russian passport and also better russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libin all company here in tripoli engineers and kooks men and women have been arrested here in tripoli shortly after the rebels took the libyan capital and have been put into one of the rebels' training center here in. the capitol after they've been accused of been snipers of khadafi we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because. for some reason the finger of slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to earn money peacefully did this people say that they've been provided with food and water but some of them have been severely beaten and tortured by the rebels the russian embassy has actually managed to release two owners of the russian passport and ukrainian couple but around twenty other ukrainians us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli this group of the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they don't have running water they said that they don't have proper accommodation so they would be better to stink of

productive and hopefully a prosperous country now you know the question on everyone's mind is are libin oil capacity is safe and when. will they be restored to their pre-war level oh i know is that the transitional authority is looking carefully at. both the infrastructure and the supply routes for the libyan oil that they're saying it might take a year to eighteen months to get things going because there has been some damage of the will be sabotaged by the outgoing regime but at the moment so he is making up for all of the would be as oil output but if they get it back to normal then that will produce revenue for the for libya that will be very very useful in the reconstruction and i know that he has allowed b.p. to resume operations in libya just a few hours ago what have you done to secure the libyan b.p. assets now with the transitional national council that are obviously missions going to libya at the present moment the transitional council is dealing with these things a joke or so other companies like b.p. and another company that i'm on the board will be watching carefully to see

trial because of the death of civilians many will argue of course that they didn't deliberately target libin and even civilians that get that his forces did so there's no grounds for nato commanders to go on trial shaunie. well you must understand that the u.n. resolution what it did it was a no fly zone and if the u.s. and other nato forces had of only implemented the no fly zone then the rebels on the ground could have pursued their the actions that they were doing to overthrow the good that he could regime unfortunately in haste and also in zealousness many of the nato countries wanted to rush that process and make certain that gadhafi was overthrown i believe that gadhafi was not there for the benefit of the libyan people but it was not our decision of hollowed the nato how the rebel forces were to proceed to gain their independence and freedom and another you say the nato forces when acting in the interest of the libyan people how much does a will play a role in all of this. well i believe that oil plays a big part of this because we could see that the nato forces have died gotten invol

libin part of the national development and reform. now chief economic officer of the chinese embassy in washington. david rubenstein, cofounder and managing director of the carlyle group and finally, mr. cheng li, fellow and director of research china center in the brooks institute. let me start with a very brief view, if i may, of the u.s. economy because it kind of helps frame our discussions. these sorts of discussions -- when you have discussions about the united states and china, at least in this country they often have an aspect about them where you are feeling that china is in the process of becoming an economic goliath and then great concern about the future of the united states in what is a rapidly transforming global economy. let me briefly give you my own views. there's no question the united states is experiencing difficult conditions. at the present time we face enormously the powerful head winds and in my view at least recovery is highly likely to remain slow and difficult and unemployment stubbornly high for an extended