the city was randomly shelled by the khadafy forces and the streets you could not step in because of the snipers and the people were essentially alone h and very few journalists getting the story out. we did a week and left and other journalists came in, and then chris hondros and tim was killed, and then we left, but i said, this is the kind of story that you live your whole life for, and so we went back in. three or four journalists there. >> is it true that you had a disg disguise that you would have used? >> well, there was no way to rely on the ships to get you out. the ships were getting shelled as they came into the port, and there was some fishing boats and tugboats doing smuggling, and it was not known to the extent when they would come in. and it had a high tide at the bay, so sometimes not a lot of ships for many days, and the city was strewn along the coastline and not deep city, but the port was at the far east and we were at the far west. so if the road got cut, there is no reaching the port anyhow, so i did decide that i am reasonably fit, and understanding that if the

but even after khadafi's fall, security and the economy remained unstable. she decided to represent the youth. >> for 42 years, we have no role to play in politics, culture or education. the time has come for us to shape libya. >> reporter: just three days before the election, she was ready. the party leader is on the poster, instead of her. only her name and occupation are written on it. she decided not to use her photo to try to avoid discrimination. >> translator: see, someone tore this female can date's picture. i didn't want to be like her, so i decided not to use my moto. >> reporter: someone has written comments on her facebook page. >> translator: you're a leftover from the old regime. >> translator: it's ridiculous that someone as young as you is running. report she thought lack of understanding of a democratic system was behind the harassment, so she held a meeting with voters. she told them everybody can express themselves freely in a democracy. >> translator: the explanation made me understand what an election is for the first time. >> reporter:

libyan forces on the ground could not have functioned without the support of nato and when their khadafi was captured he was ordered kill by the nato group which was our cozy cameron and president obama so why would that be helpful to the middle east to have this syrian regime overthrown and the syrian president. and the opposition is his half of the problem or more because of the support they're being given from outside forces for regime change regime change is not a good policy it's been a policy for the last ten to fifteen years coming from tony blair but it is not a policy that actually develops countries and helps countries and it was for always for the development in the region what about the consequences of the divisions we're seeing between russia and china and other un member security council members what what's the implication the impact of all of that now. well we know what it is because we did the right embassador rights and others would like to put in

to the program now levy hands are heading to the polls in the first national election since modern khadafi was forced out and killed but the lead up to the vote has been marred with tribal clashes and fighting between rival armed groups as our teams lose it often is now reports there are fears the elections will do nothing to stop the violence. this is the new libya political parties are now free to operate across the country. so too are countless armed groups they once fought to oust moammar gadhafi from power today it is they who are in control that tag militias who answer only to their own commanders have grown more powerful than libya's police and army. which mark we must put limits on these militias because they are dividing the country there while libya is falling into decay almost one year after a nato backed uprising ended gadhafi is rule libyans are taking to the polls for the first time in decades the with tripoli's transitional national council too weak to quell ongoing violence many fear that elections will do little to bring peace want to go towards the transitional council wh

the election comes nine months after moammar khadafy was captured and killed. at the pictures that you will recall ending more than 40 years of his repressive rule. michael holms is joining us to talk about this, and first of all explain to us, because we were talking about this before, there is no democratically elected leader of the country yet and tell us what these elections are about first. >> well, it is important elections because it is the first time that libyans have had anything to vote for since the mid-le 1960s. so they elect a congress who will oversee the writing of the constitution and then pick a government and then main parliamentary elections next year, because until now we have had the national transitional group which was formeded in benghazi and went to tripoli when khadafy fell, and have been running things. >> how have they been doing? they have a organized council and not a leader per se. >> well, the national transitional council has had the leaders and the problem is that -- well, look at it this way, libya does fnot run like a normal

but even after khadafi's fall, security and the economy remained unstable. she decided to represent the youth. >> translator: for 42 years we had no role to play in politics, culture or education. the time has come for us to shape libya. >> reporter: just three days before the election, she was ready. the party leader is on the poster, instead of her. only her name and occupation are written on it. she decided not to use her photo to try to avoid discrimination. >> translator: see, someone tore this female candidate's picture. i didn't want to be like her, so i decided not to use my photo. >> reporter: someone has written critical comments on her facebook page. >> translator: you're a leftover from the old regime. >> translator: it's ridiculous that someone as young as you is running. >> reporter: she thought lack of understanding of a democratic system was behind the harassment, so she held a meeting with voters. she told them everybody can express themselves freely in a democracy. >> translator: her explanation made me understand what an election is for th

sure a ragtag bunch of resistance kind of starting to step up and to challenge khadafi in different strongholds. particularly in benghazi it wasn't necessarily the case in the west needed to intervene the tools to intervene in this is. the democratic initiative from the libyan people they interfered with the struggle for leadership that struggle for the future battle of ideas for the future of libyan society which is necessary in a civil war to really unify and get here individuals so that they can so that they can bring about change which actually reflects their will rather than what the west what nato in particular thinks is the best way to a society the west has now moved on to other things i think. there's been a lot of turmoil in libya over the last few months and we've heard very little from . people who were very vocal last year so david cameron after the death of gadhafi said this is the opportunity for the libyan people to forge a strong democratic future and i'm very proud of the way that britain has played a role in this but now there is silence. from david cameron from obama from hi

as we reported libya's top prisoner khadafi son saif al islam is still awaiting trial and international criminal court lawyer who was part of a group detained for alleged spying and later released this week believes there's no chance that saif will get a fair trial in his home country but political commentator luke samuel says that the i.c.c. is actually part of the reason why libya is still locked in violence. the disunity that we're seeing in libya really has come around as a result of the western intervention in the uprising of which the i.c.c. was very much a part of the i.c.c. prosecutions are by their very nature political you know the i.c.c. is used as a mechanism for trying those individuals which may lend some political authority to the interventions of the west and that's why the i.c.c. is so often used in these interventions in order to bolster the earth already of western institutions and it's also the fact that the n t c had its authority on the ground bolstered by these indictments the indictments issued against the gadhafi family lent artificial cohesion to the rebellion

khadafi a position group and a last party was found in recently by the former rebel commander and jihadist. but has said these parties are likely to do well and he will also give us an indication of how the government will shape. ok now in london thank you very much for your thoughts they were following the story closely of course across the weekend. america's notorious groan tunnel determination facility in cuba is now set for a major renovation the pentagon is reportedly finalizing upgrades including undersea cables and state of the art military equipment but despite pledges by a barber to close the prison which many see as a place to keep undesirables that can't be prosecuted locked up the details for marty's gone into camp. forty million dollars will be spent to lay out this underwater fiber optic cable from south florida to cuba where the guantanamo bay prison camp is located the base commander said it only makes sense if we're going to be here for any period of time an infrastructure project like that may well suggest that the u.s. military is preparing for detentions and other opera

didn't post-revolutionary tunisia and egypt journalist reseller excess militias that contributed to khadafidownfall will play a much more important role than the new national assembly. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this you know this and they're trying to capitalize on that but it's hardly an exercise in democracy because the militias still have the main control and the work they do particularly the militias aligned with political parties those forces are not capable of winning elections fairly so they are disrupting the elections and as a response i think i get an interview a lot of ordinary working people or people in the street during my visits people who are very very upset they can get a new strongman is going to come to power which does not work they fought for him to feel that their revolution is being strong and western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the moral supplies from. some of the countries that were something the loudest for mil

vote counting is underway in libya after the country held its first post khadafi election on saturday early reports suggest that the party led by the interim prime minister is in the lead but the vote was marred by militia violence attacks on polling stations and boycotts. and eye witness of the and take it off the uprising says the election had little to do with actual democracy. democracy. you can watch libya now if you visit libya and see the weapons all over a country militia controlling the. country you can. elect to freely in this atmosphere how can i go to the election knowing that there is a gun on my head telling me words to go. you cannot kill your own people. in the name of democracy you cannot. be one and a half million live in egypt tunisia and other parts of the world. and nearly thirty thousand prisoners in prison being tortured and being killed they call good dictator because if you break the regime that was before good duffey you may get. be taken to prison now if you glorify a kid that if you will definitely be killed. the deadline for julian assange extradition to s

now libya's a wartime prime minister and the man credited with engineering khadafi his downfall is urging unity in the country that's before the national poll results have even been announced libyans voted in their first election in five decades on saturday though the day was marked by intimidation and violence it's now feared certain factions will disregard the poll results entirely say an eyewitness to the attic iraqi uprising says the vote was anything but democratic democracy point you can watch libya now if you visit libya and see the weapons are over a country militia controlling the. country. elected freely in this atmosphere how can i go through the election knowing that there's a gun on my head telling me words to go. elected you cannot kill your own people. in the name of democracy you cannot. leave you one and a half million lives in egypt tunisia and other parts of the world. and nearly thirty thousand prisoners in prison being tortured not being killed they called good. because if you break refused to receive that was before with their feet you may get. be taken to brazil now

in the arab world let's not forget that assad and his government is a secular government just as khadafi as government was a secular government if you get rid of that and you create the power vacuum or another force that is as organized and as strong will take its place continued political instability in cairo has raised questions about this so-called success attributed to the arab spring governments in egypt and libya were toppled with a u.s. stamp of approval but with new regimes leaning towards extreme islam many believe america could eventually find itself in a circumstance it hardly ever wanted her an important i.r.t. new york are in islam is in mali's northern desert region have destroyed holy sites in the city book to earlier this week militants with ties to al qaida claim control of the region following a violent should out that left at least twenty people dead at least expert a kiwi believes it's up to the people of mali to find a solution saying u.s. or nato intervention and what only further to start save the lies the region. all of this of course is related to the war that wa

khadafi. millions along the east coast of the u.s. are without power after violent storms pounded the region at least thirteen people were killed by falling trees that destroyed homes and cars it could take generating companies up to a week to restore electricity to those affected by storms came after record high temperatures scorched the area forcing thousands to pack into buildings with backup power supplies. the russian built so you spacecraft is headed towards earth after i'm john king from the international space station the capsule is carrying three members of the ice asking the glueing one russian cosmonaut is expected to return to earth in kazakhstan sometime after eight am g.m.t. three other crew members have are made in orbit as the await the arrival of others . later this month. well that's all we have time for now so plenty more still to come for you in our t. including from one extreme to another as the upcoming london olympics is turning into britain's biggest adverse if you're a operation in peacetime we discover there

and they're either going to try to dominate the west the way that they were dominated during the khadafi era or they're going to break away entirely and follow the model of south sudan and to try to declare independence and we've already seen that with this because he has some of the drape things of a kroto state kind of like an iraqi kurdistan with its own flag and so on what you would practically is a civil war that's carried out at the ballot box where different sects and tribes are running candidates against one another and trying to dominate their countrymen that way that's not a recipe for democracy if they're she just not ready. the deadline for june in the sand his extradition to sweden as ordered by britain's highest court expired this saturday the whistleblower remains at the ecuadorian embassy in london where british police have no jurisdiction he's currently awaiting a decision on his asylum request to the south american country but surely before he sought refuge there sanj completed his on t.v. interview series has been looking back at the highlights. from julian assange. it

intervention into libya and libya right now many would argue is not in a better place than it was before khadafi was removed and western countries you know invaded with with its military might so at this point russia says there needs to be a better option it can't just be with bombs flying from the sky it has to be getting both parties that are participating in the fighting in syria at a point where they could sit down and at least negotiate for a transitional government. where when lavrov said the military intervention in syria would lead to an impasse. where you're saying you're you know that it might become another libya do you think he means by that. yeah i think might be what he meant the foreign minister lavrov said a lot of comments with respect to syria in the past few days but we you know we do know that russia has made a position that this is western countries are fighting a major geo political battle in the field of syria that doesn't have everything to do with the syrian people many believe that you know there's a bigger picture there's a larger picture here and that picture has to d

vote counting is underway in libya after the country held its first post khadafi election on saturday official results are expected early next week but reports suggested that the party led by the interim prime minister is in the lead the vote was marred by militia violence attacks on polling stations and boycotts richard spencer from the online magazine alternative right dot com says elections will only serve to weaken the libyan state . i'm afraid it is the beginning of a new libya and that is a live libya that is weak that is marred by chaotic infighting and sometimes tribal loyalties expressing themselves and about writing process and it's a libya that no longer has a strong man who in his own small way was actually willing to challenge the washington consensus so there is going to be a new libya when you libya and that is what the united states wanted there are going to be very ineffective leaders there's going to be a lot again a lot of a lot of these things that we westerners don't always understand about these countries that we try to reengineer these tribal loyalties religious

should the kind of military support that forced moammar khadafy from power in libya should be consideredsyria. should nato or turkey intervene or should america get involved? >> i don't think we're ready for that. among other reasons we're not going to get anything like the kind of international approval that we had in the context of libya. that doesn't bother me so much. the fact that the environment in syria is very different. russia and chinese and iranian support for the assad regime make it a different political and military context. to get involved in syria meanings taking on the regime and run which i'm fully prepared to do but i am worried that the obama administration could be induce in order negotiation when if assad looks shaky iran would give up the pawn, supported for the assad regime, in exchange for protecting its nuclear weapons program. i worry that the obama administration may be to take such a deal and that would be disaster. >> gregg: you said i shall prepared to take on the regime in tehran, how? >> i thought for ten years or more, regime change in tehran. i think it