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libyan political rivals have signed a u.n.-backed peace deal which is designed to end years of chaos and in-fighting. these are the key points, it creates a unity government, bringing together two parliaments that are backed by competing armed factions. the first priority is for the new government will include easing internal conflict and concentrating on battling isil-linked groups. it also gives the libyans until early february to form a presidency council. the united nations special envoy gave his reaction just after the signing. [ applause ] >> today is an historic day for libya. five months ago on 11th of july, 2015, the initialling of the libyan political agreement showed a brood consensus on the

framework forrening months of destructive violence and political divisions. today by signing the complete political agreement, you are completing this process. you are turning a page in the history of libya. from today, the agreement puts in place a single set of legitimate institutions. essential building blocks towards a peaceful, secure, and prosperous libya. >> joining us now is our senior political analyst. we have been discussing this deal and all of the other deals or negotiations leading up to it, sort of explaining how on the ground there is this deal in place, but there are still tensions. have we reached a time where the different armed factions realize it is time to come to an

agreement. >> you would hope so. some of the factions have reached conviction that civil war in libya can only destroy the country and cost libyans a lot in terms of life and property. this would sound logical, right? but i guess when you are a country that is divided now into various tribal affiliations, when the political system has broken down, and chaos has spread, there is a deemer problem now beyond people making deals. libyans will have to feel that they do belong to one country and not to the various tribes, cities, or affiliations within the country. >> because we have been saying there is the two governments, and the new deal would have annestern based house of representatives and then a state council as a separate chamber, but it's not just the two

governments. there's all of the armed factions that support them, officially and unofficially, would we ever reach a point where everyone is on board? >> you know, it's easy to be pessimistic especially about the arab world over the last four years, because the optimism we saw in the beginning of the arab spring, certainly turned into hot summers and stormy winters, and libya has been one of those countries, but one cannot really grab this moment when libyans themselves are coming to an agreement, and there is international support for such agreement. now they have left the door open for other factions to join in. and i think -- once people understand that this might be a win-win situation, that maybe oil will be produced and revenues will come, and prosperity will rain, maybe if that kind of vision for a more prosperous, free libya will come

forward, i think it makes sense for a lot of libyans. >> you mention international support, some would say it's even more than that, especially in countries like italy that took the lead are terrified of the advance of isil, is the international community almost going to let it fail, if you know what i mean? are they just not going to let it go until there is some coordination. >> the italians have more historical interests in libya, in terms of the economy and oil and so on and so forth. but the issue of isil and terrorism has shaken europe, and i think that sort of gave the issue of libya and syria certain urgency in western circles, because now it's not just the libyans and syrians dying, it is also the french and other europeans are dying. so yes, there is a sense of

urgency, and why not? if the europeans now would support that kind of thing, and really put themselves behind it in the long time, i think that would be possible. >> thank you. ♪ the conflict in ukraine, the low-level conflict with turkey, the fight against isil, and how to end the conflict in syria, russia's president vladimir putin reflected his countries reemerging status as a key global player when he held his annual state of the nation press conference on thursday. >> reporter: this was a relaxed perform from a president who looked like he was enjoying himself at this annual event, and he didn't dodge the big questions. president assad, he said, will stay on. >> translator: i have said on many occasions, and i warble to reet piet it, that we will never

agree the ideas that somebody from outside, whoever it is, should impose the idea of who should rule another country. it simply doesn't fit with any kind of common sense or international law. and secretary of state kerry asked me about this. i told him our position has not changed. we believe the syrian people have to determine who should rule them. >> reporter: and he said russia's expanded military presence will continue its sup fort for assad's forces just as long as the syrian army continues itself operations. he turned again and again to the shooting down of one of its aircraft by turkey. >> translator: our people died when they shot down the plane. what made us particularly indignant is if it had been an accident, the turks would have apologized. that didn't happen. so nato started getting involved. was that really necessary. >> reporter: he said a sophisticated surface to air

missile system is now in place and warned turkey not into cross into syrian air space putin said this week's talks in moscow with u.s. diplomats confirmed that the russian plan was very similar to americas. 2015 will be remembered as the year of resurgence of russian foreign policy, a demonstration of moscow's ability to project power in the middle east. tens of thousands of photos from syria are being put forward as evidence of crimes against humanity alleged i will committed by president assad's regime. it has verified the pictures smuggled out of syria by a defector last year. human rights watch says the photos document the deaths of around 6,700 people in syrian

prisons over several years. they died in government custody in five detention centers and in two military hospitals around damascus. this is one of their case studies, a 14 year old. he was taken into custody by a syrian ill tell against officer who had found an anti assad song on his cell phone. his family spent years searching for him. they found his picture among the photos. we have blurred his face out of respect for the family. >> translator: it was him. it was achmed with a number. they put a number on him. achmed was a soul, and he became a number. >> human rights watch says that they showed the images to forensic pathologists their verdict was that people were starved, beaten, and tortured. syria's president has spoken

about the photos before. he dismissed them as all allegation without evidence adding that the pictures could have come from anywhere. a u.n.-panel investigating the organization's response to sexual abuse allegations in the car has produced a damming report. it says the u.n. failed to take necessary action after it learned of allegations of abuse of young boys by french peace keepers, describing its response as sere ouszly flawed. the report goes on to say that the allegations were passed from desk to desk and in box to in box at the u.n. for more on this, let's go live to our diplomatic editor, james bayes who joins us from the u.n. in this new york. james, first of all remind us why the u.n. set up this inquiry. >> reporter: well, this inquiry has found really damming conclusions about the united nations and the united nations systems. rarely have i seen a report as

damming as this. as it all goes back to 2014, to the war-torn, central african republic, and there was a u.n. human rights officer who heard about the abuse of a young boys by french peace keepers. they weren't part of the united nations peace keeping force, because that hadn't been set up at that point. so she heard about these and interviewed the young boys and produced this document. but this document then didn't go anywhere at all. it was passed from desk to desk, in box to in box, and no one wanted to take action. the report concludes that the under's response was seriously flawed. and barbara there are criticism of some of the most senior officials in the united stat united states -- united nations in this report. do you think it shows perhaps the way that peace-keeping operations have to

change? >> reporter: well, i think that is part of what this report has found, because it doesn't believe the u.n. peace keeping is necessarily doing everything it should because there have been numerous reports about u.n. peace keepers carrying out abuse. as i say this report is about french peace keepers who aren't actually serving with the u.n. and the real criticism is the u.n.'s response which once it found out about the abuse, it did nothing to stop the ongoing abuse. and the criticism is at all levels. there's criticism in the central african republic. it said the head of the human right's office didn't do his job there. it says the head of the mission took no meaningful steps to follow up on the allegations. he has since been asked to leave his job by ban ki-moon some months ago. it says there were big problems

in geneva. there was a senior human rights official and his compass was suspended because he gave these allegations to the french officials. they say he did not act out of the scope of his authority, but his boss does get stringing criticism. it says he has single-minded determination to pursue an investigation. it says that was questionable. then the criticism comes right here to u.n. headquarters in new york. to the in effect chief of staff of ban ki-moon. who has since left the job. it says she put another senior official in the conflict of interest. it says her conduct was ill considered. and there's even criticism of

the u.n.'s own internal oversight service, it says her conduct was an abuse of authority. and in the last few moments the spokesman for the secretary general says that ban ki-moon broadly accepts the findings. it says he agrees that the u.n. failed to respond meaningfully to the allegations, and admits there is a flawed system. so the whole system of the human rights investigation in the u.n. now being criticized. and ban ki-moon accepting that criticism. >> james thank you. still lots more to come here on the program, including britain's government is to intensify scrutiny of muslim brotherhood members in the u.k. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

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welcome back, a remind of the top stories on al jazeera. libya's rival factions have signed an agreement to form a unity government. and the u.n. investigation has found it failed to take necessary action after learning of allegations of sexual abuse of young boys by french peace keepers in the central african republic.

the british government is to intensify its krutny of muslim brotherhood members in the u.k. the prime minister says an investigation has concluded that membership of the group could be possible indicator for extremism. lawyers for the muslim brotherhood say the criticism is unwarranted and it will be challenged in british courts. in a statement, the muslim brotherhood says that they openly engaged with the british government's review, and it is a travesty that this was not reciprocated. they added: a senior lecturer at the institute of arab and islamic studies explained what the scrutiny will mean in practice. >> first they will continue to ban the visas from muslim brother's affiliates, so not

allow them to come to the u.k. they will also look at the charity affiliated with either the organization, or, you know, the general idealogical trend of the organization, and to make sure that the funding is going for very specific charity purposes and if anything goes in the wrong direction, then they will be liable for prosecution, and i think they will also monitor the statements of the figures affiliated with the muslim brothers. although all of the senior leadership have condemned violent act in general, they will be looking at the affiliates that will either promote or condone armed ak ticks against specifically the regime in egypt. on this day five years ago, events set in place what would change the middle east forever. it started with one man, a

tunisian who had had enough. his name was mohamed bouassizi, who lived in the central city. on december 17th, 2010, he set himself on fire outside of the local government offices after being harassed and abused by officialings. he died 18 days later, and the massive anti-government protests which began after his act of desperation quickly grew. knowing that his 23 years of iron-fisted rule were over, the president resigned and fled to saudi arabia. we would be the first of four dictators eventually forced from power. our correspondent takes a look now at the last days of mohamed bouassizi. >> reporter: this man says his cousin, mohamed was trying to sell his fruits and vegetables but the police kept moving him

on. >> translator: the police decided to confiscate his cart and scales when he went to the municipality to meet the governor, he was turned away. they refused to speak to him. >> reporter: he wanted to earn enough money to get married and to help his family. but the constant police harassment, corruption, and poverty prevented him from achieving his ambitions. perhaps he felt humiliated after a policewoman slapped him, or hopeless about the future. whatever his reasons, mohamed bouassizi decided he wanted to die, right outside of the offices of the officials who treated him so badly. his friend was close by. >> translator: bouazizi set himself on fire because he felt discriminated against. i saw him on fire. i saw people surround him and try to put the flames out.

it was such a painful scene. >> translator: he was suffering a lot at the time and had many problems. no one was there to listen to his concerns and worries. >> reporter: his friends and family took to the streets. he was the first to up load their videos on facebook. >> translator: we were able to raise slogans like employment is our right, and you gang of thieves. we spoke out against the injustices and mohamed's fate. in that was the beginning. >> reporter: within weeks there were protests across tunisia. mohamed's plight resinated with so many people because they were always suffering. after saying in hospital, mohamed died on the 4th of january 2011. ten days later, the president fled the country. >> translator: i remember how things were straight after the

revolution. unfortunately politicians make promises and fail to keep them. we're asking for more national unity. we hope our region gets its share of development, and the state reaches out to people here. >> reporter: people here are tired of the slow pace of change since the revolution. many here say that life is more difficult now. but the death of mohamed bouassizi did give tunisians the freedom and dignity that eluded this young man all of his life. mohammed jamjoom is live for us in tunis. as we were hearing, a lot of people, i guess tired of the slow pace of change. but tunisia has also seen some true successes. what would you say the feeling

is in tunis? >> reporter: yeah, barbara, here in tunis, this is the avenue we're on today, and this is where so many of the protests that helped topple this government five years ago took place. here today it has really been business as usual. there haven't been any commemorations. and one of the reasons for that, when we spoke to some of the passers by is because people felt there wasn't a lot to mark. they said they are frustrated with the fact that things have been so slow to change in tunisia. many of the folks we have spoken to in the capitol have said the same underlying issues still exist today. and while they are happy that the national dialogue quartet picked up the nobel peace prize, and the country came back from the brink of civil war, but

there is still rampant corruption, and there have been three big attacks here in tunisia in the past year. but at the museum which killed dozens of people. and you had an attack in sousse in which tourists were killed. and you have had an attack in frokt of the interior ministry, in which a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a bus of presidential guardsmen. 12 people were killed in that attack. so that is also causing a lot of fear and anxiety here. >> mohammed jamjoom, thank you. imf chief has been ordered to face trial over her role in a payout to a french businessman. she is accused of negligence over the payout which totaled more than 400 million euros, the head of the international

monetary fund was french finance minister at the time of the payout. english football champions chelsea are looking for a new manager after announcing the dismissal of its manager. this season their form has always but collapsed. here with me in the studio is our sports correspondent, lee wellings. i guess football is a bit fickle because he did win for them consistently, had a disastrous start this year. >> there's nothing unusual in the english premiere league about a manager being sacked, but this is a special case, because he had so much success the first time, and called himself the special one. he had success in italy and spain, although things did go

south for him in both of those countries. it's the speed in which this has happened. he won in may, and then when the new season started in august, everything has gone wrong for him. on the pitch for some reason this great coach has not been able to get the players in form. and his behavior off of the pitch. in press conferences he hasn't made sense. he has criticized people he shouldn't have done. and i think the key was when he criticized the doctor for running on the pitch to treat the player. he said she was naive. she was eventually sacked, left the club, it is going to a tie bunal. i think the cards were marked on that day. >> even people, including myself, who know nothing about football, know he was a kind of star. he was known for his arrogance. >> reporter: he certainly buys

into this special character. he loves it. he loves the drama of it. but he was overstepping the mark all the time. it's one thing doing it when your team a winning, and when you are saying your players betrayed him, there is no way back from that. and he had to go. >> lee wellings thank you very much. now the united nations top diplomat in china has been summoned to explain an arms deal with taiwan worth almost $2 billion. past u.s. weapons sales to taiwan have attracted strong condemnation from china. although washington does not recognize taiwan as a separate state to china, it is committed to ensuring taipei can maintain a credible defense. thousands of anti-government

demonstrators have gathered in front of parliament in the theal -- albanian capitol. they have been throwing tomatoes, eggs, and flairs to disrupt parliament. they want the current prime minister to step down. albanian police have stopped them from reaching the building. a proposed center for asylum seekers has provoked riots in a dutch town. police there fired warning shots and made 14 arrests. earlier rioters forced a halt to a town council meeting which was discussing a center for 1500 asylum seekers. undersecretary general ban ki-moon has warned that burundi is on the risk of civil war. meanwhile the u.n. human right's council has convened a special session to discuss the ongoing

violence in burundi. turmoil began in april when the president sought a third term in office which he went on to win. much more on that story and everything else we have been covering on our website, aljazeera.com. ♪ criminal charges. feder federal firms focus on a man suspected of helping the san bernardino attackers. ash carter under fire for using his personal email at work. and new rules could put the breaks on the development of those driverless cars. ♪