and he considered libya's regime change experiment a success until now former gadhafi loyalists and suspected cia operative colley far . how far off the air is currently in a march on tripoli to take control of the government himself his plan to rid the country of militias extremist and armed civilians and general mohammad. spokesman has folks person for told the independent quote any man carrying a weapon in his hand against us as a target if he hands over his weapon or stays at home he will be say once again a country that has been passed between the hands of colonizing westerners for centuries as being run not by leader is elected by the people but by the very malicious and western warmongers who profit from its demise while many in power across the world are calling for more bombs more force and more death as a solution to violence you high representative for foreign affairs and security policy fredricka is one of many who sees it differently. i believe the

international community tonight the large that is ready for supporting a unity and agreement among the libyans i believe the challenge is now for the media and the different factions and the those to overcome maybe personal interests and sort of the libyan people that wants to turn the page and find a compromise on the solution. so as libya repeats already lost wars and western powers look poised to take hold of the african nation it looks like it's time to think a little deeper and start watching the hot dogs. the older you get the sense that real that this would. be the plot of. the day like you know i got. this with the police. with. this little.

welcome everybody watching the hocks i'm to have of the wallace and joining me today to help us better understand who is behind this latest coup attempt and libya is artsy america correspondent michelle creates i thank you so much for joining us good to be with you so this man khalifa hoft are this a seventy five year old national army commander has been called perhaps the single most powerful military commander in libya so let's talk about who he is right in one thousand nine hundred ninety six he joins the libyan military under king aegis he actually took part in the bloodless coup that you mentioned that brought the duffy to power three years later in one thousand nine hundred nine he rises through the ranks and eventually becomes a key commander in libya's conflict with the neighboring country chad so he's fighting for gadhafi as army at this time then in one thousand nine hundred seven he's taken that's with us intelligence agents here in chad he actually defects from

the libyan military and pledges loyalty to the national front for the salvation of libya which is this u.s. cia saudi backed operation that's dedicated and planning to overthrow gadhafi he and his men are literally trained by the cia special activities division which is the cia's paramilitary arm in sabotage and these other guerrilla skills now this coup attempt fails to the point where in one nine hundred ninety u.s. officials had to rescue him and his fellow libyans to find them a place to live because the new chad government was actually planning to kick them out a u.s. military aircraft flew three hundred fifty of these men including hoft are to the u.s. and they're given refugee status this is where he continues to train with the national front for the liberation of for the salvation excuse me of libya in rural virginia he was very close to here in anticipation for another libyan cool attempt and are smarter audience members might notice this is quite close to cia headquarters so still having those ties there. so this is where he lives for close to two decades

he lives actually right here in falls church virginia until two thousand and seven that he moved to this five bedroom house in vienna people close to him are like where's he getting all this money on public records actually show that he sold this house for over six hundred thousand dollars in two thousand and ten and he voted in virginia elections in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine so now i'm sure your next question is like what happens after gadhafi right because he does feel weird so here's this guy who you go through this whole there's a very well known these things happen and for whatever reason here's this guy who's like running tanks up on tripoli supposedly is sitting there in virginia for twenty years being trained and paramilitary right and i don't know what exactly i meant as you know you know in october of two thousand and eleven nato launches this humanitarian intervention it's successful like you mentioned gadhafi is overthrown and he returns to levy a kind of hoping to be hailed as

a hero and to some extent he is by a few people but he failed to become the leader of the post gadhafi government's armed forces and this is in part because islamists dominate this libya's new government and they made a decision not to give anyone power who used to be loyal to gadhafi so that of course includes him so he goes back to virginia to quote enjoy his grandchildren that's what he told the yorker magazine but then suddenly in twenty fourteen he's back challenging this u.n. backed libyan government in february he releases this video calling for a coup against gadhafi against excuse me against the u.n. backed government he rails against them for not doing enough to get rid of these islamist groups so his goal is now to get rid of these is the missed militias that he accuses of terrorizing libya and what's funny here is the u.s. response according to one former state department official quote everyone was like is this a joke because he used to be a cia asset and now a sudden he's against the u.n. back to govern. it so have to are twenty fourteen who fails but he still continues

to exert like a significant amount of control in this country and he launches what's called operation dignity where he's again trying to kick the islamists out of benghazi with the support of the u.a.e. of egypt of saudi arabia and this actually prompts a counter attacked by the islamist coalition by the islamist alliance plunging the country into civil war again in twenty fourteen and as you know libya now has these two were revealing governments one into a group and one in tripoli because of this now at this point new america which is one of washington's think tanks says huffed are is threatening western interests so really comes down through there's a very large amount of oil now for anybody i know. there's oil in libya most in africa and here's the situation where you have a country it's gone through so many different cities different leaders aren't even really elected leaders it's always sort of you know one or the another government

another group of governments coming in and sort of saying what's going on i have what what's the story with u.s. forces because are they still there. or you know how close is because these literally it's tanks i know they've stopped some of its tanks and airstrikes and his forces are like continuing to make these gains and western media is kind of dismissing this as like oh this russian puppet this brutal dictators trying to make gains of course it's going to you know help them if they try to launch another offensive but at this point like they've taking key pieces of land when it comes to oil from the u.n. back to government on the washington post as you know now saying oh the cia asset has become a u.s. headache in libya as you know thursday they took over this town just sixty miles south of the capital they've declared their intentions forces to take back to tripoli the u.n. is of course saying hey let's calm down all we want dialogue you know and like you mentioned some u.s. forces have temporarily. evacuated because it's become

a dangerous situation for them but forces now control over seventy seven percent of the country and of course we're getting corporate media saying oh this offensive you know threatens peace in libya if threatens to throw libya into a full blown civil war but what caused the situation the situation was of course this u.n. so-called humanitarian intervention that was launched by nato and that's why we have all these you know weapons and all these groups fighting each other so i mean this is now culminating in air strikes on tripoli is only functioning airport just today so we can portray him as a russian puppet and we can say oh we've got to save tripoli from him but the fact is is we have to look at the forces that caused this conflict in the beginning and be very careful as always in when you're watching the media and you're looking at what's happening to really understand who is on the outside and that and keep an open mind and take everything with a grand hope that you here because this is definitely the time when history gets rewritten thank you so much for walking us through that it course better than i had

in this by a very this is a story. since bowing out of the iran nuclear deal the white house has promised harsher and harsher punishments against iran as the election in israel continues to make the threat of war with iran a center point of the debate others are worried that what is now words could lead to destruction in the blink of an eye and while the saber rattling has usually just been for show the u.s. state department is now drawing a line in the sands of international relations r t america's dan cohen has more. until now the foreign terrorists as a nation has never been used against a state military but secretary of state might prompt just made the announcement saying the designation will take effect in seven days we're doing it because the really regime's use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft makes it fundamentally different. from any other government. this is stored step of red the world's leading state sponsor of terror the

financial means to spread misery and death around the world. businesses and banks around the world now have a clear duty to ensure that companies with which they conduct financial transactions are not connected to the r.g.c. in any material way trumpet ministration officials refused to comment on how the u.s. will be able to punish individuals and companies who do business with iran but the trumpet administration has made regime change in iran a top priority and officials seem to think that this might bring that closer to reality iranian officials have responded in kind and put the u.s. military on its black list of foreign terrorist organizations the i.r.g.c. top commander warn that quote the american army and security forces will not experience peace and calm in the middle east anymore iranian foreign minister jeffords a reef says that trumps move is actually on behalf of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is up for reelection on tuesday so i reflowed on twitter

another misguided election eve gift to netanyahu another dangerous u.s. misadventure in the region so if comment might not be far off minutes after the announcement netanyahu tweeted out a thank you to trump trump and netanyahu are also heavily backed by the american casino billionaire sheldon adelson whose long opposed negotiations and once said the u.s. should drop a nuclear bomb on iran he also demanded the us pull out of the joint comprehensive plan of action which did in twenty eighteen you're on is already on the state department's list of state sponsors of terrorism and all this move is unlikely to collapse the government it would certainly add pressure to what is already the most heavily sanctioned country in the world reports say that while pompei o and national security advisor john bolton are in agreement with trump the pentagon and cia are not because they fear as the reef does that it could lead to military confrontation both the u.s.

and iran have forces stationed in iraq and with both saying the other as you quote . the islamic state this designation could be a recipe for just that in washington dan cohen r t. as we go to break get to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter are full shows that are to doubt com coming up boeing's looks to keep people in the air the u.n. wants them to live in the sea and their babies in space say to watch more.

u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me.

yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and engage from an equal trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. a. loser but you don't know it's if you do. you it's the first one you look at the worst we just finished for the. others. i just use we're doing. your thing i was national guard. i thought. the play to. the yeah. it's a little difficult. there but we'll support you but if you put

it on the lead you do you believe because the. machine you do my previous me a. little. long as someone to believe me as we. tell you in the late eighty's. boeing has announced that it plans to cut back on production of the seven thirty seven max aircraft after two fatal crashes revealed similar mechanical problems but as the company faces the first of what could turn into hundreds if not thousands of

lawsuits its stock continues to fall great artes rachel blevins joins me now to discuss the details thank you for joining rachel thank you for having me so there was a preliminary report over the weekend i think a lot of people saw this the investigation into that deadly crash me if you obey that sort of sparked all of this concern. about this particular aircraft it showed that the crew did absolutely everything physically possible to get that plane back in the air and that they were saying this was a you know a. computer fail it's something that needed a patch which honestly is what most people talk about video games not planes so how is boeing i think must be wondering how is boeing reacting to seeing that this really was that they try and that there was nothing they could have done to stop that listen interesting because it marks the first time that boeing has actually come out and admitted some sort of fault in this case because up until now they've said you know these planes are safe the seven thirty seven max there's nothing

wrong with them you know this isn't a big deal kind of the kind of brushed under the rug but for the first time boeing c.e.o. actually came out and he said that there was a problem with the flight control system and we've seen that both in this crash in ethiopia last month and in another crash in indonesia the planes took off everything was fine and then within minutes of takeoff they had some sort of mechanical problem caused the plane to malfunction so it's interesting to see boeing finally coming out and talking about that but it also said these comments could be used against them you know in these lawsuits that are going to be filed because now people are saying that they're admitting some sort of guilt because yes we had this crash that happened to me last month but we also had that crash in indonesia a few months ago so a lot of people are wondering if you knew that there was a problem then then why it in they come fix it yeah especially with something as big as this you know if you don't travel you don't kind of notice you don't really

see this size and magnitude of these international planes and that's why there's so many people on board so it's there's a very big responsibility for it to be down to things like computer programs and things like that it definitely is one of those where you're looking at boeing and wondering how they're going to come back from this as a business because boeing is the most trusted right. i mean i think that one is interesting when you look at it too because reports have come out and they've said that these two planes that crashed didn't have the safety features that were available but it was because boeing charged extra for them and there were certain features that could have helped the pilots on board to see that the sensors on the plane weren't reading right or that there was a problem with them but instead what happened was a plane decided to correct on its own because the saw the sensors were off so that all the sudden nose dive and the pilots had no idea what was happening until it was too late so boeing was charging extra for those features which would have been nice to have and then also have to live with the aviation authorities don't require those features so it'll be interesting to see if there's some changes on the part

of both. and usually what makes those changes happen is not an industry that suddenly cares it's not suddenly that the government says well we're going to put new regulations on it and make this happen and to actually lawsuit. boeing's looking down the barrel of a lot of lawsuits about this what's next for them absolutely so i mean we've got nearly three hundred fifty people that lost their lives in these two crashes alone so that's hundreds of families that you know they're talking about losing daughters mothers aunts on these crashes and so they're definitely coming out now and starting that process of filing lawsuits against boeing listen to a few of the comments and it's just heartbreaking when you think about it there's one where a father found out that his daughter was on the plane in indonesia and he went there to go in to gather her remains and then got there and found out that there were no remains because they had completely burned so he wasn't able to actually go through the grieving process of going and bringing her body home so i think there

are going to be a lot of cases where we see stories like that of people that are just heartbroken and they're asking questions about why didn't boeing do everything possible to prevent this and why did it take up until now for them to come out and just say ok i guess there is something wrong with our flight control system maybe we should get on fixing that or making sure that there are more safety features in place to be available it's a bit like saying you know we're not going to put an elect brakes or we're not about brakes on your car it's x. that seems sort of odd and i think that's why a lot of people wonder is that you have aviation authorities here in the united states that are standing by boeing which you sort of understand when you understand the amount of money that boeing and how much we buy from boeing as a government and how much we facilitate to be sold around the world in planes and weapons or planes that carry weapons boy so is there in the any indication on this and the u.s. regulators and the u.s.

government will take a step back from their usual love for boeing and actually hold them accountable well unfortunately i don't think we're quite shy about pointing out as we saw whenever we had the second crash there were dozens of countries that had completely grounded the seven. before the united states did anything enough at a time when aviation officials here in the u.s. were still saying it's fine it's fine and then finally you know they got the order to ground those planes so it doesn't look like they're quite turning their back on boeing right now it'll be interesting to see when they say that they have the software update and they say that the plane is ready to go how many people actually are willing to been flying on those planes but i know i've heard from almost everyone i've talked to that they don't want to catch themselves on one of those planes they'd rather fun one that has a better track record and that they know the pilots can actually control so we'll see what happens when this gets back to the market and if maybe even they decide to step up and actually. yeah i think that's one of the things that old that will

notice because these are the sort of things that make people more conscious about looking at their take it when they travel and making different travel plans and so when you know these larger planes you know you're saying that they're in you know they were in indonesia and that they're international planes a lot and you know that's one of those things where you spend a lot of money you put a lot of effort out and you bring your family a lot of times you're going to want to know you're on the best. equipment possible and in this case i think you know there's so much will be interesting to see where boeing and regulator and honestly all of these civil lawsuits will will happen throughout the world thank you so much for kind of walking us through the confusion and craziness that is airplanes and the air aviation. industry thank you so much r.c. america's rachel blevins thanks for joining us. climate change could mean the end of many coastal cities but they also wonder if land is the only place available

for people to build their home r.t. america's natasha suite has more. the side of it looks like an island getaway but the united nations is actually backing the design of a new floating so. city the talent reportedly be extremely eco friendly affordable and even be able to withstand a category five hurricane take a look at the proposed city right there on the water according to the u.n. the city would be able to house ten thousand residents it would be a collection of hexagons with each platform holding three hundred residents the entire city would contain a total of six villages the concept known as oceanic city was designed by architect ingles the project is still in search for funding and the u.n. is supporting this idea because it may actually serve as a solution to several pressing matters one is affordable housing two it would be able to withstand natural disasters like floods and hurricanes with hopes of

growing food under water or ocean far mean it would be self-sufficient the city would also be green on an entirely new level instead of having traditional garbage trucks the city would have trash tubes that could actually transport garbage to a sorting station where it could then be repurposed and there wouldn't be any cars besides me be driverless vehicles and builders say they like to experiment with new technologies like a drone delivery system that pulls clean water out of the air would provide clean water build or save machine generators could pull air from the atmosphere and condense it into water impurities like metal or bacteria could then be filtered the platform's would be bolstered by a bio rock essential limestone three times harder than concrete it would be able to withstand harsh weather and if necessary these platforms could be towed to a safer location if a disaster strikes a difficult project to carry out some even comparing it to landing on the moon and speaking of space some see this as

a dress rehearsal for surviving on mars but of course living on the water or mars isn't for everyone in los angeles and sweets r.t. . on earth we have a robotic vacuum cleaner that can clean your floors why. to sleep now in space they'll have astro be asked her views are cube shaped flying robots designed to assist astronauts in space developed at nasa ames research center and is specifically designed broom to mimic the international space station the aster of breed b. use were trained to do things like keep track of tools with tens of thousands of parts and equipment onboard these robots can be programmed to continually locate and inventory even the smallest of items propelled through space by fans and can mamma if it's little kids could also monitor the air sound and pressure to alert astronauts when something needs to be adjusted the bees faces are also touch

screens allowing for messages to be displayed and most importantly the little be is are there so we can find out what happens when humans and robots work together that's right they're learning all these things about interactions between two humans and robots well here we go well everyone that is our show for you today and remember everyone in this world we're not told there are a lot of them out so i tell you out. on top of the list keep on watching the hogs and have a great day and that every latin. breaks it killed. japan proves

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