rebels say they're advancing towards tripoli but the libyan leadership dismisses the scale of their frets and calls for all parties to negotiate. the island snowballs in the middle east for the fourth day amid fears exchanges of fire between hamas and israel may lead to a ground offensive in gaza meanwhile the arab league blames israel for fueling the tension. and other stories that shaped the past week of a crackdown against english writers gains momentum with harsh sentences handed to those who played only minor parts in the chaos has human rights groups say judges and politicians have brought. and e.u. leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors and for the

markets as fresh trouble over greece once again threatens the bit. with a look back at the past week's top stories and latest developments this is r.t. live in moscow it's good to have your company libyan rebels say they're pushing on towards tripoli and claim they're now around thirty kilometers away from the capital and i've also been reports of sporadic violence within tripoli itself but many people on the ground there say the situation is much calmer and those reports suggest. it is an independent journalist in tripoli who says that force accounts of what's happening have certainly to stir up the conflict. we've been hearing from rebels from nato that nato allies essentially the rebels. a day a week or very close to tripoli we've been hearing this for the past five months so

that people are certainly have essentially got used to these claims and treat them very seriously we've been hearing that zawiya is under control that breaker is in country under control but the reality is that what is happening you need these areas is that they're coming under intense nato bombardment and leaving the libyan army and the volunteers their sense of the tribes and people in libya to move out of the area temporarily while the airstrikes are taking place last night there was some incidents in parts of tripoli which were seem to have been quite rapidly of dealt with why by the people here by libyan government people started to come out into the streets to rally in support of their lead to essentially and then after that there were a few more incidents it appears as though there have been a few snipers from the rebels shooting from buildings i'm talking about a very small number of rebels but the issue creates a mass panic and it's very difficult to deal with because of the threats of hurting

civilians has obviously failed in its military strategy and to create a military solution here so instead what we're seeing is a massive psychological operation going on to try and weaken the government of the libyan government in that way the beginning of the crisis and continuously the international media the western media al-jazeera in particular has been responsible for a number of really grave lies of course there was the lie that gadhafi was attacking his own people which thanks to the satellites of russian its intelligence proved that there were no such attacks as we had the lie that the libyan government was hiring mercenaries from african countries that has led to the mass lynching of black people in areas like benghazi and his right and other places that was also proved to be alive by human rights organization. we've had a lie that there was an imminent massacre to take place in benghazi and also there was thousands that have been killed by ability and government in benghazi we have yet to see the mass graves we have yet to see the footage we have yet to see the

evidence of this most recently there was of course the claims in the international media that somehow the civilian that's the massacre that took place in and wasn't quite on the scale that the libyan people and government was trained and i went down myself i went to the burial i saw the evidence of the massacre of children and other civilians so it's quite understandable that a few journalists here may be receiving receiving the pleas of the libyan government to just do their job essentially and report what is happening underground to because they have to they have proven incapable of doing so they are largely responsible for the crisis in this country and there's more in the violence elsewhere in the region just ahead as well to use money financial reports on the latest from syria. the syrian army. the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now the city has been freed

from groups as you can see here welcoming the soldiers as the leaders. cross border violence as sort of the middle east this week with israel launching airstrikes in gaza with dozens of rocket attacks the arab league has condemned the israeli assaults and calls for the u.n. to take action this tit for tat exchanges have already claimed the lives of around thirty people from both sides and i spoke to our to the city who's cross about an interlude. there are now a new round of a strikes and rocket attack since last night saturday some nine rockets have been fired into southern israel one man was killed one woman was critically injured and a number of buildings had been severely damaged at the same time we're talking here some one hundred seventy rockets that have rained down on southern israel since the sign and this began on tuesday now it is increasingly looking likely that the israeli army might be considering a ground offensive into gaza and this comes amid

a number of israelis part of intense calling for such an operation to take place early today sunday israel resumed a strike the hamas leadership is calling on the international community to condemn israel and this is a sentiment that was echoed at the arab league meeting that was held here today in cairo that meeting issued a statement in which he says that israel needs to stop its aggression on both egypt and gaza and soil and at the same time record on the united nations to intervene all israel's also been gripped by massive protests over the message problems for months now all the people that think about this this collating the sense of. well the social protest has now been ongoing for more than a month and i mean large people are insisting that they will remain with their demands high on the agenda but of course there is growing concern that the netanyahu government might use this current violence as an excuse as a detraction away from actually a great thing they've been real concerns with me i has had and can execute

a spokesperson from the shed on movement and in the most recent protests last night saturday seemed to see demonstrators with a new slogan now in light of the latest conflict years in the good always the old slogan the vehicle on social justice they will also think that people want to see is for you it was representative of most israelis what most israeli supporters ceasefire at the moment when this is who goes into effect everybody would be very. the problem what was this. bill you mean mainstream columnist for the interviewer for not. much of a question we live the last word on the first short of the last short which is completely unimportant the politically or militarily but it is a question of position that causes more people forces for. one time and the issue here in the last month has been issues of social security

and social issues one of the said aneta game that seems to have changed to terrorism and security do you think that the netanyahu government is using this as an opportunity to get traction on issues at home so certainly no question that netanyahu use using it in certainly that people may disappear in a give give it to him on a social. but i don't think the. social purpose is going to disappear because there is a very very much feeling of bitterness. and it's always been living very much most of all because of the free markets capitalistic economy has been for many children feel good lisa so if you know we could very much. i think this will not go away. for the palestinians and of course they have a sentiment that's being expressed here and has money that you can't quick to respond back with something tasty yeah. cancer is something that's been on the

cards for some time it will keep the price of management. to britain now where two young men have been handed a tough jail sentence for their facebook posts which called on others to write none of the messages actually lead any trouble and the men said they'd been meant as a joke the jail terms of sparked a wave of public condemnation accusing judges of overreacting a better story. 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 ortley harm for holding someone up with

a knife or even for. some from sexual assault so it seems to me that that there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory not actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the 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 of denying bail to most offenders and ignoring any claims of previous good character of the one thousand two hundred seventy seven people charged so far two thirds are being reminded in custody that's way up on last year's rate for serious crimes which is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless as 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 saying that some of the crime that we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling part to society not feeling part of our communities and these measures are actually going to push it further away from society further away from our communities and far more likely to commit crime for 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 britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot when troubles closer to home i'm very. i mean you know the.

only would be the force the. country. the prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's the east fighting fire with fire that only fanned the flames of civil disorder after bennett's. blunder. you know with our team still ahead the knights of the sky. 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 frills and some spectacular stands from the final day of the max international air show. and the football transfer that's set to break all records find out who's expected to become the world's highest paid player by moving to

a big spending team in russia's brilliantly. recollect they were given the economic government that's the latest measure proposed by top e.u. leaders in their bid to hold market turmoil and reverse the stagnation across the continent but the latest ideas are found little support among investors who say it's come as too late and too little angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy rejected the idea of euro bonds favored by the markets seen by many as the best way out of the and destroy says political analyst and author william and ali believes there's little real substance to the latest next. i think the collective economic government that america and 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 powers so it's simply a similar that's being 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 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 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 and only austerity and there is no out of this crisis. yet another blow to the euro zone the block second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece may be under threat athens

as agreed to provide finland with collateral in return for its contribution to the financial rescue package but it sparked indignation among the other fifteen donors some of which are now also demanding collection analysts however warn their greece is incapable of handing out such guarantees that you commission says it will now investigate whether finance actions were appropriate. while world markets are tumbling on bleak economic news worldwide a blame game and still in full swing for bickering u.s. political parties to investors and credit rating agencies few major players have escaped unscathed but as artie's lauren lyster reports sun they find themselves suffering from more fallout than others. breaking news the united states has just lost its top notch triple a credit rating from it was the downgrade heard around the world in a strong reaction to the rating downgrades on a hoss owned u.s. well it's the standard and poor's took the u.s.

from straight aaa student to one not a low for the first time ever bad marks were handed down for the nation's debt and politicians inability to agree on rein it in a tea party downgrade a lot of it has to do with the fate of the president and i think this is it's important for the greater in chief says the u.s. and recovery a bit more on. a still work response from the downgrade or that helped ratchet up 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 ne been 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 growing america's going down the

tubes we're the largest debtor nation in the history of the world it's because of the source these low 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. right to the very end they gave a aaa rating to. the last 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 to me right now you have the companies that are are being judged are paying the bill and i'd like. 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 carry huge clue about what those rules and what. would surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with alterations in fact they spent a combined total of one point seven six million dollars this year lobbying

washington over the regulations which brings us full circle to the downgrade of u.s. credit the u.s. was downgraded by s. and p. because of government debt burden where the government ran up that debt in part because it bailed out the big banks and a.i.g. back in two thousand and eight 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 ad makes you wonder if the ratings agencies themselves deserve a downgrade lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . syrian state media have condemned u.s. and european calls for president assad to step down saying the move is part of a conspiracy russia has also refused to back the calls saying assad should be given more time to implement promised reforms this comes in the wake of a crackdown on anti regime protesters but as artie's many international reports well the west sees the government's action as oppression some and serious see it as liberation. job is done the city liberated there is zero in lease of the

country has become the last syrian city and left after clearing off extremists to have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks the military claimed. bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a case for hiding we were just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army living in the city of the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over that the city has been freed from groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters and tanks have been trying to make their way through jubilant crowds thousands of kilometers away in the white house a decision has already matured president bashar al assad is the one who's terrorizing the syrian people and that should and the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way not everybody has

agreed though moscow has insisted that assad should be given time to 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 and will make the country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance they're sick and lloyd 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 will 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 to trust and want

to believe. with a country at the crossroads again he and him selves with patience refinish r.t. syria. the world of football is abuzz with news of a new dream team possibly gathering on russian soil that's critical of the russia's republic of dagestan are expected to sign the superstar striker samuel eto from the italian side internet land. caution of a has more on the deal that could well prove historic for russian. the transfer of the interim millon striker has taken some time but according to the latest reports sam has some good going to his italian teammates and is sad to join. football club as the comer in international will undergo medical examination within the next two days and will sign a contract with the douglas county football club on monday and the and. pay over sixty million euros for three years off the contract to the camera international

and this move will make of this player the most highly paid for good player in the world in the space of a few months of the stanley football club has made headlines only across the world by following leading international football players and this happened after the dagestani football club was bought by the locally born a businessman and also one of the richest man in russia saleman kitty muff who is spending millions of euros in a bid to make of the russian football club known across the world the team has already legendary brazilian above the carlos and holds has already signed a contract where this is the year this bid of many say it's like russian tycoon star not only spending money on the development of the last rink with girls clubs like it was done earlier by roman abramovich when he bought chelsea but also the signing of out so will bring a good study football club on to

a new level of development in the international world of football. if you missed any of our stories on there you can also find them at our website with more besides there are some other stories that have been catching your eye. and handy way to beat a rush hour mystery surrounds a video posted on the internet about rushing a driver apparently be able to use the remote control to change traffic lights. plus bearing fruit giant tomato has helped him win a siberian farmer car all that on r t t v dot com or parts we don't call. the international max air show has finally come back down to earth and closes doors

after entertaining crowds near moscow all week tens of thousands of thrilled spectators have been joy six days of death defying aerobatics performed by the best pilots high in the skies world's top aircraft makers were also there to show the signs however the highlight was made in public like russia's brand new fifth generation fighter jet the team fifty things tom barton took a ride of his own to feel the full force of arab as a convention. for engine check. instruments check runway check and then it's take up with a russian aerobatic display team. their nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all have to start somewhere. 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 committed to the result 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 any strong one night 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 anew that they practiced most weekends thinking of new tricks and practicing old ones however even with years of flying and training experience between them it never becomes easy referred to for the most slow look at when you leave the cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit more to their knees are shaking because it's extremely different on the strip and any will across america who so with that gut wrenching fear ringing in my ears i was told it was mine the crowds on the ground this is an exciting spectacle but that's not quite the emotion that's going through

my mind at the moment because i'm about to see what happens from inside the cockpit . we did the loop the loop all the planes just meters apart. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned to. k. k. k. k. k. but i could also see some of the strains that go through. no there's no script but just you know he might speak for the crowds but eerie like robotics aren't to shoot

at the pilots it's always a difficult job at the tastes. so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilots inside. some bottom on take. twenty eight minutes past the hour here in moscow is plenty still ahead including the sports and around fifteen minutes we'll all be back with a recap of our top stories in just. the .

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