the let them libya is not far behind coming up next hour a martini months after the fall of gadhafi ngo doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya after being forced to treat torture victims who have been straight sent straight back and further interrogation. more on that in about an hour from now here on our team president obama vowed to reform tax and find poverty while hailing america's military during his annual state of the union speech but the focus in this year's address was dedicated to the country's struggling economy and the pressing problem of inequality embodied by the occupy movement bomb also praised army advances abroad and the assassination of his on the bin laden speech to regard it as a pre-election chance for obama to sell his campaign to the public confessor paul sheldon a foot from the california state university believes the address clearly demonstrates the policy priorities chosen by obama's administration the state of union is getting stronger. he used the cute little code phrase that we're going to have an enduring relationship with death in a stand w

get them in let's face it is out of it western illinois is serving western interests absolutely any no interest in ordinary libyans the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against nato it's the m.t.c. government they want the country i expect retracted but i won't hear a degree anything can happen. with r.t. hand still ahead for you in the program yet another country trying to rise from revolution in egypt prepares for democracy as activists continue to call for more nationwide protests. and with less than fifty days or so ago we take a look at the current political climate here in russia just ahead of the presidential elections in march. now ten minutes past the hour here anger reaches boiling point in romania which soars worst of violence in years and the austerity protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding that the president and the government step down that's against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases in the e.u.'s second poorest country struggling to meet the demands of his international creditors his artie's tom barton in bucharest. night and day they come to scream their d

what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this rolling western aggression against other countries in the global south. now let's to go to some other stories from around the world the islamist party which won the most seats in the egyptian parliament a muslim brotherhood has promised it will work with all political parties and also added it's going to cooperate with the country's ruling military council despite repeated calls from activists that power should be handed over to the civilian government islamic parties have captured an overwhelming majority of egypt's first post in the bar parliamentary elections. yemen's president ali abdullah saleh has left the country after giving a farewell speech where he apologized for mistakes during his thirty three year wrong rule is planning to have medical treatment in the u.s. this comes a day after the parliament approved immunity from prosecution for selling part of the deal under which he would relinquish power seller has become the latest to be toppled by the wave of arab spring uprisings. during president goodluck jonathan has visited the site of a series of recent

about what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this ruling western aggression against other countries in the global south let's turn over to marina now with the latest business. hello and welcome to business here on our team as we've been reporting they'd european union has formally adopted an oil embargo against iran over its nuclear program now this involves an immediate battle onya well contracts with the country however all existing contracts will be honored ancel the first of july and there's a strategist gas low as davis from b.m.p. part believes any lead sanctions against a middle eastern country will only lead to minor fluctuations in the oil price. oh no i don't think that significant ram exports run about two point two million barrels a day of oil. the oil that goes to europe is only represents run about one quarter of most goes to to asia so we expect that the impact of the e.u. sanctions are quite limited with the u.s. sanctions that might take effect to three end of this year. removing all of the rain at sports two point two million barrels a day and of that i think we'll have greater price impact

to fight you here cheating them down oh here angry anything can happen i expect attracted violence and one more thing i saw a reformed koran. i think it was libya as well let us try though i'm sorry this was a report in crowd are you published yesterday. i don't have been even the writer in front of me but he said the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against nato and you see m.t.c. government they want their country back again and i expect protracted violence i suspect the west the major media to ignore it but before too long it will be impossible to know what i hope russia today will come. thanks for your time author and radio host steven levitt. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour man is just not stepping on the moon he could stay there find out what his latest plans for the great. have it. sort of the spoiled rich kid as it we're going to look at tons of edible food still edible food filling bins but not stomachs in a nation where millions are having to get by on. first in creation's capital zagreb police have clashed with protesters attempting to pull down in the e.u. flag ahead of the country's membership referendum sunday a recent

between tribes and groups and cities in libya and there is no government at the moment to sort these problems at home nic if i can stay with them you have to get into into let me take notice of well it's not civil war yet but i don't think it was anywhere anywhere near that but don't you think it's very problematic that you have western countries recognizing the n.p.c. saying this is a legitimate government in libya when the libyans themselves in have a chance to say that did anybody even ask them. well i was in benghazi shortly after the revolution broke out and people were absolutely begging for nato to intervene before just before where there were also strikes because people go ahead jump into and that's the point of the program go ahead there i mean they're always you were in benghazi everybody knows that benghazi is precisely where the opposition was at what a month after that you had huge demonstrations in tripoli in favor of retaining the regime or at least against the nato bombing so you can see the people there were some people that you saw that wanted this and there were others who didn't and the point is that an age old to choose to go with the o

them there. let's talk about the us over the four years of reset in relations russia and the us have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention miss out the facts how would you build a relationship with america. the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we learn to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the us are a different matter russia and america have many things in common the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large and multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different both countries have dast territory the only problem with america is that despite all that we don't really have economic ties with the us russia's share in u.s. trade is less than that off thailand below one percent if we build a purely political relationship it proves to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old system of checks and balances he's not enough now i would suggest replacing nato with a pan european security system that's a left

let's imagine your idea were actually put into fruition what extent do you think it could actually do to change the government's policies most people didn't view the libya as a threat. why agree with them. the shore is changing i think this all has to do with perception you know the mainstream media in america this created a perception that iran is trying to create a bomb in which case they're going to go and blow up israel or whatever basically. and that's completely i'm saying because iran is well aware they're going to be nuked out of existence or. go on and on and so i can just jump in here just for a moment as well what would you propose to what you propose rather would take a while to implement in the e.u. for the meantime is that to decide on a symbolic go on iranian oil just next week tehran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz if indeed the sanctions have put in place if the sanctions go ahead will kind of response you know expecting tyrone in my home i still fall into the hands of israel in america perhaps to a stationing that troops along the area. i think that. ultimately in a quick answer i don't think that iran will block this for a reason i believe that is