in libya we're joined live by and sara flounders from the new york based activist group international action center thanks for being with us this evening the foreign minister was pretty clear moscow is running out will with concern nato and its mission in libya well nato has just announced an extension by ninety days of the criminal bombing of libya are bombing that has focused on attempts to assassinate. the which is in itself a guy aleisha of every possible agreement that has resulted in infrastructure of schools and hospitals being bombings that have resulted in an attack on a large religious delegation where you live and. were killed and forty seven were injured and so it has been one targeted killing and after another all absolutely criminal conduct by the largest powers in the world against an african country and it's really essential that all of this all of this and all russia has agreed to mediate cease fire efforts of course after president medvedev was asked by g eight leaders to step in but now nato like you said has extended the operation today even want a cease fire. you know what nato

base international action center thank you. you know if you missed any of the stories we're covering on air you can always find it on our web site that's r t dot com and there's plenty of this analysis and eye catching videos there for you and available online right now degree of despair a prestigious diplomas the longer a guarantee of a well paid job for us students but it is a guarantee of debt will find out why it's their chinese counterparts who are banking on american education. also the landing of a passenger plane at a russian airport that could have ended in tragedy after its pilot was blinded with the least ray directed from the ground. war in north africa to moscow's ban on european vegetables the range of issues facing russian and european leaders meeting on the banks of the volga river now the traditional russia e.u. summit is being held in the city of new. hundreds of kilometers from moscow argues it got there you know what is there for us. hopefully this radio weather will not be reflected in the mood of the summi

based international action center says america is not being honest about its motives. this is just another criminal illegal absolutely it's lawlessness on such a scale hypocrisy the idea of using fighter jets and drone attacks and according to yesterday's new york times this has been going on for weeks. at the very time that the u.s. is using the un security council the international criminal court to bring charges against other countries for terrorism and it is clearly exposed in international terrorism itself in yemen and of course and sabotage teams in syria and bombing of libya not to mention the devastating wars in iraq and afghanistan in yemen is to protect come clean thirty three year dictatorship of salo who's now for. health reasons and saudi arabia and africa to protect his regime potentially bring him back and it's been used against a people's movement anyone that the u.s. fears is a threat to them is now being labeled as al-qaeda and its whole can seize and in terms of attacks and and bombs and drone attacks on any number of different resistance organizatio

within syria of his allies have been reported so of flanders new york based activist group international action center told us that nato may be asking russia to mediate really doesn't want to cease fire but nato once regime change they want absolute and total control of the largest oil. resources in africa they want ownership of the billions of dollars more than seventy million dollars that libya holmes just in our immediate assets from those past oil and gas sales they want control of the whole infrastructure and none of this is about humanitarian defense of the people of libya or any who. really is high risk see on an international scale it's like a massive sold out when entire country and some return to colonial bridge one hundred years ago. this is r.t. still ahead if you do so picking up the loan have it be the point where the russian authorities have turned this time in attempts to tackle the economic turmoil right now that the country plunging into. as a cause the of pays its last respects to late president so good to get the solti follows the path you took to lead the republic the long awaited

follow up action and two days after the mubarak was arrested so it seems to be important but the civil society the population at large is also fighting for distrust trace the way the international center for asset recovery looks for the billions of dollars hidden in europe is organized as master classes for investigators from developing countries they are taught how to pinpoint traces of money which is vanished from national budgets. well would you make for more requests for example or is that money it was transferred into and then a country that would do a move for legal assistance to that country with questing that is such a particle from shore of liberia has their positive x. in them or dollars in this particular bank in your country and we feel that this money is only going when you saw wanting to put a freeze on that money until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule of bankers could only freeze suspicious accounts for a long time but they have no right to send money illicitly taken out of countries back to the national budgets without a request from the new governments or usually it's based on a request by the country. we do exp

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centered course. we don't have to choose between standing idly by or acting on our own. instead, we must rally international action which we're doing in libya where we do not have a single soldier on the ground. >> acknowledging economic anxiety gripping the nation the president said what many politicians in congress and running for president have suggested for weeks. >> america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. >> yeah. reaction on capitol hill was quite muted. somehow odd frankly. if you put it together you come up with reluctant agreement, wishing there was more troops coming home or wishing the timeline had been slower. the most critical of minnesota governor tim pawlenty. >> thanks very much. what does the president's message say about the current mood of the nation? tom pwrbrokaw is with us this morning. >> he had to strike a lot of balances. the military equation, obviously it is important to talk about the effect of all of this on the economy. and then with 2012 coming up there's a big a little bit appearance as well. >> he's basically going to bring home 33,000 of the so-called surge t