fighting rages for control of the libyan capital tripoli the u.n. and the united states are pulling troops and urging sides to cease military action . a general election looms in israel an incumbent leader benjamin netanyahu faces a close race we look at how much his relations with the u.s. play a role in the upcoming vote. also to come to this monday morning world power struggle to find an answer on what to do with foreign fighters who've joined i still in syria and iraq and i want to come home again r.t. heard from some of the militants it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we emigrated. that we made absolutely cannot be undone unfortunately we will be

punished for the mistake that we've made cybersecurity experts say facebook is failing to contain online crime claiming so-called flea markets trading stolen identity. credit card details and hacking tools for instance all in plain sight again will brief you on that. good morning nine am the eighth of april here in moscow this is that international live with me kevin over the next thirty minutes of this world news starting with this libya very much back in the news again twenty one people have been killed and scores wounded in the latest fighting for control of the capital tripoli the battle between the u.s. government and a rival government led by general khalifa haftar escalated sunday with the focus on the airport there the u.n. earlier called for a two hour cease fire to evacuate civilians and casual. these but the fighting

continued violence has been escalating since general haftar launched a multi targeted attack last thursday libya's prime minister has accused the rebel leader of attempting a coup and launched a volcano of wrath operation against the militants both sides curb airstrikes let's get a reminder of where we are with libya it's been really divided since twenty eleven and the death of leader moammar gadhafi is basically in three countries no split between the u.s. government up in tripoli as the purple there and a rival government led by general haftar over into brooke you see that in red the rest of it militant groups down to the south including i still the international community is deeply concerned right now of what's going to happen next in any any escalation of this the united states particularly have as i mentioned temporarily withdrawn their forces from the ground in the situation is simply too dangerous too unpredictable washington's urge the rebels to immediately whole the military action nexus monday morning in our senior correspondent we're gassing of picks up the

story for you in some more detail this morning. the un e.u. backed regime in libya the government of national accord g n a is fighting for its very life all but surrounded now by the army of their rival government in red here led by general have had without any yet i would disappear ation is aimed against all groups considered by the international community to be terrorists we have security council resolutions according to which these organizations are classified as terrorist groups some members internationally wanted or wanted an arab states we are fighting them legally using all our resources the resources of the libyan people are being directed against those criminals in the heart of the problem for the well this military escalation game is a complete surprise to us it began with warmongering rhetoric from after which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and total terror rule in his declarations

he called for an assault to clear the capital and other cities of terrorists and criminals general have to up and his libyan national army are on a roll storming toward the capital tripoli the desperate g.m.a. have ordered their armies meaning the various islamist and militia groups that supported the counterattack on all fronts they've given this last stand a name if not a very good one the volcano of rage it's chaos worse both sides a pounding each other with air strikes and the u.n. is panicking. and a heavy heart. i see it be possible for it bloody station in. united nations remain. available to facilitate any political solution able to be unique. by the libyan

institutions nevertheless this isn't the end of peace talks inevitable both sides understand in all likelihood this escalation is posturing if costly and bloody each side wants to gain as many bargaining chips as possible having said that it's entirely possible that things will spiral out of all control the united states for one is already preparing for just that. we will continue to monitor conditions on the ground and assess the feasibility for renewed u.s. military presence as appropriate it appears they have a plan and they have v.a. says u.s. military presence is an axe hanging over libya at the drop of a had to they can intervene again trouble is the last time they had

a plan it ended in disaster turned libya into a failed state an islamist terror haven slave market a playground for warlords probably failing to. plan for. the day after. the what i think was the right thing to do in. intervening in libya moammar gadhafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave . we came we saw. that that's. the way you would get rid of a dictator you would choose freedom. thank you.

so here we are one nation two governments and countless fiefdoms gangs militias and sects a grand battle royale with a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. or through a store in gerald horn believes nato actions back in twenty eleven directly led to this current situation. general how far will probably ignore the calls for a negotiated political settlement and you may well expect a bloodbath to unfold in tripoli which is quite tragic and quite unfortunate but i'm afraid to say is the inevitable outcome of the ill advised attack by the north atlantic treaty organization speaking of nato led by the united states as

a result of this two thousand and eleven overthrow of mr khadafi in tripoli this is led to libya becoming a gateway for migration across the mediterranean from africa generally leading to many people dying in the choppy seas of the mediterranean the current regime in libya is not very popular it is dependent on our militias oftentimes act like gangsters looting and plundering their fellow libyans. also this morning in less than twenty four hours nose releases head to head to the polls for a general election the main rivals for the prime minister's office are incumbent leader benjamin netanyahu and former chief of staff for the israeli military benny gantz now who leads the right wing likud party supports free market capitalism a liberal agenda and is opposed to palestinian statehood but his rivals from the blue white political alliance want dialogue with the palestinians for

a start they also want to limit how long a prime minister stays in the job for three terms international relations also prove to be key for israel's electorate of his caleb maupin explains how the trouble might influence future elections donald trump and benjamin netanyahu seem to be scratching each other's backs quite a bit lately it's a mutually beneficial relationship in ways that may not be completely obvious political gifts that trump has given to israel lately is not small first he moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious the plain reality that israel's capital is jerusalem then the usa quit the un human rights council citing an alleged anti israeli bias such a council in fact damages the cause of human rights and then of course there is the matter of the chronic bias against israel since its creation the council has

adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined then just before the israeli elections donald trump recognized israel's claim over the occupied golan heights captured from syria almost five decades ago i will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan heights . folks will recall that obama refused to meet with netanyahu prior to elections citing it as imp. meddling as a matter of longstanding practice in principle would a nazi has of states or candidates in close proximity to their elections as to avoid the appearance of influence in a democratic election in a foreign country however trump does not share obama's reservations so what is in it for the donald is he just an enthusiastic israel supporter well donald trump has gotten election coming up to and to secure votes in twenty twenty israel is

a good way to win support from american jews who are not his biggest fans according to a number of polls but most especially the christian evangelicals the chicks of this movement encourages jewish people to leave the democrat party total disrespect republicans are waiting with open arms remember jerusalem u.s. embassy and the horrible iran nuclear deal mike pence an evangelical himself seems to pretty well articulate this trend in how american christians feel about the middle east in the story of the jews we've. always seen the story of america my country's very first settlers also saw themselves as pilgrims. sent by providence. to build a new promised land now political criticism of trump and bebe's political bromance seems to have been muted however a few voices have chimed in for example bernie sanders president trumps extremely

on why is the solution to recognize drew slum as the capital of israel why recognizing only its importance to israel president trump has severely on the mind the peace process i am very concerned about the policy of the trump administration regarding the two state solution and a few noted intellectuals we see in israeli private investigations for going after the person reputations of people behind the around you there are new array of actors here that the american public didn't know about and this is all going to figure in the next election. israeli intervention in u.s. elections fosli overwhelms anything the russians may have done a common trope among donald trump's critics is to accuse him of being a hateful populist brewing in an atmosphere similar to one nine hundred thirty s. germany and it seems that the white house has determined that the best way to counter that narrative is to scream we love israel at the top of their lungs u.s.

and israel have always had a special relationship and a very strong relationship probably the strongest relationship of any united states ally is with israel so the fact that americans see benjamin it and you know as as a important figure and they see the israel relationship as important that might influence some voters to vote for president trump at the same time israelis view america in the highest esteem and the highest regard and they very much rely on the united states and president trump is very popular so the fact that president trump has visited here the fact that president trump has moved the embassy to jerusalem the fact that president trump has canceled the iranian nuclear agreement the fact that president trump has recognized the golan heights and just the fact that president likes to tweet positive support for israel and for it it's a you know can be significant in people deciding who they're going to vote for in

israel. two chinese students in the u.s. are accused of cheating tech company apple of the hundreds of thousands of dollars they were reportedly shipping counterfeit i phones to the us leave monies to swap them for original ones under warranty.

thank. you. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only city i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right to be close to what the korean people. are interested in the water. this is a good morning for me nine sixteen local time here next how to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state has

a g seven gathering in france the group of the world's most advanced countries failed to hammer out a joint position on the issue while the united states is calling for european countries to take back their citizens some states including france have a different view. people who went to the zones in order to fight must be sentenced over that and other issues children and it's true that five children have been brought back to france the orphans are abandoned will be studying the situation of children on a case by case basis. the e.u. commission claims some five thousand europeans join deisel between twenty eleven and sixteen the u.k. france germany belgium are among the most affected countries and without cause largely defeated many of those who initially saw loyalty to the caliph it seems now regretting their actions. video agency heard from former militants.

when we first arrived to islamic states everything was very new for us adapting to an arabic country with its houses apartments cars food weather bombings dead people dead children we saw everything during this time it was difficult to get used to it and that time one didn't understand much a month from the first life in morocco was very normal but during this time i began to see things things the highest did that i wasn't convinced were permitted on the islam blowing yourself up so that you can take your enemies with you into death killing civilians who live in france or america that drove. some mission circut i want to just after approximately three months of working at the police station in iraq i separated from this after this i tried again and again to flee territory but it never worked out for various reasons. trying to get out and die ash several times that was why i was twice in

a prison many executions took place you just couldn't believe how many were arrested and killed they told us that our wives would be great that we would be killed that we would be beaten we wouldn't get any food will be sold to the iraqi government or to the syrian regime. conservationist or if germany doesn't accept me then i would try to work here and to help in terms of family terror organizations my three children would take difference for me personally it would of course be better if they lived in germany with my mother i am of course one hundred percent against the islamic state and as i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we emigrated. in for like the mistake that we made absolutely cannot be undone unfortunately we will. be punished for the mistake that we made we deserved to be punished.

you may recall we told you should we move begum story she's the british teenager who married that show sulfite and then they fled to syria but then it all changed she had a big desire to return home again and that sparked a big debate over which approach the state should choose a ruptly video agency also talked to has been. but i got injured when i was put in prison they cues me of spying for the dutch government i was in prison for seven and a half months i was tortured i want to return home serve my time in prison and then get back to a normal life with my wife with no troubles and i was my poverty just to live i feel regret i want to return to a normal life and improve myself i would never make such a mistake again. a facebook continues his crusade against fake news web security research has revealed the social media giants failed to contain cyber crime on its platform they claim dozens of so-called cyber criminal flea markets operate openly trading everything from stolen credit card data to hacking tools to spam lists

double court has got the story this monday. zuckerberg is certainly trying hard to repair his image after a year of facebook cyber scandals recently the company has once again proudly announced it's trashed thousands of pages connected to countries like iran and russia and all the while other activities often criminal have flown right under facebook's radar take this latest report by cyber security firm cisco tallow it claims to have uncovered seventy four groups in which over three hundred eighty thousand people have been trading stolen bank and credit information the firm calls these groups criminal flea markets not only that but many of them said scam and hacker write in the name the researchers say these groups avoid detection because facebook apparently expects them to police themselves so far facebook has apparently relied on these communities to police themselves as

a consequence of this a substantial number of cyber scammers have continued to proliferate and profit from illegal activities so how does such a blatant violations of facebook's policies continue to go undetected well they say they just need to be a bit more vigilant these groups violated our policies against spam and financial fraud and we removed them we know we need to be more vigilant and we're investing heavily to fight this type of activity vigilance is certainly needed especially when facebook has failed to stop actual abuses of its platform last november a south sudanese girl was bought through facebook posts for ten thousand dollars several cars and a few hundred cows admins took down the posts when they found out about them but that was after she was already sold so you'd think zuckerberg would get the hint that forced marriages might be a problem on his platform but new cases have surfaced as to nigerian girls were sold again with facebook as the medium of transaction so facebook has been having

a hard time stopping forced marriages but they show. sure have done a good job curbing what they call fake news and the news that turns out to be fake mostly happens to challenge mainstream narratives of world events instead of child slavery and online scams it's iran venezuela and of course russian bots the picture becomes a lot clearer when priorities are understood well meantime typify will talk of negative stuff on the web a man who was once america's most wanted cyber criminal is now to become a security expert his name brad johnson talks to us he shares his tips on how to stay secure on the web on. and what i try to tell people to do is to make sure you're not the low hanging fruit and the way to do that is first to freeze your credit all right and not just freeze your credit of you but every single person in the house because children are the number one victims of identity theft you can use

a child's information to create entirely new identities so freeze the credit of everyone in the house monitor every single account you've got and what i mean by that is bank accounts e-mail accounts credit cards everything monitor everything place all alerts on every single account as well that way of a thief does have your information and they try to charge your credit card you get an alert to your phone that says hey something's going on so those are two things the third thing is to use a password manager we as humans we simply do not know how to best pick a secure password so we tend to use the exact same passwords across multiple websites it's important that we don't do that. the granddaughter of former iraqi president saddam hussein says she wants to put the record straight on her family. says her new book will dispel the fiction as she put it created by the media we spoke exclusively to you see the full interview on

our site. i had a chance to write the book to tell the truth here and the history of my country has been largely misrepresented i realized that it was my responsibility to clarify the great history of iraq and its people but then i decided to tell the story of my family which people have tried to discredit the truth is made up of lots of parts i decided to write this book because of my responsibility to the country and its people and to morrow and family that this will follow those rougher some of the world news stories making the headlines this morning monday the eighth of april it's nine twenty five now moscow time to say so much more about the dot com for me kevin owen in the rest of the team have a great monday. breaks

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join me every first day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

thanks. time after time here we're going on the ground sixteen years to the day u.s. missiles killed three al jazeera journalists in iraq coming up on the show the price of everything and the value of nothing is the u.k. heads for a down turn one of the world's greatest economist by on them as a cause to accuse the city big multinational tech companies of mies van this trump threatens further sanctions on cuba revolutionary cuban dunce in the spirit of fidel and is portrayed in a new film about a ballet dancer called us a call stop by bafta win a paul levity an award winning director. i dreamed of a ribbon. and a song of revolution from award winning singer songwriter now that's all coming up in today's going underground a festival bricks that chaos the u.k. releases g.d.p.

estimates in forty eight hours but will. additions in the media be reading the figures down is g.d.p. really a measure of the success or failure of a society from a cause your culture has in the usa to corbett in britain the ideas of moxon socialism or reigniting explosive debates from congress to the house of commons about what is truly valuable when it comes to human happiness joining me now is world renowned economist professor mary on them as a college or university college london and founder of the u.c.l.a. institute for innovation and public purpose a new paperback is the value of everything making and taking in the global economy welcome to the show marianna why apart from say generally cool britain is that every little skepticism value in the first place in modern society which is the main issue on the front of the book so the word value has become a very fuzzy kind of flaky word that you know anyone can use you can call yourself a wealth creator lloyd blankfein the c.e.o. of goldman sachs one year after the crisis said that goldman sachs workers were the most productive in the world we as economists use to really debate and contest that

word there's different theories of value and actually first we debated value and then that turned into a theory of price today we have basically an approach to the economy which is all about prices supply and demand curves that determines price and that determines what we value so the logic actually got reversed think of it that you chains shareholder value shared value and goldman sachs calling goldman sachs workers the most valuable but what does that actually mean and so when we don't actually have a way to distinguish value creation from value extraction it becomes much easier just to throw the word around in fact the reason i wrote the book believe it or not is that in the two thousand and fifteen election when the labor party lost the analysis by labor members themselves by leaders in the labor party the next day was we lost because we didn't embrace the wealth creators the value creators and by that they meant business and i thought to myself how can it be that we've gotten to the point where even the labor party which is about work labor doesn't you know doesn't actually have a narrative a way to talk about value that's collectively created and they confuse the word

wealth creation with this.