i. fighting rages for the control of the libyan capital tripoli today the u.n. and the united states of pulling troops and urging sides to cease military action. general election looms in israel an incumbent leader benjamin netanyahu faces a close race coming up we'll look at how much his relations with the u.s. play a role in the upcoming vote. getting world power struggle to find what best to do with foreign fighters who joined by still in syria and iraq and. again his direct. 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. and cyber security experts say facebook is failing to

contain online crime claiming so-called flea markets trade stolen identity data credit card details and hacking skills all in plain sight. just to hear moscow's eighth of april hello to you watching r.t. international line is me kevin owen thirty minutes of world news coming up starting with libya very much in the headlines again the latest for this lunchtime is that at least forty six people from both sides have been killed in fighting and scores wounded in the battle for control of the capital tripoli the fight between on one side the u.s. backed government on the other a rival government led by general khalifa haftar escalated this weekend especially on sunday with the focus on the airport the u.n. earlier called for to a cease fire to evacuate casualties and civilians but that fighting can. and you've

done the less violence has been escalating since general haftar launched a multi target attack last thursday libya's prime minister has accused the rebel leader of attempting a coup and launched a volcano of wrath as it's been termed operation against the militants both sides carried out air strikes libya's a complicated country since twenty eleven and the death of leader moammar gadhafi the country's no split along these lines you can see there between the u.s. government over in tripoli a rival government led by general haftar over to brooke to the east there and over in the west at various other militant groups active including eisel the worry is special after this weekend what's going to happen next the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation especially america the united states has temporarily withdraw its forces from the ground saying the situation's too dangerous and unpredictable right now further washington's urging the rebels to immediately hold the military action against the government saying a political solution is the only way to solve the crisis and what shifted you may

recall that the white house's position from eight years ago. from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must lead. our. we came we sat there and he died there. showing the world you would get rid of a dictator you would choose freedom. thank you. our senior correspondent more gadgety of picks up the story in more detail for you . 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 hafta disapprobation 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 where this military escalation came as a complete surprise to us double it began with warmongering rhetoric from hafter which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and total terror rule general hafta and his libyan national army on a roll storming toward the capital tripoli in 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 and name the volcano of rage it's chaos worse both sides a pounding each other with airstrikes and the u.n. is panicking. if. and if the heart. i still

hope would be possible it's bloody station in and out on tripoli 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 a renewed u.s. military presence i was appropriate it appears they have a plan and they have the aces u.s. military presence is an x. hanging over libya at the drop of a had they can intervene. again trouble is the last time they had a plan it ended in disaster turned libya into a failed state 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. maybe this the k. will throw a story in gerald horn believe the situation as a direct consequence of actions back in twenty eleven general how tar will probably ignore the call for a negotiated political settlement and you may 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 the two thousand and eleven overthrow of mr could go off in tripoli this is 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. others to brief you on today in less than twenty four hours now israelis 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 of the israeli military benny gantz let you know 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 and white political alliance want dialogue with the palestinians they also want to limit how long a prime minister stays in the job for a maximum of three terms international relations also proved to be key for israelis electorate so next caleb maupin explains how

a trump alliance 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 whatever political gifts that trump has given to israel lately is not small first move 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's the matter of the chronic bias against israel since its creation the council was 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. over the golan heights. folks will recall that obama refused to meet with netanyahu prior to elections citing it as improper meddling as a matter of longstanding practice in principle would not see 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 too and he needs 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 jukes of this

movement encourages jewish people to leave the democrat policy total disarray. spect 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 b.b.'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 the 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 the seam 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 out for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they were reportedly shipping counterfeit i phones to the u.s. and apparently managed to swap them for original ones under warranty then.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i gather sought international past midday moscow time makes the sunday star learn how to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state to stump the g seven gathering in france the group the world's most advanced countries

failed to hammer out a joint position on the issue while the united states is calling on european countries to take back their citizens some of the states including france and got a very different view. people who went to the zones in order to fight must be sentenced over there and other issues children and it's true that five children have been brought back to france the orphans were abandoned will be studying the situation of children on a case by case basis the e.u. commission claim some five thousand europeans joined iceland between twenty eleven to sixty in the u.k. france germany and belgium are among the country's most affected and with ice a largely defeated now many of those who need initially small loyalty to the caliphate are regretting their actions it seems that is roughly video agency heard direct from some former militants. the. comes in from the sky when we first arrived to islamic states everything was very

new for us adapting to an arabic country with this houses apartments cars food weather bombings dead people dead children who saw everything going this time it was difficult to get used to it and that time one didn't understand much a month from about their 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 primitive and 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 because our trying to get out of dry 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 but we would be killed but 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 to france 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 islamic state and as i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we emigrate to infinity and get back on homecoming of going to 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. stories today as 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 flayed markets operate openly trading stolen credit card data hacking tools and spam lists donald court has got the story for you. 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 sure. there 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 facebook is facing a perfect storm where it's under pressure from all sides spoke of finally understood that self moderation and self regulation hasn't worked and that a form of regulation is required from the industry and that governments need to start to step up to take

a role in defining what those regulations are going to be it has a number of human monitors that are seeking to moderate the platform and a lot of its contents but they're never going to be able to cope with the sheer volume of content that we see on not only facebook but many of the other social network platforms illegal credit card to be knocked out of line child brides all sorts of things there are many other forms of trafficking content that we really don't want to see and therefore they also need to be cracking down on illegal activity of some of their platforms we're going to what we're talking about negative stuff on the web for you but a program coming up very shortly a man who was once america's most wanted cyber criminal but now to flip side gone digital security experts called brett johnson he shares with us his tips on how to stay secure. 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 you monitor everything place. on every single account as well that way if a thief does have your information and they try to charge your credit card you get a not 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 yet you hear it now makes common sense but. makes good with a wealth of inside seems and a lot more keep you safe on the whether you want to see that program you're in luck it's a room full of this break coming up next for those kevin on starting off saying that's

the way some the world is looking so far this monday the eighth of april for me the rest the team wants you to hear it must go today have a great monday. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising us all why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to go. by the way

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following and as we trust more and more of our intimate information to gadgets the lives of tech savvy crooks get easier than ever before is cyber crime the most pressing danger of the twenty first century can someone armed with only a laptop and why fly rick more havoc than an armed gang and is there any way to the . protect ourselves from the ditch don't fret. fret johnson welcome it's great to have a on our program so brett you've been called that original internet godfather and a pioneer of online crime and you've been quite mentor is for some time but in the end they got you how did you get caught i mean where did you slip up or drop your guard well we were i slipped up was breaking the law to begin with. i ran a group called shadow crew which was the forerunner of today's dark net markets today cyber crime markets we made the front cover of forbes in august of two thousand and four but over twenty six two thousand for the secret service rose to

thirty three people in six countries and six hours i was a guy that got away the way i got called i continued to break the law i was running counterfeit cashier's checks gentleman by the name of albert gonzales who was our forum techie handled the software on the forum he had been arrested by the secret service and was working undercover and that is what ended up getting the entire group busted. so our lives are becoming intertwined with the internet more every year and its capabilities grow new gadgets come out and we all become ever more connected does that open to new avenues for cyber criminals as well absolutely the problem is that people tend to trust technology inherently just because it's the internet people tend to to linda too much trust of that type of mechanism they don't really understand that criminals love to operate using the internet it lends itself to anonymity the criminal doesn't have to face the victim or the person he's trying to rip off or steal money from either so it it also lends itself to that

separation so the criminal act like when i broke the law it was all about me stealing from people that i'd never met and never would meet and that allowed me the opportunity to to be anonymous and also not have to face the people that i was ripping off not hurt that the most damaging cyber attacks that kompany is can face come from of bogus e-mails how come that after millions of dollars spent on sophisticated fire wallace on workshops being held on elementary cyber security skills it still takes a single click on a bad link to send the whole enterprise down the river well the reason is the human factor the reason that that ninety two percent of every single breach begins with a phishing attack phishing attack is simply as a form of social engineering as a criminal you know that it's much easier to.