this was by gadhafi's head under the supervision allegedly of gadhafi's head of internal intelligence. this was very important because the victims of that massacre were primarily political prisoners and from the eastern part of the country, and the east, you know, in a very tightly knit tribal society, an act of that mag magnitude basicy created cascading resentment which came to haunt gadhafi basically. this was -- that was a major event in creating reresentment in the regime. there was large barracks, there was the center of town, and this was, you know, basically occupied in many degrees, occupied territory, which, fast forward, you know, this explains a bit more of the east-west distinction, very important in moving through the spark of the great rebellion. another -- perhaps thee most critical inflection point in this was the -- in gadhafi's downward trajectory was the war in iraq. once this was underway, you know, the stage was set for two competing and rather disinjen narratives told by gadhafi to his people and the bush administration and the west to its people. the west, the

he witnessed the suffering under regime of gadhafi and saw brutality of gadhafi killing his own people using all type weapons. he was the first american representative to go to benghazi, my hometown. every member of the delegation came to this country. when i speak about steven they say yes, chris, we know him. he talked to the people. he meet with the people. he knows their suffering. the main thing, that he trusts them and when they rised against gadhafi, he supported them. chris, it is a great loss for libya. we lost him as a friend and man that understands the history of the people of libya before and after. chris, he built the bridge between libya and the united states. a bridge of love, of hope. we never believed one day we would be able to raise against this dictatorship. i knew chris after he came back. i knew chris more. he would come to the house and we play tennis. after the tennis we come back home and have libyan breakfast. he is a man of principles and he is serious. i agree he never speaks about himself, what achievement he made. he is a guy when you look for him again.

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on, but you realize that if you don't -- this is your time to pin the regime and kernel -- colonel gadhafi to the wall. if you don't express what you want from this without a clear end goal, things will not work

investigation no proper investigation had been undertaken yet it was already in a position to say that gadhafi and his son of committed war crimes yet in the case of iraq. the previous special prosecutor moreno ocampo had declared after three is that the crimes in iraq had not reached the threshold of gravity to warrant an investigation so it's clear that. it's not delivering impartial justice and it's very unlike a delivery impartial justice given the that it's serving as an adjunct to nato and the united states you're in you're getting a little ahead of me ok ok bill do you want to answer the same question is it is it delivering impartial justice i mean after all the indictments are against africans right now africans only yes that's true we just celebrated the tenth anniversary of the coming into operation of the rome treaty creating the i.c.c. and yet it's still a work in progress i absolutely agree that. every single case has been brought against african. people and therefore it seems as though it really is a kind of almost imperial or near or imperialist kind of operation but i think the

and many people who have met all three -- i did not immediate gadhafi or saddam hussein but but assad was different, relatively normal, and he brought people in that gave people hope that maybe this would be different than what had preceded it. his inaugural speech was enlightened. he daneed to criticize his father's policies. so this created much of that hope. and over the years, though, as happens, as is mentioned earlier you get more comfortable with power. the sick coe pants of an authoritarian leader are all over the place. i think outsiders start to believe that what his followers were telling his, the well-being of the countries synonymous with his will being. if something says you're going to save the country every day, it's only human nature you're going to believe that and your head gets swelled. when i started to see the changes is after 2005, and particularly in 2007, and that is when he survived what he called the worst the bush administration had against him, had tried against him. because syria was -- opposed the u.s. led invasion of iraq in 2003. the syrian government

other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in and out of r.t. . crowds are gathering in spanish cities to protest against the government's cuts and reforms hundreds of thousands of demonstrations called by the country's top labor union and social groups will continue into tomorrow well let's not talk to economists yanis varoufakis he's joining me now live now. are you there. i'm expecting that we can talk to us. very i think you learned that live there in athens sorry about that now hundreds of thousands are expected to protest in fifty five spanish cities today how will the government's determination to continue with . i don't believe it will affect the government. because they don't have a plan b. this is a government like the one greece like the one island which is put all its eggs in the basket of. agreement with germany and to do something about it will take a lot more than one or two demonstrations it will take the risk of losing an election could

much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising took a bloody turn moammar gadhafiwho ruled the country for over forty years was deposed and killed in two thousand and eleven and he merely being a government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as besieging the entire town of bani walid for allegedly providing shelter to diehard khadafi supporters the are using heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses second be using no. guys again it's just a feeling people children and now and then got really sick reaming we would not humanity of no want to. save our family. i got this time to make libya now the quantum bit where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money and we've been to the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system. the democracy that the u.s. would like to impose upon egypt tun

you know indictments of gadhafi and bashir and the other ones and not at least hold ourselves up to the same standard lawrence what do you think about that. yes well i think i'm kind of somewhere between the two positions i agree completely on the other hand i think that for an international criminal court to work there has to be what i would describe as an egregious in a standard built in to prosecutions that is you can't prosecute every single war crime it might be a nice thing to be able to do but i think at some point you have to say there are trepidations that just goo beyond the pale now i actually would argue that with the americans have done do it doesn't necessarily rise to that egregiousness standard for example one thing that you mentioned is the use of predator drones isn't it have hypocritical that he went about the illegal alien invasion is very random that we're not a recent report that's egregious isn't but the really but for example i mean yes except that aggression aggression is not a crime that is currently under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court sh

the other countries throughout the region and even libya where was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia even those twenty. thousands of magic. workers have launched on the spanish council against plans to privatized hospitals with more until ceratin are protests planned over the next few days madrid says the harsh financial measures are crucial to help the country climb out of a deep recession investment advisor patrick young believes the government's approach to the crisis is not london spain in trouble in the first place. the problem is that the spanish government doesn't have any money and that's ultimately the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it hasn't actually wanted to to bite the bullet all over the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years and minutely one could say that was the previous government run rather than the current government however the trick. to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this largish government infrastructure it ha

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other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in an r.t. . international news in brief starting with amateur video that submerged in the immediate aftermath of an airstrike in syria and it struck in a crowd in the central province reported leaving dozens dead but activists say many more of died in that the attack was carried out by government forces the strike came as the main international envoy began peace talks in damascus aimed at ending the drawn out civil conflict has now claimed around forty thousand lives. a wave of anti rape protests is now seen hundreds clashed with police in the capital in defiance of a protest ban which followed the gang rape of a student on a bus in india police used tear gas and water cannon when demonstrators tried to bridge barricades in the central new delhi i mean time in the north of the country security forces shot dead a journalist covering a protest over a sex attack on an actress. crenshaw range of christmas for many

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mentioned a country where relatively often and that is libya if it had not been for nato colonel gadhafi would have murdered the inhabitants of him god i don't know that we don't know that how do you know that you know the history you know that we. will now that are his or. her we will have this is guy for twenty years thirty years he's a crazy guy don't listen to him and he makes one statement then you listen to him it doesn't make any logical sense at all his troops. sampling outside of benghazi they were preparing to enter the town he has said that we were he will squash the cockroaches who live there and i quote the colonel gadhafi don't know them and i were going to add reuters that are already a very sad reuters story ok we're writers as i'm generally speaking a rather good reputation anyway and if they're going to go inward and hire fly to islam misfires not to the population of bengal it's true i don't think so what he said online show is in essence iran which was either way the same islam misfires who attacked the u.s. consulate in benghazi a year later so he was right at the ti

other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in an r.t. . well in a couple of minutes the profits of apocalypse for whom doomsday means payday. choose your language. call if we can without any financial penalty they feel some of the. truth of the use of the concerns you. choose the opinions that invigorated your mind. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your authoring. deadly rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will cut myself am i going to tax my brother understand my one time immediately. going to eventually attack the cops of my anger and my frustration. that upgrader well into the challenge of. two of the most violent gangs in the us history. is just all modeled kill or be killed with colors matching the national flag. but this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legi

when moreno ocampo was able to declare after two months of what gadhafi did did indeed merit not only investigation but an indictment so it's going to it was ridiculous to say well this this doesn't warranted this does and same with in the case of the ivory coast the crimes of one political leader well these do indeed rise to the threshold of gravity but the equal crimes of the others who happen to be the proxies of france or nato they they they don't rise to the threshold of gravity i mean clearly it's making these political decisions and so that's why i totally disagree with the idea that. justice is better than no justice no. a hard justice is worse than no justice because hard justice is a mockery of justice lawrence go ahead reply i think churches room together two separate issues i was a very critic and i remain a view critic of the original invasion of iraq there is still very different from saying that the invasion is a crime it simply is not at this stage a crime that the international criminal court could consider we have all sorts of reasons to believe that it was an egregi

other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia even goes. switching gears now the discussion here in washington about the fiscal cliff has brought on strong opinions about what to cut and what to keep is also brought about loud calls to keep defense spending intact and of the need to keep our members of the military protected and safe both on the battleground and back at home but it turns out drug abuse is running rampant at one of the very places paid for and run by the government the v.a. and as our to correspondent liz wahl discovered those in charge seem to be turning a blind eye to what is becoming a growing trend. the department of veterans affairs administers health care to military veterans with an annual budget of over eighty seven billion dollars it's the largest department in the united states after the defense department at the v.a. medical center in washington d.c. it's no secret that if you want drugs you can get them there. it's common knowled

other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in and out of r.t. . as a poser out of afghanistan britain looking to deploy more troops to the gulf as part of a major weapons deal with united arab emirates this according to prime minister david cameron. who says he wants a defense partnership with a middle eastern monarchy ukase also signed a four million dollars contract with oman to supply it with aircraft adolescent patrick hannifin though believes london is really looking to put pressure on a country on the other side of the persian gulf the justification for this massive buildup in the middle east specially in the gulf states area the west is basically blaming iran saying that because iran is pursuing nuclear ambitions so there's no proof of any nuclear weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so the in circle man of iran is certainly on the geopolitical

town he has said that we will he will squash the cockroaches who live there and i quote the colonel gadhafi there's no we were going to add reuters or already a very bad reuters story ok well reuters has a generally speaking a rather good reputation anyway this is a very good one and fly to islamist fighters not to the population of being god's true. i don't think so what the satellite saw is even a suicide mission which was by the way the same islamist fighters who attacked the us consulate in benghazi a year later so he was trying to at the time the intervention of nato at least protect the civilians in libya and any family in the region after the bombing started into that conflict well obviously because the actual fact the way back to. your people listen to you let me finish my sentence. ok thank you very much it's obvious that the conflict took on in terms of the gathered intensity after the bombing started simply because the rebels for all the way back from benghazi to tripoli would which is one thousand kilometers so it's a long distance they had to cover i traveled there many times n

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other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in an r.t. . a living alone on the revolutions in israel's rambles to secure its future as a maelstrom of risings leaves a jewish state surrounded by and less than friendly neighbors that story have for you next hour. russia is one of the step closer to imposing a total ban on adoptions of children by u.s. citizens as a lower house of parliament has given the green light to the motion a ban is part of why it earlier just lation targeting those who have the rights of russians who brought mosque is responding to washington's travel and financial restrictions on russian officials and a suspected of involvement in the death of lawyer sergey magnitsky died in custody during a massive tax fraud investigation three years ago president vladimir putin however says the u.s. lacks the moral standing to accuse others of human rights violations. our us or partners and their lawmakers say they are concerned about human rights

other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people there. sight of that region in tunisia in and out of school or to christmas on the streets literally will report on new york's hidden home once known as america splashes out on billions splashes out billions on christmas decorations and tensile that's after a break stay with us. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted to visit is now this picture is place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths on the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . me the most the water here is very clear the visibility is ve