hold on at the do you how any have seen the hey, do what i done? i'm in. no, i'm seeing that a hey, what i can now maybe maybe maybe with can . ah, heavily armed men surround libyan government offices in tripoli with militia threatening to cancel the upcoming presidential election, which is deemed essential by the you and to maintain peace in the divided african country. pasco vows to retaliate. as berlin expels 2 of us diplomats after a rush, a man's found guilty of the state, contracted murder of a chechen in berlin. a case the kremlin rejects as being groundless and a frosty future. the plans to drop all long term natural gas contracts after 2049,

despite concerns that much wanted green alternatives won't be able to meet european energy needs. ah. by that very good morning. great to have your company here on our tea international . militants have surrounded a number of key sites in the libyan capital, tripoli, among them, the headquarters of the government of national unity, the ministry of defense. and the presidential council. here is unverified video for you of the presidential council building. you can see combat vehicles carrying armed men in the vicinity, photos, and videos coming in from tripoli also show fighters outside the offices of libya's interim government of national unity and videos have been circulating that appear to show military vehicles patrolling the city out. he has not yet been able to

independently verify these videos. a scam on the story now from monte kirsten exist on if it was me, good morning, t eager. libya. i think fair to say been in a sort of a quiet period in the news. been out of the i'd suddenly things have really fled up . what's caused this unrest. well, basically several militant groups have staged this armed uprising that you've just been talking about. we know about at least 3 of these groups, and i mean, don't get me wrong while libya, it has been a bit of a, you know, quite stake when it comes to the headlines and libya, all these little warlords and you know, big wallet, they haven't gone anywhere since 2011 and still, since all the infighting that's been going on in the country. so some of these warlords, they have raised their heads and they have tried to stop the upcoming presidential rather yet with the upcoming election in the country. one of the people, one of the warlords behind the qu, is seller body. and the reason i'm emphasizing this person, and i'm emphasizing this name is because he is quite

a colorful individual. back in 2011. he fought against more market, duffy. so he was one of the one of west's favorites. and so he's, he's very well known. after that he turned rogue, he went very hungry for power. he was vying for power. and in fact, he was so so desperate and he was so hell bent on keeping libya in the state of lawlessness in the state of the state of power vacuum that he even got on the, on the us sanctions of us and on the un sanctions versed as well, so, and he got there precisely because he was trying to stop any political process from well coming to fruition in the country. he is behind this qu again, at least he is one of the warlords, who stormed the libyan capital. and according to a speech, he because he gave a speech, he said that essentially as long as he has men under arms and under his banners, there will be no elections. and he kind of criticized the whole process. he

criticized. he said that the current election, who says, according to him, is rigged in favor of the incumbent prime minister abdul de baby ander. but as you listen to him saying that this school is exactly what the incumbent prime minister kind of wants. this is something that the incumbent prime minister is. well, he wins his do his these the sole winter and his why? because while abdul, the baby he is, he is intending to run in the elections. but he, his candidacy has been hit from a number of points one. he basically the liberal law says that the, any, anybody who runs for presidency, anyone who runs for leadership, this candidate should have a higher education. but up to the babies, you know, university papers, canadian university papers, they have been alleged to be a fraud. because when, when he provided the papers and then at the election commission reached out to the

university, the university came back with a response that, well, we do not know anything about the person. the prime minister's excuse was that well arabic names that can be spelled differently, but then the university provided a whole list of names and do all that whole list of, you know, versions of how his name could have been spelled. and none of those were in the universe at his database. so officially a builder pay with incumbent prime minister. he as a man with no education, so he can't run and another probably an even bigger deal and even bigger hit against his candidacy is the fact that the son of late more market daffy safe qaddafi is back in the country. and he has been allowed to run and he was e, and he is intending to run. and the general understanding is that a very large majority of libyans, they will vote for safe, despite anything that happened with, despite the events of 2011. despite the uprising, despite the toppling of them of more mar gadhafi government, the general understanding is that the hearts and minds of the libyan population are

still with could of his son. so according to, according to every bit of analytics that is available right now on the situation there, this is in this, this who is very much in favor of the incumbent prime minister, whatever the militant se. and essentially if the elections don't, if they don't come, if they don't come, if the elections are disrupted, then well, if there's one, when that would be the militias, warlords, and the incumbent prime minister obviously does great outside interest in this nation. no need to go through again. the western influence and toppling more, more good of good faith. do we see any of that outside influence from whatever country of the moment? well, speaking about this, influencing speaking about international influence, i'd rather talk about the lack of one because it's because the, the international, the international powers, they helped bring you all, they basically brought down nato, brought down, bombed cadet fee into, you know,

out of power. so they did that, but then they lost all control over libya. i mean, this solar, you know, sallow body. he is under international sanctions and look what he's doing. he is one of the most powerful men in libya right now. well, he may be a political porn, but still he's doing all the all the leg work. he's doing all the dirty work and he is. he is the one making a speech. he is the front. he's the, he's the front page, he's the, he's the front man for that. again. so our body, a colorful figure back in 2014, when libya was supposed to have elections guess who disrupted them with an armed uprising fella body, this is sort of his thing, this is sort of his profile. i mean, he's the go to, you know, person on the speed dial as to what, whenever once elections council in disrupted, he's the go to mad fascinating stuff. really appreciate the update on of with me in the studio. ok. let's get some analysis now from alice under bruno. he is an unlisted girl state analytics. he's also previously you an officer in libya that

was in the late ninety's. very good morning to alexandra in your opinion. morning. is this situation likely to escalate? well, the situation is likely to escalate and as the previous correspondence mentioned very accurately, i think the likelihood of elections is very unlikely that we have less than 2 weeks. there has been no campaign. libyans are completely uninformed. and the biggest problem of all is always, it has been the same since 2011. since the end of the regime that we have loose militias representing a number of different interests number, whether they are a tribal or islam is or is tied to the east west

divide. these interests have never been reconciled. in fact, over that they have been even the fights over control of libby as most important resource, which is oil between the oil company, the national oil company and the newly formed ministry of oil. even these 2 could not get their act together because one was controlled from the east and the other one was controlled from the west. and each government would have their own p, people in these ministers in these organizations. so the general framework at the political level at the national level is in existence where there is some hope of electoral politics or politics is more the municipal level that has worked much better in libya. and it's no surprise because municipal politics were

quite active, even during the days of the regime. so they had the libyans have a lot more experience at that level. there's walk a days to go until the elections in these circumstances are militia on the streets . will the election happen, do you think and in fact, in not serve intimidation, should they happen? i don't think they will happen and unfortunately, and it's just, these militias will not permit. and you can imagine it will be difficult for people to go on the streets. and of course, as someone of the previous correspondent mentioned, the, the militia of actions favor the incumbent, the favor, the baby of the prime minister, whose education qualifications apparently cannot be retrieved from canada. he has a huge advantage here because he's in power without the elections. he remains in

power and he does the bidding of some of the foreign powers that have infiltrated or influenced particularly this the western libya. and i'm talking about car and turkey in particular. the mystery is where the government is getting the money to pay for the militia that are helping it. because these militias, a room to cause some $50000000.00 per month, and that's a huge expense and they have to keep them up because otherwise, of course, they will sites, they will turn around, turn against the, the government. so and, and i want to stress that the, the fact that faithful islam duffy, son of the deceased america that enjoys strong support. he, by what i've read, he's supposed to have 70 percent of libyan,

behind them. and nobody it, especially in the west, wants to see another good taffy in, in charge. yes. given what was explained by august on of them by yourself that you know to baby who's in danger of losing his position. cuz he's not even qualified to be there in the 1st place. it's not some mechanism within the constitution to sit still have him subsequently removed if he isn't legitimate to be in that position in the 1st. by surely that there is there a way of removing it. well, they would have to change the constitution, but who changes it? there is no president the 2 that has that kind of moral and political authority to change the constitution. that's one of the biggest issues. also, you know, there is a deep divide, political now, as well as cultural historical between the east and the west virginia and center in

idaho. and this is a very deep rift, and i think people don't realize that libya, as we know it today was never really was not a unified whole. libya is the conception of saline who italian dictator in the 20s who controlled maybe at the time it was an italian colony and unified the 3 provinces that made it up. so what happened after the war was a monarchy that controlled from the west, from the east at that time. and then get duffy came from the east and post the eastern interest, which is one of the reasons why. throughout his, for 40 years in power. he was always challenged from been ghazi and of the eastern area. that's where most of the who attend most of the challenges to his

power came from, including at the time when i was there, they were rumored attempts on his life. whenever he went to get to bring ghazi. if you have a situation where you've got a, you know it incumbent leader who's going to retain power, made chaos. and as we've said, malicious roaming the streets. and if there is an upcoming popular opposition to me, that sounds like a recipe for violence, for conflict, for chaos. i mean, these are what you anticipate. well, i anticipate that if the, if there is some effort from the candidates to, to have an election because right now the situation right now favors the government in charge in the west. it in some ways it also favors the east because whoever becomes president will have control of the entire country. so the,

some people are very happy to keep control and to benefit from from sucking some of the oil revenues and other proceeds in the various in their various centers of power rather than having to whoever with when give up that power so that the status quo is benefiting and the status quo is managed or on the streets by very violent and extremely well trained through battle malicious. some of these militias are rumored to have fighters that were imported or came from syria, apparently turkey's rumor, to have deployed some, some of militias from syria to, to libya and all kinds of unsavory organizations that are involved. and i wouldn't want to deal with some of these people that they are digitally. well, i mean,

they are like organized crime in a sense. so it's not a very pleasant situation. and if i were the baby, i'd keep myself quiet and hidden because the situation favors me. so i don't do the risk of violence is high. if. if some decide to challenge the militia as essential by challenging the militia. that means challenging the trying to hold the election. and by the way, the un representative in libya right now has resigned his post. i don't know how long he's there for still, but the situation appears to be very fragile. yeah. well assess, really appreciate your take on that. thanks for giving you

a benefit of your expertise here. alexander alice, under bruno analyst at go state analytics. my guess, think russia says that it will retaliate have to germany throughout to have his diplomats. on wednesday, the explosions came after a court found a russian citizen guilty of the murder of a chechen man in berlin in 2019 adding that he had acted on behalf of moscow. a claim the criminal has rejected correspondingly to oliver his details. to russian diplomats have been declared persona non grata by the new german foreign minister on a bare bulk in one of her 1st duties. in that role it all relates back to the sentencing of a russia national. named is cathy cove to life, imprisonment for the murder back in august of 2019 of 0 man hun gosh. really in the fact that that killing was well described directly as being of the heft of the

russian stage by the courts that did the sentencing. now moscow denies any involvement in the killing of high gosh, really, who is shot to death in a burly park right in the center altogether and capital back in the the summer of 2019. now on wednesday, this prompted on the line of bad book to call the russian ambassador to the foreign ministry in which he was informed that 2 of his diplomats will be going home. these are much in startling us murder on behalf of the state as determined by the court today represent the relation of german law and of germany sovereign. the russian investor was informed that the members of the magic stuff of the russian embassy were being declared undesirable. i hope there will be no escalation, because in the moment we don't need peace, we don't need or there's an economic crisis. there's colbert crisis. when we look at the rhetoric or a ministry and not that book, i'm a bit afraid she wants to escalate the conflict. i hope that the rational side will

try to search dialogue as far as possible, and then we find friendship. maybe it will be good to mr. cole junior. mr. charles, come in to a dialogue directly before a ministry in moscow has issued a responsibility as a card of the spokes person saying that there would be a reaction from moscow to the expulsion of those 2 diplomats. moscow denies any involvement in the killing of hunger. surely, and he was a wanted terrorist in russia. he had asylum state as here in germany. but moscow had been seeking him in order to, to prosecute him in connection with the death of almost 100 people directly. that they say he was involved in those death in russia's north caucus region. also, he's accused of being part of the planning and plotting for the 2010 moscow metro

suicide attacks. now, the russian ambassador released a statement shortly after this, the sentencing saying that he believed that both the evidence that was provided from the prosecution and the timing of the sentencing were politically motivated. the absurd thesis about the involvement of the russian federation in this case was never confirmed by convincing evidence to accept pseudo investigations and unsubstantiated statements of the bias media such as belin, cat, an insider, and other speculations is at least strange. the time chosen for the announcement of the verdict is hardly accidental. obviously, some one is interested in overshadowing the dialogue between russia and the new german government. the relationship between moscow and berlin is under some strain at the moment whether it involves the future of nord stream to the situation surrounding ukraine. all this particular case and the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats following that sentencing. all f shots, the new german chancellor and vladimir putin, her yet to have

a phone call. certainly they haven't met face to face yet, but when the to do there are certainly going to be a lot for them to talk about. unless patrick hennington, crisp amber told us what they believe prompted the court's decision and the expulsion of the russian diplomats. they were seeing a change in berlin from the angel nato yos, the new social democrat wide coalition. i expect to take a harder attitude and she did in regards to russia. germany's come is coming on to immense pressure from the united states and from its allied france. so i think we will see germany coming coming through on this, or it's not the 1st time that we've seen courts make such a sweeping statements, presumably of fact. but when you actually look what the provenance of the statement is, there's, there's not much evidence to draw that conclusion definitively anyway. seems like,

you know, these days any time russia is involved, almost assumed that whatever the narrative is that's out there in the sort of public domain is probably based on fact is probably true. so we can just, we have license to go ahead and generalize that. the russian state is behind whatever the various plots are, and there are many of them in the last couple of years. in a city delegated. and as you want to stand together, we'll continue to stand together against russia. even jeremy, with some of the areas that we doubtless made, they noticed if he needs a chunky dose of about their ability to influence other nations, french, u. k. and even latin american and other countries in future than they went to hi, from cycle alone with members of your household, please, please, please,

please. we're going to continue to fight with justin to russia. must not be allowed in germany. well you have to call and leave it to show us. so the in ality to innovation the yes are to in the 80 the enough missiles guns until sunday. okay. in case you missed her pounds of the warning at the start of that those speeches were parodies that were created with deep fact technology. don't write in don't complain. say it's not them. we know parodies are not though. they do reflects some very serious obstacles r t d has faced the head of its launch, which is today. danny armstrong explains the journey to launch day has been the usual tract through pressure and passive aggression from the self appointed defenders of democracy. i. e. rival german media,

it's bad enough to putin's voice sounds out across the internet. if it were not for one reliable german meteor outlet, dest spiegel kremlin owned outlets would dominate the german digital information space in both the number of articles published in social engagement received. there is reason to believe that most of the traffic on r t channels is real and not acquired through purchased fake profiles. the thinly veiled disdain from rival gym and media outlets have come in a form of gallant cries to stop the so called moscow mouthpiece. and kremlin back putin propaganda, of course, that has nothing to do with our t deutsche. his popularity on a string of social media, where they consistently rank among the top most viewed channels as regards news and politics. ah

for it wasn't just rival outlets that ran so the his theory of art, he toich his rise through the media rankings. politicians got personal and launched . attacks on arte employees framing them as perpetrators of this information. and d, stabilizing democracy. those who worked for archie have said good bye to critical and independent journalism, and whether they want it or not are the employees are part of the destabilization of democracy. this is not about the approval of a profane entertainment channel, but about e. u wide access for putin propaganda and targeted disinformation under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down arte deutsche. his ascent was yanked back down to earth. when you chew band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now,

despite rumors that the ban was berlin, bat, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chiefs decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure on brussels or the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that . so despite other people's best efforts, artie deutsch is primed and ready for action. launching on air and launching a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media beware as part of the ease efforts to go green and consign fossil fuels to history. the urban commission has proposed ending all long term natural gas contracts. after 2049. they use sam, electricity, gas, and hydrogen networks, philip bland, and developed in ne, integrated manner. avoiding lock in and standard assets and long term gas contracts

should not extend by 2049. however, the e u energy commission at want of the risks to europe scarce supplies, if particularly cold winters such as this one are seen. european energy prices have risen since autumn rising, in fact more than 6 times compared to the same period last year. europe's largest gas supply. russia has repeatedly spoken in favor of long term deal, saying they bring much needed stability some snugger. and that was still as if they made mistakes. we talked about this with the previous european commission or of its activities were aimed at curtailing long term contracts for gas supplies, giving priority to exchange trading. and it turns out this policy was wrong. russia is ready to work to stabilize the world energy market, but this activity should be built on a commercial basis, taking into account the interests of all participants and electricity bills in europe are skyrocketing along with the price of natural gas. for example, in spain,

they're approaching in all time high despite government assurance is to bring rates back to 2018 levels. the cost of a megawatt hour is expected to be $7.00 times higher than it was just last december . electricity bills in spain, in november, rose by 50 percent compared with the previous year, and people across the country are obviously feeling it in their pockets. i'm gentle it hm. yeah. well, it voyeurism and it changes everything. if you have a sorry that only cover certain things, it affects you and everything else. if you have 500 euros and spent a 100 on electricity, he rarely have anything left over. what are people going to do? if i were in church, i would if people in government a low salary and see how the corporate controller shawl is reached, this level because no one regulates it again. glad albert again. of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge your clients a low price, it affects you a lot. if you charged lions 15 euros and you have to pay rent,

electricity cetera, what do you have left? you say we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed. good. i mean, again, we spoke to independent journalist luc river, who thinks the decisions coming from brussels are only making the energy crisis worse unit would be completely crazy if they decided to suppress long term contracts for gas, or to try to suppress gas being a fossil fuel you know, to, to be discarded. this is wrong. why? because they choose their renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent. so if you're billed when turbines, you need the same capacity in gas turbines. when there is no wind, they will take over. so you absolutely need gas if you bet on renewables, everybody understands that a long term contract brings you better prices over a long term and stability. it's the same for gas prices. i mean,

the price of gas now on the spot market in europe is incredibly high. is it what europe wants? is it? what is this phone delay once we would be crazy to go that way? completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to annoy moscow. ok, last going on. that brings you up to date of to say in 30 minutes on latest headline . mm with .