central moscow moscow's regional k.g.b. headquarters. early morning of august the nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one . this is the officer and. the events of the day the could have reversed the country's history. it was an attempt to depose president mikhail gorbachev put his reforms on hold. tanks and other hardware being moved into moscow. the city's key points have been taken over. the. borders the nineteenth nine hundred ninety one monday early in the morning teacher tatiana yakovlev her switched her t.v. on and sort of following picture instead of the usual programming every channel was broadcasting tchaikovsky's famous ballet. the thought of which i turned the t.v. on to check the latest news and i was so surprised to see swan lake everywhere i was switching the t.v. channels for a long time thinking maybe there was something wrong with my t.v. set. at the same time as the ballot will cast more than seven hundred tanks and on the personnel carriers were being stationed in the streets the plotters were in the criminal. meanwhi

moscow, with the future of the world at stake. as the moscow correspondent, i witnessed it first hand. it was here exactly 20 years ago in central moscow that the leaders made their move. when the orders of the vice president, the kgb chief and others, tanks rolled down the central thoroughfare towards the kremlin. the coup leaders said it gorbachev was too sick to rule and there were taking over power. it looked like a classic soviet military crackdown, to roll back the reforms and reimpose hard- line control over the whole country. gorbachev was on holiday by the black sea. when he refused to join the plotters, he was under house arrest. >> they surrounded us with cars down by the seashore and everywhere. at the entrance, they parked cars and nobody could drive past. >> in moscow, crowds flocked to protect the fledgling democracy. the coup leaders panicked and their plot crumbled. in the aftermath, the soviet union soon collapsed and swept gorbachev from office. today in berlin, gorbachev is greeted as a hero in helping end the cold war and bringing down the berlin wall, but his concern now is russia's current prime minister, vladimi

central moscow. sounds of jet engines have been rolling around moscow over the past few days with flying machines tearing up the skies r.t. is the max international air show and we'll bring you all the highlights throughout the weekend. aerobatics team such as the russian knights and the swiss with their gravity defying stunts among the favorites the russian fifth generation stealth fighter the team fifty that enjoyed its international debut is also among the must see jets at the show. during the event of already surpassed the previous max record of ten billion dollars on the shopping list for airlines established offerings from the likes of their boss but also tempting some to put pen to paper a double delight for russia the new m s twenty one mid-range airliner and super j r t you got this kind of tested one of them for comfort. only uprooted time just a year ago whose superjet is now officially in business over two hundred orders already bought from airlines in russia and from abroad now we have an. image that can be company called out of asking for major so we are now more comfortable and more let's

have your company this thursday afternoon here in central moscow i mean this is sports day plenty ahead including. continental quest sports like moscow. real women all the luck of spearhead persist drive through with europa league football later on for years. off the market force alone a new voice pick off the first trophy off the spanish football season beating their fiercest rivals real madrid in a five goals. a net loss nick fresh is utterly from a second straight masters event this time and since in the. russian teams take the field for europa league qualifying tonight's second tier i feel spartak moscow on leg for company while another side from the comp the locomotive will enter their opening european clash of the year us favorites looks ahead to their clash. spar dr knabb i do have some experience against russian teams the only thing is that the last encounter took place back in one nine hundred seventy four when the slovak inside qualified the quarterfinal of the european car by defeating soviets in that they three by the way remains and it seems they met on the european stage in the morning with the. purpose of this impossib

for joining us this monday morning here in the central moscow i mean you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. spoil sure moscow's most fiery football darby ends up all square between spar time on c.b.s. . edging closer a second street formula one crowd so all but inevitable for sebastian vettel after victory number seven of the year up spot. raise a glass thomas bjorn windsor morris in five months playoff to claim the johnnie walker championship but. let's kick off with football where sunday saw a cracker of a moscow darby in the russian premier league sports hosting the leading the luzhniki stadium went into the clash aiming to keep a two month on the run intact and with the red white to seize the initiative right before the break well it's on heading home to me she comes out of scrawls shot. but got right back into it half a dozen minutes after the break not the greatest of the fending from the home side allowing city to do be out to take full advantage. on one that would become to sixty nine minutes in again looking less than inspirational the bok zoran toss it this time finding the net. however a contender f

moscow apartment building five years ago well let's get the latest from his kind of he's in central moscow. what do we know about the arrested man and. well the arrested man is a former lieutenant colonel of the police he was actually one of you witnesses during the course of the investigation will presenting himself as somebody with exclusive access to information coming from the suspects but investigators say that they suspected he could be directly linked with journalists. from almost the very start of the investigation but it's only now that they've managed to gather enough evidence to detain him his name is. and it's suspected that he received an order from somebody to organize the police. found allegedly the people who would do it to the entire thing and supplied them with weapons but according to the deputy editor in chief of the newspaper or on the political stage used to work and they've been told holding their own separate investigation as well he says that even if. it is the man who organized the police. doesn't necessarily mean the afterwards will be able to quickly find the people who ordered it. to be arrested man was a prosecution witness in the case as far as i understand had been misleading investigators in a very clever way for a long time pretending to be an important source of information about the murder in the prosecutors have doubts that he was sincere but there was not enough evidence no prosecutors have enough evidence also quit to buy nobody because that's. this man was lin to political skies murder is difficult to say if this arrest will help to discover who ordered the murder because such crimes are based on very complicated schemes there may be a long chain of mediators so it will take time before investigators can answer all the questions as. well despite that has this actually brought the prosecutors any closer to finding a solution to this case. well it's really hard to say since the investigation has been continuing for quite some time and surely the manner of the police is one of the most high profile cases probably of the last decade just to remind you a bit about her she used to work for a. newspaper in russia mostly focused on the chechen republic and the human rights situation in russia and she was murdered right as she was entering her apartment building in the very center of moscow back in two thousand and six this caused a huge reaction both here in russia and among the international community with people demanding that those who planned an organized murder are brought to justice there were four suspects from the beginning two of them are still under the investigation one another person that was detained a few months ago and now possibly this man the former police officer who could of organized. political squares murder but of course that is still to be found by a court if indeed. planned an organized. death. we go thanks very much indeed for that live update on this case there in central moscow now of course we're going to keep you updated on all the latest developments in libya at the moment fast moving developments there of course i'll be back or indeed my colleague sean thomas will be back in thirty minutes from now from now to bring you the latest i'll be back up very briefly though in a couple of minutes with some of our top stories stay with us live here

by from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and you see now it's ten pm here in the russian capital and moscow has refused to back a call made by the u.s. and e.u. urging syria's leader to step down believes president assad should be given time to implement promised reforms of the country should be left alone to sort out its own political future meanwhile twenty people have reportedly been killed by government troops in the right is fighting the notion is in damascus with more. russia's position has always been clear steer it in italy's reforms the changes are definitely needed required in this country but president assad needs time to do that but. democracy. rejecting the use of wars against people population in the future. there. will be you confirm. him. for growth over the international community to continue building pressure on the big picture of inferior but not pushing the situation in a corner just the people here are. all right who. will encourage you. not be done by india or. are there if you wish and or in brussels or in more or russian believes that external trash on president bash

live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and you see now it's ten pm here in the russian capital and moscow has refused to back the call made by the u.s. and e.u. urging syria's leader to step down moscow believes president assad should be given time to implement promised reforms and that the country should be left alone to sort out its own political future meanwhile twenty people have reportedly been killed by government troops in the latest fighting for notion is in damascus with more. russia's position has always been clear syria definitely needs reforms detainer is definitely needed required in this country but president assad needs time to do that through this trip. promoting democracy developing agreeable support them rejecting the you look or against real population in the future already there first of all have to be confirmed to be fools but on the other hand fortunately or to work to be right know by the international community to continue to think pressure on the big picture if you inferior but not pushing the situation in a corner you just of the people here are clearly. all righ

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live from our studios in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he said ali it's six pm here in the russian capital a billion dollar exhibit in the street near moscow is promising lucrative deals for sellers and displays of the latest aircraft first spectators staring up at the sky a first public glimpse of russia's new fifth generation fighter jet among wednesday's highlights as artie's to shea reports. stunning and utterly deafening the debut of his ultra secretive t. fifty sukhoi superjet stealth fighter jet absolutely mind blowing to watch you die low altitude maneuvers soaring high altitude when it was the noise coming off those engines was just something to witness for yourself i'd probably have cause and possible damage it's my hearing but when it comes to the pilot doing the sensational maneuvers just major g. forces in this team t fifty i can only imagine the pilot saw his lunch twice today now when it comes to the whole operation the whole deal with the ultra secretive t fifty it was actually a deal between india and russia to develop it ice partners here the idea is to build about a thousand of them over the next decade or so hopefully h

moscow where gravity defying action and lucrative deal making are picking up pace on the penultimate day of the of them. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he's now a thanks for being with us our top story this hour hopes for a mideast peace agreement have been dealt a fresh blow with hamas announcing its pulling out from a de facto cease fire with israel the statement comes in response to two days of israeli air strikes on gaza a thought more than a dozen killed or if he's pulled the spear is following the latest developments. a method that will no longer adhered to a truth now they said that there is no proof to back these attacks which happened on thursday originated from god in fact they denied it despite the fact that israel insists that it's god's or is to blame and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is calling for an emergency united nations security council meeting he's calling on the international community to denounce and to quote on is all to stop these attacks the latest because we have asked fifteen palestinians who have been killed in a round of israeli airstrikes that have been ongoing since the late date most afraid of the raid that it could be a school full scale war between israel and gaza and in the last conflict there were a number of casualties on both sides but having said that it is now more than weeks and israeli protest is the taking to the streets demanding from the government that it is great the economic problems organizers of these demonstrations say that this latest wave of violence is not unexpected is very much interest to pay to that israeli government would use anything to detract attention from their complainers and their concerns and earlier we spoke to one of the organizers and that they work with the victims of the violence and that there was still planning to go ahead tonight with a candle wife denise gratian showing solidarity for those who had the hill is taken to see my we're going to march together in silence in order to respect the victims of this conflict we're rosenker appointed by the government reacts and then immediately said and tries to use their pain you know as an inspirational conference and we disagree the social process is going to continue and we're going to keep fighting for our rights and we're going to keep doing it together and we're not going to allow this conflict and silchar earlier we heard from israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman and to quote him he said that the palestinian authority was responsible for thursday's attacks and for this latest wave of violence and he said that this proves that any kind of palestinian talk about peace and wanting to . resume the peace process is far from reality and he said it that as a mother is from new york not a bill shock and other palestinian leaders have said that this is madness and that israel is trying to use this as an excuse to not engage that you are both parties having said that later today the arab league will be meeting in cairo to look at the latest violence and what can and should be done for the latest word we have is that cairo has decided to record the head of it took a magic mission here in israel it was only a tool of the egyptian ambassador being recorded so see this is the most serious diplomatic situation we've seen between egypt and israel for quite some time you need to remember of course that egypt and jordan are the only countries here who are neighbors of israel that the israeli government has diplomatic relations with it's this relationship with kyra's is here it is we'll have this one in a very serious situation that most of its neighbors not all technically and you have to do with the country in fact if you simple cause here in this world itself for israelis to deal with what has been termed its crisis is there a very extensively the any israeli defense official also said that the egyptian peace treaty was to quote him fundamental keep israel's existence so certainly a lot of the lawn bells sounding here in tel aviv for fear that the current situation could merely to to relate even further. a russian delegation has arrived in syria to assess the situation on the ground with reports of twenty new deaths during the latest spate of anti-government protests that's just by president asad claims that the army operation against civilians had ended the international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite my usual to support the u.s. mission is demanding that us and steps down the u.s. will post a fresh set of economic sanctions would be e.u. preparing penalties targeting the country's oil sector analysts changed says such measures could prove decisive but don't look realistic. the americans have been very clear they know their influence and ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said that have to reach out to countries who are closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans will now in europe and especially really have to work hard to persuade the russians that they are right on syria and russia was clearly wrong for that is the next important step and i think we should focus on one particular element which is really important could go either way syria's oil exports of the present about ninety percent or so syria's oil is exported to europe so the europeans are now come out you know united front against assad does that mean that they will no longer accept syrian oil now syrian oil makes up some a quarter of syria's hard currency budget so could not a huge amount of an impact on the assad regime its ability to control things so ultimately i do think there is more than rhetoric to what the u.s. and europeans are saying right now. still to come on our to this hour marking history it's twenty years since an attempt to overthrow become a good ritual in the soviet union's government was thwarted the second of our special reports is just ahead for you. but first world stock markets have plummeted amid signs of a possible u.s. recession and renewed worries over the health of europe's banks investor confidence has been dealt a severe blow and sparked a mass selloff at the end of the week and as i explained the global economic fears continue to build. investors around the world they have very little to celebrate this weekend as u.s. stocks and major european share markets closed down on friday of course this capping the turmoil and volatility that we've seen use to be seen in the european economy in the u.s. economy at least being seen for the past few weeks this does not help ease the lack of confidence inch and lack of trust that is taking place among analysts and investors keeping their eye on the global economy and j.p. morgan chase morgan stanley goldman sachs are among the three banks that came out with reports were by saying their predictions for u.s. and global economic growth they cut those predictions morgan stanley even saying that the global economy is hovering close to a recession and also not helping the circumstances recent reports indicating that the u.s. economy is not doing as well as anticipated manufacturing is that its lowest point since two thousand and nine the housing market is still experiencing a huge slump unemployment is spiraling here in the us more than fourteen million americans are unemployed investors are also very concerned about how european leaders are handling the debt crisis in europe the fact of what it's doing to the euro zone many believe that the right decisions are not being made are not being made quick enough clearly this is an indication that three years after the financial collapse that started here in new york wall street it infected the rest of the world we believe that crisis continues to be having a huge impact on the lives of people all around the world those people that were promised that three years later the economy would be doing much better and now always. he said that there are a lot of struggles taking place and it's not quite clear if any leader of any country knows how to handle this problem to stop all the volatility and turmoil and to bring confidence to investors well fears of a repeat of the financial crisis of two thousand and eight are spreading global panic attacks are jason johnson a professor of political little science thinks we might see a recession in the u.s. if investors are reassured the companies that have lost stock value or glass to. these companies are naturally not working any more it's just that people's confidence is at an all time lows so if confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it or most of the u.s. right now is owned by china china is not about to reclaim the state of virginia they're not about to reclaim new york city by calling in their debts they primarily want to see america so if legislation can be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy that's robust of people's inertia and inability right now to get the economy and we were right now it looks like the chances of brock obama getting real like that are actually they're still better than fifty percent which would mean that markets that are concerned with investing right now they're going to feel a bit more confident if it looks like obama's chances of being reelected are slim everyone's going to get more in your risk if you don't know why do you want to do administration might get out policy. particular markets don't just affect traders of course with private investments and pension funds on the line our very own president in new york asked people there how they protect their savings. as the global economy continues to be volatile where do you feel like your money is safest this week let's talk about that do you have faith in the stock market are you kidding me i'll go to washington i love las vegas play blackjack or play roulette that's when you have a chance you have face i mean it's not too much but i'm still worried because they're. showing doubt but you haven't pulled out yet you know it will come back for show you have money invested not. just about much but i just i'm got the money if you have the cash now's the time to fire things like what if it just keeps crashing further if you have the money to lose you lose it if you don't don't play it do you have money invested own best week of your hard times and everything in economy is not stable so i just at this present moment the stock market is not safe so where's your money under my mattress the way it goes up and down it's really it's just a game so i have no faith in it is it was a why we play a game with our security paul what are your choices what are you going to do with your money you put on a mattress i don't think that's going to work too well what about in gold you can put some in gold like warren buffett says you take something from. only your. dollars into it and you have to get your money back. from selling the gold so it doesn't make sense to me if things were to get to where you have to put your money and go i don't think the u.s. government would allow. goal to undermine the currency so is there a chance that we could go back to a system of artery or more local kind of exchanges oh i don't think so right now with regard to whether there. will be enough with these that was the money that we're seeing risk being kind of the end here with what's going on with the economy and i think the better where you keep your money these days the bottom line is no place will ever be completely in five. coming up on our t.v. the sky's the limit. it's the two thousand and eleven a much air show just outside of moscow here with me rule research a faulty oh it's really heating up out here high flying pager jets pulling g. forces i think what you thought i was i feel sick and dizzy i love it details to come stay with aussie. also this hour exit stage left georgia dismisses its best known theater director for comments made about the president a strange. kim jong il has rolled into russia by train in a rare trip abroad for the north korean leader of the meeting president dmitri needs major for talks in a few days time and this comes as young struggles under a set of western sanctions military tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on archie's great reporters. it's thought that energy corp is largely central to these discussions is some of the present major selfish champions quite recently and when it comes to these two countries are always in the background this is issue of the denuclearization of north korea and russia heavily involved here in the six party talks are ongoing trying to meet that end g

headquarters in the central moscow you're watching r t with me and use the now it's four pm here in the russian capital our top story a billion dollar exit bishan at an airstrip near moscow is promising lucrative deals for sellers and displays of the latest aircraft for spectators starting up staring up i should say in the sky among the highlights on wednesday will be a first public glimpse of russia's new fifth generation fighter jet. we crossed straight live to the max air show where our t. is where he says she is standing by looking very cool with those aviators in that plane worried too bad you don't make enough to buy one if the second day. and it looks like you like to take a plane home with you tonight that's not going to be the case tell us more of what other untouchable aircraft is there for most normal people at the show well i mean let's just get to the point here you have a world without a boss get me a raise i'll buy one for you to ok my dear cheeky girl you know i'm sitting here at the two thousand and eleven show it's been an absolutely amazing couple of days and three more days still to come massive high flying acrobatic maneuvers right now in the distanc

moscow where gravity defying action a lucrative duel making are picking up pace on looking on from a day of three of them. live from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said no way it's four pm here in the russian capital our top story hopes for a mideast peace agreement have been dealt afresh with hamas so no i'm saying is pulling out from in two factors ceasefire with israel the statement follows two days of israeli airstrikes on gaza that sought more than a thousand killed but calls live now to tel aviv where are these paula we are joins us paula how did this statement by hamas a fact what's already are very volatile situation. well as you say the math is that will no longer add here to the truth now they say that there is no proof that these attacks which happened on thursday originated from gaza in fact they deny that despite the fact that israel insists that it was or is to blame now the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is calling for an emergency united nations security council meeting he's calling on the international community to denounce and to call on is all to stop these attacks the latest because we have asked some such team palestinians who have been killed in a round of israeli airstrikes that have been ongoing and late tuesday we are also being told that the situation on the ground is intensifying and there are no indications that the situation will make up anytime soon now as far as the israeli side goes they say that hamas the islamic jihad and the popular resistance committees that it holds responsible for thursday's attacks are responsible for some live in city grad and kasam rockets that have been fired on israel from close to what we're witnessing on the ground is a situation that is intensifying and intensifying quickly what about the people in tel aviv where you are how are they feeling about this latest announcement from hamas about the cease fire well most israelis are very afraid that there could be a full spill scale war between israel and gaza and in the last conflict there were a number of casualties on both sides but having said that it is now more than four weeks from israeli protesters have taken to the streets asking and demanding from the government that a great they both the economic problems organizers of these demonstrations say that this latest wave of violence is not unexpected they very much into the paper that israeli government would use anything to detract attention from their complaints and their conference and earlier we spoke to one of the organizers who said that they were fine with the victims of the violence and that there was sort of planning to go ahead tonight with a candlelight demonstration showing solidarity with those who have been filled it's taken this end. tonight we're going to march together in silence in order to respect the victims of this conflict we're very disappointed by the government's reaction and that immediately said i'm trying to use our pain in order to stop this social causes and we disagree such a thought as this is going to continue and we're going to keep fighting for our rights and we're going to keep doing it together and we're not going to allow this conflict to stop us paula what does this latest flare up mean of tensions i should say mean for the upcoming u.n. vote on palestinian statehood which of course is expected in less than a month in new york but pentagon and leadership of a sickly speaking with one voice in it and that israel is using that as an excuse to detract attention away from that and to actually try and get international support not to recognize a palestinian state really a we've heard from the israeli foreign minister of a dog even into quoting him he said that the palestinian authority was responsible for thursday's attacks and for this latest wave of violence and he's bitter this proves that any kind of palestinian talk about peace and wanting to resume the peace process is often reality impressive it is as far as ramallah is from new york now now bill shaath and other palestinian leaders has said that this is madness and that israel is trying to use this as an excuse to not get that you will vote past having said that later today the arab league will be meeting in cairo to look at the latest violence and what can and should be done paula what about the violence on the israeli egypt border that examines relations between the two with protests at the israeli embassy in cairo what are the implications of that. well the latest word we have is that cairo had decided to record the head of it diplomatic mission here in as well it was earlier talk of the egyptian ambassador being recorded certainly this is the most serious diplomatic situation we've seen between egypt and israel for quite some time you need to remember of course that egypt and jordan are the only countries here who are neighbors of israel that the israeli government has diplomatic relations with it's this relationship with kai was a cheery if you will have is well you know a very serious situation that most of its neighbors now will take war with the country in fact if you will cause here in this world a club for israelis to deal with what has been termed a crisis very very sensitive least the any israeli defense official also said that the egyptian peace treaty was to quote him fundamental israel's existence so certainly a lot of alarm bells sounding here in tel aviv for fear that the current situation could merely carry eight even further. right argues falsely reporting live from tel aviv thanks for that update. u.n. delegation is heading to syria to research the situation on the ground with reports of twenty new deaths during the latest spate of anti-government protest but despite president answers claims that the army operations against civilians how to end it well the international pressure on the syrian leader is mounting despite moscow's refusal to support the u.s. initiative demanding that arson steps down the u.s. has imposed a fresh set of economic sanctions with the e.u. preparing more penalties targeting the country's oil sector analyst james don't suppose such measures would prove decisive but don't look realistic. the americans have been very clear they know their influence and ability to change their behavior is limited they've always said it had to reach out to countries who are closer to syria and russia is one such country and a very important country so i think the americans will now in europe in specially really have to work hard to persuade the russians that they are rights on syria and that russia is currently wrong so that is the next important step and i think we should focus on one particular element which is really important to go in the way syria's oil exports of the present about ninety percent or so serious oil is exported to europe so the europeans are now come out you know united front against