envoy to libya says both gadhafi and the rebels agree there's no way to end the crisis through war meantime nato dropped more bombs on the libyan capital that is largely defined colonel gadhafi. and while countries around the world according to stress tests for tomic bunts reported new fukushima the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities but experts are warning london's persistence with its nuclear project poses a massive security threat. when the financial crisis hit four years ago the banks looked doomed didn't they will now simulate against the odds they're back in profit but others have been so lucky next the nati here's my first bit of journalist tybee explains how the banks are escaping scot free. to sitting down with author investigative journalist and contributing editor to rolling stone magazine matt thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me now let's get right into it you've dedicated a large part of your work and your career to discovering and investigating the events that led up to the economic crisis awaits and the events that happen after and during the whole

but if not more news in less than ten minutes from now in the meantime nato steps up its strikes on the libyan capital as and the former u.s. congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney is in the country to see for herself libyans are coping with the onslaught she expressed doubts about whether nato is following international law interview with r.t. is next. former congresswoman and u.s. presidential candidate cynthia mckinney has been in libya working with a non-governmental fact finding mission for ten days already she's here at private expense as are the other members of her team to establish real evidence based facts on the reality of life in tripoli and made mates of bombardments and civil war she joins me now thank you very much cynthia thank you for having me oh why is fact finding necessary in tripoli i can't remember who it was that said that truth is the first casualty of war but we in the united states serve very well aware that the our country went to war against iraq and encouraged the entire world to code a war with it against iraq nine hundred thirty five ti

envoy to libya says both garfield the rebels agree there's no way to end the crisis through war meantime nato dropped more bombs on the libyan capital to dislodge the five colonel gadhafi. and all countries around the world according to stress tests for all twenty plants for the new fukushima the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities but experts warn london's persistence with its nuclear project poses a massive security threat. just ahead people are values cross-talk estimate whether a tough crackdown right now on drugs by mexico the u.s. is actually spreading violence is here on our team. can. you think of. a way to welcome because not computable about the war on drugs has been declared a failure the u.s. government has spent more than two and a half trillion dollars fighting this campaign over the past forty years but the problem has only gotten worse and more deadly is it now time to seriously consider decriminalization and we have some illegal drugs. can. cross talk what went so wrong fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my run in newton he is a senior lecturer and director of un

meantime nato plans to expand the target area of its military strikes in libya and hit khadafi forces in the northwestern part of the country meanwhile colonel gadhafi said he's not going to leave the country despite the heavy pressure he repeated his defines during a meeting with the president of the world chess federation there were reports that the rebels seized the city of zawiya just thirty kilometers off the capital tripoli but the claims were later denied by the libyan government yes radio host and peace activist says that the west has hijacked the uprising in libya to serve its own interests. the united states is spending two million dollars a day in a billion and a half dollars just been handed to these so-called rebels usually the leadership of these rebels. his star as a twenty year operative the central intelligence agency the cia and the. hijack this uprising initially against gadhafi and it is a complete subordinate. position is a group now that is being funded and armed by the nato powers and the united states their objective is to carve a living into several countries

i think nato should do something. >> in the meantime, the daily skirmishes grind on. nato is making a difference here, but not yet a decisive one. >> of the republican leadership and the u.s. congress has called on president obama to explain the legal ground for america's involvement in libya. as of sunday, the administration risks being in breach of the law. it set a time limit for the president to seek congressional approval. >> what is at issue is the war powers resolution of 1973. that is a congressional resolution which essentially gives u.s. presidents 60 days to seek authorization from congress for war when military action begins and there is another 30 days built into that resolution for troops, if need be, to be withdrawn. so there is a 90-day clock for the president to go to congress and seek authorization. the 90 days in the bill will expire on sunday coming. when john boehner is saying to barack, is to make you get to sunday and we haven't -- and have not sought our authorization, you are in breach of the resolution. so what is your legal justification for

i think nato should do something to stop it. in the meantime the daily skirmishes go on. nato is making a difference here but not yet a one. >> new republican leadership in the u.s. congress called on president obama to explain the legal grounds for america's military involvement in libya. the speaker of the house says as of this sunday the administration risks being in breech of the law. he was referring to a resolution that set a time left for the president to seek congressional approval for military action. now we are joined by steve. legally speaking, what is at issue here? >> what is at issue here is the war power resolution of 1973, a congressional resolution that essentially gives the u.s. president 60 days to seek authorization from congress for a war when military action begins and then there is a further 30 days built into that resolution to withdraw. so, a 90 day clock for a president to go to congress and seek authorization. the 90 days will expire. what the speaker is saying to president obama, if we get to sunday and you have not sought our authorization you

i think nato should do something. >> in the meantime, the daily skirmishes ride on. nato is making a difference here, but not yet a decisive one. >> as the fighting continues unabated, nato resources are starting to be stretched. today, the british defense secretary insisted that the effort will continue for as long as required. after the head of the royal navy warned that his fleet would be unable to maintain the current pace if the operations last through the end of the year. i discussed the military mission with the former nato supreme allied commander in europe. >> is it true that nato is running out of bullets on this one? >> in many respects, that is true. i believe that what has happened here in the sense of precision munitions, a special kind to limit collateral damage -- nations do not have a large stockpile, so they will either have to make more or by some from the united states or other nations. >> is it -- the conflict started when nato bottom of and people assumed it would be over within a matter of weeks or months. >> i think so, but as you go back to th

meantime, libyan government officials said nato forces caused damage to a building and injured a child during a bombing raid. government representatives to a group of journalists to view the scene. later, journalists were showing a child that was injured reportedly in the attack. nato did not comment on the allegations. new cell phone video is showing damage near a pakistani attack. they have not confirmed whether the attack killed kashmiri, al qaeda's military operations chief in pakistan. an emotional robert gates met with troops during his final trip to afghanistan as defense secretary. he thanked them for their service. during remarks removed, he paused several times to praise the servicemen and women for their sacrifices. >> i just want to come out here and thank you for the last time before your service and for your sacrifice. more than anybody except the president, i am responsible for you being here. the the presoerson that signed deployment papers that got you here. and that weighs on me every day. that i've had this job for four and half year. >> the defense secretary said th

benghazi and the relative of could have in egypt but there's are no let up in the fighting meantime with yet more nato airstrikes on a rebel advance towards tripoli the colonel's aides say he won't consider stepping down until a cease fire is in place within the past a few hours mikhail margelov told us here about see that it's time libya's political system saw a. need to have its own military agenda and there is another political agenda which is on the table and i am more optimistic about the political agenda i truly believe that that military members reparations do not sort of political problems as i understand of the libyan political elites today he is very for. the right people who are going to go to the right people who are in play around the world could offer them the right people in europe the right people here in tripoli. the reason position of the tribes and there is no let's say to the unanimity of views now in libya and so that's why it's high time to create docking mechanisms to build bridges between different segments of leading libyan political elite. we don't see a lot from moscow not c

leaders in benghazi and a relative of gadhafi is in egypt there's no letup in the fighting meantime with yet more nato airstrikes and rebel advance towards tripoli the colonel's aides say he won't consider. stepping down until a ceasefire is in place but within just the past few hours told us here at r.t. it's time for a new approach to solving libya's conflict. nature has its own military agenda and there is another political agenda which is on the table and i am more optimistic about the political agenda through i truly believe that military operations do not solve political problems as i understand the libyan political elite today is very fragmented the right people who are in benghazi the right people who are around the right people in the europe the right people here in tripoli. the reason position of the tribes and there is no let's say total unanimity of views now in libya and that's why it's high time to create docking mechanism is and to build bridges between different segments of the libyan political elite. correspondent in tripoli is across developments there and will bring us more on the o

the latest push by moscow to mediate a cease fire there's been no letup in the fighting meantime with yet more nato airstrikes and a rebel advance towards khadafi stronghold. she's there for us. the visit to tripoli is part of russia's piece mediates a mission in the protracted libyan conflict moscow has been insisting all the time that a nonviolent negotiation is the only way out of the crisis russia has repeatedly criticized nato for starting a military operation here and has never supported a u.n. security council resolution which authorized intervention russian special presidential envoy mikhail margelov who was sent here to try to get everybody around the table that's actually very hard to achieve the rebel supported by nature allies want to force gadhafi out while the colonel himself says that he will fight to the death meanwhile recently have been several signs indicating that a compromise is possible last week make a mother gaillarde met with the opposition leaders in the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi and talked to cut off his cousin in cairo and said that both sides have a mutual und

meantime it, the nato allies say they'll keep the pressure on the regime.ation room" working the story for us. it looks like it's going on and on and on. >> it could, wolf. nato laid down a new commitment to extend this mission three more months if need be. officials tell us this is standard procedure in an operation like this, but there are new questions about how long this mission can remain effective even with some recent setbacks from moammar gadhafi. he's rarely seen in public. he's just lost eight generals from his command and his oil minister, and now the nato alliance vows to keep up the pressure on moammar gadhafi, announcing it will extend its mission in libya for at least another 90 days. >> this decision sends a clear message to the gadhafi regime, we are determined to continue our operation to protect the people of libya. >> reporter: that's it the publicly stated goal. but on the ground, nato has intensified its air campaign, hitting gadhafi's command and control structures, bringing in french and british attack helicopters with more close str

you're seeing the latest pictures here from libya where nato forces have launched air strikes on tripoli meantime russia has a special envoy has just arrived in the rebel capital of benghazi to encourage the rival sides to meet at the talks. the i.m.f. throws egypt a three billion dollar bailout loan but it's feared it will only line the pockets of all the former presidents who continue to run the country some observers suspect the west is trying to bribe the big shots in cairo and retain an influence over. america's unemployment rate has risen back over nine percent leaving college graduates learning some harsh lessons about life despite investing their thousands of dollars in their own education just one in five students will find work. in america's eye on iran has a worrying echo of what happened over iraq in the view of a pulitzer prize writer seymour hersh he's been telling r.t. that washington is ignoring its own intelligence because it's hell bent on finding nuclear weapons that just don't exist. pulitzer prize winner and legendary american investigative journalist seymour hersh is bust kn

meantime an investigative journalist michelle columnist says nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians as its ultimate aim is to control libya's natural resources and financial reserves they have killed more civilians that the losses from the initials problems there feels more civilians the nato bombings so the real idea is not protect civilians the rio de is to achieve the economic and strategic goal interest of their of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind that the us is a bankrupt country and also all preventing that would be a sort of china to the i.m.f. some buying for african development revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and war. now it's running our tensions out of syria where syrian forces have opened fire at funerals for the victims of a brutal crackdown on and see regime protest as in the capital damascus at least two people died more than twenty people are thought to have been killed across syria sinc

reporting from western libya meantime investigative journalist michelle collins says that nato won't be deflected by concern for civilians in its ultimate aim to control libya's resources. they have killed most civilians that the losses from the initials problems they have kills more civilians the nato bombings so the real i.d.'s not protect civilians the real andy these two achieve the economical strategical interests of their of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind that the us he's a bind corrupt country and also preventing that kind of fear would be a sort of turning to the i.m.f. some buy for african development the old idea is to make the complicated international opinion accept the idea that nato is the cup of the world or that that nato has the right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed this in million population is a fact that must be very clear it has nothing to do with immunity or no war. with r.t. live from moscow and still ahead for you this hour fighting terror with t

we are seeing the latest pictures from a libya where nato forces have launched u.s. strikes on tripoli meantime russia has a special envoy has just arrived in the rebel capital of benghazi to encourage are the rival sides to meet at the top. of. the i.m.f. throws egypt's a three billion dollar bailout but it's only in line the pockets of former president mubarak's protege who continue to run the country. the graduate gamble america's college graduates find that just one in five will land a job with the rest to struggle with. the top story in business they may spell it starts in the sense take it to ross here and later. they will lose control of the company join me for that and more than twenty minutes now this is. a very warm welcome to you this is not the line from moscow research now a russian envoy is starting his peace mission in libya and the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table and call an article off is in benghazi for talks with the opposition would like to head to tripoli for discussions with the gadhafi regime the capital is no safe place right n

. >>> in washington, president obama meets with angela merkel to discuss nato operations in afghanistan and libya. meantime, defense secretary robert gates is wrapping up his farewell visit to the u.s. forces. he retires at the end of the month. gates says that u.s. forces are on track to deliver a major blow to the taliban. >>> it's time to start packing. the duke and duchess of cam trij br -- cambridge better known as will and kate will move into kensington palace. it's where the boys lived with diana before she died. right now they are bunking with prince harry. maybe "bunking" isn't the right word when you talk about royalty. >> it's a big sleepover. thank you very much. mr. roker, it's getting close out here. >> it certainly is. it will be worse tomorrow as we look to show you what's happening as far as the heat is concerned. look at the temperatures. chicago today, 97. 98 in amarillo. we are looking for records. add in the humid and it feels like 100 in minneapolis. 101 in chicago and dallas. we will see a little bit of a break. the jet stream way up to the north for today into tomorrow. the heat mak

meantime a u.s. radio host on peace activist ralph schoenman says that nato is so in its own interests in the region by bombing libya he says the libyan people are being exploited by the greed of some western nations has an imperial agenda the un is a fig leaf for pursuing and carry a war and in libya as in africa at large they want to carve up the country sees its resources and bases of constant military intervention and the population itself is the target its resources will be usurped need florrie for the benefit of foreign oil companies in the ninety ninety s. because of a regime was controlled by the central intelligence agency and could often privatized three hundred six companies and libyan oil was handed over to the major own companies exxon shell. but the uprising was the occasion for the intervention and demonizing khadafi as they had saddam hussein in previously as a cover and pretexts saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's but they demonize him now to give them cover for engender out of

to think about the attitudes towards us decisions on meantime our independent journalist james coburn believes that the escalation shows that nato's real motives in libya are questionable. be surprising on one end if he has held out this long especially given the extent of the onslaught against him and the the attempts to assassinate him and the killing of his son and grandchildren and i think that was perhaps not foreseen in the original action it was a part of the idea of protecting civilians by bombing civilian populations it's on its face ridiculous and in itself exposes that this is not about humanitarian intervention and that lie has been has been it fairly exposed i think by the fact that the initial no fly zone turned pretty much overnight into a bombing campaign which turned into a campaign which we were promised was not to overthrow the regime and to get gadhafi out of there so i think it's just been a lie after lie and i think that pretty adequately exposes the fact that this is not intimately about humanitarian intervention the nato powers will not stop until gadhafi has been. unseated from power of the inevitable end

nato presses on with air strikes. on tuesday the most intense barrage destroyed much of moammar gadhafi's compound. a defiant gadhafi gave a radio address vowing never to surrender. meantime, in brussels, nato ministers will lobby for more countries to participate in the libyan operation. >>> the e. coli outbreak in europe may be growing less severe. germany he is health minister told an eu crisis meeting that the number of new infections is quickly falling, but it's too early to give an all-clear on the issue. >>> a massive fire in rhode island destroyed what was once the largest rubber mill. the vacant 19th century plant near the massachusetts state line was on the national register of historic places. it was purchased last year by a company that planned to use it to generate green energy. >>> now to wall street and courtney reagan. she's at the new york stock exchange. good morning. >> good morning to you, ann. >>> opec officials are meeting in vienna to discuss production to rein in the high prices. fitting timing. ben bernanke actually blames higher gas prices for the continued strain on consumers' wallets. >>> meantime, investors hope for a positive catalyst to turn

a nato official says it's perfectly justified in targeting at the libyan leader meantime of france and britain to continue their campaign against the president of syria. russia will resume imports all the e.u. vegetables as soon as they guarantee to be infection free for that as well as missile defense plans and a moscow's move w.t.f. membership all of that on the table for talks during the latest. right now here not see our weekend moscow out it's coming up next. hello and welcome to the show on this week's program we'll be taking a look at what to do in an emergency here in the russian capital fire please i'm going to services plus a few others thrown and i was south of here at the new building of the european medical center. the private clinic has two locations the regional building the apache on six to make the metro and the building located near prospect both are in the city center the embassy here is a forefront of medical care in russia as one of the first private health centers in russia for the clinic comes with more than twenty years of tradition and history. mc says that it

a nato official says it's perfectly justified in targeting of the libyan leader meantime france and britain continue their campaign against the president of syria party looks at the fate of civilians on the ground caught up in the west's so-called democratic. russia will resume imports of vegetables as soon as they guaranteed to be infection free that as well as n.a.t.o.'s missile defense plans and moscow's move for w t o membership all on the table during the latest high level talks. just after eleven o'clock on a friday night here in moscow you without see a reception a disgraced former russian military officer and a nationalist movement icon has been shot dead here in moscow. spent eight years in prison for kidnapping and killing a chechen teenage girl authorities have boosted security in the capital to head off a possible nationalist march as police say the murder may have been an attempt to ignite ethnic tensions controller has the latest. yury put down of a hugely controversial figure here in russia being a highly decorated military officer the commander of a tank regiment during the

laziness and serving the corporate overlords but in the meantime that's what your mainstream media has been missing. tensions remain high in libya's nato claimed responsibility for the deaths of the nine civilians but this news comes as the libyan health ministry alleges that nato is to blame for the death of eight hundred civilians since the intervention began so how do libyans feel about the foreign presence in their country artie's marie if the notion a has more. mohammad heard his extended family used to be one of the biggest in the neighborhood and they table mean killed five with him by his father one of his brothers a sister and her own family mohammed shows us the picture of little jumana his niece taken on his mobile phone does days before he pulled her dead body from on the day. i woke up when i heard an explosion she started to piece of the roof fell on me and i ran immediately to see how my family is and many were dead my mother survived another brother is in a coma and we don't know when or if he will recover that had is that not three days we live in in this agreement district entry fully it's home to many our aging can p

soon handed over operational control to nato forces but still plays a major support role. in the meantime, gadhafi has remained in power despite stepped-up bombing of tripoli and despite recent advances by rebel forces into government- held territory. and as the conflict continues, with no obvious end in sight, members of congress in both parties have become increasingly restive. in a vote two weeks ago, the house rebuked the president for continuing the u.s. role in libya without the consent of congress. and today, a small bipartisan group of house members filed a lawsuit against the administration, challenging its involvement in the libya conflict. ohio democrat dennis kucinich: >> the fact of whether or not there are boots on the ground at this point doesn't get into the question of whether or not the president had the ability in the first place to send u.s. military assets abroad to participate in and initiate a war. there's a constitutional issue here, and it can't be danced around at all. >> brown: all the same, white house spokesman carney voiced confidence today that congress will

taxpayer has so far spent $1 billion to pay for the american nato operation in libya, in the meantimen at least $30 billion of libyan assets here in the united states. would you support keeping a running tab on what u.s. taxpayers are paying to liberate libya and then deduct that amount from the frozen libyan assets? that's the question. but based on what other obama administration officials have told me in recent weeks, panetta's answer probably would be a very polite no. whether using of those frozen libyan funds would be legal. the senate majority leader harry reid told me recently he would support the idea. other members of congress, democrats and republicans also told me they agree it makes sense especially at a time when the u.s. is under enormous pressure to reduce spending at home. it would probably raise questions down the road of potentially trying to recoup money from oil rich iraq to pay for u.s. military operations there and that in part is why i suspect panetta's answer if he were asked that question at these hearings, and so far he has not, why i suspect his answer may

week the first of nato launches its heaviest the most punishing a strike from the libyan capital killing dozens as the rebels complain the alliance is ignoring the real frontline meantime of course international condemnation over syria gets ever louder. and it comes to a boil in greece as the government moves to make deeper cuts in public spending in exchange for another received bailout in germany those footing the bill say they're getting tired of paying others debt. and the u.s. god this ship sails into the black sea for naval exercises with ukraine but the move provokes moscow's i'm get which claims it's a pretty good for nato as controversial missile shield program. next time for a special report where we take a look at how the world's dictators boost their bank accounts illegally coming up here on r.t. . billions of dollars are escaping from developing countries to financial safe havens in europe and secret bank accounts bogus companies and offshore zones are all in on the act. using their very very traditional mass itself what we call money laundering was sort of the licit schemes to presidents government ministers she used to launder money how much money have t

where you find out how the nato chief challenging questions over libya in a full interview he gave to us. on our website whatever you like check it out. meantime tensions are also peaking in syria government troops stormed the rebel northern border turned of just with tanks and military helicopters the army has entered the city in order to quote cleanse it of armed rebel groups which killed at least one hundred twenty police officers last meanwhile britain and france are still pushing for a un resolution condemning the brutal crackdown against anti-government activists in syria russia which opposes any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict and said. the arab world observers believe that some western nations manipulating the u.n. in an attempt to benefit from the country's civil conflict. is merely an international organization working to promote the interests of its most powerful members know that we you know it's. also from so in other countries and europe. in union because just as they are appropriate considering cracking down on the syrian government did not consider cracking down on the government of bahrain or other or each of the

from now in the meantime it's all spotlight program and i'll get all of his speaking to bulgaria as foreign minister to find out why the country is considering hosting elements of nato's missile shield that's next on r.t. . hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i maldonado and today my guest. will identify. the area as both an important job for russia's energy projects in the region and also an intel world part and then vicious nato missile shield military project all this political gathering diplomacy and the center of intensive diplomatic negotiations to tell us about the results of negotiations in moscow and also to explain vogue arius point of view on burning international issues our guest on the show is a bug arius foreign minister of. russia and nato have failed to come to terms with the project missile defense shield in europe. confused about who the alliance believes is a potential enemy placing its warhead so close to russian border as bill garrett has all the european countries feel safe on the nature protection and supports the shield if you strongly believes the proliferation of ballistic technology makes such protection vitally n

stories from our team nato launches its heaviest the most punishing in a struggle with libyan capital killing dozens as the rebels complain the alliance is ignoring the real frontline meantime the chorus of international condemnation over syria that's of a lot of. anger comes to boil in greece as the government moves to make deeper cuts in public spending in exchange for another year but i think germany those for whom the bills say they're getting tired of paying others. are also u.s. guided missile defense sails into the black sea naval exercises with ukraine the move provoked moscow's which claims it's appropriate to make his controversial misawa fuel program. forty five or a moscow case called the latest sport live for you. and i welcome to the sports series and here are the top stories. winning in the way she started to find the rain to triumph for the british grand prix go top of the overall budget g.p. standings. while yet more rain found weather ensures the final at queen's club and will be tsongas held out that until monday. he waits robert rock wins the italian i think to take his maiden title after eight barren years on the european tour. but first there's been a