this is our see these are the top stories reports of merge from libya tonight of fierce fighting in which to get air base in tripoli while gunfire as heard around the city itself as the country's leaders call for all parties to me go see it we'll bring you the latest this hour also suggestions of ceasefire egypt supportively managed to convince both garza and israel to lay down arms after days of heavy shelling. in top stories from us that shaped the week the crackdown against english why it has gained momentum with harsh sentences handed to those who played only minor parts of the chaos as human rights groups say judges and politicians have gone too far. and e.u.

leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors as fresh trouble over greece glance again threaten stability. live from moscow i'm kevin i when you're watching r t international it's ten pm here now and you are most welcome now our top story rebels have reportedly entered tripoli from the west as fighting in libya appears to be intensifying with some claims that hundreds have been killed over the weekend it's also believed that major clashes have taken place at the capital's mitiga air base let's go to dr franklin lamb from americans for middle east peace he's in tripoli and he told me the situation has become increasingly volatile. and. the top of this hotel which is twenty six. and you can see plumes of smoke at

a mystery about how. things can be on fire but. it's your mind hotel i don't know. i was out in tripoli. or nine units warning and when i came back whopping pirates were going through all of this i was just in the wrong i'm. there a suggestion a doctor was on the time how about. the people who are preparing here people are not going to run. the numbers. i think that tend to position been going to have various areas where they are directed we talked a little actually what negotiation i don't want to kill them brothers and sisters this is a national campaign using their. you know money coming. march probably

a little. bit far and it is clearly nato so. they need a copy of. this country. more from tripoli also spoke to lizzie failand she's there too she was on the phone with me just last hour she said that the rebels will meet fierce resistance in the city and the fear is that the police could become infiltrated by opportunistic terrorists. i think it probably is the most. so far i mean the next few days will be crucial. for your comments. he says in particular that for kerry and nearly every word in tripoli is. point to. the rebels so it's clear that these kids are probably going to see an easy time.

for them but you have a picture regime and within the next few days it will cease it seems like people if the. paper is recommending that people. read that you know you could say. really. before becoming clear what this group or libya i mean the what if. it's a great. impact has an intelligence. if. you think the west especially against the west and the forces that are on the ground like i think . i would be if they've actually leaping they horning nato to. pick. them up at the base so that they time i mean areas like tripoli. you feel immersed me me and ivan eland so we institute

the independent institute in washington indeed he told me he believes that much of the media has pandered to western interests in the way that they've been reporting the civil war. in the western media here particularly in the united states all the western countries the media story going to cheerleading you know. and the retreat is almost over so maybe the reports are exaggerated but certainly the western media as a whole for because no one likes gadhafi and certainly i'm not defending his human rights record but he was the leader of the country and it seemed like the western countries just took advantage of a rebellion to get rid of him of course they haven't really done that in the side in syria they've been very slow because israel doesn't necessarily want to get rid of him. because they're scared work what happened there but why isn't doesn't the same thing apply in libya what could happen there we don't know it's hard to say during war you get report one report on one thing and then it's contradicted by

another but i think the rebels think they have the advantage at this point and they're being helped by the nato. bombing and that sort of thing so i think they think they're almost ready to take tripoli and just let you know a little bit later in the program and i will bring you more about the troubles in the region one participant of egypt's revolution he says the fight for democratic form seems simply to have given birth to another military regime perhaps even more brutal than the previous one that just the. next the cross border violence is sort of the middle east this week with israel launching airstrikes in gaza which fought back with dozens of rocket attacks however latest reports tonight suggest that egypt has managed to broker a cease fire between the two sides which could come into effect within the next few hours the latest on this as opposed to all of these paula just now who's in jerusalem she's came across the latest for us. the reports we are receiving

indicate that hermetic officials say that cairo has broken the switch goes into evening we understand there tell of the of what his intent and about making any kind of agreement with the guards operatives and let the militants the put down fire first we also understand it will be the responsibility of him ask security personnel to enforce the cease fire not only this is good news but the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes it is between the two sides and will always survive the test of time this latest violence started on thursday in a three pronged attack there to lift eighty two a days did that it was founded almost immediately with rights and those airstrikes have been continuous since. there have been more than a thousand palestinians killed they have been more than its eighty grad and some rockets that have rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the these themes on the ground is they're both

sides are incredibly angry both sides are incredibly distrustful of the other and one of the sentiments being expressed karen israeli circles today is that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been preparing for a war with gaza for some time and every day what happened on tuesday was just perfect opportunity to carry out the assault that he seems to have ties in with the current domestic problems faced in israel this very weekend we saw the marches on the streets you have more people protesting about the way that. a lot of the government's domestic policy right now there is some cynicism isn't there about the timing of these. assaults across the weekend at the same time as they were demonstrating about the problems within israel and the city has some cynicism here in israeli circles when you talk to demonstrators they say that they're not surprised latest spate of violence many believe that netanyahu was just hoping for something like this to happen because he is a prime minister there is very strong. security issues are issues of what what is

called terrorism here in israel rather than on increasing socio economic internal problems so for more than a month now you've had tens of thousands of protestors in all the major cities in israel they marched again last night and was before these so there was a call for social justice they added a new slogan used today say a call for a cease fire now the protesters it has been speaking to are adamant that they will not let this latest spate of violence detract the netanyahu government from increasing if they're concerned they planned by the first weekend in september they'll head a million man march they believe they'll get a million israeli citizens in the streets so that's almost one sixth of the population here so this certainly is a lot of disgruntled israelis that are to domestic issues and if anything really key this latest spate of violence they say has made them even more determined to make sure that netanyahu and his government addresses big concerns. middle east correspondent there with the latest for you. britain where two young men have been

handed tough jail sentences for using facebook to encourage violent riots jail terms were praised by prime minister david cameron but slammed by human rights groups is over the top bennett has more on how the public see of their zero tolerance has taken hold of me ok. 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 and a four year sentence for example would normally be given to somebody for a christmas party harm for holding someone up with a knife or even for. some form of sexual assault so it seems to me that. there is a danger that the courts are moving into disproportionate territory and that

actually devalues our response to more serious crimes the government's encouraged cause 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 the lying 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 is just ten percent some offenders even being made homeless is their punishment with local governments taking away their houses but many say it'll simply cause more harm than good i think this is very unwise the move to remove people from housing interim of 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 puerto society not feeling part

of our communities then these measures are actually going to push it 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 and services when we know they are plotting violence disorder and criminality when social media fueled revolutions in egypt and she new britain called it democracy but now the shoe's on the other foot and troubles closer to home i'm very. new you know the.

country's. prime minister says this is where britain fights back but it's this fighting fire with fire could only fan the flames of civil disorder i've given it r.t. london. still ahead of the program with me kevin owen we bring you the knights of the sky as. 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 day's work for tommy brings all the thrills and so his play tackler stunts from the final day of the max international air show in moscow just come in. next the collective economic government that's the latest measure proposed by top e.u. leaders in a bid to whole market turmoil and reverse the stagnation across the continent but the latest ideas are found that will support among investors and say comes as too little and too late angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy rejected the idea of euro

bonds favored by the markets and seen by many as the best way as a motion from the debt crisis political analyst and author william angle of some to say about that he believes there is little real substance to these latest measures . i think the collective economic government american sarkozy you're 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 steve will 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 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 out of this crisis and then yet another blow to the eurozone the block second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece may be under threat after it was agreed to provide finland with collateral now in return for its contribution to the financial rescue package but that spot in the nation in one of the other fifteen donors some of which are now also demanding collateral to analysts however war that greece is incapable of handing out such guarantees the commission says it will now investigate but if the exact words are appropriate. while the world markets continue to tumble on bleak economic world news the blame

game is in full swing from bickering u.s. political parties to investors and credit rating agencies few major place of escape unscathed but is there a list of reports some may find themselves suffering for that but other. 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 on a hoss owned u.s. well it's dead 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 rein in the tea party downgrade a lot of it has to do with the fate of the prez united states i think this is a tea party problem the greater in chief says the u.s. recovery or. the government's still work response from the downgrade or that helped to ratchet up the 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 as simply as 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 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 and many of the big bankruptcy is a good investment. very edgy to give a aaa rating to be a 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 for paying the bill and i'm writing a big old version 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 in front of the financial reform restrictions on rating agencies on the rules that are yet to be written and they carry huge view about what those rules and up looking like it would 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 us in peak of a government debt or member of the government ran up that debt in part because it bailed out the big banks then 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 and which makes you wonder if the ratings agencies themselves deserve a downgrade lauren lyster r. t. washington d.c.

. this week the world witnessed the second appearance of former egyptian president hosni mubarak in court mubarak and his interior minister of corruption and ordering the killing of. rising monday's session was accompanied by clashes. the court building between pro and anti mubarak protesters who threw rocks at each other as he sits on a boy because some people who for a long time you're square for democratic reform you know feel trapped saying the interim manager rulers are no better than the old regime. to go to bold yet old enough to die for his country this war was just seventeen wanted to kill him on the tuckers where last winter they were trees are dunes one of the central thoroughfares there's even talk of naming his street in his name what makes someone and more it's here and in our very well in egypt right now if the date of those gone down prior to mubarak's resignation of celebrating this truth. with the rider

future of their country those killed i think is ousting sometimes a protest criminals who stop to undermine a country democratic strides it doesn't matter that they share the same goals and each of these days justice is about power and not the other way around this young man also counted from south among the children of the revolution older brother he celebrated mubarak's departure from power or to fear taking you to the and to the police state three months later he was killed and what his brother believes was a government sanctioned shoot out and is going to. shoot my brother did. it and it came out. i saw it and no one here has a weapon like this only soldiers. like families of victims whose deaths and 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. is became an open conversation term for those who don't appreciate the ruling military. and i guess we expected the army to. to protect people who just took mine and spray instead of police started to kill people themselves are by law would extend all of that because of this supreme council of the armed forces as an interim caretaker but mubarak stepped down brought to power by the protests the generals nevertheless don't show much like him from mass gatherings the cradle of the egyptian revolution is now cordoned off by riot police those protesting the use of public disturbance in sandton illiterate trials so in the last seven months there have been more people put on military trials than the number of people that were poor movie it was under president of the nurses the president of the solutrean

president mubarak's regime in the region of course there are thousands of cases that have been put have been arrested and put on trial and sentenced within the span of two to five days sent horrible sentences starting from three years up to twenty five years it's currently or had still hasn't healed these activists believes he got off lightly from season counter with the police a month ago the son of the former presidential contender who was jailed by the regime nor says the new authorities are just brutal it's version of the all or it's extremely few that there is very little difference between the people who are ruling us no symbol and that many of the crimes the 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 it is these bloody t.

shirt as a reminder that the egyptian revolution is far from over the former president is now on trial for his role in the mass killings but the body is still being spilled on the streets of cairo it's not a boycott artsy it's a. the international max air shows finally come by the worthing closed its goals are for the telling crowds in moscow all week tens of thousands of thrills his enjoyed six days of death defying aerobatics before by the best pilots the skies the world's top aircraft makers rolls are there to show off the latest designs but the highlight of one of these was the maiden public flight of russia's brand new fifth generation fighter jet the t fifty. and took a ride of his own to feel the full force of aerobatic adventure. engine check. instruments check. runway check and then it's takeoff of the 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 there's very without any warning they told me i was going to do the next flight on my own i had no time to be scared there was no longer any struct to my back it was unforgettable takeoff you're on your own controlling the plane then when you land you've done it. the as moves are always trying to hold them a new verse 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. or difficult with swear work when you leave a cockpit or you can squeeze a gallon of sweat from your suit your knees are shaking because it's extremely

difficult and stressful and anyone with fuel that way. so with that gut wrenching fare ringing in my ears 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 meters apart. but when it came to the fountain i nearly blacked out. white faced but not defeated i returned a. ticket. but

i could also see some of the strains that go through. the birds get the you know the might speak for the crowds who put the aerial acrobatics aren't to shoot at the pilots it's always a difficult job attached. so next time you look up at those speeding planes spirit thought for the pilots inside. tom bottom r.t. . just ahead in a few minutes time if out one your media lowers the hungry a clamping down on freedom of speech there i now we've got that story for you as a program is continue here on r t international from moscow it's coming over here this hour thanks for joining us this sunday evening the twenty first of august.

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