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 of also been reports of sporadic violence within tripoli itself but many people on the ground there say the situation is much calmer than those reports suggest lizzi feel and there's an independent journalist in tripoli who says that false accounts of what's happening have served only to stir up the conflict. we've been hearing from the rebels and from nato that nato allies the sense of the rebels a day a week or very close to tripoli we've been hearing this for the past five months so the people of tripoli have essentially got used to these claims and don't treat them very seriously we've been hearing that zawiya is under control that breaker is in country kinds of control but the reality is that what is happening in these areas is that they are coming under intense nato bombardment and leaving the libyan

army and the volunteers essentially 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 with seem to have been quite rapidly of dealt with why by the people here by the 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 rebels but the issue creates 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 in 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 that intelligence proved that there were no such attacks. 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 misrata and other places that was also proved to be a lie by human rights organization. we've had the lie that there was an imminent must about to take place in benghazi and also that was the thousands that have been killed by the libyan government in benghazi but 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 that was of course the claims in the international media that somehow the civilians that's the massacre that took place in the town wasn't quite on the scale that the libyan people and government was paying and i went to the found myself i

went to the burial i saw all 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 on the ground today because thus far they have been 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. told the syrian army in the speech your head as near 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 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 the exchanges have already claimed the lives of around thirty people from both sides i spoke to are to pull the city who's keeping across developments in tel aviv. there are now a new round of a strikes and rocket attacks 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 to be any damaged at the same time we're talking here some one hundred and seventy markets that has rained down on southern israel since this mine and this began on tuesday now it is increasingly looking likely that these are the only might be considering a ground offensive into gaza and this comes amid a number of israelis one of the intense points of such an operation to take place early today sunday israel resumed its 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 it says that israel needs to stop its aggression on both egypt and gaza and soil and at the same time a court on the united nations to intervene all israel's also been gripped by massive protests over domestic problems for months now what are people that think about this escalating tension. well the social protest has now been ongoing for more than a month and by and 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 kind of violence as an excuse as a detraction away from actually addressing a very real concerns with me i has adam can se is a spokesperson from the movement had been the most recent protest last night saturday seemed to see demonstrators with a new slogan now in light of the latest conflict yours is. always the old slogan

the vehicle on social justice they will thing the people want to see is for you is this representative of most israelis would most israeli supporters cease fire the moment when this is clearly goes into effect everybody would be very. the problem with what was said. mainstream columnist to the interviewer to her not that there is a kind of macho question who will have the last word who will shoot the first short the last shot which is completely unimportant as a politically or militarily but it is a question of the issue and that causes more people to the forces for the chief. one time the issue here for the last month has been issues of social security and social issues all of a sudden that agenda seems to be changed to terrorism and security do you think that the netanyahu government is using this as an opportunity to detract from issues at home so certainly no question that netanyahu is using it and

certainly the people who made this attack in there give give it to him on the social is a silver platter. but i don't think that this social put this is going to disappear because there is a very very much feeling of bitterness hopelessness and the always been living very much most of our free market capitalist economy and for many years that was on children seem to know it is very much. a i think this will not go away what will happen in the outside for example and of course another sentiment that's being expressed here in israel is that the country quick to respond to these attacks with something here and a move with 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 sentences for their facebook posts which called on others to write

it's none of the messages actually lead senate trouble and the man said they did 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 in our 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 which is 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 saying that some of the crime that we saw on the streets was an expression of people not feeling porter 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 to mobilize the. 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. you know the. poor or. movement we would be the force to complete. 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 london. 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 printed name. a collective in 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 idea is

a 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. crisis. political analyst and author william and dol believes there's little real substance to the latest. i think 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 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 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 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. and yet another blow to the euro zone the bloke's 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 collateral analysts so i will warn that 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 the blame game is still in swing from bickering u.s. political parties to investors and credit rating agencies few major players have escaped unscathed but as a tease laura mr reports some may find themselves suffering from more fallout than all those breaking news the united states has just lost its top notch triple a credit rating from it was the downgrade heard around the world in a strong reaction to the rating downgrade quoted us for its debt standard and poor's took the u.s. from straight aaa student to one notch below for the first time ever bad marks were handed down for the nation's debt and politicians inability to agree on reigning it in the tea party downgrade in a lot of it has to do with the failure of the president a stage i think this is

a tea party for the greater in chief says the u.s. is becoming a bit more unpredictable in terms of the conduct proposed to roll through the governments that we still work response from the downgrade or that helped ratchet up that the yeah tricks of the debt ceiling debate with the help of the other ratings agencies of course stealing the show from bickering politicians with their eyes on the debt deal they may be missing really a larger concern because there is growing evidence today that the u.s. credit score is going to get hit now that the u.s. has gotten hit just how much does s. and p's mark actually. count well not much according to some like investor jim rogers but it's not because the country isn't broke america is going down the tubes where the largest debtor nation in the history of the world it's because of the source these late rating agencies have been wrong about nearly everything for the past ten or fifteen years don't pay any attention to them so just how does the

report card stack up for the major ratings agencies themselves they are s.n.p. moody's and fitch let's assess test one the mortgage crisis of two thousand and eight these are the same agencies that rated the toxic sub prime debt aaa so i mean how do we take them with any level of credibility after that. well let's see if they get any from tess to the too big to fail banks and insurers during the financial crisis they missed many of the big bankruptcies they gave high investment grade ratings to lehman to bear stearns right to the very end g. they gave a aaa rating to toll almost the day it collapsed good grades for firms that collapsed or were bailed out because of bad debt in fact the financial crisis inquiry commission said the three credit ratings agencies were key enablers of the financial meltdown and this brings us to test three ethics ratings agencies are paid by the investment firms they grade and moody's and s. and p. are publicly traded which means they may be more driven to increase profits for

shareholders raising this debate right now you have the companies that are being judged paying the bill and they could like i'm around in a big berkshire the mr buffett also pointed out the market requires it because these ratings agencies has been around forever so they're in shrine by government regulations which oh yeah they have a stake in test for objectivity frank legislation the financial reform has restrictions on rating agencies and the rules that are yet to be written and they carry huge deal about what those rules end up looking like saw it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with politicians in fact. they've spent a combined total of one point seven six million dollars this year lobbying washington over the regulations which brings us full circle to the downgrade of u.s. credit the u.s. was downgraded by s. and p. because of government debt burden member 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 remember the one saddled with all of those bad

mortgage bonds which the ratings agencies graded triple a when in reality they were a d. or and which 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 will present 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 regime protesters but. reports well the west sees the government's action as a prussian some and 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 off extremists that have been terrorizing his citizens for weeks the military claimed. bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it

became a case of hiding just like hostages. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of there as though 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 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 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 forces to syria it will maybe country stronger but syria's enemies don't want syria to be strong america for instance they're sick and tired of a strong syria and they want to weaken it they don't want reforms they need instability and chaos across the country is only supportable and they're pressure works for it with contradictory reports about policemen and security officers killed across the country and the army is continuing crackdown on protesters despite president assad's pledges to the u.n. to stop military operations the syrian people no longer know who. trast and want to believe. with a country at the crossroad again the arm themselves with patience. r.t. syria. the world of football is abuzz with news of a new dream team possibly gathering on russian soil that. russia's republic of

dagestan are expected to sign the superstar striker samuel eto from the italian side into midland medina caution of a has more on the deal that could well prove historic for russian football. the transfer of the interim millon striker has taken some time but according to the latest reports some of atto has said goodbye to his italian teammates and is sad to join jim a pledge to law football club become or an international will undergo medical examination within the next two days and will sign a contract with the dentist on the football club on monday and the end will pay over sixty million euros for three years of 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 druggist on the football club housemate had lines only crossed

the world by buying 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 men in russia so the monkey muff who is spending millions of euros in a bid to make the russian football club known across the world the team has already legendary brazilian above the cardless and holes has already signed a contract where the brazilians the city many say it's like russian tycoon so are not only spending money on the development of the western world like it was done earlier but i'm on them but i'm on beach when he bought chelsea but also the signing of alto will bring us the degen 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 much more besides here are some other stories that have been catching your eye. and the way

to beat a rush hour mystery surrounds a video posted on the internet of a russian driver apparently being able to use a remote control to change traffic lights. plus bearing fruit a giant tomato has helped win a siberian farm a car pulled out on our two t.v. dog gone or party don't call. the international max show has finally come back down to earth and close its doors after entertaining crowds near moscow all week tens of thousands of thrilled spectators have enjoyed six days of death defying aerobatics performed by the best pilots high in the scully's world's top aircraft makers were also there to share

their latest designer however the highlight was made in public flight russia's brand new fifth generation fighter jet the team fifty auntie's tom barton took a ride of his own to feel the full force of aerobatic convention. engine check. instruments check runway check and then it's take off for the russian aerobatic display team. there nine first class pilots have performed over two hundred times in the past nineteen years but they all had 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 going to the piers live without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own trip and i had no time to be scared there was no longer any stronger tonight 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 the knew this 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 because difficult so when look at it when you leave the cockpit you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit look at your knees are shaking because it's extremely different than the stretching and any will in all across america 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. base. but i could also see some of the strains that go through. no there is no ticket but just you know the might be for the crowds but serial acrobatics aren't a show to the pilots it's always a difficult job that attests. so next time you look up at those speeding planes spare a thought for the pilots in some way. from bottom take. twenty eight minutes past

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six in the evening here in moscow with the headline. rebels say they're advancing towards tripoli but the libyan leadership dismisses the scale of their threats and all parties to negotiate. violence lowballs in the middle east for the fourth day amid fears exchanges of fire between hamas and israel mainly ground offensive in gaza meanwhile the arab league blames israel for fueling attention. the crackdown against english rises gave momentum with sentences handed to those who play. human rights groups say judges and politicians have gone too far. and the e.u. leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors and markets fresh trouble over greece one.