 under

president of the. president of war so that's really 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 as current his forehead still hasn't healed but these activists believes he got off lightly from season counter in the middle east a month ago it was for a son of a former presidential contender who was jailed by the mubarak's regime nor says the new authorities are just a brute like the version of they all are it's extremely clear that there is very little difference between the people who are ruling us now hosting the world and that many of the crimes hosting world are 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 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 body is still being held on the streets of cairo on a boycott artsy. those who aren't see dot com for the news you want to watch when you want to watch it plus check anything you've missed on ads online there as well here's a quick look at a couple of stories there for you close to collision some astronomers are winning and comments will hit the late this year we ask a researcher whether it's worth preparing for doomsday. and a look back on how the course of the soviet union took a major turn twenty years ago after an attempts are over for the reforming government was staged on the streets of boston.

if. you want to order. this street still keeps secrets but now it's time to reveal the shooting of the soviet files on. now a spectacular show of death defying aerobatics performed by some the world's most finest air craft and pilots that's what settled for the final day of the max international asho under way near moscow the weather however hasn't been performing

very well it's raining there just now but as. reports it hasn't put off spectators . where 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 there are still here to see all the military aircraft. helicopters just running through. very very close to the people who. see the a lot of very interesting aircraft being launched here we saw the fifty first generation stealth fighter made by the russians now this is the first of its kind of pattern so we saw it fly the sky see what it can do that was very interesting one of the test pilots actually talked to war and he said that it's maneuverability is great. that old jazz couldn't do and also he said it's so safe so much so that it's a. tails first i'm standing here at the u.s.

air force display and right behind me this is the f. fifteen now this is the same type of plane that they aerobatics uses in there a display show here at the max two thousand and eleven we've seen some of the maneuver pretty amazing indeed and this is the closest i could personally touching this plane that's a close as i can get my call. to get closer he went inside one of the military planes with the russian air about sixty one let's have a look. engine. instruments. runway. and then take off for the russian display team. the 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 to benefit the peers there without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own for what i had no time to be scared there was no longer an instructor who wanted back it was unforgettable or of a takeoff you on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it. yes moves are always trying to hold them i knew this they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing. the form of a stamp or do it cover them that we come up next on and then research them but it's often it turns are you peeping tom before mr dove or russian came up with the loop and all the other stunts are based on the loop. however it always comes down to time and. even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy because difficult with smoking when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit with your knees are shaking because it's extremely different than the stress and any will it will go through. so with that gut

wrenching fare ringing in the mine 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 me to supplant. it. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned to. the. k. a k k k k k k

it. but i could also see some of the streams go to. those newsgroups but just you know she might speak for the crowds but serial acrobats are also aren't social to the pilots it's always a difficult all that terrorists could do so next time you come speeding planes spirit full on the sea. from boats on. the coast there will be more from the max airshow froude the day hero and see all be back shortly with a summary for main news stories this hour to stay. on

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three here in the afternoon. of the stories that shape this week. heavy gunfire and explosions are heard in the. rebels claim they launched an attack on tripoli with colonel gadhafi is fast approaching but some reports suggest the loud bangs. forces repelled the. violence in the middle east with fears of the deadly exchange of fire between israel and gaza might lead to the jewish state launching a new ground attack. protesting against social injustice say the government could use the conflict to divert attention from problems. and fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to those who only take. the government's success .