ah ah, heavily armed men surround libyan government offices in tripoli with militia threatening to sculpt for the upcoming presidential election, the 1st such vote in the rubbish african country in 7 years. moscow, c. retaliate is berlin expels 2 of his diplomats. after russia mans found guilty of the state contracted murder of a chechen in berlin, a case the kremlin rejects has been grounds. also, the new york times is slang for backtracking on the infamous steel dossier, he source for the trunk, brush collusion theory. as the outlet thoughts, publishing articles and podcasts on how the document should never have been relied

on and a frosty future, the plans to drop all long term natural gas contracts have to 2049. despite concerns that much 40 green alternatives will be able to meet european energy needs ah, paid are great, have the company watching artie international militants have surrounded a number of key sites in the libyan capital, triply among them, the headquarters of the government of national unity, the ministry of defense and the presidential council. here for you and verified video of the presidential council building, you can see combat vehicles carrying armed men in the vicinity. photos and videos have been coming in from tripoli also showing fighters outside the offices of libby as interim government of national unity and videos have been circulating that

appear to show military vehicles patrolling the city. although i must point out auntie has not yet been able to independently verify those. get more back down to the story from mar artie correspondent, august on af, good morning, t eager, and the unrest i've just detailed. some of it seems, it seems pretty clear. and what has caused it though? well, what caused it is several militant groups who have entered the libyan capital, tripoli, and they have basically brought the political life of the country to a stand still. one of the people, one of the leading this charge would, will claiming against the elections is a solid body. and the reason i'm singling him out is that because he's a very colorful figure, with a very interesting history, basically the man that he's one of the powerful warlords in libya. and remember, the country has been in a state of lawlessness and power vacuum for a very long time since more my ca daffy was killed back in 2011. so all these, all these powers, they, all these militant groups they have for

a while to have been, you know, wrestling each other for power has been very nasty. but at a certain point, are the incumbent prime minister was recognized by the united nations and by the international community. and so that kept the status quo. and basically the current uprising aims to disrupt the status quo. and this is, this is what they're saying because this man, this warlord sell a body, he has been saying that as long as he has any men under his banners, the elections will not happen. among the reasons he says that the incumbent prime minister abdul de baby that basically says that the elections are rigged in his favor. this is what this is what the man is saying. but if you were to look at the situation on the ground, the incumbent pri menace seized the very same person who would stand to benefit instant to win from this attempt in pu. because basically right now in he has

a few problems facing ahead of the election. first of all, he has failed to provide a credible certificate of education. basically he provided one from a canadian university. canadian, nova university responded, endo reply came back with the saying, basically they did not. you know, it's not know who this man is. and it's, while it's one of the rules that if you want to run for leadership and libya, you have to have a higher education. so father incumbent prime minister, even if he has one, he has failed to provide proof and another and even bigger i would say challenge is the return of safe. could duffy, the son of more, mcdaniel and it is widely believed that if libyans were allowed to vote freely, overwhelmingly, they would vote for could duffy's son and that despite all the events of 2011, despite the killing of his father, apparently the hearts and minds of people are still on the side of the cadaver family and on the side of safe. so. busy as, as i and if i interpret this correctly sounds like we have

a renter mob trying to put off the elections to keep the prime minister in power by their not being a presidential election. and is this just organically happening normally? i'm a renter mob is actually rented. is there an suggestion of outside influence, while libya has a long history and a very tragic history of being subject of you know, international interference. after all, we all remember who bombed qaddafi into well, into ousting the power and basically into death, into the bombed, had been brought him into the hands of the rebels of the anti government forces. so and that basically there's a lot of a lot of foreign actors in foreign powers who have these little renter mobs this time. of course i have to say that there is no official proof. there's no evidence to be, you know, make a hard link between them. militiaman who took who were, who are trying to take charge in tripoli and say, the incumbent prime minister, there's no direct ties. but if you see again, if you see who wins it is, it is kind of with this kind of obvious. so when it comes to foreign powers again

they, they try to do nation building and libya, the for the broad was chaos. and i mean, as, as a very clear sign of their failure here. because even despite all the assets, again, the hearts and minds of people are still on the side of safe conduct. the son of conducting the basically of the class that the tried to get as far away. busy from power as possible, safe conduct. he was, he was captured by rebels. he remained in captivity. he had a few of his. he had several fingers chopped off by the rebels that he was tortured . still the man has the heart to come back and run for power and still and, and the, the, the ruling elite, they fear him because he is still been despite being in an exile for so long people still remember him and this again, signals of all the of all the failures of the international intervention in libya and basically that they created something that they cannot even well control

themselves. because the man behind the who right now sell a body, he is on the international sanction lifted by the un sanctions. which of the un and of the united states. and he got there precisely for blocking the political process in libya. this is what he's doing. now. this is what he did in 2014, when libya was supposed to have the 1st collections, guests who stage to coo and disrupted the election, then sala body. well, the run up to the elections. if indeed they do take place. spring is all the information the ego appreciated low discuss the stillness, chaotic situation in libya with alexandra bruno an unlisted golf state analytics. he also served as a you and officer in libya in the late 990 c says the foreign powers created the crisis in the country. the problem of external fighters, libya have being a problem from the very beginning of the ante gadhafi revolt in 2011. because of course,

that revolt was stimulated and encouraged from external powers, particularly the great great britain and france. and then of course, the united states, they intervened creating the situation which would never have risen by itself. and then we've had more recently influenced turkey in particular, and katara on the west. they are interested in promoting supposedly muslim brotherhood influence the government in tripoli, 8 days to go until the elections in these circumstances militia on the streets. will the elections happen? do you think? in fact, we have intimidation? should they happen? i don't think they will happen. the situation right now favors the government in charge in the west. it's in some ways it also favors the east

because whoever becomes president will have control of the entire country. so some people are very happy to keep control and to benefit from men, from sucking some of the oil revenues and other approaches in the various in their various centers of power rather than having to whoever with when give up that power democracy is not built overnight. and just the fact of having elections does not make a democracy. russia has said that they will retaliate after germany throughout to us. diplomats on wednesday be expulsions. k matter court found the russian citizen guilty of the murder of a chance man in berlin in 2019 adding that he had acted on behalf of moscow. that's a claim. the kremlin has rejected. on correspondence in berlin,

peter oliver ripples of to russian diplomats have been declared persona non grata by the new german foreign minister anal in a bare balkan one of her 1st duties in that role. it all relates back to the sentencing of a russian national, named as variety and kathy cove to life, imprisonment for the murder back in august of 2019 of delhi. man. hon gosh heavily . in the fact that ad that killing was well described directly as been at the behest of the russian state by the court that did the sentencing. now moscow denies any involvement in the killing of high gosh, really, who is shot to death in a pearl in park right in the center of the german capital. back in the, the summer of 201930 tractor. the defendant denied the crime, particularly denied being part of the russian security apparatus, or having been commissioned by any security apparatus at all. there is not

a single piece of evidence, and the court also admitted there isn't any evidence that would prove this. there is only circumstantial evidence, this prompted on the line of bare bog to call the russian ambassador to the foreign ministry, and in which he was informed that 2 of his diplomats would be going home. these are march in startling, this murder on behalf of the state as determined that quite a day represents a serious violation of german law and of germany sovereignty. the russian ambassador was informed that to members of the diplomatic step of the russian embassy were being declared undesirable. i hope there will be no escalation because in a moment we don't really piece read on it. or there's an economic crisis. there's covered crisis. when we look at the rhetoric software for a mystery and on the nobel book, i'm a bit afraid she wants to escalate the conflict. i will go to the russian side rule or try to search dialogue as far as possible and that we find her who transcript

deepening. maybe it will. this is irma secondino. mister shows come into it. i a lot directly mother for a ministry in moscow has issued a response very as a card of her, their spokesperson saying that there would be a reaction from moscow to the expulsion of those 2 diplomats moscow denied any involvement in the killing of han gosh, really and he was a wanted terrorist in russia. he had asylum status 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. 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 the c 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 biased 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 af shots, the new german chancellor and vladimir putin who 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 ambry have told us

what they believe, prompted the court decision and the expulsion of russian. diplomats think we're seeing a change in berlin from ne angel now toyota. the new social democrat read coalition . i expect to take a honda attitude and she did in regards to russia. germany's come is coming on domains 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, is 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 in assume to don't stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia 80 in germany. with some of the areas that we doubtless made say no to civilians assumed you don't have about their ability to influence other nations, french, u. k. and even latin american and other countries in georgia, then they went to high from seigel alone with members of your high school. so please, please, please, please. we're going to continue to fight with russia must not

be allowed in germany. i don't want y'all to come and leave it so short. so dean out, innovations and the yes, dr. a in 80 the enough mrs. guns until sunday. okay. in case you missed it and it was a bit fast. there was a disclaimer at the start of that video saying that those speeches a r produce are not real. they using deep vague technology in case she didn't pick up on it. powered is or not though they reflect the very serious obstacles r t d has faced the head of its launch, which is today. danny armstrong has more. the journey to launch day has been the usual track 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 media 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

but 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 work for odyssey have said good bye to critical and independent journalism and whether they want it or not, all 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 dis information under the guise of alternative journalism and what goes up most calm down r t deutsch. his assent was yanked back down to earth when youtube band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now despite rumors that the ban was barely batt, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chief's 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. unending gut wrenching pain. that's how the mother of julian sanchez described. her feelings about her son's legal battle against the american government, including the latest decision on his possible extradition to the us, where he could face lifetime imprisonment. she voiced her fears and concerns in an open letter 50 years ago and given birth for the 1st time as a young mother, i thought there could be now greater pain. i realized now that i was wrong. there is a greater pain. the unending gut wrenching pain of been the mother of a multi award winning journalist who had the courage to publish the truth about

high level government crimes and corruption. because the nightmare of him being extradited to the u. s. and being buried alive in extreme solitary confinement for the rest of his life, the constant fear the ca will carry out its plan to assassinate him. of the letter comes after the british high court ruled that julian assange can be expedited to the united states. it's over ruled in early decision against the whistle blowers, extradition where the judge decided fears for his mental health and even risk of suicide. on his fiance says the latest ruling is a grave miscarriage of justice. julian exposed the crimes of ca, torturers of ca killers, and now we know that those ca killers were planning to kill him too. how can this court how can these courts approve an extradition request? under these conditions, all the youth is pursuing us on shore,

disclosing classified information about wars in afghanistan and iraq in 2019. the wikileaks founder was forcibly removed by british police from the ecuadorian embassy in london, where he'd sought refuge following sexual assault allegations is sweden. he spent the last 2 years in london's bel marsh prison that the u. s. is not let up in its attempts to gather sans transferred state side, where he could face up to 175 years behind bars. we spoke to ecuador, former counsel in the u. k, and to an independent journalist about the case is shameful. that the british judicial system is not sobering enough. in order to, to make justice in this country, united states is saying we can give diplomatic guarantees. the breath you ceased them. hus gave this gun. these credibility, while we know that these kind of a guarantees have not any credibility,

because in previous, in other cases, those got on these have have been broken so they are not worth the paper. they're written on here. we have a slow motion execution happening right before us and it's happening in the united kingdom. and the united states again, is really playing a strong arm here. and it's just really evidence of us imperial power at play. and at the same journalism that one julian assigned to numerous awards, it's been very same journalism. it has him in you case, worst prison today in each single day that the united states continues to prosecute . this case is just one more day that the usb trace its own constitution. this is a tremendous threats to press freedom world why this case also impacts not only

journalists and activists, but it impacts the public in general. this case really is an assault on the public's right to know. as part of the eas efforts to go green and consign fossil fuels to history, the european commissioners proposed hunting old long term natural gas contracts. following 2049, the you, sam alex is gaston, height is networks. they were bland and developed in ne, integrated manner. avoiding lock in and standard assets and long term gas contracts should not extend pipe, then it $49.00. but the e u energy commissioner, want of the risks to europe's gas supplies, particularly cold winter's like the one right now are seen european energy prices have risen since the autumn rising. in fact, more than 6 times when compared to the same period last year, europe's largest gas supply. russia has repeatedly spoken in favor of long term

deals, saying they bring much needed stability subs. no good it. and you, that was dealership. 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 are approaching an all time high despite government assurance is to bring the rates back to 2018 levels. the cost of a megawatt hour will as expected to be $7.00 times higher than it was in last december electricity. bills in spain, in november, rose by 50 percent compared with the previous year and people across the country. they are obviously feeling it in their pockets. i'm yet dollar homie of the well in

boulder is. mm hm. and it changes everything. but if you have a sorry that only cover certain things, it affects you in everything else. if you have 500 euros and spend 300 on electricity, he rarely have anything left over. what are people going to do live in the if i were in church, i would if people in government a low salary and see how the corporate shawl is reached this level because no one regulates it or they're glad of. okay, of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge your clients a low price, it affects you a lot. if you charge lions 15 euros and you have to pay around electricity cetera, what do you have left when? so we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed good. that when i get them or we spoke to independent journalist luc river, who thinks that the decisions coming from brussels are only making the energy crisis worse. you that would be too politically 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 the renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent, so if you're billed when turbines you need to st 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 mrs. fondling? once we would be crazy to go that way? completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to enjoy moscow once talented as proof of trump, russia collusion western made around that's are now disowning the infamous field of

ca, the new york times for one of to remoting, it relentlessly has turned its back on it from to some scathing comments online most recently after one of his podcast host, referred to the dossier like this. the steel darcy, a, is a profoundly flied document, correct? the steel darcy, a should never have had the life any impact that it did. ortiz correspondence, husky, taylor looks at town obsession with the collusion. narrative led to holes in the dossier being ignored dossier, the dossier that controversial document it alleges, overt knowing collusion was a bomb shell. oh, what a full from grace. once every democrats favorite bedtime reads now line and trash cans all over washington dc. yes, this still tulsa as well. i'm truly toast. no corroborating evidence has emerged in

the intervening years to support many of the specific claims in the dossier and government investigators determined that wonky allegation that mr. trump st. louis michael gordon had met with russian officials and briggs in the campaign was fulls 5 years after the rest of the world realized that the mainstream media has finding a quote on that. some things really ought to good to be true. and a former am i 6 of suspending the out and how trump and co approaching to steal the white house in a crime. and bunker in between colton with prostitutes in a hotel room is one of these things. now it started to go south when the main 4th was indicted for 9 to the f b i. but the real highlight of the russia gate suckers came when the author, himself admitted he didn't really check his homework. we knew some of it was right, and we suspected some of it may never be provable. thinking back on the many unprovable things they'd been paddling for years. the media panic, soap overnight, came up with a game plan back track. and for good measure make it seem like they'd learn to

lessen from it. cnn, especially went into overdrive now. it had the great honor of being the 1st network to break the dos. yes, story on for years. continue to be. it's main heitman based on our own reporting and word from numerous official sources. the dossier, in fact, is far from bogus, but now well, it's a reckoning. apparently. they've even written that the devil himself trump was actually right about it all. which must have been very painful to admit true. swiftly reject to steals claims. is that a group of opponents put together nearly 5 years later it's clearer than ever that he wasn't too far off about the origins of the dossier. but desperate times. speaking of time, specifically the new york times while loaning last year, it was claiming that the dos his sources was solid, but russian trolls were trying to discredit done. the f. b, i team received 3 reports in 2017,

raising the possibility that one of the sources for the steel dossier was potentially influenced by russian dis, information campaign to denigrate us foreign relations. but now, while it says it's helped us, the dos it was an unverified politicized flunk the f b. i took the dossier seriously, based on mister steele's reputation, and use some of this without independence verification for a narrow purpose that led to a dead end and became a political tobacco. but it had been all so deliciously salacious and guaranteed views. how could they not have written about it? and anyway, verified one verified, what does it matter? we all know rushes guilty of something anyway. the befalls and officers of the media's take on the dos it really do go on. in fact, at this stage, the only person who is sticking by his rush to get guns is adam chef. would you help give a credibility to regret it.