fighting rages for control of the libyan capital tripoli the u.n. and the united states are pulling troops and urging sides to see military action. a general election looms that is well under cumbered leader benjamin netanyahu faces a close race look at how much his relations with the u.s. played a role in the upcoming vote. leading world powers struggle to find an answer on what to do with foreign fighters who are joined by still in styria and iraq another want to go home r.t. his from some of the military. might be the biggest mistake of my life that we have a great mistake that we made absolutely cannot be undone unfortunately we will be

punished for the mistakes made. and cyber security experts say facebook is failing continue to contain online crime claiming so-called free markets trade stolen identity data credit card details and hacking tools in plain sight. very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me they care and now the latest is that at least forty six people from both sides have been killed in fighting and schools wounded in the battle for control of the capital tripoli the fight between the un backs government and a rival government led by general khalifa haftar escalated on sunday with the focus on the airport there the u.n. earlier called for a two hour cease fire to evacuate casualties and civilians the. fighting continued

violence has been escalating since general half dollar 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 operation against the militants both sides carried out air strikes. on libya has been divided since two thousand and eleven and the death of leader moammar gadhafi the country is now split between the u.s. backed government in tripoli and a rival government led by general have over in tobruk in the east adding to all this there are also other militant groups active there including ice the well the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation some including the united states have temporarily withdrawn their forces from the ground saying the situation is too dangerous and unpredictable now washington's the rebels to immediately hold the military action against the government saying a political solution is the only way to solve the crisis

a market shift in the white house position eight years ago. orthodoxy has lost legitimacy to lead and you must leave. our. we came we saw him he died. during the world you would get rid of a dictator you would cherish freedom. senior correspondent mark gatiss you have picks up the story 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 after 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 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 the name the volcano of rage it's chaos worse both sides a pounding each other with airstrikes and the u.n. is panicking. and there's the hard. i still

hope it will be possible before it's bloody all from stations 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 to 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 guys militias and sects a ground battle royale with

a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. and historian gerald colon believes this situation is a direct consequence of nato actions in two thousand and eleven general how far will probably ignore the calls 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 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. in less than twenty four hours israeli israelis will 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 netanyahu who leads the rightwing blue kid party supports free market capitalism a liberal agenda and is opposed to palestinian statehood but is rivals from the blue and white political alliance want dialogue with the palestinians but also want to limit how long the prime minister stays in the job to a maximum of three terms. international relations also prove to be

a key for israel's electorate caleb maupin explains how the 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 the trump is 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 is the matter of the chronic bias against israel since its creation the council is about to 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 sovereign 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 got an election coming up too and he needs to secure votes in two thousand and twenty israel is a good way to win support from american jews who. not his biggest fans according to

a number of polls but most especially the christian evangelicals the chick siddhis 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 slim 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 iran do 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 it israel. to chinese students in the u.s. are accused of cheating tech company apple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars

they were reportedly shipping counterfeit i phones to the u.s. the power any monies to swap them for original one fund a warranty. thank you. thank you thank.

you. new developments in the two million dollar fraud case against a renowned russian feta director we'll bring you a live update on the spanish outback stay with us. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will melt to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish what all.

good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. it's a going to be press that's what the three of them ought to be good. i'm interested always in the why is it. they sit. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back russian theatre director karylle summer bernie cough has been released

on bail after a year and a half under house arrest the award winning artist is facing a two million dollar fraud charge along with co-defendants well here to discuss this further is ati's member for national great to see you great to have you in the studio with me what exactly was the ruling today yes and it could have been because house arrest lost at around eighteen months and then monday he was released but he's not allowed to leave moscow he's still on the trial but of course it makes a huge difference for him we've heard from of shortly after the court decision was announced this is what he has said. here thanks to everyone who supported this you get smoked yet we have to continue to work and prove the reasons. you just heard from speaking about innocence and i have to say that this was his position all throughout his case he's been claiming it all the time and he repeated it again after the ruling of the court and he's words

let's take a listen moment time. i'm not guilty i didn't steal anything i didn't create a criminal group to embezzle from these accusations are absurd. for those of us who haven't been following this case can you give us some background well they all started in back in two thousand and fifteen when police opened a probe into. the collective i have to remind you that this is a prominent a famous movie and theater director here in russia a ward winning director very productive and very active in relation to that probe later in two thousand and seventeen his home was searched in just three months thank you ogres crowden seventeen he was arrested and he was initially charged with the organizing the embezzlement of more than one million dollars in state funds denatured granted to a nonprofit organization known as seven studio established by appealing to the

prosecutor has doubled the amount of the fraud and it is now two million dollars so it's been going on for some time and all this time considering of has been under house arrest critics have been saying that this is a politically motivated case and kill has been claiming all the time that he is innocent and interesting though that he while under house arrest he managed to stage an opera premiered in hamburg in germany and he mentioned today after the ruling of the court that he is ready to go by. to work out of course we're going under stand that the fight is not over for him and it's far from the end of this case or be closely following this case thanks for the updates when we have a national thank you. how to handle foreign fighters returning home after joining islamic state has stumped 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 for the united states is calling on 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 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 claims some five thousand europeans joined isel between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and sixteen the u.k. france germany and belgium are among the most affected countries and with i still largely defeated many of those who swore loyalty to the caliphate are now regretting their actions artie's raptly video agency talked to two former militants born in germany they both converted to islam in their teens look at glass joined islamic state terrorists in aleppo well martin lemon curd worked as an in an ice

the hospital and rocker here's what they had to say. the. common sense. 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 that i asked 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. some mission it's a couple i want to after approximately three months of working at the police

station in rock a separated from us after this i tried again and again to flee territory but it never worked out for various reasons. we're trying to get out and die ash several times that was why i was twice in prison many executions took place you just couldn't believe 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 that would be sold to the iraqi government or to the syrian regime. and seditionist what 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 were taken 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 the islamic state and as i said it might be the biggest mistake of my life that we emigrated to infinity and

get a gun from coming in from by 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. as facebook continues its crusade against fake news that web security research has revealed the social media giant has failed to contain cyber crime on its platform they claim dozens of so-called cyber criminals flea markets operate openly trading stolen credit card data hacking tools and spam lists donald quarter investigates. 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 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 in the form of regulation is required from the industry and the 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 content but they're never going to be able to cope with the sheer volume of content that we see on not only facebook many of the other social network platforms illegal credit cards are being offered online 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 the forms i mean time i was talking negative stuff on the web tipoff and the new ones america's most wanted find a criminal but now turned digital security expert jonathan's jazz has tips on how to stay secure on the web on artie's so. 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 the 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 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. both in all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and join us again in the top of the alf

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this year the nato alliance is seventy years old.