all of them included even so. that we cannot remain silent anymore blair no longer afraid of you you have killed our children and started the whole nation. we have seen nothing from day james i am forty one years old and i can hardly make a living well hoping for better. moves to sideline beautifully can i lie is a continuing the intelligence chief bashir talked to has been fired and earlier this week eight businessmen had their passport seized as their investigated for corruption state television showed a clearly frail eighty two year old beautifully kept handing in his resignation on tuesday and i think what's happened now is that certain grad schools are being settled the result is that our target is no out of office and that begins to remove some of the infrastructure of the birth of the the regime but it will only be a beginning and whether it really lies a change in the institutions of a state or not that i doubt very much. is now in the hands of

a caretaker government but the protesters have made it clear they won't accept a new president from look prove why that's the nickname for the entrenched war veterans and business tycoons in the country. and what julian wants is a civilian government they want to get rid of the structure but exist to date statements by the chief of staff suggest he will listen to the people obviously we didn't these drones issue and the goal of the military will be supervising from a distance or still with it but eventually i would want the middle to go back to its box and leave the politicians to do the business. feat one in every four algerians under the age of thirty is on employed the economy is dependent on oil and gas beautifully because attempts to stand for

a fifth term as president frustration with the status quo to the page now those elections will be three months time so far no obvious successor has emerged strafford al-jazeera. the weather is next and then i knew cholera outbreak in yemen counts hundreds of people and conditions are perfect for it to get much worse and the pharmaceutical sadly under pressure in the us from the off world it's no longer supported. by we got a real mixed bag of weather across europe of them there is some lovely sunshine a rag see it there it's essential that east impossible for the west's the clouds and the rain keeps on streaming in more showers rattling in the crust the british

isles western areas of france disappointing tabitha's look at madrid eleven degrees celsius as pretty poor it's going to be pretty damp as well lots of rain that too for portugal southern areas of france seeing some big downpours and some lively showers in the other side of the med there just around grey ceasing over towards the western side of turkey further north as the warm sunshine be getting up to twenty celsius in berlin on sas day off name similar temps is big on into sunday perhaps a little more cloud into those eastern there is but i think a bit too bad having said that in for even whether they're coming into athens temperatures at seventeen celsius with some sunshine slightly better there across spain still eleven degrees is not warm but we've got some wet weather still lurking there it's a good part of poached a little further south than the other recent cloud and rain is in north africa as well algeria seeing some rather heavy rain on saturday for a time slides its way further east was little push across into tunisia for a while bright skies across libya i'd also to much of egypt.

the biggest democracy in the world is going to the polls in an election process that will last for over a month and with over nine hundred million eligible to vote india is about to choose its new government how will the controversies of the citizenship bill and mounting tensions with pakistan influence the vote. join us as we assess all phases of the election as india decides its path. india votes twenty nineteen on al-jazeera.

you're watching al jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories this hour the head of the u.n. has told libyan wall is pretty for have to stop his advance on tripoli after us forces say they've reached the southern outskirts of libya's capital in a push against the internationally recognized government hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the capital for the first time since the resignation of president abdulaziz defeat they want to put it on lies to go as well. in mali thousands of protesters have condemned the government saying it's not doing enough to stop ethnic violence they march in the capital bamako demanding the resignation of president ibrahim baba car kaita the demonstration one of the biggest in recent years follows the killing of one hundred sixty villages from the for money group fighters from the rival doggone community are suspected of carrying out last month's. notice the president. is not copyable from solving the

country's problems we must accept the people's will democratic change and not use my limbs against each other really not cut people off solving security problems a court in morocco has upheld a ruling against leaders of mass demonstrations that happened in two thousand and sixteen forty two activists from the protest movement were sentenced to up to twenty years in prison the government accuses them of orchestrating demonstrations in the northern reef region the on race was sponsored by the death of a fisherman but made to grew into an anti-government campaign. cholera is making another comeback in yemen suspected cases have doubled during the past month with warm wet weather and a health system devastated by war creating perfect conditions for the illness to spread. reports. this is one of yemen's main hospitals and it's for cholera cases are spreading fast bringing an influx of old and young.

here to be ready if i brought my six on to the hospital they prescribe medicine but it's not available in the hospital we have to go looking for it outside in pharmacies. yemen has endured a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the saudi you a little war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the outbreaks but last month more than seventy six thousand new suspected cholera cases were registered the u.n. fears a latest outbreak could be as bad as the one in two thousand and seventeen which killed more than three thousand people. and that this hospital is considered a main health center the number of cases we've dealt with add up to about one thousand about forty percent have tested positive for cholera it's a crisis for the local government of types. most families in yemen can't afford to get sick prices are high and treatment is limited and most vividly death at the end

of this year hospital lab doesn't offer the tests that we need some of them cost anywhere from seven to fifteen dollars outside the hospital and i don't have enough money we don't even have enough money to pay for the transportation to get here how can i pay this. cholera is spread primarily through polluted food and water the war has damaged the country's infrastructure making conditions ripe for contamination. these patients are fighting for their lives it's unlikely the disease will be brought under control until the war ends and rebuilding begins. lupus of the young al jazeera in the united states the democrat controlled lower house of congress is suing donald trump said ministration over his emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the border with mexico the us president visited the southern border on friday saying the country is quote full trump was there to inspect a small portion of a refurbished barrier fence california one thousand other states are also taking

legal action challenging trumps emergency declaration the system is full can't take it anymore whether it's asylum whether it's anything you want it's illegal immigration can't take it anymore we can't take you our country is full or areas full the sectors full can't take anymore i'm sorry can happen so turn around that's the way it is. visit at the border there were protests on the other side in mexico i'll just. say. the reaction to president trump's visit to the u.s. southern border at least on the mexican side was one of a sort of collective i rule not a lot of people taking the president's threats to seriously to shut down the u.s. southern border given especially that this is now the second time that president trump has backed down on that threat to shut down the border there also demonstrations earlier today on the u.s. side both for and against the president's visit

a lot of people coming out of their homes here in the city of mexico on the mexican side of the border peeking through the border wall wanting to catch a glimpse of the u.s. of the u.s. president but while we're on the subject of the border one of the things that president trump was out here doing was touring a section of the wall that the white house has characterized as a new section of wall but there are no new sections of wall actually under construction this contradicts the president's statements that there is quote a lot of wall being built there's reinforcement of the wall there repairs being made parts of the war being are being heightened a little bit given that you can see here it's not very high it's more or less easy for people to jump over into the united states but we should stress that there are no new sections of wall being built the u.s. has revokes the entry visa for the international criminal court's chief prosecutor pseudolus planning to investigate allegations of war crimes by u.s.

forces in afghanistan secretary of state mike on palace said the u.s. which is not a member of the i.c.c. would withdraw or deny the says to i.c.c. staff looking into such allegations and so his office insists this will not affect her work with the u.n. which is based in new york. the boeing company has announced it will cut production of its seven three seven max eight aircraft by nearly twenty percent several countries ban the crash from flying after two planes were involved in fatal crashes that killed three hundred forty six people boeing says it will also set up a panel to review the plane's design. now a us family that's well known as a patron of the arts has become notorious for its role in a major drug epidemic the sacking of families facing several lawsuits alleging its pharmaceutical company purdue pharma downplayed the risk of addiction to its opioid drugs oxycontin isn't opiates that doctors can prescribe directly to patients it

was not on chin the u.s. in one thousand nine hundred ninety six over the next twenty years more than seven hundred thousand americans died from overdoses of painkilling drugs in two thousand and seventeen the us government declared opioid use a public health emergency that year more than forty seven people forty seven thousand people i should say died of opioid overdoses in two thousand and seven per do farm of pharma pled guilty to miss faking misstating rather the risk of opioid addiction the companies that sell opioids are also being sued while the family has donated millions of dollars to galleries and museums around the world but the recent scandal has founded many organizations to refuse new donations from the family christian salome as are reports. this sculpture is meant to call attention to an addiction crisis and those that the artist believes are responsible in just one year opioid drugs killed forty seven thousand americans the u.s.

government estimates that eighty percent of people who use heroin like artist dominic esposito brother first became addicted to prescription opioids in spain is basically the symbol of sort of you know my mom would call me screaming at the top over long as it should from another spoon this is really kind of at the peak of his addiction six seven years ago and for me as this kind of like this dark ugly truth pharmaceutical companies like produced in the family which owns it the sac lers stand accused of making billions of dollars by encouraging doctors to prescribe a painkiller whose highly addictive properties were downplayed. now sackler money tens of millions of dollars of which has been donated to museums all around the world is being seen by many in the arts world as tainted sparking demonstrations like these that major institutions after this one at new york's guggenheim the museum announced they'd no longer accept the family's donations

after the guggenheim became the third museum to sever ties with the sackler family trust but trust announced that for the time being it would stop making donations altogether the news came on the heels of the announcement of a new federal lawsuit against the family in addition to several others already on the books including one filed in massachusetts and another here in new york art experts say efforts by museums to publicly distance themselves from the sackler family is unprecedented it's very unusual it's the first time that i've ever seen anything like it usually the way that these things work if there's a sort of problem in terms of ethics and fund raising the institutions are giving out or accepting it usually ends very quietly the sac lawyers who are fighting some of the lawsuits and have settled others say they don't want to be a distraction for museums for do was really the grandfather of all they were the masterminds behind why we find ourselves in this epidemic right now half

a million lives lost all because of corporate greed but a family once known as patrons of the arts may now be better remembered for their role in one of the worst health crises in u.s. history kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. germany has asks the european union to find a safe port for a refugee ship stranded in the mediterranean sea sixty four people were rescued off the coast of libya on wednesday by the german charity c.i. a ship was refused entry into malta and italy ecuador is refusing to comment on claims from wiki leaks that founder julian assange could soon be removed from the embassy in london earlier this week ecuadorian president lenin moreno accuse assigned job repeatedly violating the terms of his asylum noise for the australian whistleblower say expelling him would be illegal. inside the embassy since two thousand and twelve under threat of extradition to the united states now to pakistan where rising prices are putting pressure on the population inflation

has reached its highest in five years pushing up the cost of fuel and electricity as a particular problem for farmers come on hyder reports from the countryside in islam about. it's morning in the religion of kerala and the reeds means that ground green this is ground zero is god fair old dean dig his goats out degree this place less than thirty kilometers from islamabad has been there's vault for more than seventy years but do you think it is fielded not big enough to sustain his family and a few years ago he turned to buildings gordon was on hold to make extra money but no he didn't electricity and fuel prices that has to change the limit paterno gone government i used to be able to work but now i'm too old i've already trained my sons and now it's time for them to carry the burden as i take care of my goes there's a problem being ferried around bugger stand specially in poor communities like the

the government under prime minister imran khan say previous governments are to blame for all the boring and leaving the country in day. but under an agreement with the i.m.f. for a bailout package easy agreed to devalue the rupee and that's led to rising inflation the effects of inflation are being fed even and rural area florida capital islamabad although to be pressured grow their own crop their door and have been out for land and said that despite a link cost of living means they have to find. employment not following his son's ability on a construction project to make extra money you do need to within a year the new government promised to lower prices but instead they have increased we also have to pay more for harvesting our wheat because of rising electricity and fuel prices and we have to work extra hours to cope this farmer says things have

never been this bad. for if you're not a buzzer god has been kind and given us land if it rains we get something but if it doesn't we get nothing the rising cost of essential commodities makes it even tougher we can only hope the government will do something more for the poor that most people in this area war did for enron correspondence john terry ken soft or justice party they say that's because their promise to bring people out of poetry and get buggered stones economy back on track now they say they can only wait to see if things will get better all go from bad to worse. on the outskirts of islamabad. hello again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the head of the united nations has told libyan wallets have taught to stop his advance on tripoli

have to us forces say they've raised. the capital in a push against the internationally recognized government. i still hope to be possible. from station and that all tripoli. and united nations remain. available to facilitate any political solution able to unify the libyan institution. whatever happens. the u.n. will remain could be to and i will remain committed to support the libyan. libyans these are these security prosperity and the respect of their human rights hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the capital for the first time since the resignation of president abdelaziz bouteflika they want. to go as well

the country's intelligence chief and close to former president was a freak i was reportedly fired on friday in mali thousands of protesters have condemned the government saying it's not doing enough to stop ethnic violence they march in the capital bamako demanding the resignation of president abraham boubacar kaita the demonstration one of the biggest in recent years follows the killing of one hundred sixty villages from the full on equal in the us see democrat controlled no house of congress is suing donald trump's administration it's challenging his emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the border with mexico the u.s. president visited the southern border on friday saying the country is quote fall and the boeing company has announced it will cut production of its seven three seven max eight aircraft by nearly twenty percent the aircraft has been grounded after two planes were involved in crashes that killed three hundred forty six people boeing says it will also set up

a panel to review the pattern plane's design those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next. armed vehicles transporting. raw it's great we've got one on one east explains why indonesian soccer fight and die trying to score and. there are fears of a full blown battle in tripoli as khalifa haftar his forces march towards the libyan capital the war has promised an end to the country's turmoil but can he deliver or is libya on the brink of another round of civil war this is inside story . hello everyone i'm welcome to inside story i'm come on santa maria we're talking

libya today a country which hasn't had a stable government since want to get off it was forced from power back in two thousand and eleven in fact it's got two governments in different parts of the country and right now the powerful warlord behind one of them seems to be making a play for complete control the have to has sent his forces west on what he calls a victorious march to the capital tripoli in response the internationally recognized government van has deployed its troops raising fears of a major showdown the united nations is called for calm in fact secretary general antonio terrorists has gone to libya himself but after eight years of instability and so many other countries playing influential roles libya's future looks as uncertain as ever so here's how it all plays out on the map in the west in the capital tripoli there is a united nations backed government led by prime minister. in the east the government of to brooke is backed by the u.a.e.

egypt france and russia it is the center of power for khalifa haftar and it's from there he began launching campaigns. to take important oil fields and the key port cities of been and ruslan move now after is ordered this large number of his troops to move further west to take control of tripoli but the un backed government quickly called its fighters to reinforce the capital and to fight to protect it but the focus really is on one man right now he was an army general on the mormon gadhafi but defected to the u.s. in the late one nine hundred eighty s. he returned to libya in two thousand and eleven and began gathering support among tribes and businessmen by twenty four tane he'd allied himself with that government into brooke he launched something called operation dignity saying he would fight what he called terrorist militias that included as we said advancing on the strategic oil fields and port cities and quickly taking control of large parts of the country have to has presented himself as the only solution for libya's

instability telling his fighters to use force only if necessary. so we've got our panel to talk about this today let me introduce them in tripoli first of all salah. is a political analyst and a senior advisor to the negotiating team of the high council of state this is an advisory body which came out of the peace talks in twenty fifteen and better to have gotten out of them out there who is director of the tripoli based subject institute and then benghazi a month sort of a professor of politics from the university of texas at san antonio it's lovely to see all three of you gentlemen thank you for joining us i like to start our discussions with one question for the three of you just to get your views on this one initial question so i'm going to start with some of our crews in tripoli and the question is simple can khalifa haftar be successful in taking tripoli are his forces strong enough do they have the momentum right now do you think. absolutely

not he never did and he never well and it's already a puritan the ground his forces are retreat west of tripoli his forces. in the mountain have been surrounded at least a few kilometers away from where yet and where he first entered there's a great momentum great excitement among the troops that are working for the. government of national accord a bun till last night three o'clock early this morning they took over the. so-called kilometer twenty seven bridge and route that have to forces and took many prisoners so i think the tide is turning and i expect that khalid to have to has to go to his plan b. or leave it will talk about a plan b. later let's go down i saw him at the in beirut what do you think is funny for

hafter on the right track for himself at least here. well i think it's the purpose of this was to increase the pressure on the international when it was timed wasn't an editor as was in libya militarily speaking i think his strategy and his add in a the libyan national forces is not so much a collection of just armed groups it's a belief system it's a narrative and any he really kind of goes into different cities trying to co-opt different groups trying to negotiate with them and he offers them not only financial a murderous support but he offers in this narrative you become the army and all of your opponents your local opponents that you may have fought against for resources or for local power they become defacto terrorists so it's really the kind of the power of half there is a narrative and i think that is really facing a massive massive problem and and a struggle not to the cool and western the because many of those forces came into existence based on the belief that they had an ideological conflict with hope with

a definite doesn't leaven they did not want to see military will persist in two thousand levon into isn't light seen they still have that major red line that i want to see the country return to move to rule whether it's piece by piece as the enemy is trying to achieve or whether it's half the coming at the helm of a need peaceful government has been delivered of this national conference in a couple of weeks either way that is a red line for many of those groups and i think those groups are providing the massive massive obstacle which would also be conscious of the fact that two thirds of libya's population are based in western libya many of those groups disagree with one another they have different views they have different political positions but they agree to this general consensus that they want to see pluralism in whatever state they want to to build next they want to see a civilian state not an interest that and so i think there's going to struggle militarily or even this negotiation or co-opting tactic that is trying to trying to pursue in western libya so i think is going to struggle a lot because already explained he arrived at twenty seven he lost one hundred

twenty eight troops late last night early this morning and they lost a significant amount of military and i mean issues and and heavy artillery with them interesting and i'll come back to you in a bit to talk about the timing as i think you raised an interesting point there. in benghazi what do you think. you know i really hate to lose that holds but i disagree i think i think this is just the beginning this is this is unfortunately a war and have to is very very careful not to use x. is to kill people here's a never the less than done that and in any of the areas even when it's who you are or the gentleman from from beirut his wife might be that it will go up to individuals but it will push comes to shove he will use but i mean he's fighting against militias and he will beat them i mean most of the time they can produce a war to come through continue or claim to be well on the right there in the wrong and they will be destroyed only michael after interesting and presumably months or

if i have to i wouldn't have undertaken this unless he thought he had a chance of victory i mean this has been going on further than at the split governments and going on for so long already and he's now making this final push. exactly exactly and this book which is a book of the new year in general from. the divisions in the worst so much so deep between towns and cities it will be sure each other and this is that this is not a new director knows that and he will he will do that is best time to no doubt about it is not some of the trip we do want to answer that because he is giving us a very different narrative yeah yeah yeah. and. i'm really sorry to hear a month or say this stuff after a long period in opposing another military man had. a death the

during thirty years of opposition. but the fact is i mean we don't have to rely on what your baku she's saying or anything we can just look at the reports of the panel of experts of the security council and what it says about the so-called libyan army often if after is composed of tribal militias it's composed of mercenaries from darfur and it's all appeared i mean why would an army have have a salafist. brigade why would an army have a brigade called the the blood seekers or whatever whatever these are this is a brigade composed of people whose relatives were killed in the war and present us with. an officer of the republic. styled after sisi who he considers

a role model and he wants to establish something like what what's happening in egypt ok gentlemen let's move away from the conflict itself and i want to go back to a point. which. he made in beirut and actually i will come back to you and this is about the timing with the united nations secretary general antonio terrorists making a visit you're saying he's timing it for that visit my question is what is antonio terrace trying to achieve at the moment he is there he's going to talk to khalifa haftar and yet it is no room that the other government is the one which the u.n. backs what does the u.n. actually trying to get out of this. well i think it's a really difficult position for for it on your terms of the moment because on the one hand even the narrative even the response by the u.n. has been timid best so they vote for restraint by all parties behave falling short of actually labeling half the labeling this or condemning or sanctioning or

penalizing have their skill ation of violence and it was certainly timed to coincide with his trip and i think it's because half there is betting on the fact that he has significant diplomatic and political support from a member of the p five in the security council fronts and and the u.a.e. which has been able to give him but only political but military support on the ground they establish an air base in two thousand and sixteen it doesn't sixteen was the year that the u.n. actually announced a peace government a peace deal in libya and it was the very same year that the that the u.a.e. ramped up its political military and financial support of have to establish an air base will have them which is the libya they they violated the bargain as a celeb of course rightly rightly pointed out and there was at least that was the most significant year of arms embargo violations by the way in the year in the year that was supposed to kind of deliver a peaceful solution so i think there is absolutely certain and concrete in his assessment that the u.n. is kind of paralyzed and immune or he is immune from kind of getting any kind of

diplomatic pressure from them and that's a message to libyan factions libyan political opposition groups that have had opposed after so is affecting the tone and the u.n. can't do anything i can do this even was the u.n. is there and there's no way they're going to stop me and it's effectively based on a deal that was struck last month and abu dhabi where have there met with and effectively saraj holds one piece of this entire puzzle that half a dozen hold international genesee and international political legitimacy for for his government at the moment have there is effectively illegitimate he doesn't have any kind of real position in in a unified libyan state and effectively he's trying to acquire that political currency from sort of but it's also based on the fact that when the last. government was delivered when these negotiations did take place for years by the un there was a libyan political agreement that would reconfigure the states and essentially alley all the fears of people that had said one half dozen to come in in a storm tripoli or take over the country militarily he wants to have an autonomous

military states for himself there was an article article in the l p a that was negotiated would have effectively allowed for the military authority the military forces in the country to come under civilian rule that has been a blockage for half there and for his political backers in the u.a.e. and france for the last two years that's why the u.n. backed government didn't actually come into effect as why they blocked the vote in the in the have their back parliament into brooke and effectively this kind of shifted and shifted the entire article in the negotiations last month effectively half there would create a new government or he would have veto power over a new presidential council he would have full autonomy over a new security council that would mobilize military forces not only in the east which he controls but also in the west which he doesn't control that would never have come into effect and i think most libyan factions whether in the west or even the south would have disagreed with this and that's why i have there has timed this military push to intimidate pressure all of his political opponents and say if you take it the easy way the political way and to them it's in the national conference

that they are looking for that is supposed to take place in eleven days or we do it the hard way where i intimidate and use the threat of force and their divorce so quiet tripoli but either way this is an existential crisis and existential threats for all of those forces that whether they disagree militarily with one of those trying to do or that are the logical nature of the state his trying to build none of those forces would accept and this is merely a tactic to try to intimidate and pressure them towards accepting it i would go back to one single point just like there is not necessarily trying to build an army in the way that others have tried to explain is effectively just giving labels to these to these groups still building a militia and building a coalition of militias under one central command that he had that he acquires. he controls but ultimately has also got the kind of the hinges on the strings attached to two foreign states in at least in the usa and one k. and it's those herron says that i have seen those foreign states i don't want to talk about and i'm going to ask months over about that as well because. as listed

off a lot of these other countries that support in saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt very familiar sort of trejo what do they get out of this what is while actually two questions one what does their support actually amount to what are they giving two hundred for half that and what are they trying to get out of it well first. of all if i will believe in conspiracy theory i will tell you that this has all been through your age and indeed it in the national community is not you side does not want it too much about what it is doing or whether it will even be or it will be and knows that and this seems to me seems to me that international community is fed up i mean this is become a fight between the french and italians what more is will show in libya and the government or the national court which are called the government of national. or it is quite a feat it hasn't done any it and you can you can't deny the fact that it's dominated

by militias who are moral wrong doing what they want to do what with the libyans economy and it goes well now i forget exactly put that people over thirty years and the old guard has to again it's not inevitable but i'm in the mood to libya and i think that it is it was better than what we have right now but i don't give a damn who will support you support so that the idea of the french the. saudis but it's interesting because you say that the international community has had enough of all of this and yet there are one two three you know i'm counting at least six countries which clearly do care about us and the united nations is involving itself as well claiming libya's future is of importance to others. to sum to something i mean that with that because look at it the united states is out of the picture altogether it doesn't reach well it will be lipservice the russians once of the base libya and the have to deny them that basically who are we have to

that will be out of the algeria the gyptian is the the emirates and the saudis and it unfortunately with the saudis and the emirates they're fighting against the companies in libya just as dead. as the other sports in the past seven to hit because it became a victim of a lot of politics that is essentially this how did the zombies that the everybody's fighting the companies and it be like we don't need them to do that efficiently the opals by themselves but ultimately in the end you do have the capital of libya is dominated by militias that are thought to know will own the undercut so-called legitimate government which is which which has which has opened up we can continue along the same route and definitely something must break something must get and i think ultimately the only two countries not what interests it was opposite of the attack is on the french it time is because they don't want that legal immigration

coming in to do that to them and because of that that that pipeline that gas that booster them beside that nothing else they want so the surge won't do not speak out against it put more powerful voice in libya so do just what you call the international community that is really concerned as some down to two countries the british and that would have diminished ultimately so ultimately what we have is a libyan problem and libyan problem has got to be is solved by the libyans right so this let's talk about sorry let me interrupt you let's talk about what the way out of it is then and i'll get your answer first month and then us. if halftone were to be successful in taking over tripoli that's one scenario that he becomes some sort of as he would like to describe it a unifying the ada. or to me the logical thing would be that there needs to be an election process you've had these two governments for so long you can't carry on having two governments an election would make sense but i wonder if libya is even

ready for that at the moment you first month or. as i was asking the same question i asked the same question three months ago and have to sort of commit it to the bench is it is committed to i mean he wants to be the head of the army candidate of the army but the but but but strength of him will that was something wonderful look oh oh oh oh or says that puts him under the authority of a civilian step government but yet elections we won popular elections we wanted action that if we're going to present to all men and a good representative government that takes away the delusion and after others of them all but we can keep on going what we have right now isn't it is this and us your thoughts i mean again this idea that. getting away from having this split government system and militias and all of this that seems to be the way out of that i mean is libya even in a position for this moment think it's

a think it's an interesting question but i think the elections also are about something else elections provide electoral generously they provide international diplomacy i think half the strategy with elections has been if i can acquire power of of the military forces military meaning that he can have a label that announces and says i control any of these forces my forces are legitimate by by virtue of the elections and anybody that opposes me is illegitimate and i think given what he's done so far illegitimately i would shudder to think what he may do with a letter legitimacy to someone that is being investigated for crimes by the i.c.c. in the hague for war crimes that were committed but it hasn't been done over the last twenty four months so i think we have to be careful about the idea of what electoral agility is for libyans and the libyan populace at large and what it means that someone is trying to acquire political power number two i think the question about militias is not really said different many of our of those groups as has already been described earlier on a tribal oriented militias are cellophane orientated militias and what they're

trying to acquire is a monopoly on legitimacy and that's not very very good i mean if we're talking about militias that are trying to take rule in western libya giving them the monopoly on digital mysie and allowing them to take control of the public sector in the private sector as has been the case and is the libya many of whom are engaged in oil and in fuel smuggling and human smuggling in the east of the country in smuggling levithan has become the number one net exporter of scrap metal today which is a billion dollar industry and as a net is controlled by these militias that are caught in this awful army i think the real question has been how do you deep politicize an army how do you create a political servant when there is the trial the oriente at m one that is serves at the behest and the respect of an appointed or elected civil government that is not the project that after is embarking upon this this notion of trying to fight terrorists and trying to fight militias is a slower it's also included the notion that a foreign islamist. it's a slur not everyone opposes after is like that i think most people that today have a binary choice they either believe in a pluralistic civilian regime or they believe in

a military regime it doesn't it doesn't want to go on this regime after certainly once that it does make me wonder though what sort of us popularity or support if i can call it that that have to has a month's libyan people we have in this discussion talked a lot about the militias and the and the international community and other countries which support him or don't support him what a pout as months or says the libyan people themselves well i think a good measure an acid test of that has been the fact that the moment after took over bill huzzy he made it illegal to. pull demonstrations and and popular protests and i think that's often once you know it's a kind of reflection of how thin skinned tough there is and how he wants to mobilize support and moment for a war that may seem popular and that's the danger of the propaganda of those employed it's not just dangerous to label your opponents islamists or terrorists or or foreign militias it's a dangerous if you believe that and then you start to continue a war based on those things if you remove all the civil liberties in the liber is

that they've been set for over for many many years and their ability to question your authority and happier can you be and i guess the second question is that if elections were take place given the office taken control of swaths of the east and the south who would be able to run against him you'd be able to run up a little can see i guess have to i think it's it's dangerous to infer that there is this imagined popularity that after enjoys popularity is a very is an imagined currency we know that through free and fair elections we can have those things but i would question this one thing given i get i'm finally unavailable for four years sorry mother i'm there on us yes go ahead i get it. can i get a final thought from one so just as well starting to run down the clock your final thoughts on i guess where we're going in the immediate future we've looked a lot at the. at the long term future what about the next days weeks. i mean. we are we are we are in the unknown actor is a must the guy is not very nice is the take i get is what i do all that this is

going to say that this is this is ok but we have to come up with this delusion we can't just keep on saying that they're not as deep as that i'm going to do nothing those militias them true pretty have to be the full one person intimidated don't and then you have you have you have that huge problem that the faces in the country yes somebody had to have a breaking point somewhere at least maybe we have when i do get to fighting is that we will get down but we have to stop this slide at some point ok the nose. is not what happens in tripoli today you know you free to do anything except really if you do it just tell me i mean it's ok to stock up with us but at least we need to joke with you to use our poll as a libya as people to say no we will not have it. shipped we did the west indies we have to push that to those of the population we don't evict you. office months so i'll tell you joining us from bennett cause they also come at the

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massive demonstrations in algeria despite the president's resignation. and new cholera outbreak in yemen kills hundreds of people and it's on track to get even worse class. whether it's asylum with the rich anything you will and illegal immigration. a warning from the mexico border donald trump says the u.s. is full. libyan troops commanded by warlords say they've advance into the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli in a push against the internationally recognized government the u.n. and world powers are demanding they hold the offensive fighting has been going on iran the old international airport says he wants to in his words liberate the city but the government in tripoli has a u.n.

support and soldiers loyal to it say they've captured more than one hundred of have ties man's trip from tripoli mom would opt in where hans reports. the prime minister of libya as you and back to government face meeting the troops thirty kilometers west of tripoli i was in earlier fighters loyal to the warlords really for have to attempted to enter tripoli but eventually surrounded dozens of their vehicles you'll see used a setback for hathor who has ordered his troops in his words to liberate tripoli it's raising fears of a major confrontation with the u. and recognized the government the united nations secretary general antonio arrived in tripoli this week he flew to eastern libya to meet hafter in an attempt to eastern he also visited tobruk whom to libya's parallel parliament which is backed by have to i still hope it will be possible that

a lot of station in and around tripoli. and united nations remain. available facilitate political solution able to unify the libyan institutions here in tripoli libyan officials say the capital remains calm and the reassuring people who live here that government forces are ready to repel any attack on the city now that the very problem the situation is normal and there is no form of fighting prime minister pfizer raj has given orders to the air defense to stand up to any possible threat to the lives of civilians. libya has been in turmoil since the need to bag the removal of its long time ruler in twenty eleven and since twenty fourteen it has had two competing governments have to do we need to the east of libya leading to lose alliance of

factions but his repeatedly expressed his intention to marshawn tripoli beyond his military ambitions some analysts say have to his goal is a loud voice in diplomatic efforts to secure a peaceful future for the last several years general haftar has stalled. for real and processes in paris last year which of which. paris would have to move towards tripoli and hugo she hated settlement to this crisis looks more difficult but the u.s. and other world leaders will apply more pressure to try to pull libya burke from the brink and as get an update on the situation now and speak to mahmoud abdullah had a correspondent who joins us on the line from tripoli mahmoud what's the latest on the have tossed troops movements what is the situation in tripoli right now.

willfully and the situation remains tense in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli and treat it three main neighborhoods. in and around tripoli international airport which is not functioning by the way since twenty fourteen and the other two areas one is called from finishing and the other is called wanted rebiya the neighborhoods the major neighborhoods and the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli this situation that is very tense. and forces loyal to the alone has been. getting getting get in for cement and deployments from this i was. on the other hand deployments continue to move from the city of misrata to the. alliance with the government of national accord also some other cities and west of libya have declared general mobilization sending move troops and

enforcement to support the government forces in the southern outskirts of the shipley we understand that the government forces say does the have taken dozens through has to find those prisoners and did g seven the g seven yesterday and to other international institutions including the united nations also the united nations security council held a closed door meeting over the international institutions have cooled for the escalation and a hold of the military activities around the capital tripoli but the people here civilians when you speak to them they're very angry they say that the international institutions including the united nations only express concern over what's happening they can talk have to but they do also want to stop playing. now that

could mean most to probably only military escalation could most probably do a general national conference which is due to be held on the thirtieth of this month which is planned to two tokes in the conference. tend to. be as long running crisis thank you for that update mahmoud update a lot of our correspondents on the line there from trippy. in other news millions of algerian survive and for the first time since the resignation of president up there as these but if they're now demanding his allies follow his lead john french reports. algeria's military might be disappointed if it was hoping that the resignation of president abdulla's ease beautifully would dampen enthusiasm for anti-government protests millions of people came back on the streets for a seventh friday for them beautifully because resignation earlier this week is only

a first gesture all of that here we demand change we need these gangs to go all of them included even so. that we cannot remain silent anymore you are no longer afraid of you you have killed our children and started the whole nation the majority we have seen nothing from day diem i am forty one years old and i can hardly make a living we are hoping for better. moves to sideline beautifully can i lie is a continuing the intelligence chief bashir talked to has been fired and earlier this week eight businessmen had their passport seized as they were investigated for corruption state television showed a clearly frail eighty two year old beautifully handing in his resignation on tuesday and i think what's happened now is that certain grad schools are being settled the result is that our target is no out of office and that begins to remove some of the infrastructure of the boot of the the regime but it will only be

a beginning and whether it really bligh's a change in the institutions of the state or not that i doubt very much. is now in the hands of a caretaker government but the protesters have made it clear they won't accept a new president from look proof wall that's the nickname for the trench to war veterans and business tycoons to the country. and what julian wants is a civilian government they want to get a little destructive but exist today statements by the chief of staff suggest he will listen to the people. obviously we didn't these drones issue and the god of the military will be supervising for a distance all still with it but eventually would want the middle to go back to its box and leave the politicians to do the business feat one in every four

algerians under the age of thirty is on employed the economy is dependent on oil and gas to flee his attempt to stand for a fifth term as president frustration with the status quo to the head now those elections will be as three months time so far no obvious successor has emerged cho strafford al jazeera. cholera is making another comeback in yemen suspected cases of double joining the past month with warm wet weather and a health system devastated by war creating perfect conditions for the illness to spread. reports. this is one of yemen's main hospitals and it's for cholera cases are spreading fast bringing an influx of old and young. here to everybody if i brought my sick son to the hospital they prescribe medicine but it's not available in the hospital we have to go looking for it outside in pharmacies. yemen has endured

a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the saudi u.a.e. led war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the outbreaks but last month more than seventy six thousand new suspected cholera cases were registered the u.n. fears a latest outbreak could be as bad as the one in two thousand and seventeen which killed more than three thousand people. and that this hospital is considered a main health center the number of cases we've dealt with add up to about one thousand about forty percent have tested positive for cholera it's a crisis for the local government of ties. yeah most families in yemen can't afford to get sick prices are high and treatment is limited and most evidently death at them is that the hospital lab doesn't offer the tests that we need some of them cost anywhere from seven to fifteen dollars outside the hospital and i don't have enough money we don't even have enough money to pay for the transportation to get here how can i pay this cholera is spread primarily through polluted

food and water the war has damaged the country's infrastructure making conditions ripe for contamination. these patients are fighting for their lives it's unlikely the disease will be brought under control until the war ends and rebuilding begins consul locus of the young al jazeera. in the united states the democrat controlled no house of congress is suing the administration over the president's emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the border with mexico the u.s. president visited the southern border on friday saying the country is quote full trump was there to inspect a small portion of a refurbished barrier fence california and nine hundred the states are also taking legal action against emergency declaration now as the president visited.