no, margaret duffy in 2011, in addition to the thousands of people who have lost their lives. in the aftermath, the un said in 2020, that the overall losses in the country were impossible to calculate. with over 900000 people still in need of humanitarian assistance, it's certainly a far cry from the freedom and democracy. former president obama claimed he was bring to libya. all those years ago were under no illusions libya will travel a long and winding road to full democracy. there will be difficult days ahead. but the united states, together with the international community, is committed to the libyan people. so if not for the benefit of the people who live there, then how has benefited from nato intervention in libya. so if not for the benefit of the people who live there then who has benefit from nato intervention, libya, well as no secret of the nation has the largest proven oil reserves in africa. and

that opportunity for profit was clearly on the lines of western leaders who made it their mission to take out gadhafi. in fact, the new york times article from 2011 noted that the nato countries that provided crucial air support to the rebels. we're also moving to make sure their companies were in a quote, prime position to pump would be in crude 20. and while europe doesn't want the refugees fleeing from conflict in a war torn nation in does want unlimited access to libby as natural resources. the spokesman for the middle east and africa said earlier this year that they see libya is one of the countries they hope to rely on as a look to reduce their reliance on supplies from russia. as for the reason why the west is suddenly taking an interest in libya once again, while the increase in clashes has led to a decrease in production out of time, one global output is already unstable. so the same countries but claimed to care before are showing once again that they only really care about the people of the

devastated nation when there is a way to profit off of that foreign policy analysts tough as outgo yell says that if western countries want to end this conflict, they just need to keep their own promises. i think they need to live up to their own promises. i mean the national security council in new york with the support of both of your day united states, england and france and the rest of the european union have pledged that they will take certain steps. chief among them is to prevent outside those from supplying arms. for example, into the various libyan and malicious, both east and west. that has not happened that the supply of weapons continues from countries like the u. e, for example, which has played a very damaging role in libya over the years and supporting, for example, our allowing an american citizen like after to engage in sort of

a military rebellion with that. can you? consequences is a serious problem. but there are a number of military years powers and militias on the western side of libya. there are also engaged in all kinds of illegal activities, including war crimes, illegal immigrants to europe, illegal drug trades, illegal financial transactions. if the united nation and the united states and europe do not seriously take that their own pledges, i mean this is not something that is a wishful thinking. this is their own pledges over the last 11 years as long as the country is allowed to in this way without any sticks to hold these people accountable, the country will continue to drift. the american basketball star brit brittany griner has testified at her drug trial in russia. she claims that her rights have

not been properly explained to her. as an interpreter provided a poor translation from russian earlier, she admitted responsibility for inadvertently, bringing cannabis infused vape cartridges to russia. however, the jailed athletes athlete insist that she did not intentionally break the law. in february, brittany grant, griner was arrested in russia where she played during the w. n. b a off season. she was detained by authorities shortly after flying into moscow biplane, after customs officers found drugs in her luggage. despite the fact that she has pleaded guilty, her supporters in the u. s. claim. she's being held hostage by russia while washington claims the basketball player is being held in intolerable conditions with us authorities doing everything possible to get her out. but to get some more insight into this story, we're in cross live now to human rights activists. jesse jackson, thank you very much for joining us on the program, sir. now, on the loser brittany griner has

a lot of supporters who claim that she's absolved of any crime by the fact that she claims she has. she had brought the drugs to russia unintentionally. what's your take on that? one thing is this, you should be should shrink because of, of the war we must in the war. siri was right, is going to be 1000000. rush as a point of view. one of you must talk about not this year. i think that the us in russia and the must talk it out not to shoot out. will i really? as robbery went to religious right around the wish. you great new tune. this is taking a shot us from from where is this thing is just me in germany was mr. newton this

raymond rather was well, what do you think about these claims from washington that she's being held in intolerable conditions? i mean, we've seen footage of her apparently in a good mood where she is now. what do you may make of that situation? well, i log in to her last year. be serial law in another country, round room man, jams, missouri 30 tags, peach, banks. and i say the manager umbrella, button, the majors proper piece manager. and the 3 miss miss about the missing food most around the table and fold it out. on monday, the missile removed from the murders me was gone. rich, somebody taking erosion in congress involved and in that situation, most together was in the war room. the bridge was while

despite brittany pleading guilty, washington is still criticizing russia for the case. do you think the u. s. itself has a good track record of its own when it comes to similar legal cases there? in the fall, in this case, she's in jail where we're lo will do so. sometimes you have to do was write me things really are a good thing, religion or engine nations, thing or wherever? where are they when they leave jesse to you know, we are wrong. just move on, feeling sanders in the back. their religious be shipped to make a statement, patient around around the world. nice. when rush and your

money as a travel and everything to merge when know in the room. when all the things you all and why in the warmer then you're going to move one piece. well, you said earlier that you believe that brittany greiner should be freed from prison, but she herself has admitted to being guilty to breaking the law that she was charged with. do you think that allowing someone that high profile will set wouldn't set a bad precedent for other people who break the law just because it's not intentional? well, look back in the racial merchant, justice. she was, she was the most of the war and they made the world religion for

peace. she said, look on the war. what's your assessment of how the u. s. mainstream media has been covering these cases. do you think they've been fair and impartial? murder, media, and the most me junior one. so let me try most all without one moment please. and then your brain regime registering for people. know you progress or nor not all sides. again, the piece is chance. i think that russia gave me the rush and said roger, make sure you're on the resources really must be lab work rather

than russian. you vision not is wrong wash on me over on the be spent in love. alright, human rights activist, jesse jackson, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. the notorious islamic state terrorist group is it is gathering its forces in africa that's according to a new report that also says the extremists are pushing for an even bigger presence in the region. here is our team paul asleep with more from south africa. terrorism in africa is on the wise in nigeria. new threats have emerged against the president by members of boca rom, a group with links to islamic state. and the threats are not empty. in this

trilling video, you can see members a flogging innocent train passengers with a warning that they'll be thoughtful for slaves. if the government doesn't meet their demands, islamic state has not ceased to exist. yes, that was defeated in the middle east. but now more than ever, it is active in africa to new official islamic state provinces court, we layers were created in march in this a hell and in may in mozambique. and now most of his la mc stay provinces. 7 out of 13 are based in africa, known as it's what in western africa. the group operates mainly in nigeria, chad, niger and cameroon, and actively uses propaganda to recruit people from all over the world for terrorism on the continent. these logic state released a 39 minute video from west africa province, entitled a book that guides and a sword that helps very interesting video. lots of military operations are shown. meetings, speakers, children, people interviewed with microphones they,

they had us take advantage of poverty, religious and ethnic conflicts, and we can governance to attract the porters. the islamic state weekly newspaper number pads voted 28 out of 52 additions to africa. in recent times, its main branches in syria and iraq released a series of videos praising their brothers on the continent between january and june, the viet, maybe half of islamic faith activities happened here in africa. it's what was expected to be behind a church massacre last year in which at least 40 people were children. oh well no. jerry at the group was also behind a prison break near the not driven capital, boucher in which at least 800 prisoners a large number of whom were high profile g. how does escaped the islamic state capitalizes on the african jihad to continue to exist? many people have put their foot down for reasons that are not necessarily religious,

but it's not enough. anti terrorist coordination is poor in the saw hel, frances leaving molly after 9 years of counter terrorism. and the united nations mission is on the whole. coordination is going badly apart from france in the european union. is this a priority issue? no, we ignore it. our own detriment. growing number of points has come from southeast asia, many go to the middle east and north africa for religious education and work, raising the stakes that they can be read flies tempted to join islamic state and find themselves in africa. what's more, a growing number of african cells exist in se asia between 20142019 members of african terrorist groups, such as bob, alice shari'a, all tramecia, and the egyptian muslim brotherhood rested in malaysia, some of whom were putting attacks in foreign countries have highlighting the cross border nature of terrorism and the fact that no one in the world is safe,

whether in europe, america, asia, africa, policy or south africa based security consulted jasmine opferman, told us that the islamic state is pulling the strings of smaller terrorist groups which are no less dangerous as we go into central and northern africa, be all grievances, grievances, have a long history. these grievances related to government and the social mobility of these people extremely confined to a way the opportunity exists for the stater groups. to find a presence and expand the extremist ideology, they will do it. and it's clearly at plate you talk about the extremist ideology that needs to find a social social structure that supports it. that what is clear is that these died, it guidance, and that the direct support for bees and buckets of occupation by the east lamb each type. they are several main challenges. i think the 1st one that needs to be

put on the table is the recognition of a domestic problem that has regional implications to counter terrorism. you need to deal with the actual grievances at play in terms of freezing the expansion of terrorism. what is needed? east? militarization. what is needed? east? a military corporation that the we need to win the trust of the communities. a centrifugal, encountering, be extremist, ideology. otherwise we can, i have individuals viewing this extremist ideology. viewing the excell violence, ashby only option available for them to show day dissatisfaction with the current position. and now an update on our breaking news story. these are live pictures from the iraqi capital of baghdad, where hundreds of anti government protesters have stormed the heavily guarded green

zone, the city center, and it broken into the building of the iraqi parliament. none of the are said to have been present there during the attack i, according to media reports in clashes between protesters and security forces are ongoing. demonstrators are furious over the nomination of an iranian backed politician for prime minister and government officials have called on the protesters to disperse peacefully. the clashes are reportedly organized by supporters of a prominent shia cleric. an initial reports indicated that a number of protesters had been injured after being shot by security forces, but we will continue to bring you the updates as they become available. saudi arabia, the crown prince's visit in greece and his heading to france in his 1st trip to europe in 4 years. during his meeting with the greek prime minister,

the top saudi official said, the 2 countries will sign a key energy deal. we can provide grease southwest your full grief with much she felt usable energy and assigned to you about that today. also, we are walking about hydrogen and helped to increase as a help to hydrogen. and that's a game changer for both of us. of greek and french leaders were among those western politicians who visited saudi arabia, falling the following, the 2018 murder of saudi journalist and dissidence, jamal, because shoji, who often criticize the saudi crown. prince us intelligence blamed the prince for killing ca, shoji in the saudi conflict in its don bull. although riyadh has denied any responsibility, joe biden, who had promised to make saudi arabia parias state back in 2019 travel to saudi arabia last week. to meet with top officials, they're react has been under pressure by the u. s. and e. u to export more oil as

western countries seek, alternative suppliers of energy, former grief diplomats and basketball lea a night as chris and topless told us that negotiating with russia is the only way to resolve europe's energy crisis. the only way to go ahead is that to sit down in a neutral country like switzerland of western countries and to moscow and tried, tried to come out of the trying to find a practical solution. which of course would involve the lifting of the sanctions because it, it, it doesn't work for europe. and when i say europe, i include the russian. so because i think that russia is, is part of europe, these agreements that have been signed, for example, one that will connect electricity from saudi arabia and it's not going to help much also to reach this cannot happen overnight. it will take quite

a long time. and i don't think that this is a solution to it, to resolve the energy crisis that europe itself has created her as, as created by putting the sanctions on russia. the best solution would be to the west start serious discussion with russia to end the ukraine crisis. and the only way to do that is by doing away with the sanctions. and if the sanctions are done away, then the energy prices, the energy crisis of europe is automatically solved earlier, i discussed the ramifications of the military conflict as well as western economic sanctions. and the onslaught of information with author columnist and political cartoonist, ted rall. it's all different when it's your country just issue doing the thing that you say other countries shouldn't be doing. hypocrisy is rampant in international

politics as well as domestic politics. and you know, it's, it's all, it's, it's so extreme though, in this particular case that, you know, it's kind of depressing and transparent for anyone who's actually paying attention the, the united states media was really actively complicit in the war against afghanistan . and i would say, even now, with the effect of the sanctions on afghanistan, they're pretty much being ignored or shrugged off. you know, the, all the, all the rhetoric is always brought back to, well, what are the tall about doing, you know, what, what united states is keeping afghan government money. so yeah, though, it's, so there's no comparison in the way that these, these 2 issues are framed or covered by the united states, mainstream corporate media. i wanted to ask you about one of your cartoons. it's called the if we were on the other side of the ukraine, russia crisis showing how the u. s. would have reacted if missiles were aimed at them from a nearby country. and that exact same situation as actually happened before. back

in the early sixty's, obviously with the soviet union deploying missiles into cuba and the americans didn't like that. i mean, do you think they've forgotten historical lessons here? well, most americans don't really remember historical lessons in the 1st place in order to forget them. so it's not really actively taught and you know, historical context is just not presented in american news accounts. so nobody ever says, well, ok, so in 1962 during the cuban missile crisis. this happened, but this is a different scenario. it, 1st of all, it's not a different scenario, and it's impossible to imagine the united states, tolerating, for example, mexico or canada, becoming anything less than friendly to the united states in any way if the soviet union were still around with canada, be allowed to join the warsaw pact would they be allowed to talk about joining the warsaw pact? no, wanna bring the conversation into the realm of sanctions. i really want to hear what you have to say about the facts that of course, we've seen unprecedented western sanctions against russia since the military

operation in ukraine was launched. do you think they're going to be successful and can europe in union countries survive without russian energy sources? well, and the fiction seem to be very effective at hurting the western academy and driving up inflation and energy prices in the united states and it's western allies. you know, i'm just moscow for, i've been here for 24 hours since i got here. it does not look like it's on. it's nice economically. the only surprise about the sanctions failure is that it's really unraveling so quickly. i mean, here we are in the middle of the summer, you know, eastern europe isn't not in dire need of heating oil. and what's going to happen when the winter comes, we were expecting this to really start to hit november and december. it's all we're already seeing the effects present by it's already having to try to talk down the possibility of an imminent recession or maybe the possibility that the u. s. economy has already entered recession. so, you know, the effects are, are there,

i don't, i think, you know, russia saw it was coming and was prepared. ah, a cancellation of us house speaker nancy pelosi is planned visit to taiwan. would be a victory for china. that's the warning from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, as quoted by a bloomberg reporter earlier china, told washington that policies visit to taiwan. plan for august would have serious consequences. beijing says it would take forceful measures if the us house speaker follows through with her plans. it would be the 1st visit of such an american official to taiwan in 25 years. as comes it made growing concerns over tensions between beijing and ty, pay over the possible consequences of policies, visits to taiwan. and while some us officials are fearful of a potential conflict with china, other politicians like mitch mcconnell are apparently pushing for a more serious confrontation with beijing. you know, the whole idea that we're worried about chinese rhetoric shows how misplaced our

policy is. this is a question of how america conducts its own foreign policy and thank you very much. decision ping will conduct it the way we want to conduct it. can we send a constitutionally denominated official. busy to china, are we going to back down because gigi and pang is shaking his fist. if we can allow the chinese to dictate who can visit taiwan and who cannot, then we have already seated. tie one to the chinese if they can veto every one in the world who wants to come to tie one, then taiwan will be isolated. so i think she has an absolute right to visit and i think the support of taiwan is important. vice president of the center for china and globalization. victor dow told us that nancy pelosi is trip to taiwan would seriously undermine us. china relations the proposed a visit to taiwan by nancy pelosi were really blow up the china us

relations and inflict huge detriments to both the chinese people as well as the american people. this whole episode demonstrates once again in very graphic terms, that the united states is ah, challenging the one charlotte policy by words as well as by deeds. now, for the record, the united states acknowledges there is only one china and taiwan is part of china . from the chinese perspective, we have made it known to the united states that nancy pelosi, a speaker of the house of representative of the united states, should not and cannot goal to visit taiwan. otherwise, pub is it will trigger a whole series of consequences and the united states will be solely responsible for the all the consequences in whatever way possible. coming out from her

proposed visit to taiwan, china, serious about it. i hope the world will listen to that. and i hope all the other countries will watch this as a life episode unfolding before our eyes. meaning that china stands firm on matters of principle. and this one, china policy is a matter of utmost importance to china. and china will not allow or tolerate any further improve encroachment or the one on the policy by such people lied the speaker of the house of representatives of the united states. pure it stay tuned for more news in just about 3 minutes. ah ah

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