panel reported last june that the united arab emirates violated international law by supplying hafter forces with attack helicopters and other military aircraft pro hafter groups have been accused of kidnapping and torturing journalists activists and religious figures in eastern libya some of whom faced extrajudicial executions this latest report is set to be submitted to the un security council for further action in hopes that it can counter foreign influence in the war torn nation. d.c. . let's bring in our guests in london sam ham the editor in chief of international interest joining us on skype from stockholm peter of aizenman senior researcher in the arms and military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute and also on skype from london and i said director of the solders institute a think tank based in tripoli thank you all for joining us now and yes i want to start with you is it at all surprising to hear that the u.n. is once again highlighting violations of the arms embargo in libya and that the u.a.e. and egypt are named as offenders in thi

gavin newsom started fund raisiur within hafter being called out by sessions. this was an appeal t the base, but as we saw in pennsylvania, the base may not be enough. the president did lose that race in western pennsylvania, a district that he had -- was up y 22 points in the election. and those are his base vots, the democrats won that seat. that's a warning for so he's appealing to the base, but he has toroaden his appeal if he hopes to be re-elected. >> let's ta about conor lamb, the democrat who won in pennsylvania. it a runoff, or t point, is thi huhe him it hurt counts with the base? >> i think it's both. conor lamb did run as a very conservative democrat. >> republican light. >> how many democratks you imagine with a picture with an ar-15. and you had a republican can date who wasanti-union in a district that was very pro union. so there areeons to believe this is particularized. but you do have a lot of energy in the democrat base. the republican base is still angry over the failure to repeal obamacare last year. that still continues to be a factor. i

in the hafter mouth of the fire the city has canceled all entertainment cultural events in a mark of respect to those who lost their lives people are also bringing flowers candles and perhaps most poignantly of all toys to the shopping center. people in cameroon there also as you can see here going to their nearby clinics donating blood for the victims people lining up a lot i think in the snow at the moment what we know is that forty eight people were injured in the fire that's the latest figures we have eleven taken to hospital some remaining in a critical condition. according to the lead his figures eleven people eager was just alluding to there are just a moment ago are still missing. all of the victims they have met with city officials in a nearby school and i'm sure as you can understand some of them could not. get. this is going to be. absolutely. russia's health minister. is among those in kemmerer of organizing help for the injured she actually told a story of a patient in a very serious condition let's listen. civil disobedience that's all negative at this moment eleven peo

on saturday the israeli military says the man was approaching a structured area and was fired upon hafter after ignoring warning shots. as president donald trump has stepped up his rhetoric in a growing global trade fight with a threat to increase taxes on european cars comes off the european union warned it would impose a tit for tat tariff on american products if trump goes through with a plan to put a twenty five percent duty on steel imports in canada have also made retaliatory threats vote counting is underway in germany in a party ballot that will decide if the social democrats will back a new coalition. if they approve the union the new coalition would take office in about four months and no vote might force new national elections the u.s. envoy is on a three day visit to bangladesh to assess to him to crisis says who works on the white house national security council has arrived at a particularly tense time there are new accusations that many miles army is bullying and intimidating ranger refugees there is border with bangladesh u.n. estimates around seven hundred thousand have be

sit at a table and say you know what i recognize you as a libyan the muslim brotherhood want libya hafter wants libya say for this leg of their if you want to libya and the biggest issue is this the u.s. doesn't know who to support the u.s. is baffled france is baffled italy is baffled u.k. is before for france of the u.k. this was supposed to be a straightforward operation we go in we remove their feet we get the contracts and we rebuild libya for the u.s. it was supposed to be straightforward we get rid of give their feet we step in libya and we prevent the spread of terrorism but now it's all over the place because now you have qatar and turkey on one hand and then you have you egypt on the other hand and both lobbying washington lobbying paris lobbying london for international support this is the reason why so. we should be wary how we skew the narrative even if you got rid of you in egypt and i believe there are disastrous influence on libya i would say it i believe they are disastrous on libya if you remove them it does not remove the core issue here which is how do you reconcile na

eastern libya later paul claims the away and egyptian air forces are supporting general holly for hafter her pose as the u.n. backed government in tripoli would apple hate explains. according to the united nations team of experts they were needed at emirates air force has been running them military bases that is south of imagine city in the east of libya and that's military bases witnessed a remarkable development between march and september last year now we remember that in march last year in morality warplanes lasted several airstrikes on areas controlled by heft of opponents and an especially on gun food district where many people were killed by immorality either strikes including women and children we understand that since at any gaijin little free for have the launch of his military campaign known as operation dignity in may two thousand and fourteen the united arab emirates and egypt have been supporting hefted politically and militarily and . hosted heads for the last year several times recently the czech republic has stopped a deal that includes seven helicopters who were both by