but libya was being blown up. the un whose decision to intervene in two thousand and eleven inadvertently led to the arming of militias look to broker a deal in december two thousand and fifteen to end the violence by creating a new government of national accord the g. and a but the tripoli based c.n.a. headed by prime minister faiza said raj was rejected by the have to back house of representatives and to go after would instead seek even greater power by taking control of libya's lifeline. oil it was clear that at some point he would try to control eastern oil infrastructure which he did at the moment that have to regain control of those eastern oil ports. it changed in terms of the way international actress viewed him when general half doris military advisor and family members came to me in november two thousand and sixteen shortly after the us elections they told me have to are intended to conquer the entire country of libya. fire all of the politicians and every element of the would be in political life run th

the history of libya is the history of the foreign powers who ruled libya. we have the finishes come over to libya we have the greeks came over and set up cities we have their own minds and then we have the turks for almost one hundred years. it has been continuously because of conflict between the civilization between countries so it was under question by every power that your ears. libya invaded seized and occupied for millennia was for much of his history no single unified land. there was sarah nika there was to report it first. and also also was not were not united for a long time. almost a thousand years of utter rule left a shared islamic tradition across the three regions tripolitania in the west and the east and for then in the south. but they remain distinct separated by geography history and identity. by the early twentieth century italian colonizers would take over from ottoman turks occupiers and look to create a unified libya all of their own. were indeed tiny as invaded libya they actually if you move the country as the fourth cost threatening

what happened i was still happens in libya and this is because the nature of libya this is not today this is seventeenth century this is then century this is the time of the greeks when they came and the romans the turks libya is a low potential country but with the arab interest in this arab countries what was the interest there was confused and they were not in a position they could do anything and libya the hula that was and then the gulf countries you know and they wanted to get rid of gadhafi every libya is developed on the mediterranean shore two hundred fifty kilometers from europe you know both sides well the gulf would be second hand in the area you're saying they. deliberately wanted instability they felt that the only country. that has the same potential boss not in the gulf council as libya it's out of control you know i'm not ruling out the country's interest in libya but we need to put it into perspective gaddafi was already doing business with french british italian and american companies their rights were always preserved by gadhafi and you know this very well so part

the history of libya is the history of the foreign powers who ruled libya. we have the finishes come over to libya we have the greeks came over and set up cities we have their own minds and then we have the turks for almost one hundred years. it has been continuously because of conflict between the civilization between countries so it was under question by every power the ears of. libya invaded seized and occupied for millennia was for much of his history no single unified land. there was sarah nika there was tripoli time yet. and also also was not were not united for a long time. almost a thousand years of arab rule left a shared islamic tradition across the three regions tripolitania in the west and the east and for then in the south. but they remain distinct separated by geography history and identity. by the early twentieth century italian colonizers would take over from ottoman turks occupiers and look to create a unified libya all of their own. were indeed tiny ins invaded libya they actually if you move the country as the fourth caused first of all th

what happened i was still happens in libya and this is because the nature of libya this is not today this is seventeenth century this is then century this is the time of the greeks when they came and the romans the turks libya is a low potential country but with the arab interest in this arab countries what was the interest the egyptian was confuse and they were not in a position they could do anything and libya the who led it was qatar and then the gulf countries you know and they wanted to get rid of gadhafi every libya is developed on the mediterranean shore two hundred fifty kilometers from europe you know both sides well the gulf would be second hand in the area you're saying they. deliberately wanted instability they felt that the only country. that has the same potential boss not in the gulf council as libya it's out of control you know i'm not ruling out the country's interest in libya but we need to put it into perspective gaddafi was already doing business with french british italian and american companies their rights were always preserved by gadhafi and you know this very

libya was in because of a seismic up evil. one that would bring calm and mamata deaf ears rule and lived to a grisly end. hello there we're still quite a few thunderstorms over the central parts of australia this big massive cloud is giving us showers and as a child of seeing a few in alice springs as we head through the next few days there's also the chance of seeing more showers around this eastern coast as well so for some of us in queensland and new south wales it will be want to showers at times towards the south asia but largely fine a dry force in melbourne twenty two maximum temperature looks like we'll see move rain there for perth as we head into saturday the temperatures will be dropping off to now over towards new zealand lots of cloud lots of rain with us covered see this swirling mass that's across the top of us now it's gradually working its way away from us though so still some outbreaks of rain for friday but by the time we get to saturday most of us it should be seeing some brighter and dryer weather and chri

the lust for libya on al-jazeera. and there is rather cool for many of us in north america at the moment this is the leading edge of that cool air so every where to the north of that the temperatures have dropped off recently looks like a maxwell move around nine in chicago much in that interim take for wednesday and if we fast forward to thursday we see the temperatures just recovering a little bit in chicago there as they will be in denver to the south though that area of cloud will still stay with us we could see some fairly heavy outbreaks of rain particularly over parts of texas there during the day of a feather towards the south and this to maine systems across the central americas at the moment with what one does all storm tara now working its way away from the coast of mexico but it still enhanced all the rains here so there's still the risk of seeing a bit will flooding and we're also seeing plenty of cloud in this region too and that's a developing system that's likely to give us more in the way of very heav

the history of libya is the history of the foreign powers who ruled libya. we have the finishes come over to libya we have the greeks came over and set up cities we have their own minds and then we have the turks for almost one hundred years. it has been continuously because of conflict between the civilization between countries so it was under question by every power that your ears. libya invaded seized and occupied for millennia was for much of his history no single unified land. there was sarah nika there was tripoli time yet. and also also was not were not united for a long time. almost a thousand years of arab rule left a shared islamic tradition across the three regions for a platonic in the west and the east and for then in the south. but they remain distinct separated by geography history and identity. by the early twentieth century italian colonizers would take over from ottoman turks occupiers and look to create a unified libya all of their own. when d'italia has invaded libya they actually if you move the country as the fourth caused for today the

libya was in because of a seismic up evil. one that would bring calm ahmed and get their fees ruled and lived to a grisly end. seven years after moammar gadhafi is controversial rain came to a violent end libya is frozen in time. competing forces each running for power and influence continue to disrupt a broken state that time forgot. in the second of a two part series the big picture asks who is to blame. the lust for libya on al-jazeera. from cool brisk noise and fuel. to the warm tranquil tis of southeast asia. while the rains assure themselves that throughout south america the satellite picture is a good spell of cloud thickening through buenos aires has been significant rain near rio and more is showing itself in bolivia and increasingly in paraguay now i think we'll see the development just south of progress through southern europe northern argentina and southern brazil all together this general area in the next day or so good part internal parts of brazil is looking dry but he look to the west the pacific coast look a l

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the tribes of libya the townspeople of libya the civil society of libya the women of libya the men of libya will not allow that to happen these militias have been quite tested during the last few weeks and they have proven to be more fragile than people think and if the people really express their will as they have been doing in demonstrations and petitions and so on i believe that the. of the libyan people who would overwhelm everyone it is my own or to put my name forward and hope that other libyans would put their names food it doesn't matter if i win or lose what is what matters is that the process itself wins now what do you say to those who say that this is explicitly and they are liberal idea that what led to the destruction of libya in the first place in a day dia that people going to the polls as more sacrosanct than providing the basic security and they did that you have to take risks and risk more violence in order to test out here political mechanisms i think you're appealing to what's called the false the cost to me and logic i mean why is that why do you have to give me

and other states in libya malaysia. that it would be the cause here don't have jurisdiction to deal with it that it would be wrong for cause he possibly criticized the actions of other states at first the u.k. government basically sad you can't hear these cases at all here in britain because it will harm our relationship with the united states the americans will be terribly upset about it and so forth about it if you're out of the hoist or. why then. if you have a magna x. amount of us and i want. to freeze and then i buy a car going to wear and. in. control for. you know series over to. my washing. on the hunt of your brand by women that were actually normally seven cars over to my. mother when i only have you know. one of the thousands of papers found after the revolution in twenty eleven was this one marked top secret it refers to libya u.s. cooperation and to a list of names of so-called traitors which was given to the americans. and it all food minute. but i think this isn't as you are. seeing well it's only willin

the last for libya on al-jazeera. hello the weather is dry across northern parts of the middle east got a fair bit of cloud over towards the high ground having said that speck to stop pushing up towards a good parts of brown as well as seeing some of that cloud chance of some rain we got somewhere west of weather dampened drizzly whether they're just pushing into syria to spilling out of turkey sinking further south which as we go through thursday so some of that just pushing into the far west of iraq thirty six houses in baghdad still pretty hot here twenty eight there for beirut's over the next couple of days lovely weather will continue chance of a few spots of rain to seizing down as the central parts of iraq maybe into west central southern parts of iran as well just notice a little further south still a chance of some rain across the reagan places they make it way down across the gulf a little bit of cloud there into central areas of our saudi arabia pushing a little further north which is well stable see that w

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despite growing isolation libya continues to pursue policies which are a unique mix of strict muslim rules and marxist ideology. gadhafi established the fate of the masses a system of people's committees and the general people's congress this was part of gadhafi is the universal theory that he laid out in his green book he himself would claim to have no official role in the gym area but would remain the commander in chief of the armed forces and go buy a new toy. brother leader. i think it was it was tor certain point a successful experience to a certain limit it was not completely independent system from gadaffi is not resident of saudi and above look it there's are but nick is not a minister not the prime minister is the leader of revolution which is kind of ongoing a process that never ends it was they looted and subverted and became a way of really and has seeing the mobilization and cramping and punishing dissident voices in libyan society the army was burst their two deals were burst the student union was burst the other independent and were burst and everything became either y

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the history of libya is the history of the foreign powers who ruled libya.e have the finishes come over to libya we have the greeks came over and set up cities we have their own minds and then we have the turks for almost one hundred years. it has been continuously because of conflict between the civilization between countries so it was under question by every power that your ears. libya invaded seized and occupied for millennia was for much of his history no single unified land. there was sarah nika there was to report it first. and also also was not were not united for a long time. almost a thousand years of utter rule left a shared islamic tradition across the three regions that are politically and the west and the east and for then in the south. but they remain distinct separated by geography history and identity. by the early twentieth century italian colonizers would take over from ottoman turks occupiers and look to create a unified libya all of their own. were indeed tell us invaded libya they actually if you move the country as the fourth cost threa

do we have that now in libya?an ther is clearly no. >> reporter: it's a problem that vexes colonel ibrahim bin rabaa, the commander of counterterrorism forces in the city of sirte. in part one of our report, he held us how he witnessed isis' trademark cruelty y ruledki his city and lled his son in battle. his men eventually defeated isis here. but now,ess than two years later, he says militants are regrouping and waiting to strike again. >> ( translated ): just yesterday, my men spotted several is militants trying to reenter the city. we almost didn't let you journalistcome today because it was too dangerous. isis has not disappeared.te >> rep but libya has other problems. rival factions in tripoli are .nolently challenging the authority of thebacked government. in response, the u.n.-backed government has transferrte some 300 coerrorism troops from around western libya to quell the violence in the capital. that means fewer soldiers looking out for isis. rabaa says underestimating islamic state can have serious rep

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something would happen in libya and they would happen in the east. peace has a sort of a particular sense of itself and a particular narrative that had been deliberately punished and deliberately marginalized by the gadhafi regime. for tighter book a lawyer representing the families of prisoners allegedly killed in a brazilian prison in one nine hundred ninety six had been planning a so-called euphrasia for the seventeenth of february two thousand and eleven in the distant city of benghazi. but turbo who was arrested two days before the planned protest. and this his supporters gathered to demand his release they clashed with security forces. protests demanding the release of fatah terrible quickly moved into protests against gadhafi. in the following days and to get definite protests has made the full food and receive billions as well as growing numbers of militias moved on to other cities run second piece stations and military installations. protest turned to three billion get deaf ears first held back from responding with force but his restraint wo

here in libya, it's the sea. so far this year, more than 1700 migrant deaths have been recorded in thmediterranean. most do survive. but a growing number are being turanned back, as mormore countries led by italy's new government refuse to accept th instead, the libyan coast guard takes the migrants back to libyan detention centers with ghassan salame is the u.n special envoy to libya. >> let's be frank:teany of these ion centers are overcrowded. some of them lack the minimum that is required by international humanitarian law to ddeal with migrants refugees. on top of that, some o them, we don't even have access to them. >> reporter: we travel to the western port city of sabratha, anarea notorious fornt traffickers who crowd their passengers in unsafe boats for europe. basim bashir al ghrabi the local chief of the department for combating illegal migration. >> ( translated ): our task is to rescue migrants at sea and bring them back to safety. >> reporter: you say rescue, bu they don't w be rescued, do they? they

done in order to safe them rescue boats like the a crevasse have to be positioned off the coast of libya karen gave us a mess of confusion in a mediterranean there's no recurring nation to minister distress calls and heat rescue operations. in the need of us and so does. the koreas has already been in the headlines in june this year it was forced on a week long obviously through the mediterranean after a number of governments refused permission to land one hundred migrants rescued off the coast of libya spain eventually took the shit but now it's out of action there are no private sea rescue vessels operating in the mediterranean. off. four of the ships from the ngos have already been detained two vessels lifeline and sea watch three are being held in malta the vessel event is stuck in the port of japan in sicily all the ships of being the flag now the aquarius to join their ranks. before heading to musée the aquarius to transfer fifty eight ship wrecked migrants to the maltese coast guard that's after italy refused to ship permission to dock rome is following a hard line on migrants. if

and trying to escape from libya because the motivations of trying to get to live to europe it's it's creating the situation in libya at the moment a loss rescue of fifty eight people the majority of those people were libyans themselves from tripoli they had houses jobs because of the family members. the conflicts the ongoing fighting in in tripoli they said that the only safe option for them and their families including small children was to get onto a and see what a boat that was when we found them to human to to flee the situation they have no other options there are other no there are no other options at all apart from take your jobs and see. the full titian's in europe at the moment what options are they giving people they have to one is. fighting for your country be intercepted by the libyan cause god is funded by your union trying and be taken back to libya where you'll be put in detention and we've seen and documented the conditions of detention centers in libya the moment it's it's it's atrocious. drought that's the fury two options intercepted and taken back to libya or wate

military bases and libya itself. and the gadhafi had you know considerable political support across the continent for his position nelson mandela's if you will was almost identical to go about things that there would be no african forces commanded by foreign military officials and there would be no foreign militaries occupying any part of africa are operating with that offer. gadhafi had been playing a complex game with the west for a long time president ronald reagan had labeled him the mad dog of the middle east and had tried to assassinate him in one thousand nine hundred eighty six by bombing his palace. the libyan leader is independence and influence flowed from the vast petroleum reserves the launch is seen africa which he had nationalized when he took power. well starting in the ninety ninety s. moammar gadhafi became a kind of luminary a leading voice certainly one of the loudest voices for a maximum version of african integration he was seen across as being the successor of kwame in terms of his vision of af

a more leave i'm from i want to go to libya my parents live there. used to be a lot more people here the merchants tell us that the rest station. but people smugglers are still cashing in says our driver and member of the argot is regional council. the desert is big even if you stop it here it goes on elsewhere the smugglers know all the checkpoints and avoid them they cross the desert to get to libya. so i do so the business is less official but it continues. to do for me but. it's still a long way to libya. and we're not allowed to continue our journey. the official reason security concerns. mohamed tells us that migrant transports take big detours through the desert. they also avoid water supply stations because these are now under surveillance through e.u. funding. but off this main route the risks for migrants increase. say the numbers of dead being found in this part of the sahara is rising the government of cooperates with the e.u. which has pledged one billion euros in development aid a massive sum for the impoverished as your nation. and the

we're headed towards libya from. old trade road. once the main trade route for caravans it remains an economic lifeline. merchants transport goods from. and subsaharan countries all the way to libya on the mediterranean. in recent years this road was also the main route for african migrants trying to get to europe. we're only allowed to travel here with a security escort. we agree in the hope of finding out what action the e.u. is taking here to stop migration. everyone here is checked the. police asked travellers where they've come from and where they're going. anyone suspected of trying to reach europe is barred passage. that's why migrants now avoid these checkpoints. today we don't encounter any west african migrants here instead merchants from the tribe desert nomads who have moved freely across desert borders for centuries. although most of the for going to the for other families i'm from music i want to go to libya my parents live there. used to be a lot more people here the merchants tell us that they're a station. but peopl

and also for migration you have two choices be picked up by you think i've got taken back to libya i'm turning to attention and we know what the situation in libya is at the moment or by it and that's what you're going politicians and policy it has getting for the moment if you want attention mistreated suffer from violence will die it's a so you're saying that because your boat is not out there more people are going to die at sea are there no other boats commissioned by european countries or other organizations to rescue those people. commissioned by the european union i could say the leading cause at the moment is doing a ritual of by proxy for the european union by going out in. i think people in bringing back those people to that to detention but no they're on the other side search and rescue vessels in the area to save life so where does this go then for for your organization and the other boats that were doing the same thing by withdrawing the registration of your ships they've effectively taken you out of action has any other country offered to let you register with them. yes wi

to find a solution for libya. primarily we aim to achieve a political situation has a look at this situation in libya. particularly after what we see now happening after the terror attacks the last two months have become more common i think it's ok you know that but we are still making every effort and coordinate with partners to work on that we have discussed that matter with the chancellor as well that. we want it a lot and the politico is the most it was a solution and this. can only be receiving greater momentum by supporting the u.n. commission as achievements here. i think the negotiating position in international negotiations will not be changed or affected in any way you can only say that i will now fully focus on my job stay ahead of government and as far as the list of possible candidates for the chairmanship of the c.d.u. party is going to and as i said yesterday it is an open book. as the previous chairwoman in my political life i've learned that question of succession are questions that you shouldn't

in office for migration you have two choices be picked up by the bankers got taken back to libya for instance pension or. in a series of coordinated announcements a number of western governments have accused russia of orchestrating a global campaign of cyber attacks the revelations here in europe began in the netherlands with dutch and british officials saying they had foiled russian hackers trying to break into computer systems at the un chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. investigators say four suspects popped a coffee of electronic equipment outside the building in the hague and that the trial of incriminating evidence is he said to have happened when we open the same doubling it was investigating the poisoning of former russian spy surrogates in england with the band's nerve agent force. canada and australia also issued statements blaming russia's military intelligence service the g.r.u. for some of the biggest cyber attacks in recent years the allegations came as nato defense ministers that met in brussels secretary-general stoltenberg on the u.s. defense secretary jim matti

we want to take a look for sounds at the root leading from agadez to libya. it's a centuries old track it used to transport goods and people today it's dangerous territory where bandits and islamist terrorists hold sway. we cannot go without an armed escort. on the way we encountered a military patrol looking for traffickers and smugglers. they're not interested not spy. after three hours' drive we reach the first checkpoint. cameras are not welcome here. everybody has to show their papers. the border guard says that people from nigeria liberia and senegal potential refugees wouldn't get through here without a visa. never never never felt two years ago it was different this stopped letting us know years ago the us the us young and now know it all but. west africans can no longer pass through here without a visa despite being a member of the economic community of west african states. world it's the end of the road trust him. no cameras no witnesses to see what happens in the desert. the problem says rashid colo. he shows us from times he got from his contacts.

libya had become an important player on the world a stage. at their feet had gone from being an accused the sponsor of terror to an ally in the west's war against it. in the early days of two thousand and eleven transformations were sweeping through north africa the so-called arab spring uprisings had seen the end of two dictators benard tunisia. and egypt hosni mubarak. pressure was building on mama to get their feet the battle for libya. was about to begin. the daffy ruled libya for forty two years more than any other arab leader. never thought that it could definitely go so they're willing to sacrifice their lives to be able to be liberated from gadhafi and what he has done to. the divisions in libya are purely political purely based on this agreement on how to share power and wealth not going to take one step further if we don't all this all the armed people. buying two does eleven we have to look at the international scene around libya especially the arab spring. there were seen as revolutions and they made the right atmosphere for somet