to act as a mediator to broker a peace in libya using their connections in north africa now if mr medvedev did have one criticism of the the current action that's taking place we've already seen two nights of air strikes on libya as it stands at the moment no he did have a criticism saying that the moment they didn't seem to be a definite cool to natives outcome between nations who are currently undergoing and taking part in military action for things to bring you something very different. in libya itself the international coalition says aerial strikes have successfully halted the forces of colonel gadhafi there are reports of a sixty people have been killed so far the u.s. says it's fired more than twelve cruise missiles at targets on monday and canadian planes and join the action western officials claim to have destroyed a command center used by the libyan army in tripoli but deny the good bath it was a target. from paula now she's in tripoli the capital paula good evening tonight there were more strikes and fighting overnight what is the situation in libya now bring us up to date if you

the games mr medvedev thank you very much for finding time for us in your very busy schedule and i would like to wish all of the forensics. work for the. game now big weekend lies ahead for russians for boys with the european qualifiers getting back under way the cars first series test of the year taking place and yet a van where the ever improving armenia's sideline way from there is roman a story his riches ample fling really can underline how important it is for the russians as we look to try and solidify a very lead the top of group b. for many players a large group of first time well be setting foot in our media and playing compared to the game here it's my first time go into iran so i don't think i can make any predictions but you can pretty much gauge the form of my teammates have been playing in the russian premier league for the past two weeks. well russia really won in dublin and in scorpio but it's not going so i mean you could prove to be perhaps not face so far on the road but i mean there's also been in good form recently. going to provide a very tough transport to count th

this year's international games mr medvedev thank you very much of a dividing time for us in your very busy schedule i would like to wish all the forensics. in the cup final. well meanwhile russia will now host the twenty eleven world's biggest racing championships after they were cancelled in japan because of the recent earthquake prime minister vladimir putin suggested russia could step in and take over the finals on the international stage confederation except to be off a week on toronto gets underway in moscow i pulled twenty four. which was a period national like to show our friends and counterparts that all the athletes and two supporters will feel tell the readable championships in moscow that the russian national t.v. finals will be the first edition and so be the scale because our squad can see some very young skaters the beginning of a long road for them first step is thrown in preparations for the sochi winter olympics national borders with. a separate law so will also step in as the host of this year's world modern pentathlon championships the annual tournament was jew in c

mr medvedev goes up next with our latest business news stay with us here on our city. hello and welcome to business see you well prices have retreated from the two year highs. west texas crude is currently trading at just around out of five dollars per can look at the figures if we can brant crude is over one hundred thirteen dollars that's. not going as been reassured by news that the organization of petroleum exporting countries is considering increasing production in order to compensate for the declining output and maybe i'll have a date. from platts says opec is not likely to boost oil production so while. opec a is talking about this issue as we speak and their view is that there's more than enough oil in the market to make up for everything we're missing from libya and more so their chances of increasing production are very small right now but they're keeping a close eye on things at the same time as well there's a lot of important is to watch over the weekend is a day of rage planned in saudi arabia for friday and i think the market we have very very concerned t

medvedev went further to say that the current armed intervention should remain within the parameters laid out by the un security council resolution and that was to protect the civilian population of libya well mr president medvedev also said that russia was prepared to step in as a mediator to broker a peace between the sides involved in the conflict. and what the u.s. . says. they disapprove cheated ok let's move on now and the u.s. says it's fired twelve more cruise missiles at targets on monday the canadian planes have joined the action coalition forces claim to have destroyed a command center used by the libyan army in tripoli but deny gadhafi was a target there are reports over sixty people have been killed so far at least paula slee is got the latest from the capital. but we're hearing from the coalition forces is that they have hit one hundred and twenty four targets they're saying that the operation has been successful but they've stopped the ground at vance meant gadhafi streets there for two days now is if force has been able to take to the skies we also hear into that the no fly zone is now being extended with woods and southwards over this country but at the same time there is inte

candidate mr gorbachev in the russian star of russian politics and celebrated his eightieth anniversary recently given a couple of interviews and in some of them he criticized sharply both medvedev and putin in particular one of the things that he blamed them for is that he said why are these two people going to decide who we should have as the next russian president so why isn't putin also into this criticism and do you agree that mr gorbachev had grounds for such criticism. well first of all i would rather say once again that truly tauriel means a premature. and current stage. mr prime minister have his always been very tolerant towards criticism this is why he's not answering it he's extremely flexible and he's tolerant towards the criticism. the reason i think this is my personal point of view of the reason that no answer came from either of the subjects of the criticism of mr gorbachev you know from representatives spokespeople is very simple none of them has never said that they would sit together and decide who's going to be the next president of this country. they said they do would consult each other and then they would decide who's going to run for the presidency becau