libya meant gadhafi. libya meant terrorism. >> pan am flight 103 went down in a blazing fireball. >> libya meant a bad place where a comical, megalomaniacal dictator was the absolute power. nobody in libya, however, was laughing. >> reports of explosions. >> clashes between rioters and security forces. >> in 2011, what was previously unthinkable happened. the libyan people rose up and fought for their freedom. >> heavy battles raging around the libyan capital. >> they fought like hell. >> the rebels are about to force gadhafi's complete departure. >> and they recorded the whole thing on their cell phones. >> libya! ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la ♪ >>> it's amazing arriving here after all you see on tv these days that libya is, in fact, functioning at all. but it is. the fountains across fro

libya meant gadhafi. libya meant terrorism. >> pan am flight 103 went down in a blazing fireball. >> libya meant a bad place where a comical, megalomaniacal dictator was the absolute power. nobody in libya, however, was laughing. >> reports of explosions. >> clashes between rioters and security forces. >> in 2011, what was previously unthinkable happened. the libyan people rose up and fought for their freedom. >> heavy battles raging around the libyan capital. >> they fought like hell. >> the rebels are about to force gadhafi's complete departure. >> and they recorded the whole thing on their cell phones. >> libya! ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la ♪ >>> it's amazing arriving here after all you see on tv these days that libya is, in fact, functioning at all. but it is. the fountains across fro

his job these days is hunting down former gadhafi supporters. so, the gadhafi forces rolled in.hey would use these tanks to fire on -- >> around the city. >> around. >> yeah. it was full of tanks here. this was the operation room. >> now, if you had any doubt about the terrible odds these young revolutionaries were facing during the early days of the fighting, especially in the months before nato came in with air support, check out misrata's war museum. what did this fire? >> this fire a rocket, homemade. and there's a rocket here, over here, and fire, yeah. >> you had to have some serious courage to ride around with this thing. >> why? we trust our people. there's a lot of homemade things here. this is homemade, too. fires big rockets. this is garage homemade, this one. this was from a helicopter. >> yes. >> we got it and got it in the cars. >> you took it off a helicopter and put it on a car? >> yeah, uh huh. and you know what this is for? an old motor. >> it's basically a crossbow that fires molotov cocktails. >> molotov and tnt, sometimes. >> you're shooting this at people w

we got rid of gadhafi.i like your attitude. >> this is supposed to be the biggest, fanciest, new hotel development in town. like a lot of newer structures, they pretty much stopped when they started to pull down the government. there are a lot of cranes building nothing at the moment. a lot is just like sort of frozen as everybody figures out, what happens next. let's wait and see. one of many moments of unexpected weirdness in libya. mosque, the medinah, the frozen wait and see hotel, and a pickup truck with militia looking at us. meanwhile, right over there, there are -- they're playing rod stewart "do you think i'm sexy" to an amusement park full of kids. makes no sense at all. in a vaguely encouraging way. ♪ [ female announcer ] f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus. (agent) i understand. (dad) we've never sold a house before. (agent) i'll walk you guys

. >> since the fall of the regime of mohamed gadhafi, sailors took part in the tournament in tripoli harbor. once famous sport after years of neglect. like many water sports in libya, funding had stopped during gadhafi's argadhafi'sgadhafi's . >> we had these tournaments before, we plan to gather together and start again. >> hand it back to adrian. >> thanks very much indeed. the tribeca film first of all is underway in new york. organizers received more than 6,000 submissions this year. al jazeera's andy gallagher has been following one director who's looking for a break-through. >> reporter: it's opening night at the tribeca film festival for a movie you have probably never heard of but for producer omar takel, he is the create and star of summer of blood, a low-budget romantic comedy about a neurotic 40-something with a vampire twist. many of the actors and crew working for free. >> i'm in new york, made a couple of films, i haven't had wild success, we're getting appreciated and played. the fact that it's in tribeca is a feat in itself. >> reporter: playing at a major film festiv

saif gadhafi, he and 39 other gadhafi era lieutenants face crimes for ordinances. can human rights watch says they have been given limited access to their attorneys. >>> national elections have topped the widely considered 2009 presidential result. preliminary results say there are two front runners but election officials say they've only counted 10% of the votes. so far there are 870 is complaints this could affect the outcome of the count. hotly disputed,. >> dna samples to try to find a rapist. some 500 men at a private catholic school are giving dna samples. >> an unprecedented police operation gets underway. all 475 male students and 31 male teachers at this private catholic high school are being asked to give a dna sample. the school's director says it's the last chance to find out who raped a 16-year-old girl in a dark school toilet here last september. >> i don't know why this took so long but it's not right. the person who did it may have been at the school for the last seven months. it's horrible. >> police say genetic material recovered from the girl's c

he and 39 other gadhafi era lieutenants face charges for alleged crimes committed during the civil war. afghanistan claims of voter fraud in this year's national elections have topped the widely criticized 2009 presidential vote. preliminary results say that there are two front-runners but election officials say they've only counted 10% of the votes so far. there are 870 complaints that could affect the outcome of that count, the hotly disputed election in 2009 led to violence because of allegations of vote-tampering. in indonesia, farmers are lining up and cashing in on coffee and it could mean you'll soon pay more for it. nicole johnston has more. >> are coffee berries are ready to pick. 50,000 depend on the crop. and this looks like they're better than average. >> along the stem i can see in november the production will be really good. when it rains the coffee will turn red and the price of coffee is also going up amazingly high compared with earlier years. >> reporter: it's not only the season that's looking good but the prices as well. farmers and exporters are factoring in a huge

when the international community decided to force gadhafi out of power, overturn that government, did they, did the international community, the u.s., not foresee this outcome given the fact that the libyan government really had no reach, much reach beyond tripoli? >> i think it would be hard from the outside given the state of our relationship that pertained then with libya to understand how devoid libya was of institutions to be able to recover after gadhafi's departure. so my sense is that the amount of information available as far as the ability of libyan institutions to continue without gadhafi, i think that that was underestimated in terms of the ability to proceed forward without very personalistic style of power. so i think some of this was certainly foreseeable ask was foreseen, but the kind of continuing factors of work across borders between northern mali and southern libya and the continuing destabilization there, my sense is that that's worse than what had been anticipated at the time. >> could i ask you about the special forces, the role of special operations forces? as

the west has achieved in libya is looking out what is known by some of the shield or maybe a mormon gadhafi was way too much alcohol it was so impressed that sickly innovations of the hydrocarbon industry in india but there remains a problem for the western powers which is trying to get these unruly militias of deaths wants to pursue the tape with oil exports to their own coffers the agenda in tripoli can't even control tripoli. it is actually the distance to ostensibly held hostage in tripoli by at least four major death squads including those which are not busy time. and also held them hostage briefly by means of a grenade and hadn't gone in one of his officers to reduce this to the end of the rest all the people who come to power up literally on the wings are all made so seemed just ridiculous. and on the one hand that i live with the stats course i'm in the philly. because of these deaths will threaten their lives. the nazis to al qaeda types of grace died on the new changes in syria is on the citizens report to the capture of christians it seems foreign and rival campaigns and in nh mo

libya meant gadhafi.ent down in a blazing fireball. >> libya meant a bad place where a comical, megalomaniacal dictator was the absolute power. nobody in libya, however, was laughing. >> reports of explosions. >> clashes between rioters and security forces. >> in 2011, what was previously unthinkable happened. the libyan people rose up and fought for their freedom. >> heavy battles raging around the libyan capital. >> they fought like hell.

in 2009, libyan president moammar gadhafi, bombing of pan am 103 which killed 189 americans. >>> wars in iraq, u.n. diplomats from those countries have been granted visas. the white house hasn't said how it will act but the controversy comes at a critical time. negotiations of iran's nuclear program led by the united states have just resumed. speaking from vienna, iran's foreign minister says they are not wavering. >> to not allow the group of radicals to determine iran's presence at the united nations, this behavior is unacceptable to us. >> reporter: a spokesman said, there are grounds to deny a form diplomat a visa that is a category which can be broadly interpreted. soarts including experts in international law and the u.n. disagree. next question, who makes the next moaf, joie. >> derailed nuclear talks is that a real risk? >> the iranians have said publicly again today, they support this nomination, the talks in geneva are at a critical stage. there is a lot on the table for iran. remember we are talking about moving more economic sanctions which have really done damage to the i

libya meant gadhafi.ent down in a blazing fireball. >> libya meant a bad place where a comical, megalomaniacal dictator was the absolute power. nobody in libya, however, was laughing. >> reports of explosions. >> clashes between rioters and security forces. >> in 2011, what was previously unthinkable happened. the libyan people rose up and fought for their freedom. >> heavy battles raging around the libyan capital. >> they fought like hell. >> the rebels are about to force

really in dollars of gadhafi his money was frozen by u.s. banks for years on libya has only seen about ten percent of it back and then there's a rock one billion dollars was recovered from saddam hussein's family but iraqi people haven't seen the majority of that money some suspect is still invested in u.s. banks others report they suggest well it's tucked away in switzerland or still even lost within iraq itself somewhere as to kiev even if the billion dollar assets are indeed found the chances of the being invested back into the corrupt country are slim because a treasure chest that big is simply too valuable to give back a few clicks away on our website for you right now norway is taught a lesson in human rights from an unlikely mentor by now that our two daughters what in the scandinavian nations so outraged saudi arabia a country with one of the well world's poorest she won rights records. also their recent now showing the american president barack obama. his approval rating so fall into a record low analysis. now the u.k. is preparing

to small boats the problem has escalated significantly after the air of spring and overthrow the gadhafi regime in libya according to official data more than twenty thousand illegal immigrants arrive in italy from north africa and the middle east is the beginning of the year another four crew members of the seawall sunken ferry tuesday has been into marine mechanics were detained at present entire staff of the ship including the captain is under arrest according to the mature is of the case the captain was on the first two left the vessel therefore he may be sentenced to life imprisonment in addition passengers complained that the crew members did nothing for the salvation of the people during the crash it will encourage people going to remain in the places the seawall passenger ferry sank a heap of sixteen off the coast of south korea the death toll reached one hundred and eighty seven another one hundred and fifteen people are missing according to investigators the negligence of the crew and the vessel overload what's the main reasons for the disaster. the second congress of political

allowed $500 million in weapons to flow to al-qaeda terrorists who oppose libyan dictator moammar gadhafiago. the commission concluded the attack was actually a failed kidnapping plot. the report says that ambassador chris stevens was supposed to be captured and traded for the blind sheik. the mastermind of the world trade center. >>> five people rescued from a sand bar after they're stranded for nine hours. this happened off the coast of queensland, australia. they wrote an enormous message, sos, in the sand after their boats anchor broke. the police first knew something was wrong after they found an abandoned boat. then the choppers went up and found the massive sign. all five were in good health, except a little sunburn. those are your headlines. i'll keep checking out what's going on with the australian plane there. >> thank you. >>> where exactly is the border between texas and oklahoma? the texas farm bureau says whenever the river moves, texas farm bureau says when oklahoma believes when the river shifts to the south as it does with rain, when it shifts to the south, the state line

meeting regarding military action against the regime of colonel gadhafi. and there some other world news and brave this hour hundreds of protesters in a sleaze of an air show staged a rally for independence waving flags and showing support for other breakaway communities in europe in march an overwhelming majority of people in bonaire show voted in an official online poll to break away from europe from rome currently several regions in europe including scotland and spanish to learn here are seeking independence. hundreds of residents in australia as a northeastern state of queensland have been evacuated after a powerful cycloid hit land so far there is no information casualties but power has been knocked out in several communities this hike load is now heading north causing thousands of others to seek shelter. they were subjected to intimidation and accused of assisting a criminal by the authorities in the us and beyond yet the two journalists who broke the n.s.a. surveillance candle were sent to the u.s. for the first time to accept a prestigious journali

if there was a vote on libya they were with gadhafi. if there was a vote on russia they were with putin. if there is a vote on human rights violations in china they are with china. when was the last time cuba ever lined up on the side of decency and human rights? this is an anti-american government. that doesn't just undermine some people. it tries to a undermine our foreign-policy aims and of the free world. my question would be in the know this is a long-winded question when do we start this program again? what do we need to do to not just start this program but expand as the people in cuba can do what i just did and that is speak freely to the world and to each other about the reality of human life and about anything else they want including the raiders record from beyoncÉ or jay-z or what's on the award to the oscars? when do we start this again? >> senator i want to clarify usaid programs aren't designed to promote open access to information and facilitate communication. any programs that have further purposes are not implemented b

the libyan institutions across the board are very, very weak after the reign of gadhafi, and then thesecurity challenges really in the eastern part as you saw in the paper is a very troubling situation. it's going to be a long, hard road for the libyans to figure out how to lead their way through this effort to control the militias and to continue to build the institutions that are required to run that country. on the training mission, it -- we have two, first of all, we have a multi-national effort that includes the turkish military, it includes the italian military, it includes the united kingdom military, the u.s. as well as the moroccans. two of those countries have started to train, the turks and the italians, and the first turkish force trained has just returned to libya, but it's too soon to tell how effective they will be. between the four european partners, the u.s. and the moroccans, they've committed to train up to 20,000 people in that force, and we're, the u.s. right now is waiting on money coming from libyan government to begin to fund the training in bulgaria. >> just a

is about why we were not alerted to the fact that this militia -- we partnered with them against gadhafi >> what about the fact that no one in this situation has been brought to justice? we have not killed anybody. we have not captured anybody. >> because the strategy of the administration is not to declare war against movements. and they don't want to retaliate against an organization so that we reenter the war in libya. >> you said the coming revolution before the arab spring. you were right. now we have the lost spring. we missed our opportunity. let's go back to one of the things we decided to do. we put our money on this to horse, the iranian horse. first off, the latest news, the ambassador they've chosen to represent them in the united nations in new york city was one of the hostage takers. what's the message? n they feel comfortable. the iranian regime feels comfortable they are engaged by the administration. they felt comfortable since 2009 when two million iranians took to the streets -- >> we've forgot been that, didn't we? they were chanting president obama's name? >> they we

brzezinski, the president's plan to lead from behind with gadhafi seemed to work where you had the airreas as well and has drawn a lot of controversy. isn't it yours position that when it comes to middle east peace, the united states still remains the indispensable power, it has to be engaged fully and has to be aggressive and has to lead? >> absolutely. look at the american-israeli relationship? we're close friends, we're financing the country on a huge scale, more than any other nation in the world, we're arming it more than any other nation in the world so i think we have a say. in addition to it, we're important in the region and the region is important to us. so we clearly have an enormous stake in the outcome. we have tried in good faith to promote negotiations in the par party, they have proven unwilling to be trustworthy. >> david ignatius, you have just returned from iraq and syria in the middle east. obviously another round of bombings in iraq recently, more bloodshed and the syrian crisis continues. what did you find? >> i've basically found that you've got civil wars in bot

secretary of state hillary clinton might become america's next president she openly cheered for moammar gadhafi as murder we came we saw he died. or susan rice who is known for her abrasiveness in one instance is u.s. envoy to the u. when she called russia's call for an investigation into civilian deaths in libya quote a bogus duplicitous stunt miss rice is now a national security adviser to the president the current u.s. envoy to the u.n. is also no stranger to on diplomatic moves in these photos you can see some of the power launching toward her russian counterpart with insults how is this acceptable i don't think there's an american has ever felt the need more so than the last how . to extend any kind of notice you occurs. because it continues to see solved in a position of power and absolute power and of course some u.s. policymakers have not refrained from openly participating in the policymaking of other nations we were a member victoria nolens descending onto the streets of kiev to a cheerful protest there she is the secretary of state for european and your asian affairs though mrs nolan

visa delayed until after a crucial year naysaying on military action against the regime a colonel gadhafi. why the world news in brief five hundred people have run it in the northeastern region of the nato natally waving its flood and calling for independence last month as the world welcoming them to eighty percent voted in favor of an official referendum to break away from the rest of the country says that around days have been held in other cities of the net dozens were arrested in venice alone including one of the organizers of the movement. also cycling has smashed into the australian state of queensland destroying buildings and forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes to ensure rain and gale force winds hit parts of the country's north east coast last night authorities say no one was killed or injured during this storm which is now heading back out to sea. and argentina he's in britain of provocation by conducting military drills in the falkland islands it's labelled the exercises as hostile acts the u.k. ambassador to argentina has been summoned to explain the show falls but

his visa delayed until after a crucial un meeting on military action against the regime of colonel gadhafi. or some other world briefly and argentina has accused the u.k. of provocation by conducting military drills in the british falkland islands it's labelled the exercises as hostile acts argentina and the u.k. went to war with the territory in one thousand eight hundred two and tensions between the two countries over the islands remain high. side smashed into the australian state of queensland destroying buildings and forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes to ensure rain and gale force winds hit parts of the country's north east coast last night also she said no one was killed or injured during the storm which is now heading back to sing. at the international day human spaceflight is the day one fifty three years ago a soviet cosmonaut ventured to the final frontier for the first time but a political spot on earth are putting the future of space exploration in harm's way nasa is suspending cooperation with russia over the ukrainian crisis ortiz least a couple of explain what is

trading oil and something other than the dollar we know that all the sanctions that are on iran moammar gadhafi and libya talking about praying and africa and gold backed currency to get out of the dollar is gone so. is this going to be the relationship to break through the u.s. dollar policy which according to dr michael hudson or catherine austin fitts it's a currency backed by the pentagon you take our dollars are we blow you up is this going to be finally a breakthrough i think that the policy of trying to persuade you know trying to attack people by saying we will not permit you to trade in the dollar is something that you might be able to use very sparingly once or twice but it's becoming so frequent that actually i think it's going to drive the dollar out of trade settlement the chinese yuan is already the second largest settlement currency for cross border trade it is even more use than the euro so you know the bones of it already and then we get this gas deal between gazprom and china as far as i'm concerned cast. basically russia is has come to an agreement china that you know here's