libya could be another name on the list of alleged victims of the giant u.s. investment bank goldman sachs the bank is currently being investigated by the american government for its part in the two thousand and eight financial crisis it supposedly lost the one billion dollars investment they made by tripoli three years ago i was in the arena port now reports from new york but bankers are hardly concerned. and long before the u.s. led airstrikes against libya's moammar gadhafi they dictate or end one of america's most profitable banks first financial friends in two thousand and eight according to the wall street journal goldman sachs first could be the chance of becoming a huge show. holder only after losing ninety eight percent of libya's one point three billion dollars sovereign wealth funds in just a few months they have lost a staggering percentage i don't know how you lose ninety eight percent of something it was a bet on options on european banks and energy companies stocks plunged shortly thereafter but in any case clearly they saw a goldmine in khadafi

bank allegedly loses a billion dollar investment by libya putting the financial woes of the american and libyan people in the same boat. when we think what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation. russia's foreign minister slams nato deployment of helicopters out of a hit their first targets in libya. a huge fire which destroyed an ammunition dump in central russia has been put out leaving over eighty injured. and footloose for freedom hundreds have been dancing their way through the jefferson memorial in washington d.c. claiming their holding their first amendment rights after five were arrested for similar action last week. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. libya could be another name on the list of alleged victims of the joint us investment bank goldman sachs the bank is currently being investigated by the american government for its part in the two thousand and eight financial crisis it's supposed to last a one billion dollar investment made by tripoli three years ago but as marina court now reports from new york th

to say to them what has changed significantly after the protracted cluster messed up of politely in libya in bahrain in syria and yemen. i think people are just simply more grounded in reality now about the kind of cost is going to take and time and blood to see this transformation through but i still think that the general outlook is still positive for me the story in syria is not so much the fact that there is the sports analogy protracted brutality taking place as much as it is that people are still taking to the streets the spite of it that far in so i think the cat is out of the bag people have lost their fear this is the moment for the middle east to change and i don't think that anything can stop it i think with different regimes will be able to employ different tactics to delay that transformation they can use brutality they can use bribes they can use. exploits ethnic fears and what have you and things of that sort and blame foreign agents and that will buy them some time in the meantime but i think they will not be able to stop the transformation generally speaking anybody who e

the war in libya is one area of division one else economic principles. obviously we see just how successful germany is at the moment compared to the u.s. . well you do have the whole euro zone. crisis and i think germany you know the german government has to pay attention to its electorate and you know it's interesting in all of europe and in the media it's kind of person you know portrayed as some kind of right wing backlash against these governments in finland and germany. you know voters don't want to bail out these countries but in fact if you look at it more closely it's the big banks that are really being bailed out. a lot of this resentment is not right wing it's very understandable greece or for example in. ireland and portugal i mean they're being squeezed their economies are being. pushed into recession or kept in recession in order to maintain these unsustainable debt payments and so i think there you can see obama is pressing for this. because he just wants the problem to be papered over and they can kick down the road. but it's not as easy f

lex i think what we're doing in libya is important. it is important that congress have their voice be heard on the issue. i am going to try to introduce a new resolution authorizing that it is based off of the mccain won in the senate but further limited. there was concern that it was not as specific as it needed to be too limited to what we're doing now and make sure that no ground troops are used. it might be something we revisit. whether or not the house majority is interested in doing that, i do not know for sure. >> if the white house had come to congress in march and ask for authorization in libya, do you think it would have supported it back then? >> it is hard to say. republicans are focused on the process argument. the president and white house could have been more inclusive of congress in the buildup to the decision to going to libya. it happened fast. i think the president and his team were reluctant to get involved. very quickly, they were launching the operation and needed our help. from that point, the president has done

come to the program civilian casualties of raise serious misgivings about nato intervention in libya even among the supporters of a young going aerial campaign and while the international community is taking sides in the conflict it's a levy on people who suffer the most are these maria financial reports. this family hasn't had a war quiet and peaceful like this one for months they've escaped from the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a nightmare. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots one day people from the government and been you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these kids has been long and hard for they were in their family when i'm. with it when i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me then we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to near zero the bus with the rebels for their purp

on libya germany chose to withhold its support for military action in libya the u.n. security council siding with russia and china here despite being under a lot of pressure from the u.s. the u.k. and france on afghanistan germany has supported the war there but now analysts say its contribution is unlikely to survive even the next election cycle but of course the two leaders were rather evasive aggressing the difference is choosing mainly general rhetoric you know about coordinating efforts and so long but analysts say the rift between washington and burlington is not just on wars but on other policies as well on the economy germany has a completely different approach they have high taxes better welfare at prater applause they produce more they export more while the u.s. is head over heels in death and is running a trade deficit of health a trillion dollars and it's interesting during that press conference president obama showed the u.s. expects germany to get behind a plan of a third a lot of the massive greek debt to in order to stabilize the euro was very polite i

bank allegedly loses a billion dollar investment by libya putting the financial woes of the american and libyan people in the same boat. we think what's happening is a shift towards the ground operations russia's foreign minister slams nato's deployment of helicopters after they hit their first targets in libya. a huge fire which destroyed an ammunition dump in central russia has been put out sleeping over eighty people injured. and smartphones to secure phones as a moscow technology firm claims it can retrieve personal data from any device for some. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. libya could be another name on the list of alleged victims of the joint us investment bank goldman sachs the bank is currently being investigated by the american government for its part in the two thousand and eight financial crisis it supposedly lost a one billion dollar investment made by tripoli three years ago i was in the report now reports from new york the bankers are hardly concerned. long before the u.s. led airstrikes against libya's moamma

intervention in libya would have been solved. surely the the uprising that took place was in internal affair an internal matter. how would that have been resolved if we let it run i'm not actually in favor of the intervention in libya i think it produces a very strange paradox i'm not don't really understand why it's all right to go and knock off gadhafi and not all right to go knock off. on the whole it seems to me the military intervention of that is not a good idea i wasn't for it either by the way in serbia i don't think these things produce anything except damage rage frustration they don't need to democracy they can't lead to not for instance the course of a situation is on result and i'm sure the libyan situation is going to be unresolved for a long time to come it may be that there's a siren a. tripolitania split. or something but is that an improvement. all the borders or for some reason. what are we doing about syria. why are we intervening in libya it's an answer to question so i'm afraid that and it's not an answer al

forces to the operations in libya. congress would like their message stops their voices to be heard. he needs to come to congress and explain this operation. -- congress would like their message to be heard. also congress is not approve this operation. 2/3 rejected approval. >> to you voted to tell the president he could not continue the mission and to cut off funding. is this really a procedural matter and that was a problem that you had with the mission or did it reflect what you heard from your constituents which is a general wariness for war in the country? >> i believe that this president needs to come to congress for his authority. secondly, there is a great deal of concern as to what the mission is. we are not certain who these rebels are. we don't know what their geopolitical opinion is to the u.s., to their neighbors. we don't know what their commitment is to domestic of first city lost to domestic diversity. the outcome has not even been discussed. -- we don't know what their commitment is to domestic diversi

is not legally binding for libya for the simple reason libya is not a member state of the court and there's long as mr history on libya is territorial and this decision cannot be. you without any and still to come on the program democracy with. the u.s. announces a new programs to help opposition movements across the globe but some suggest is just a convenient way to overthrow nuisance governments. a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships carrying supplies to gaza to depart from greece is reportedly made of up to ten vessels with some five hundred activists on board israel warns that its military is gearing up to intercept the aid armada but has dropped earlier threats against journalists so they could be banned or deported for covering the events of these policy and i had the latest. join her live and hello to you paula so it's what we know about this mission at this point. what the israeli government says it is rethinking how it plans to handle foreign journalists that are on boil for their freedom to tell it to us itself from european waters and kids towards god later this week what we do kn

members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no other or being new and very new there will be new so they will just be with them where you are again as. they talk about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bear all the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not that safe from the side of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in the air strike in coded to leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three kids but we have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and no one wants to listen to us now we have to pay a very heavy price of. casualties civilian casualties and also military casualties i think the time has come for the world to understand that this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon then you are dug around in the symmetry still frash while nato has already claimed that the

is it all about libya now with understanding the ongoing changes often finally to leave here middle east and what makes yemen in syria different from what's going on in. hey tom our been here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. looks. at. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. download the official anti allocation chobani phone called touch from the i.q. saps to. life on the go. video on demand all season long cold calls an r.s.s. feeds in the palm of your. question. call. the emission free couldn't take three hours for charges free. arrangement three risk free studio types free. the old free blog plug in video for your media projects and free media to our teeth dot com. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've. covered. can. follow it welcome to crossfire computer liberal is it all about libya now when understanding the ongoing changes often violence in the arab

nato backfire libya civilians call for an end to nato campaign because the bombs of betrayal and drowning out our voices from the president does not have the power under the constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual were imminent threat to the nation and senator they're quoting someone so who was it well actually senator barack obama or why has he changed his heart over libya and went to members of congress have to say about it. it's tuesday june twenty eighth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for sound here watching our team. well there has been for pushback in libya this week after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for moammar gadhafi many libyans say it's all just a cover for nato's attempt to kill colonel gadhafi and refused to recognize it for genesee and the libyans are also calling for nato leaders to be held accountable for very actions as well as violence and devastation continue their article respond to reify notional is one of the few reporters on the ground there and has more

as a little bit let's take a look at libya it seems very likely it's only a matter of time that nato will finally get rid of mr gadhafi in libya and will that be called a success for democracy because it will be nato victory quote unquote not the people's and is not a president it should be said about how to bring democracy to the arab world. well i think you're right that if. he leaves that nato will declare this a successful humanitarian intervention a successful democratization campaign but it doesn't mean that either of those things is true it's my contention and i think it's clear from the facts that this war in libya would have ended months ago if not for the nato intervention and because of the nato intervention people have continued to die by the hundreds in libya and so what that means is that the intervention actually caused more harm than good secondly will it lead to democratization and it doesn't appear so libya at this point seems to be divided regionally and along tribal lines and so you've got a bifurcated libya how are you going to knit those two pieces of the countr

tripolitania split to libya or something that's so but it has an improvement. all the borders there for some reason. so what are we doing about syria. and why are we intervening in libya it's not on through question so i'm afraid that and it's not really a question i mean that's i mean we better not to do it omar jump and go right ahead i feel look if you're looking for a moral consistency you're going to be baffled for a very long time about the different policy and double standards that people employ and reacting to situations of different countries i think the reason why there is no intervention in syria is because if the us that regime is knocked down by force you run a very serious risk of a regional war that ends up involving iran as well and israel as well so you know the stakes are a bit higher over there now just to backtrack a little bit about libya i agree that i mean generally speaking the region is very iffy about the idea of foreign intervention but i don't know how anybody can say with a straight face that the intervention to stop the qaddafi for

congress threatens to block washington's campaign in libya that's not been in full swing for ninety days without lawmaker approval. and the founders of palestinians are left scraping for a living as israel withholds money into the government of a fifth as it could be used to fund terror attacks. so you're watching our t.v. accosting live from the russian capital welcome to the program the supply of energy will remain at the very center of russian chinese relations that was the message from president dmitri medvedev off the talks with china's hu jintao in moscow the country's hope to hunt around gas deals with buttons of donors and to st petersburg for the city's international economic forum. and always following the three day business brainstorming event. the economic forum is in full swing here in st petersburg top business executives global innovators and world leaders all gathered together to debate about some moves forward economically and environmentally on various levels it's considered that this year the big players are hosts not sanctioning up. because while the euro and dollar a

congress threatens to washington's campaign in libya it's now been in full swing for ninety days without whom they could prevail. plus thousands of palestinians are left scraping for a living as israel withholds money owed to their government and this it could be used to fund the terrorists. and the city that is brushes with window to europe has become the window to the world as the second day of the economic forum gets underway we'll bring you all the news from the form on business and around twenty minutes. on air and online twenty four hours a day you're watching our t.v. the supply of energy will remain at the very center of russian chinese relations that was the message from president dmitry medvedev after talks with china's hu jintao in moscow the country's hope to hammer out a gas deals worth billions of dollars i think moved to st petersburg for the city's international economic forum parties and he said no way is following the three day business brainstorming event. comic forum is in full swing. business executives global innovators and world leaders all gathered together to deb

nato backfire libya's civilians call for an end to nato campaign with the bombs a betrayal drowning out their voices the president does not have power under the constitution big unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation about senator reading a quote so who said it well actually then senator barack obama so why has the change of heart over libya and what the members of congress say about it. it's tuesday june twenty eighth i'm christine for sal in washington d.c. we're watching our team. starting off today the torch has been passed french finance minister christine lagarde has been confirmed as the new head of the international monetary fund she is of course replacing dominique strauss kahn charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a new york hotel last month now this of course is a pred stressed you just position but let's get to the nitty gritty here and talk about what the world will talk about the world but look guard inherits and want to look. it's like. well here's one view in greece today and

in putting them on the accounts of libya and norway and iceland and that's a crime. and as american banks troubles so does the country's deficit. and debt feeling brave it comes nor the reality experts say the more could only mean more economic pain for the country after of course if you're never. going on now nato has launched its first helicopter attacks. targets around the port of bragger russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has the now's the deployment as a step towards a ground operation. we expressed our opinion over this escalation of the military operation we think what's happening is a shift towards a ground operation this would be very regretful because the violations of the security council resolution already taking place are more than enough to think about the attitudes towards the un's decisions. so british and french was attracted to a teacher or a port of bread a nice still and under very kind of a dark face helicopters were deployed just days after a major extended its intervention for another three months the action is seen as a significant escalat

how would you assess the russian special envoys efforts to mediate peace in libya. what i think they're very welcome. i think he's got a very difficult task because the moment the two sides are very far apart but i think it's got to be a negotiation and of if russia couldn't come mediate couldn't couldn't find a way to bring the two sides together that would be fine i'm not clear that what russia is doing is very different from what president zuma of south africa has been trying to do or also turkey has been trying to do but why not i think it's good news that russia is trying do the rebels really want to negotiate after all they clearly want the nato campaign to continue with the aim of gadhafi a ceasefire for them i suppose wouldn't be what they want what it. well there's no ceasefire on offer as a matter of fact not a real cease far we've had ceased far declarations from from gadhafi before the bombing when the fighting went on if there was a real cease far then that that would be a different matter but that would have to be. notified in advance and it would have

been talking about pass that motion to deny obama the authority to continue with that operation in libya but the question is how much of affording out does this really represent between congress and the president. but we see the resolution that they adopted earlier was a way for the congress to sort of show their frustration over the white house refusal to come to the lawmakers to seek authorization for the military actions on that the us constitution only congress can declare war except the obama administration doesn't call it a war although it lasts more than three months in evolves many civilian deaths by the way earlier this month they had a better chance to send an even stronger message the house debated a resolution from congressman dennis kucinich that called for an immediate end to the u.s. involvement in libya and a majority again brought it no to that proposal nevertheless the they don't like being ignored but even those who truly want to stand up against the military actions in libya there's little they can do as one congressman here said you can do resolutions until you're bl

dialogue is needed and we remember that in libya. we are led by coalition clearly this is a one two punch that is being implemented by the u.s. and its western allies pressure political pressure is mounting the u.n. and the i.a.e.a. are clearly being used as tools and avenues to crack down on syria but as we just heard from ambassador churkin not all nations agreed that there is this much pressure is going to help the circumstance it might even exacerbate it but of course we will keep our viewers updated on any developments as they take place. well as we've just heard the u.n. atomic watchdog is looking into serious alleged nuclear activities claiming a facility destroyed in two thousand and seven was an undeclared nuclear site john locke with from the institute for democracy and cooperation says the move is intended to turn up the heat on the basque. i think what we're seeing are the western powers ratcheting up the pressure they're trying to increase their room for maneuver so in the draft resolution you have crimes against humanit

congress threatens to block washington's campaign in libya that's now been in full swing for ninety days without provable. thousands of palestinians are left scraping for a living as israel withholds money out today government. could be used to fund terror attacks. the international economic forum or day two of the day's events will have a special address from president medvedev and hear from lots of a special guest so stick with us business news coming your way in about twenty minutes. around the world and around the clock watching r.t. the supply of energy will remain the very center of russian chinese relations that was the message from president dmitry medvedev of the talks with china's hu jintao and the countries hope to hammer out the ghastly goes with billions of dollars to st petersburg for the city's international economic forum. following the three day business brainstorming event. the economic forum is in full swing here in st petersburg top business executives global innovators and world leaders all gathered together to debate moves forward economically and environmentally on

they're already calling it the billion pound war it's calculated that if the war in libya goes on for six months it will cost the british taxpayer one point six billion dollars but that initial humanitarian mission is now get rid of gadhafi operation and that could take a lot longer assuming that their goal is to simply oust him from power one imagines this is not going to end until he. leaves office so this could potentially drag on for months more and as we've seen they've already extended the operation by another three months that's unlikely to be popular with the british public that government spending like a hawk already feel seeing services and jobs slashed even so downing street swore wall it is open and it's taking the lead in libya data gathered by britain's guardian newspaper from defense ministries and news reports shows that britain has flown twenty five percent of all sources in libya second only to the u.s. by the second week of may six thousand strike missions had been ordered blogger daniel rennick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with a warm wind

the numbers at the moment in the area of far too small for libya start of intervention as you put it i believe. for quite large helicopters some apache attack helicopters that are stationed on two british ships off the coast they were. apparently for the evacuation of british nationals here in yemen from their thought to be about five hundred but clearly they could be used to something else and with the upping of the u.s. role now that presence is safely out of yemen as far as the us are concerned they can essentially do what they like as your package explained and so i'm concerned that this might be leading into yet another military by britain in the region would that not be justified though when we hear that the power vacuum in yemen is supposedly giving al qaeda a chance to take power would that not be a very good argument in comparison to libya and syria or for intervention. i believe nothing that will strengthen the hand and promote. a western intervention in yemen particularly as the west has supported presence for all these years sold him large numbers of arms and weaponry and

the united states has not been nearly as strong to to libya the u.s. went in rather grudgingly this was nationally and initiative by the brits and the french far more than the us the us joined it it could have been start if russia and other countries had actually voted against it rather than abstaining in the in the vote in the u.n. security council that might have done something to stop it but right now it's moving forward primarily with the brits and the french in control the u.s. providing very crucial support but from behind i don't think that there is anywhere near the same level of commitment in washington to this short war that's going on now for three months in in libya as there is to the long standing now ten year old war in afghanistan thanks so much for giving us your time here in our to live from washington. institute for policy studies thank you. other news now the former prime minister of ukraine has gone on trial for abusing power during a term in office in two thousand and nine units a mission to secure the gas deal with russia which is

coming to live from moscow and josh welcome to the program the conflict in libya shows no signs of letting up rebels and government forces clash in the western oil port city of zawiya some fifty kilometers from tripoli the libyan capital saw intensified nato airstrikes this week with the heaviest bombing since the foreign. began back in march could obvious government claims more than thirty people have been killed in the attacks some of them civilians comes as the libyan leader's daughter filed a lawsuit against the french president nicolas sarkozy and nato for killing four members of her family in an april military strike maria maria for national spoke to some residents of tripoli caught up in the violence saddam has been we've been there has breath of death the doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother's pills to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me and bill to do it myself. but who wants to kill the teenager so most native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months. have been fallin

is not legally binding for libya for the simple reason that libya is not a member state of the court and as long as mr stace on libyan spirit korea and this decision can not be fulfilled in case the decision of the court stays in power or there will mean that mr inevitably will try to stay in power as long as he can and their country digs the intentions on the international community the way they are worked out why the security council member states russia included. well still to come on the program this is democracy with a character that you know it's a new program to help opposition movements across the globe some suggest is just a convenient way to cope with group missions government. in absentia remarkable court hands out twenty five years in prison for a top intelligence officer and fled to russia after exposing a group of u.s. based russian agents including anna chapman. a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships carrying supplies to gaza is said to depart from greece it's reportedly made up of ten vessels with some five hundred activists on board israel warns that its military is ge

is not legally binding for libya for the simple reason that libya is not a member state of the court and as long as mr pease on libya still retore this decision can not be fulfilled in case the decision of the courts for. the. inevitable. as long as he can and that contradicts the intentions on the international community. by the security council member states russia included. frankfurt based author and researcher william believes there are others more deserving of justice in the hague when it comes to civilian deaths in libya. the whole thing is upside down the call by the i.c.c. i think the nato high command including the united states commander of nato ought to be tried for crimes against humanity given the fact that they've been bombing civilians in libya for more than one hundred days i mean this entire libya intervention by nato is absurd from beginning to end. it's just unbelievable what's going on nato can decide on the basis of responsibility to protect a completely veg sham the doctrine of international law that's been promoted by certain very politicized n.g.o.s in washing

not asked to mediate in libya well i think the u.n. is playing exactly the role that it should play and. the u.n. special envoy is as you know frequently in tripoli and benghazi is working with the people of libya but also for the international partners role has been very much to support him and to work with the african union with the arab league with the organization of islamic conference and with our partners like russia and turkey to think about how we move forward and conflict and some people start to think about the country of the future on a visit to bin guys in may you said that you had in mind people who would be leading into the future what gives you the ground to say that what i said was that i've met people who clearly had at their heart they future of libya people who are thinking about the kind of what the needs to be done reconstruction getting the economy moving again the support they're going to the board of management reform of the police to be people who will be part of the big dialogue that used to take place what th

moves towards new sanctions against syria and a push that's feared to be a build up for a libya star intervention. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is. russia must modernize its economy in the next few years regardless of who is in charge prism if it has been outlined in the country's direction at the petersburg form of top business leaders he also wants the government's large role in the economy along with corruption threaten development and must be tackled parties and he said now reports now from st petersburg. well there are certainly a lot of obstacles and president medvedev knows that became very clear and has for real with his whole term as president that he thinks modernization is the way to go into the future with russia and he clearly outlined all of the obstacles that the country is facing first let's take a listen to what he had to say about modernization as a whole and it's called. if the studios choice is not only a major green you will of outdated elements in the economy but all public institutions used we need to hesitate

led airstrikes against libya's moammar gadhafi the dictator and one of america's most profitable banks were financial fronts in two thousand and eight according to the wall street journal goldman sachs offered khadafi the chance of becoming a huge shareholder. only after losing ninety eight percent of libya's one point three billion dollars sovereign wealth funds in just a few months they have lost a staggering percentage i don't know how you'll lose ninety eight percent of something it was at that on options on the european banks and energy companies whose stocks plunged shortly thereafter but in any case clearly they saw a goldmine in khadafi when the fund controlled by colonel qadhafi nearly empty goldman ponied up all first to recruit losses according to the journal libya would get five billion dollars worth of goldman shares in return for making. seven billion dollar investment in the securities firm libya agreed to buy the banks debt with the promise of a lucrative annual six percent return for twenty years maybe knew it was about to hit into a nosedive and there they were sellin

is very important but the african union and actually all libya's neighbors are roles of playing. important role in that and labor is actually welcoming average what is peace efforts russia has always been concerned about matriculation here in libya most case position has always been clear that a non violent negotiation is the only way out of this crisis of this attracted conflict russia has never supported the u.n. security council resolution which authorized intervention and russia has repeatedly criticize. full launching operation here in libya people actually extremely exhausted after months of devastating war which has already taken many many lives and has actually completely destroyed the country's infrastructure they're getting more and more angry and they just want to get their life back and all of the miles former british ambassador to libya says persuading cadavid to go one day and. i think he's got a very difficult task because the moment the two sides are very far apart but i think it's got to be a negotiation and of if russia couldn't come mediate couldn't find a way

the pressure on libya. on allies to intensify benefits for moscow insists a peaceful solution is the only option for the talks with the brothers sides. russia puts the brakes on the efforts by countries wanting to take action against syria as a criminal says could lead to a military intervention. american death row inmates are being laid for the objective of drugs human rights groups claim is tantamount to torture. me twenty four hours a day broadcasting live from moscow this is r.t. work. similar goals but with very different methods for bringing stability to libya their chief is calling on the coalition to get even more active in what is already an intensified campaign at the same time russia is discussing peace with both the regime and the rebels the kremlin is a special envoy saying both sides of the war is not the solution he is in libya with more. nato continues probably we've been hearing heavy strikes overnight as about this during the day this week actually the libyan capital has seen the most inte

i agree with you that we should be out to libya -- out of libya. i do think we should not try to get out of there in 14 days. we ought to give the president an opportunity to make his case, which he has not done yet. i think we -- we need to get out on a timeframe that does not leave our allies in the lurch as we do that. host: another point of view from chris on twitter -- chris, there are some people who would agree with you. i don't think we should commit to a war unless we have the mission well defined as to what we are going to accomplish. sometimes that might be able to be done without the commitment of ground troops. secondly, we should never do any kind of act that would lead us into a conflict without going to the constitutional procedures to do that, and that would be to comply with the war powers act and have congress declared war or give an authority to do that. host: the next call from north carolina. caller: i have a strange view of the world, so bear with me. i believe that, as an overview of the american people, we want to show our

libya was better which means god. are khadafi and libya is all we need so these are these are these this is one spoken of people on the street these were not shills paid by the government these were people you were just me in various places in tripoli despite that support you so forget that he did you actually sense that there is anybody there who's got the wherewithal the in fact equipped to take charge of libya off the decades of gadhafi rule in other words occasional position with a leader that if you get any sense of that. i got the impression that the rebel movement is very disjointed absolutely side office. being veterans of afghanistan iraq people released from guantanamo who are now active in eastern libya very imposing. sharia law stream forms women having to wear of the burka when they leave their home their homes there's also been a huge loss of money the libyan central bank in benghazi was looted by the rebels of nine hundred million in libya and dean are as cash and five hundred point five million in u.s.

now it's able to take a look at how big they were all oil had to play and leading up to the war in libya will analyze the g.o.p. presidential debate from last night and we'll talk to an author who claims that your favorite t.v. shows are all being used by hollywood liberals to shape america in their own leftist image scary i know but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has been devoting their time to instead of covering the real stories. you know it's not like there's a whole lot going on in this country to be worried about right now right into recessions taking a double dip we have over nine percent unemployment and that's just the official number that doesn't include all of those discouraged and underemployed workers housing prices continue to fought millions of americans have lost their homes the middle class is disappearing the top one percent of the nation holds forty percent of the wealth we're fighting three wars one of which has now become the longest in american history and we also have to shadow wars going on and thousands of americans have lost their lives in

reiterated previous statements they've made concerning the ongoing situation in libya saying. that everybody involved in what's involved in that conflict in the north african country must adhere to the united nations resolutions that were passed and should not straight from the parameters of those resolutions. only the reporting there from moscow richard whites from the hudson institute in washington d.c. says good relations with beijing are very important. this is been a priority focus in diplomacy in recent years to try and develop further or russia's ties of asia for a while russia was a bit isolated in terms of the u.s. a bit was frozen out of some of the station institutions some of these station prosperity developments economic developments. with the decision to hold their feet something about of austar with very active part of president putin did of course is clearly shown in greater interest and asian affairs and the chinese of course into russia and i'm sure. there's also nuclear energy cooperation a lot of shared security interests so it's expected and the the two le