did say that the libyan people themselves will arrest gadhafi but of course gadhafi and he is called wards remain defiant and say they will continue to fight to the very end and they basically said they don't particularly care for this particular decision as a matter of fact there were reports of intensified bombing off tripoli just this morning there were reports that blasts have been heard very close to gadhafi compound this was supposed to be enforcement of a no fly zone in libya and yet already we're talking about. according to libyan government we're talking about hundreds of civilians being killed as a result of the nato airstrikes of course. until not so long being. at this point is kind of a situation which is just hanging in the air and whether this particular latest decision from the i.c.c. whether that will have any effect on the situation in libya remains to be seen. and constantine cause a child chairman of the state duma's foreign affairs committee explained to r.t. why the of wesh arrest warrants cannot be applied to the libyan leader the decision of the international

so apparently nato believes the efforts to kill gadhafi are justified because gadhafi is the commander in chief of a military force which is killing civilians. it's unclear if nato has just come to this decision to kill gadhafi. it does appear to be a departure from what was at least the publicly stated mission. listen. >> there's no question that libya and the world would be better off with gadhafi out of power. i, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal. and will activity pursue it through nonmilitary means. but broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake. >> well, joining us now, cnn national security contributor fran townsend, former homeland security adviser to president george bush, and is currently member of the cia and department of homeland security external advisory committee. also joining us, john burns from the new york times who got this ball roll thing week on this story. and by phone, wesley clark, senior fellow at ucla. fran, basically nato sees it as well within the scope of its mandate to target gadhafi. i know this

should go and on the other side you have gadhafi who's requirement is that gadhafi should stay now even. even russia isn't going to be able to find a compromise on that that very easily but a compromise will come one day can you tell us about your experience with gadhafi of course you were the ambassador there in libya what do you make of his current behavior. oh. well i wouldn't put too much weight on my personal experience because it was a long time ago and it was quite limited i wasn't very must have a very long because i had to break off relations when the russians murdered a policewoman in london when the going to be in the libyan policeman in london yes . well i think gadhafi is very tough he's been. defending himself against all kinds of attacks over the many years he's been in town of of forty years he's very skilled at protecting himself and he would be an easy it would be easy to persuade him to go but in the end i think is he his support will wither away and he will go and russia i think also as well as the western powers and the arabs has said that he must go that's the only

libya after gadhafi, world leaders meet to map out a new way after gadhafi. the euro's alone signals a hike in interest rates. angela merkel says that a move to end nuclear power is the right thing to do. moammar gadhafi is holding on to what he can while much of the rest of the world is planning a at the b l what he is history. leaders from the u.s. to kuwait met to map out a post-gadhafi libya. they poured millions of dollars into an international fund to help the rebels. he said that the end of gadhafi may come sooner than we think. >> delegates believe that gadhafi's days in power are numbered. hillary clinton says that the closest allies are seeking talks on a transfer of power. >> we are putting the economic and political pressure on gadhafi. his isolation is growing. the list of officials that have abandoned him are growing. >> at a nato meeting in brussels, germany said that it was willing to help with reconstruction and the defense minister did not rule out sending troops if there was a u.n. mandate. >> we are hoping for a solution that does not invo

it says much about gadhafi's libya today. allen pizzey, cbs news, tripoli. >>> libya's rebels claim several members of the national soccer team defected to their side and that's seen as a propaganda defeat of gadhafi. >> here is jeff glor at the news desk with one more look at the other headlines making news today. >> when you've got the football players, significant. chris, rebecca, good morning. >>> wildfire is getting close to the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico, the lab is closed for the day. david romero of krqe has more. >> reporter: the los qonchoos fire has gained ground overnight. you can see the remnants of what burned yesterday, the smoke is covering the skies over los alamos, the flames burned as far away as albuquerque, 80 miles south of here. the temperatures and winds are expected to pick up throughout the day. the latest update, flames have come within a mile of the southwest corner of land they own. they have a special task force monitoring that situation. as for smoke in the town of los alamos i

we've seen them on gadhafi's compound. nato target facilities there are described as command and control. this does seem to be a variance with what the nato spokeswoman is saying, now that nato doesn't target individuals, they've also said, however, they won't go out of their way to miss gadhafi if he happens to be in their sights. but i think the tone of what the international community, at least at a diplomat levic level were hearing yesterday, the third libya contact meeting here, there say general acceptance that gadhafi is on the way out, he must go. and if the military pressure of nato makes that happen, that is a good thing. beyond that, it's sort of quietly said on the margens if a nato bombs happens to land on moammar gadhafi, no one is going to shed a tear. there seems to be a fine line that's being walked here between targeting gadhafi and a rocket that might land in his compound, might land on him. but certainly the intent of the international community now seems very, very clear that moammar gadhafi must go. i

congress have reportedly received a letter from colonel gadhafi saying he is ready to negotiate a cease fire and authenticity of the letter has not been confirmed meanwhile nato airstrikes continue to rock tripoli it comes as gadhafi is daughter filed a lawsuit against french president nicolas sarkozy and nato for killing four members of her family and april's military strike earlier an unnamed official confirmed that the alliance does consider colonel gadhafi a legitimate target nato has long insisted that regime change is not the military's the military operations objective lecture in modern history at oxford university press for more common says gadhafi his position is not as weak as the west might want to present. itself is obviously under pressure he is also being bombed by nato but he also. in the u.s. congress a resolution was passed critical all watch president obama should the bombing

in libya, several months of air strikes have failed to topple moammar gadhafi. and some house and senate leaders are now demanding that the white house seek congressional approval for continued military action. >> i think it's time for the president to outline to the american people why we are there, what the mission is and what our goals are and how do we exit this. >> in afghanistan, the debate heats up over just how many american soldiers should return home this summer. and the cost of war is a huge factor as budget talks between democrats and republicans grind on. a debate this morning between assistant majority leader in the senate, democrat from illinois, senator dick durbin, and republican senator from south carolina, member of the armed services committee, senator lindsey graham. then the race for the white house. and gop field taking center stage in new hampshire. >> i want to announce tonight, president obama is a one-term president. >> this president has failed. and he failed at a time when the american people counted on him to create jobs and get the

nato has been intensifying its operation across libya, hoping to push gadhafi out. >> gadhafi will fight to the end. and nato is making a big gamble by trying to kill gadhafi and the inner circle. really the situation now is beyond any kind of compromise. >> reporter: in washington president obama, alongside german chancellor angela merkel, sounded optimistic. >> the progress that has been made in libya is significant, and i think it is just a matter of time before gadhafi goes. >> reporter: in a late-night press conference libyan officials had a different message. >> nato is going mad because it could feel the resilience of the libyan nation. >> reporter: on state tv gadhafi called for protests outside his now destroyed compound. fewer than 200 responded. a sign perhaps that the dictator's support, as the bombs continue to drop, might be slipping. we're hearing of a new defection. the minister of labor, who was attending a conference in geneva, has decided to join the rebels. he is just the latest official to abandon gadhafi's ever-shrinking government here. lester? >> stephanie, thanks

because gadhafi's reign of terror is coming to an end. and we must be prepared for when it is over. >> let's discuss this with david gergen. david, i want to start with something you wrote on cnn.com. you have been on this program. you've been critical of the administration essentially taking a back seat, letting others in the nato alliance be on the front lines of the fighting. you wrote this, i was among those who would have preferred stronger, more a certificative american leadership. but iffed good deaf fall, obama will have brags rights that his way worked better than critics like me thought. >> well, john, i think there have been a lot of signs in recent days gadhafi is coming toward his end. i think we've entered -- remember when nixon's final days in that famous book by woodward and bernstein? i think we've entered gadhafi's final days. don't know how long they're going to last. i think it could end quickly. despite his sort of ragings. the intensification of the air strike on tripoli, they've basically destroyed much of his compo

is still in early stage targeting gadhafi if he is directing. is legitimate if you use fully engaged in clearly he is ok thank you very much ruben director of policy and government affairs from the u.s. based think tank shares want to thank you. for more stories from marquis you can always log on to our web site dot com and there you can read about the american a tea party's presidential candidate who got egg on her face after mixing up a famous cowboy with a mass murderer and rapist. also russian scientists predict that they'll find alien civilizations within twenty years find out why they are sort of targets to seek out all these are are. now the international monetary fund has picked french finance minister christine legarde as its new boss and she was backed by europe and the u.s. russia and china making her the clear favorite let's get more from our washington correspondent. so is there any fundamental change in store for the i.m.f. under its new leader. well paso with christine lagarde appointment the tradition of having a european in the

the gadhafi forces are very much still on the offensive. what about the opposition and the rebels if they're making any ground? >> reporter: here's the situation. we want to be very clear that the city of misrata is safe at this point. the rebels are still in full control of this city. what's happening, though, about 25 to 35 kilometers outside of the city, on the outskirts of the city, is fierce fighting. there was heavy artillery fig fighting yesterday. more than two dozens were injured on these three separate fronts. gadhafi forces were trying to push forward, thousands of them, but the rebels were able to not only hold them off but they say they've been able to push them back even a bit further, about 3 kilometers further. right now as far as the city goes, the city is still in a very secure position. we don't want to give the idea that somehow gadhafi forces are actually pushing back into the city where this city has been under siege for three months in the past. for weeks now it has been a place where the rebel are in control. they ar

a problem of real need for all prosecutors in the hague calling libyans to turn over colonel gadhafi for allegedly killing civilians more from the coastal city of recently razed to the ground obama some of. the international monetary fund chooses french finance minister christine lagarde as its new chief financial time of. eleven pm here in the russian capital you're watching are to you thanks very much for joining us now we're. story violent clashes have broken out in greece during massive nationwide strikes hundreds of thousands of workers are protesting ahead of a parliamentary vote on a harsh set of tax hikes and spending cuts well riot police have detained eighteen people so far and four policemen have been hospitalized with injuries twenty eight billion euros worth of cuts are needed before the e.u. agrees to hand recent other cash bail out it's considered the country's last resort to avoid becoming the first eurozone nation to default but both the cots and the high interest bailout are deeply unpopular illustrated by the fact that police once again clashed with protesters and

criminally responsible libya's colonel gadhafi officially charged with the killing of anti-government protesters and the international criminal court also wants gadhafi son saif and other close aide in the dock for the deaths it alleges happened at the beginning of the popular uprising. troubled waters ahead a fleet of ships carrying humanitarian aid bound for gaza gets ready to leave greece israel says it's i'm gearing up to intercept the convoy after withdrawing earlier threads to ban into port journalists traveling with the flotilla to. public anger growing at tokyo's handling of the fukushima nuclear disaster is fifteen people living outside the exclusion zone are diagnosed with radiation poisoning the government has stepped up health checks but official figures have been met with skepticism following conflicting reports about already. time now for the alone a show from washington state with us. welcome to the alona show well get the real headlines with none of them or say we're going to live out of washington d.c. now so i will ask what the i.c.c. is issuing of an arrest warrant

but i think that gadhafi is very tough he's been. defending himself against all kinds of attacks over the many years he's been in power now for forty years he's very skilled at protecting himself and he would be an easy it would be easy to persuade him to go but in the end i think is he his support will wither away and he will go and russia i think also as well as the western powers and the arabs has said that taking moscow that's the only way that a solution will be reached but he's not ready for it yet you have russia can find a way to persuade him to go that's great you raise that person and point he's been in power for forty years. and the u.k. is saying that gadhafi is going to go said that the people the libyan people can determine net their own future but the question is since he has been in power for forty years is there really an opposition there is there somebody who could really replace him somebody that can reproduce that quickly in such a short amount of time. you know certainly isn't anyone who could replace him he's he

the world may be getting ready for life without gadhafi. libya without gadhafi. allied nations now pledging more than a billion dollars to the rebels. let's go to nic robertson in abu dhabi to talk about the latest developments in the libya saga. we know that the -- we know that the world leaders have said that they want him to go, but what about, you know, the nato mission for getting him out? that's what seems to be in play here. >> well, this senior military commander within nato with knowledge of the libyan bombing says that the u.n. resolution, 1973, allows for moammar gadhafi to be targeted or justified as a target, because he is the head of the military and is the head of the military, in charge of command and control and command and control is about killing civilians and the u.n. resolution is about saving civilians. we've seen his compound targeted since the early days and we were told it was targeted because there were command and control facilities there. and over the past few months, that sort of main palace system that gadhafi has in the center of tr

has to kill gadhafi? >> no, it's not about killing gadhafi. general clark said it best. this is about going after the command and control structure. you hit it at all levels. if you can hit the soldiers in the field attacking the civilians, you can hit the guys who is giving the orders. this is a matter of attacking the entire command structure from the top to the bottom. >> you remember after the failed efforts to kill castro, there were laws passed in the united states that barred political assassination. >> i don't think this falls in a category of a political assassination. it's part of an ongoing military operation. by his own admission, he's the warrior. he's going to stay in there and fight and fight and fight. you know, as we build up intelligence from the constant looking at the area and developing targets and so forth, i'm sure inside nato it's become increasingly clear that you can't stop the attacks on civilians unless you target as higher levels. up the chain of command. and so they're hitting the command post and he's, wherever he is, that's the supreme com

gadhafi has ruled libya since 1969. his government is expected to ignore the warrants. >>> to yemen which remains in a state of unrest. president has been in a hospital ever since he was wounded in an attack earlier this month. he continues to cling to power despite numerous demands he steps down. cnn's nick robertson is the only western network reporter in yemen. there were reports that sala would make a public appearance in yemen or saudi arabia. do you know if that's happened? >> reporter: it doesn't appear as if it's going to happen right now. we've had a presidential adviser saying in the middle of last week that president sala was about to come back. the adviser then said that saleh would make a public statement. it wasn't clear if he would do it in saudi arabia or in yemen. earlier ted, we hoday, we had t principal spokesman saying that's not correct. no public statement by the president, but what it does is sort of a drum beat to those loyal to president saleh that he is under pressure to step down and he's igno

moammar gadhafi is being hit from outside and from within. gadhafi has suffered another key defection, the country's oil minister who says he left because of the suffering of the people. meantime it, the nato allies say they'll keep the pressure on the regime. brian todd is here in "the situation 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

you know it's noticeable how gadhafi seems to be at the moment playing chess and giving interviews all with an air of somewhat aloofness now how is he remaining so calm especially when other arab leaders crumbled so quickly in similar circumstances. well i think to understand the difference we have to realize that in egypt there was of course the powerful army that pushed. president mubarak and that hasn't yet happened in libya but the defections are showing that gadhafi support within the regime is clearly declining i think the other reason why he seems so carl is because i think he does suffer from dangers to lucian's he does think of themselves as somehow untouchable and it's very clear that india and all dictators all autocrats all tyrants sooner or later. removed by by their own people or somehow removed by outside forces very few actually survive until their. sort of physical death in all day and i think the same will happen we could afy idea will be betrayed or some attack by nato will be successful in either injuring him or indeed in killing him but if he is defiance a lot perh

gadhafi has survived despite the efforts of nato. but i think gadhafi is on the ropes. he's much weaker than four months ago today, three months ago today. you've seen defections of leading military officers, moussa koussa defected. he less of an ability to use the economic resources from is oil industry. i think it's a matter of time and ultimately, if we're patient, the nato mission is going to succeed. >> i just want to remind our viewers as i bring up the map of libya how this has played out. here's the start of the air strikes. gadhafi controlled much of the country. then the opposition peaked right in here. you see they started to gain control. here's about where we are now, nick. you say stalemate. the opposition still controls over here in the east, in misurata. gadhafi controlling tripoli. at this point you say stalemate. should nato change its tactics? should nato do more on the ground or do they continue with the air strikes? >> i think nato's problem at the beginning of this, john, the military of a military operation was the insufficient use of force and in

see gadhafi will want a conflict in the first place. he responded to it when washington in new york will mean the french civil. war she didn't. need always a call flew from washington to go. if you respond of course of course he wants it if you want a cease fire he doesn't want any of this to go war and the west is committing to doing a massive kill he using the usual rebel insurgents. so this is a meeting here so you know. the thing is if he wants a cease fire he sent that letter and within just a couple of days of sending that letter we're now going to reports that his forces are renewing their attack on misurata. well i am in awe really renewing the responding again you get a rebel insurgency going on you go to war friends in dizziness were related to your use of the country of course gadhafi is attacking here this is an insurgency that's attacking him is killing libyan people as a leader of a country if i would not leave the leader of libya i would do what he's doing and i are not violent i believe in peace not war but i believe in

food while prosecutors in the hague call on libyans to turn over colonel gadhafi for allegedly killing civilians we report on the coastal city of but i got recently raised to the ground by nato bombs. verging on the brink of default live pictures here from greece where strikes are going on hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to march against austerity cuts but in excess unexpected friend has offered to help. the lawmakers consider respect in abortions to boost the birth rate but opponents say it will only increase the number of dangerous backstreet terminations and abandoned children. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me nice and now a it's four pm here in the russian capital straight to libya which says the international criminal court is just a cover for nato's attempts to kill colonel gadhafi and refuses to recognize its legitimacy this came in response to the issuing of arrest warrants for gadhafi and two of his confidant by the hague tribunal on monday and many libyans believe nato . leaders be held to account for their actions to

they're saying the gadhafi side is demoralized. they are feeling very, very, very strong at this point in time and they've been able to hold off these attacks now for almost a month. john? >> and, sarah, lastly we've seen so many strikes on tripoli, did the opposition have any sense there's a tipping point or is it simply just a giant question mark? >> reporter: i this i what we are seeing is a tipping point, according to the commanders. point blank was asked, how long will it be, do you think, until you can push a lot further in and much closer to tripoli. at first he said it might be a week or a few days, then he said three days. that's the first time we've gotten any kind of number or any kind of timeline from the rebels. so i think there is a tipping point and i do want to mention this. for the first time since we've been here, we heard planes overhead. and you know what that means, because there's a no-fly zone it had to be nato. and that's the first time we've heard them over misrata. again and again, the opposition has been

with you twenty four hours a day it appears that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is not only being targeted by nato jets but the international criminal court also has him in its sights two judges in the hague of issued an arrest warrant for gadhafi and his closest allies on charges of crimes against humanity. namely he's being accused of purposefully targeting his civilians of killing civilians during the dispersal of the protest in february of this year the court's decision and the request for the arrest of moammar gadhafi his son and also his intelligence minister has been issued by one of the prosecutors of the international criminal court and this is only the second time in the courts nine year history that such a warrant has been issued for an incumbent head of states the first such occurrence happened in two thousand and nine and the man that they wanted or were after was the sudanese president over that decision has yet to be implemented in reality and the libyan authorities have already said that they will not comply with the decision in this case they actually question its legitima

gadhafi must go. and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future. >> so let's discuss the dramatic changes and the challenges in the middle east and north africa with senator dianne feinstein of california. she leads the senate select committee on intelligence. senator, thank you for your time tonight. i want to start with yemen. as we learn about more u.s. air strikes, more u.s. drone attacks, there is essentially a secret war going on in yemen. are you comfortable with that? >> well, let me put it this way. yemen is a very serious concern. between march and june the al qaeda has taken over large swaths of land. we know that awlaki is in yemen. we know that out of yemen is the planning of the possibility of attack against the united states. so there is a direct national security interest right now in yemen and the more confusion and the more disintegration the better it suits al qaeda's purposes. so i am very concerned about what's happening in yemen and i think it would be in our best in

well all of miles the former british ambassador to libya says whatever happens persuading gadhafi to go won't be an easy task. after years very tough he's been. defending himself against all kinds of attacks over many years he's been in power now for forty years he's very skilled at protecting himself and he would be an easy to persuade him to go certainly isn't anyone who could replace him he's he's unique nobody will want to replace him but of course there will be a future after gadhafi naturally as the region in every country there's it's quite common when you have a powerful leader who's been there for a long time people will say what will happen when you go you know it was the same with everyone from stalin. that wherever you go in the world you find this phenomenon but there will be a future for libya after gadhafi don't worry. but as a result of the nato airstrikes they bins are suffering from shortages the fuel long queues are stretching from every petrol station in the capital tripoli and there's artie's where if a national reports the operation to turn people against colone

requirement is that gadhafi should go and on the other side you have gadhafi who's requirement is that good after should stay i think gadhafi is very tough he's been. defending himself against all kinds of attacks over the many years he's been in power now for forty years he's very skilled at protecting himself and he would be an easy it would be easy to persuade him to go but in the end i think is he has support will wither away and he will go and russia i think also as well as the western powers and the arabs has said that he must go that's the only way that a solution will be reached but he's not ready for it yet if russia can find a way to persuade him to go that's great. well the case of a russian man the u.s. accuses of being an international arms dealer will be heard in the news in new york court on thursday big to boots been awaiting trial since his arrest over three years ago in thailand and as if he's marina portnoy reports his attention raises many questions over the legality of the case. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt victor boot was secretly

gadhafi's history. and -- it is no longer a question of if it goes but when he goes. >> nature so on the record saying we are going to bomb until he is gone. >> i think that's right. and we have seen operations that certainly look like they are aimed at targeting gadhafi or those around hum. i think that the argument is that the -- u.n. security council resolution authorized all necessary measures to protect civilians but those civilians aren't under attack from the libyan military and that libyan military is commanded and controlled by gadhafi and, therefore, he and -- those around him are legitimate targets. at this point i think that looking at -- at the operations that are going on, one has to conclude that the -- that the objectives are quite broad and include trying to knock gadhafi from power. >> if you make that case, let me ask it to you this way. congress people are taking their case to court. white house might have to take its case to court. if you wanted to be on the winning side and got to

hard to choose between goldman and gadhafi, maybe. but then they tried to give the money back to gadhafi. explain this. >> yeah. apparently they were so broken up about having lost 98% of gadhafi's investment. incidentally, i didn't know it was possible to lose 98% of any investment. but they did and they were so shaken up by it that they went back to gadhafi and offered to sell a $3.7 billion stake in goldman sachs with aid to gadhafi. it's really an amazing development. >> sell it to him in a way that he would recoup his money? >> exactly. advantageous terms. >> and business structures all designed to give back the money that they lost for them? >> right. and what is so amazing about this, i've interviewed personally a number of people that have been on the wrong end, people that have lost a lot of money, in the hudson deal, $2 billion that got away, and you never see goldman sachs being so solicitous of a client, you have to wonder whether they are worried about being beheaded. maybe the client service improves. >> i was going to s

no place for colonel gadhafi in the future that's the message from russia's peace mediator off to maintain a loyalist officials here in tripoli to broker peace it's almost joined memorise the notion of from the libyan capital in just a few moments. and in business st petersburg is hosting the international economic forum as more important than ever for russia as it begins to look east as well as west for investment turn me for a full business books and to hear the wrap up of the day one. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is all t. good to have you with us this truth the world's biggest emerging countries got a bit closer today as russia and china energized really. hoping to do much more business together and go shooting at thirty eight gas stations another reason why the chinese leader is in the capital it's to help feed beijing's growing economy and secure billions of dollars for russia. is outside gazprom headquarters here in moscow where the talks took place this is a potentially must if agreement which would see russia provide gas to china

issued by the international criminal court at the hague gadhafi and his closest allies are accused of ordering war crimes to be carried out against their own people but tripoli says the actions by the i.c.c. are just a cover for continued nato bombings he's written otieno went to see the effects of airstrikes on the libyan people. the road from the capital tripoli to brag is lined

gadhafi is not going to turn himself in. just tough words from the secretary or anything to come of it? >> it's a tough spot for the administration to be in. what's caught the administration off guard or out is that moammar gadhafi did not roll over with the first week of nato air strikes. will indicting him make any difference? the only place i see it making any difference, it bolsters the opposition. right now, that's the best nato can hope for. this is going to be long. this isn't going to be easy at all. it's a mess. >> the main reason you're here for this exclusive interview was the state department's report on human trafficking. they asked her about the lack of u.s. funding to combat the global problem. >> i don't accept the premise of that. i think part of the reason why i wanted to include ourselves in this report is that i think we are stronger diplomatically if we can say we are taking a hard look at ourselves. we have done so much in the last ten plus years. a lot of what we do is at the local and state level, not

libyan leader colonel gadhafi accuses nato forces of murder following the death of civilians in an airstrike refugees from the country's civil conflict say there's no sign their life is returning to normal. president obama unveils plans to begin the american troop withdrawal from afghanistan ignoring some of his own military advisers who believe the pullout is premature. and a great pm battles to pass a new public finance cuts in parliament they are needed to secure yet another international bailout this despite angry protests that the people's voices are folly and dare government ears. also in our business bulletin find out how russia is resuming vegetable imports from europe in twenty minutes time joining. me on the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina joshua welcome to the program maybe a leader colonel gadhafi accuses nato of murder after a recent airstrike killed civilians the casualties have raised serious misgivings about the alliances intervention in libya even among the supporters of the campaign and while the world is taking sides in the conflict the people of libya are be