one of the biggest losses is the so-called treasure of benghazi, an ancient collection of stones, statues, and jewelry. >> this was one of the best collections in the region but for now, tripoli's museum is closed. inside, display cases are still empty. the head of the antiquities department said that what would happen in iraq in 2003 in mind, they took special precautions. >> we decided to hide most of these things in many places. to give you an example, sometimes we decide to put them in a room and then we build a wall and then we painted the walls with it the color like the same color. >> in benghazi, a ceiling and a vault was no deterrent to what was called one of the largest deaths of archeological materials in history. -- the largest thefts of archeological materials in history. and all, it thousands of items from the greek, roman, and islamic past are gone. these are pictures of the kinds of toys that were missing. because it was never properly documented, it might be difficult to trust. >> this will present quite a segment of human history in that area. this is a huge loss for the

. >> regarding the people of benghazi, misrata, you consider them your brothers. you brought them upon us. go ahead and give them a couple of months and you will find out the reality but please do not deny on the day that saif al- islam gaddafi was taken prisoner that he warned you of all of that. >> he was brought here shortly after his capture. his whereabouts are a closely guarded secret. it is the process of freeing him to justice will start in tripoli with the new government and prosecutors from the international criminal court. this man wanted to have seen him in the hague. saif al-islam gaddafi will be tried in the country that he committed his crimes. , wef they'd prosecute here will discuss how did they form a judgment. >> saif is likely to face a long wait before libya is ready to give him a proper trial. >> from libya to syria now where the deadly crackdown continue on protesters. today, the u.n. voted overwhelmingly to condemn the u.n. rights violations of the assad regime. the turkish prime minister has called on president assad to step down or face t

is-islam of gadda wanted for his role in crushing the uprising that began in february this year in benghazi. an arrest warrant was issued in june. libyan authorities have him in captivity in this town. his exact whereabouts are closely guarded secret. he is being held somewhere here. people i have been speaking with intown say that he will remain here. they say that they think it is the safest place rather than having him transferred to tripoli. what's happening at the moment is the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court is meeting with the justice minister. we were told he would be able to meet seif al-islam if you wanted to. but no one in town knows of any plan for the prosecutor of the international criminal court to come here, but he may be flown here by helicopter at a fairly short notice. seif al-islam being held here and is being well-treated. that is something human rights organizations are keen to ensure. although the international criminal courts wanted him on trial in the hague, the libyan authorities do not want that. >> thank you for that report from the western a

five centuries ago nomadic tribes that served in benghazi khan's army brought their horses and sheep here from mongolia they were called the oil runs. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comix after swearing an oath of allegiance. to the czar alexei romano. however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this lone poplar tree in the step is a sacred place for all comics. legend has it that a man by the name of but can back she a comic turned buddhist monk planted it one hundred fifty years ago. his hope was that the seeds he had brought from tibet would grow into a whole grove but only one poplar survived the rigorous climate. the secret to its long life remains of. these cal making women singing one of the world's most famous put ist mantras in the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. account makes of kept up show manic beliefs in the spirits of nature a sensation times. i am sisters learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia steps. i first saw the ritual of making offerings to our homel

al-islam gaddafi is wanted in his role for crashing the uprising that began in february of this year in benghazi. an arrest warrant was issued in june. the libyan authorities have him held here where i am. his exact whereabouts are a closely guarded secret. but he's being held somewhere here and people i have been speaking to say he will remain here because they say they think it is safe are that were having him transferred to tripoli. what i understand is happening at the moment is luis moreno-ocampo is in tripoli and meeting with the justice minister. i was told he would be able to make saif al-islam gaddafi if he wanted but no one here knows of any plans for the prosecutor of the international criminal court to come here. but he may well be flown here by helicopter at fairly short notice. so, saif al-islam is being held here and we are told he is being well treated but that is something international human rights organizations are keen to ensure. the other thing to mention, of course, is that although the international criminal court wanted him on trial in the haig, libyan authorities do not

the courthouse in benghazi is the iconic seat of the revolt which toppled gaddafi. libya's, quote, immoral equivalent, unquote, to egypt's tahrir square. during the tumultuous months of libya's brutal civil war, it was here that rebel forces established a provisional government, propagandist media center, crowing to foreign journalists about their, quote, heroic, unquote, struggle for freedom. and here is a picture of the al qaeda flag. the article goes on, one can now see both the libyan rebel flag and the flag of al qaeda fluttering atop benghazi's courthouse. got a blow up of that right here. just so those who felt so compelled to assist members of al qaeda, we knew there were members of al qaeda. we didn't know how many were part of the libyan rebel forces, but we knew there were members of al qaeda. we knew that there were people who were rebeling against gaddafi that, as much as they wanted to kill gaddafi, want to kill americans. and now we also know nato forces, as the president kept saying, oh, no, we're going to leave that to nato forces, the united states

celebration in the streets of benghazi as saif gadhafi was captured. >>> firefighters in reno have thee 65% contained. 15 homes were destroyed by the fire. >>> and six of the top gop candidates are taking questions now at the thanksgiving family forum in iowa. mitt romney and jon hunts man are skipping that event. back to the beltway sniper. >>> a woman was getting into her car, something blew up. she has blood coming out of her nose and mouth. >> blood is coming out of her nose and mouth? >> yes! >> so that would be five fatal shootings, five murders within the last 15 hours. >> the last shooting of this morning happened about 10:00 at a gas station in kensington. a woman was shot and killed at the shell station at connecticut and knowles avenue. chris gourden is there with the latest. chris? >> the woman killed here at the kensington shell has been identified as 25-year-old lori lewis rivera of silver spring. >> after losing his children in a custody battle with his ex-wife, john allen muhammad is left alone and bitter in washington state. >> john muhammad just fell apart when his ch

people aren't so armed in cairo like they are in benghazi and tripoli. but what happened is after the revolution here in february, people came out and they were celebrating and there was days of street parties here in cairo. and the army said that it would oversee this transition to democracy. what has happened is the country's economy has remained in shambles, there has been emergency law still in place, martial law which gives the military authority to do whatever it wants, detain people, arrest without due process and the promises that people thought that they had been given for a timely political process simply weren't made. this week, there were supposed to be parliamentary elections. even after the elections, the military would still be in charge. in fact, for the next two years under the current guidelines, the military would remain in charge and people here simply decided they had had enough. the promises weren't being kept, the economy is too bad and they want to see changes implemented. >> richard, not only were they firing guns behind you in t

cheering crowds packing the central square in benghazi, the same place uprisings against gaddafi's regimebruary. president obama also expressing support. >> the dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise, the libyan people now have a great responsibility. >> president obama says all of our troops will be out of iraq by the end of december. >> after nearly nine years, america's war in iraq will be over. >> there are currently more than 40,000 u.s. troops in iraq. president obama says the u.s. and iraq are now moving into a new phase that will be a normal relationship between sovereign nations. the president says withdrawing troops from iraq allows the u.s. to focus on afghanistan, where troops are also starting to draw down. the president says ending both wars allows the u.s. to focus more on strengthening the economy and creating more jobs. for "teen kids news," i'm laura ingle, fox news channel in the classroom. >> it's considered one of our country's best colleges, and it has several names. "the academy." "the point." "west point." tyler tells us about the hi

wake of nato bombing since brimming with weapons and al qaida flak was planted over a courthouse in benghazi yes how good of a playground is leap year for. people with a radical agenda very strong islamist presence in libya. since the war against the soviets in afghanistan libya has sent as many of its people to fight in those insurgencies the islamist insurgencies as any other country in north africa maybe outside of saudi arabia the libyan islamic fighting group. fought a long time against the soviets they fought against gadhafi a great number of libyans went to iraq into afghanistan to fight us and whatever strength the libyan resistance had in terms of military capability that came from experienced islamist fighters so the idea that somehow there's democracy afoot that libya is just simply wrong to become of me i don't know if it could become a hotbed of terror but it can become a country that's decidedly anti american anti nato. it can be probably less a hotbed of terror than a country that is vastly unstable it seems the us is almost creating ground so for terrorist to surge and then g

campaign look at libya they're flying the al qaeda flag over the government building because in benghazi so if the if if the western powers think that they're going to get away with a no fly zone in syria this is a very different prospect than libya the strategy now is to weaken syria internally by using mercenary forces al qaeda forces which were used in libya and also in afghanistan to bring them into base in turkey come over the border for incursions these humanitarian zones that the french are talking about are not humanitarian corridors these are paramilitary corduroys they will be used to move arms much like the egyptian military government facilitated the movement of arms over the egyptian border into libya which was a direct contravention of the u.n. resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three so the u.n. is losing all credibility here as well. you know with our t.v.'s still ahead on the program revealing the mysteries of the red planet the hopes of finding traces of life on mars are being revived with russ's next which is the cutting edge of russia the front and also. i t

we just started fm in benghazi, and now we are planning to put an fm in tripoli, and that never would have happened. we're pursuing an fm in tunisia, and that wouldn't have happened before. i've been pursuing fm in cairo for years, and i got the same answer two months ago that i got five years ago of we'll see. it creates opportunities, and it em boldens our staff to go out as correspondentings. it's a great opportunity for us as a journalistic organization as well as for the people in the region for democratic developments. >> host: this is c-span's communicators program, our second week looking at u.s. sponsored broadcasting services. the guest, brian conniff, president of the middle east broadcasting networks, keach hagey is with the "politico," our guest reporter. >> guest: will they keep their separate channel in iraq after the troops leave? >> guest: yes, we have every reason to believe that's the prudent thing to do. in fact, if any, with the departure of the u.s. troops, there's more of a reason for there to be an american voice, so to speak, there, but that channel is unique,

clearly not upon them when the when nato got involved in libya they certainly weren't telling the benghazi based rebels not to engage in violence against gadhafi regime so clearly it's obvious which side is being picked here this is not a peacekeeping effort this is an effort to push out of power they'd like to use the force of words and the force of precedent what happened to put off the end to saddam hussein but if that doesn't work who knows how far they'll go to your thoughts american political cartoonist north of you are joining us on the line from . now unlike syria egypt's calls for its leader to go brought results when hosni mubarak stepped down last february but more than six months later the people who hailed the revolution of no return to tahrir square calling for new changes to the above friday's mass rally in cairo on our web site where we also reveal what drove people back to the capital street and while you're there at r.t. dot com explained why the muslim brotherhood is at the forefront of the nation's political transformation right now and we'll tell you what to expect fro

a suitor which is which was a strong point from day one in fact we insisted to have access both benghazi but also in tripoli and that what makes a difference with between the i.c.r.c. and out of all the organization we are trying to have access and discussing with all the parties yes we got that we got access to the conditions of i cannot speak about that because normally the first things we do is we. first to the authorities but in general the concern you have in you would you expressed by your journalist about what we call the surge national people who have no passport are coming from sub-saharan africa and are absolutely serious lot of problems and a lot of concern about about their fate during and during the situation and typically that's one of our priorities detentions people detained are always always with a high level in their ability so we are there to try as much as we can to make sure that they are respected and we will follow that very closely but i must say i'm also very concerned about all health issues in terms of in fact infrastructure hospital were hit i mean can see a l

there's no there's no enclave that you can you can attach it to like in libya you had you know the benghazi area was sort of the nucleus of the of the revolution there we what we're seeing in syria is this you know diverse activity from different groups and i think the since he's trying to you know to organize that into a cohesive thing but i think they've got a long way to go and i think as they try and unite and coalesce into one organization you're going to see it maybe fragment more because i think you've got people with different agendas united by the common goal of getting rid of the ousted regime but i don't know if they've got a you know a a single goal that they're going to ok some of what do you think is i mean it's sort of the assad regime is it is it stays numbered or does it still have enough core backing to survive a much longer because there's so many different guesses out there about just how strong the regime is. yeah i mean i think it's a question that's to some extent impossible to answer i mean it's already proven much more resilient than people expected it to be but at

bombing campaign look at libya they're flying the al-qaeda flag over the government buildings in benghazi ok but it is open for business as far as international corporations go the agenda is to carve up what's left of these countries into privatized industrial corridors there carving up libya they want to carve out syria they also want to break what russia and the former soviet union states or forming an economic blockade eurasian union most likely syria and iran will be a crucial part of that economic block this is also throwing a spanner into the plans that are coming out of moscow so this is a much wider i think we're going to see the. cold war a new cold war emerge in the next two years and we are seeing the initial steps of that new cold war right now heading some political analysts are america's informal dot com online magazine thanks for your thoughts. thank you. coming out later europe's money continues to dry up as investors take flight. personally i think the whole thing will break up it's proved to be unworkable and britain's preparing for it with the country's chief regulator

about abuses of civilians by both the gadhafi forces the kroeger duffey forces i mean did by the benghazi based transitional national council and very very disturbing reports about the treatment of african mercenaries or african workers who were in libya at the time of the bombing by the nato forces so i think there's going to be some very serious investigations undertaken interest and russia demanded. the i.c.c. investigate all aspects of this particular conflict and all allegations but nato would say simply this is a case of war and accidents do happen they didn't deliberately target civilians in the way that gadhafi troops. well they were they no doubt will say that there will be people defending colonel gadhafi that will say the opposite it's very important to be a thorough investigation into this and they're also be an investigation into the killing of colonel gadhafi himself because this was not meant to be a war for regime change and it certainly was not intended for the assassination of gadhafi i don't know the details of exactly what happened except he was alive when captured and

when nato got involved in libya they certainly weren't telling the benghazi based rebels not to engage in violence against gadhafi regime so clearly it's obvious which side is being picked here this is not a case keeping effort this is an effort to push out of power they'd like to use the force that words and the force of president what happened to get out feel and to saddam hussein but if that doesn't work who knows how far they'll go. and what's in the weekly here and pressure kept piling on iran over the past few days this of course over the country's nuclear program the international atomic watchdog has called on teh run to clear up all the outstanding questions on this matter the u.s. has promised to introduce yet new sanctions against the country's oil industry washington also reportedly told tehran to wrap up its unclear program by spring of two thousand and twelve or it will stop holding back israel's long planned attack on the islamic republic talk of such a strike has been heard from israel for the past two weeks following the i.a.e.a. report but failed to disprove iran's dri

most americans had a human response when they heard that gadhafi, who's a bad guy, was heading to benghazi to wipe out an entire province, practically, because they were rebelling. he was going to wipe them out. he said, i'm going to kill everybody there. hillary clinton, to her credit, and samantha power, the three people in foreign policy said, no, we are not going to stand by for another rwanda. we're not going to let another african government just come in and kill everybody because they feel like it. that was a gut reaction. it seemed to me that mr. cain did not have a gut reaction as to whether we should have gone in. and that is a problem. you should have a reaction. either stay out because you're principled and you're isolationism, or, damn it, american people have to take responsibility as human beings, occasionally. >> well, right. and his reaction was that he, ultimately, wound up agreeing. and as the clip closes, he says, well, maybe president obama did everything right in the first place. the instinct is to oppose obama, no matter what he has done. and i think that's true acro

was killing its own people, that threatened to annihilate the people of benghazi, and i think he did so in an extraordinarily successful way. not losing a single american life in the process but bringing to end one of the real tyrannical figures on the world stage. so i simply do not adopt your premise, but the answer to your question is, if i did, i would hope i would have the courage to act consistent with my convictio conviction. >> good evening, i had a question about wasteful spending -- >> wasteful spending. >> wasteful spending and just the particular kind that does affect our generation and that's our nation's drug policies. i was wondering if we continue to spend the same amount of money but haven't seen much result if you support our nation's drug policies. >> i don't know what exactly what you're referring to. we have changed some degree -- we changed something that i think was the right thing to do. we had a disparate sentencing structure for cocaine and for crack. crack being mainly a drug used by a minority community. cocaine being used by a more affluent community, whe