'Moving in the right direction'

Link to the article: Channel 4

Last Modified: 25 Mar 2009
By: Andrew Thomas

As Gordon Brown arrives in New York Barack Obama again calls for international backing for his strategy of boosting growth through public spending.

For second time in a week Obama has taken to the airwaves to appeal for public backing for his efforts to lift America out of the economic crisis.

In a prime-time televised news conference in the White House, the president insisted he was "moving in the right direction".