libya recently some of those buses in libya wanted to boost the morale of their troops that they are not alone but they haven't international support so they won the extra my wealth not only importing these a.p.c.'s because it was basically apc's into libya but also all of the filming them and having given us a good late thing and all this in order as a morale booster for their own troops but from our point to. you this is a blatant violation we nor the location so far have been discreet way lesions in the open which perhaps suggest that all the parties while playing pay some lip service to political process by the fasting that knowledge is always a logical for and it's not in addition of reason for the security council to react because the security council 1st does his duty to look after the peace and security in the wood and does now contain conflict in libya expand to the rest of libya possibly to neighboring countries therefore it is important that the security council takes care of it but on top of that these embody who have a relation that we are witnessing hitting the hope of the security council credibility so when i said yes to the security council your arms embargo is becoming a cynical joke i meant it because if people not onl

you had allowed the sort of international organizations to come and help the libyans because libya libya is a country like by the way where you have a lot of traders there the doctor engineers that so you needed just some kind of. interest where it was needed i think in this kind of situation where it is. is police and justice police in order to have domestic police for people to move around and justice because they're usually after this kind of conflict a lot of cases before maybe once this was the case in the about and this is the case in that because i think if we had given more attention to that as international community that was crucial what was done was a regime change the rule after the new and that is stuff that this was not the best way to go and it would have been probably best not to warn to the whole story but this is another matter we are not that i think it is that he today can ask him very shortly you often talk about impunity but there is also impunity about making that fateful decision about intervening in a troublesome but know of the horrible country i mean there were

libya libya how did javid i'm just gonna javid i'm just going to butt in not going to happen but they're still pursuing it on they if we look at the the strategy that we've seen from the u.s. and from donald trump they have had 2 meetings we have a lot of rhetoric about how positive the meetings are but nothing's happened as you rightly pointed out. this meeting was proposed on twitter so we don't even know if kim jong un is going to show up. what does that mean then if you if you say that they're not going to give up this this program they're not going to do that easily what i want to are going to be the next steps in the u.s. going to have to back down. i think as long as president governor trump is due. at least we are not going to expect the kind of the reactor the us used to have. 56 years back i think detention is going to manage that is what donald trump is doing excellently both the pentagon is not really happy with their. resentment within the us or them situation the man who would wish donald trump is handling the diplomacy i think he he he had right from the day of want when he had he had launch it is election campaign he was against of war nor he has been a lot on one side he's a giving of mixed signals that he wants to have a war with iran because if it can't possibly have an equal vote ones on the other side it's a giving is a signal is that no we don't want to war with the north korea i think the board and the particularly the u.s. is that driven by the fuel strategic reality iran is then to attack because it doesn't have an equal veterans lot was attacked because it didn't have the nuclear weapons a libya was attacked it didn't have the nuclear weapons not would not be attacked because it had the nuclear weapons focus on would never be attacked because it has a nuclear weapons so it is that a blown reality with which the situation is heading and i think understand this that is not where you can not be handled with the pressure of the war because if americans can use nuclear weapons against not not will you can also to tell you that nuclear weapons so the world is driven by the hard u.s. strategic realities and i think the policy of the previous governments in the us that has that has collapsed so pleasant donald trump is coming up with a new idea is it trying to behave differently conduct of diplomacy and beyond. on the traditional methods of that you can listen to i think soon or allude to you will have something to go. back home i board expected. review new clothes issue no knock. knock well javid. again obviously donald trump is. trying to put himself as the peacemaker nevertheless

libya libya was her debacle she convinced obama to go in there and we've had the mess ever sense i think we would have seen more libyan outcomes that clinton been elected. one of a great m i 6 form or my 6 agents christmas deal was ignored by the former f.b.i. director robert mueller in his report. do you see any signs of him being reserve rect and i understand he might be giving evidence now resurrected by democrats supporting anti trump people yeah let me say this about that issue i think there's been a great deal of discussion here recently about m i 5 m i 6 potentially cooperating with the so-called russia collusion thing and i tend to believe based on the folks i've talked to that the british were tricked into helping brennan and komi they had no idea that there wasn't really a russian threat and they took on face value what was said to them so any cooperation i think needs to be looked at that lens with that said christopher steele had problems i understand m i 6 depass it information to the f.b.i. and it was ignored and obviously. my experience is f.b.i. tends to ignore information they don't they don't like and i think in this case they didn't take the warning because they wanted the information they had an aspiration of believing what steele was saying and yes i think it should be and look you're a reporter you look at facts how could the man in charge of the whole russia collusion investigation now look at the primary artifact that is the cornerstone of the whole effort this deal how do they not look at that and that tells me that he didn't look at it because there's things there it did not want to look at as a factual examination would have centrally undermine his credibility from day one and he it just didn't want to do that well jim comey was in in the trump is the abolition of does it will when he won the presidential election do you believe that information continues to be withheld from the present the united states by senior officials yeah i think unfortunates true one of the things about our government is a labyrinth of secrets and having worked in this area. my concern has always been 1st off abuse of very powerful intelligence and military capabilities those things exist they exist for a reason they expect exist as as part of the defensive and the structure of our nation if you put politicians in charge you have the potential of this information these capabilities being misused i think we saw that we were witness that over this past 2 years and unfortunately you have career bureaucrats who essentially function as her own oversight and it's a very dangerous thing so it's why i've recommended to the trumpet ministration that they continue to essentially weed out anybody it was a political appointee but frankly of either the bush $43.00 or the obama. $44.00 white house because while he get continues to be ugly samantha being pro russian he it's a trump that is ripped up the $97.00 intermediate range nuclear site was is just is correct you think that's going to help you in your campaign to reelect him in 2020 the fact that according to the bullet in the atomic scientists he's move the world close it's a complete destruction yeah look i was very young counterintelligence special agent when the i.n.f. treaty was signed i was actually in a place called marshall texas working with the f.b.i. in joint operations monitoring the soviet officers monitoring our destruction of the pershing 2 missiles so this is no small thing to me i participated in those treaty the execution of that treaty but now that treaty was being essentially violated by a number of folks it did not actually include the chinese who develop a class a weapon like this so i'm one of those who do believe that it was time to abandon that treaty and he did it for the right reasons he did it with the right note the cations and so i did i do not see this as a problem provocation but i do see it as him standing up against the russians and it very pointed way saying we're going to do what we believe the united states believes is best. her interest so i think it was the right thing to do and you know i think politically it will help them in 2001 just find the wiki leaks of course expose clinton conspiracy against bernie sanders we should have helped the trump campaign this time around this time around obviously julian assad is actually in jail in london you really think campaign 2020 can win with the media now so against you your campaign and the president outlook is it's going to be at a tough campaign there's no doubt and i think that's something that's going to be sorted through the i think the american people and have 2 things they now realize 1st president has done his best to actually keep campaign promises which is unheard of for politicians fundamentally is not a politician i think is really trying to live up to what he promised secondly i think people have been awaiting i like to believe the american citizens have been awakened both left and right i talk to my liberal friends were frightened by the misuse of very powerful government capabilities and i think that's the 2nd thing it's very useful lieutenant colonel turner thank you after the break the u.k.'s largest trade union unite was out with german corpsman protesting trump but all colvin's days numb but all this was going up above to have going on the ground. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. the bridge just was good but you know my neighbors birth were like if you misses it or don't blame people what's. up to them was the response so most people assume the door. to the hospital is i assure you i'm on which to base that. got the office to be able to do the know you presume this loop i'm going to miss louie almost she had to move him he used to do that in both of us and i was filming at the main continue going to jane boney is an inning and there's just you kind of chasing. him you can. just reach your eyes because you're going to you know what who are you more you with almost 2 days of. the whole truth i'm doing a single. cell phone live within your means someone who knows the. money i'm going to start with the most wins and also way yes. welcome back is ongoing u.k. prime minister's résumé rolled out the red carpet for the trump state visit you gave a labor leader jeremy colbert was leading tens of thousands in a protest against him so i say to our visitors that have arrived this week thank you please about a wold that is one of peace and to some and it's one of recognizing the values of people. that defeats racism defeats results in a defeat for the religious hydrates that are being fueled by the far right in politics in britain and europe on the united states. you know it's the largest trade union in the u.k. you know join those protests you know it's this is general sector how beckett's is with me now thanks for coming on just avoid even get to trump understand united are in the involved. case regarding blacklist in the construction industry blacklisting still have this extraordinary but blacklisting still goes on fortunately these members were fortunate enough to find a list where their names were on us and they were able to take litigation for it but it's a disgrace it's a blight on the industry it's not restricted to construction or whose arm in many industries and it's something that we really need to tackle but it will only ever be tackled by the government legislating property for trade union rights in the workplace an end of progress self employment and the abuses of agency labor that's ultimately what will give workers rights in the workplace well worth his rights that easily identifiable with the current incumbent in the white house why are you protesting the state visit will trump this week well i suppose the question would be why wouldn't you protest at the visit of donald trump who thinks that it's foreign to you abuse women to grab them by their genitals and he thinks that it's time to ban muslims from the united states of america or money. on the border of mexico why wouldn't. you campaign against donald trump but during ality of course is that it goes much further it's much more serious than simply himself this is a man whose he's taken america away from the climate treaty is exposing the entire entire world to possible extinction amount he promotes fascism and i and i fashion it's modern day populism obviously denies the fascism certainly has or gods or soldierly would say it was. except to. discriminate but obviously dominance out of cheese go much further when women are concerned he repeatedly tells them that they should not be in charge of their own bodies and that is massage me i'm going to ask you on the day of the political meeting after the dinner with the queen he was with the rajah color of be a systems of marilyn he used to live in do you think. there's a lot of war to walk in london this week either unite favorite something cool defense diversification well trumps motives for meeting with the c.e.o.'s of large defense companies could be a number of things that could be t.l.a. any concerns that they have over breck's it but of course it could be the place orders you don't really know what's going through the mind of donald trump at the moment other than the fact that he has his own self interested motives for being across in this country and those may well be worms of protectionism they may well be ones of war but we're yet to find art because president obama deported more people within the united states out of the u.s. than donald trump and president obama libyayria so many different wars that he was involved in the world with hillary clinton he also interfered with vote . depends on what you thought when he came out and said that we'd be back in the queue in the trade negotiations do you think trump is particularly worse than obama yes because you know i didn't protest against obama's visit no we wouldn't have protested against obama's visit nobody can deny the fact that america as a nation. has made mistakes and continued to make mistakes under a democratic president but that's entirely different than this president who's propagating policies that they're intended to promote isolation protectionism wars . and indeed climate denial it's the extraordinary set of circumstances that we find ourselves in at the moment and it would be incumbent upon every democratic organization but particularly trade unions who represent workers and whose rights are so important to demonstrate against this president well what do you make of the attacks on jeremy

libya libya was heard of awful she convinced obama to go in there and we've had the mess ever sense i think we would have seen more libyan outcomes clinton been elected. one of a great m i 6 form or my 6 agents christmas deal was ignored by the former f.b.i. director robert mueller in his report. do you see any signs of him being reserve rect did i understand he might be giving evidence now resurrected by democrats supporting anti trump people let me say this about that issue i think there's been a great deal of discussion here recently about m i 5 and my 6 potentially cooperating with the so-called russia collusion thing and i tend to believe based on the folks i've talked to that the british were tricked into helping brennan and komi they had no idea that there wasn't really a russian threat and it took on face value what was said to them so any cooperation i think these be looked at that lens with that said christopher steele had problems i understand m i 6 depass it information to the f.b.i. and it was ignored and obviously. my experience is f.b.i. tends to ignore information they don't they don't like and i think in this case they didn't take the steel was saying and yes i think it should be and look you're a reporter you look at facts how could the man in charge of the whole russia collusion investigation now look at the primary artifact that is the cornerstone of the whole effort this deal how do they not look at that and that tells me that he didn't look at it because there's things there you did not want to look at as a factual examination would have centrally undermine his credibility from day one and he just didn't want to do that well jim comey was in in the trump is the abolition of does it will when he won the presidential election do you believe that information continues to be withheld from the present the united states by senior officials yeah i think unfortunates true one of the things about our government is a labyrinth of secrets and having worked in this area my concern has always been 1st off abuse of very powerful intelligence and military. terry capabilities those things exist they exist for a reason they expect exist as as part of the defensive and the structure of our nation if you put politicians in charge you have the potential of this information these capabilities being misused i think we saw that we were witness that over this past 2 years and unfortunately you have career bureaucrats who essentially function as her own oversight and it's a very dangerous thing so it's why i've recommended to the trumpet ministration that they continue to essentially weed out anybody it was a political appointee but frankly of either the bush $43.00 or the obama. 44 white house because while he get continues to be ugly samantha being pro russian he trump has ripped up the 97 intermediate range nuclear site was is correct you think that's going to help you in your campaign to reelect him in 2020 the fact that according to the bullet in the atomic scientists he's move the world close it's a complete destruction yeah look i was very young counterintelligence special agent when the i.n.f. treaty was signed i was actually in a place called marshall texas working with the f.b.i. in joint operations monitoring the soviet officers monitoring our destruction of the pershing 2 missiles so this is no small thing to me i participated in those treaty the execution of that treaty but now that treaty was being essentially violated by a number of folks it did not actually include the chinese who develop a class a weapon like this so i'm one of those who do believe that it was time to abandon that treaty and he did it for the right reasons he did it with the right note the cations and so i did i do not see this as a problem provocation but i do see it as him standing up against the russians and it very pointed way saying we're going to do what we believe the united states believes is best for our interests so i think it was the right thing to do and you know i think politically it will help them in 2020. just find the wiki leaks of course expose clinton conspiracy against bernie sanders we should help the trump campaign this time around this time around obviously julian assange has actually in jail in london you really think campaign 2020 can win with the media now so against you your campaign and the president outlook is it's going to be a tough campaign there's no doubt and i think that's something that's going to be sorted through the i think the american people and 2 things they now realize 1st president has done his best to actually keep campaign promises which is unheard of politicians fundamentally is not a politician i think is really trying to live up to what he promised secondly i think people have been away to like to believe the american citizens have been awakened both left and right i talk to my liberal friends were frightened by the misuse of very powerful government capabilities and i think that's a 2nd thing it's very useful lieutenant colonel turner thank you after the break the u.k.'s largest trade union unite was out with jeremy corbin protesting trump but our corbin's days numb but all this well coming up about to have going on the ground. as the time come for google and other big tech companies there's a growing consensus the near monopoly status of many of these companies is bad for competition bad for the consumer and even for freedom of speech no doubt silicon valley is lowering of. legitimacy is a question that is crucial in libya and the one who needs to decide that is the libyan people that is why we should carefully slowly gradually legally go into elections today you have basically 2 parties so everybody laban's the other the way he wants. because there is in fairly deep crisis of legitimacy and this crisis of legitimacy cannot be sold by going to be able. to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back because i'm going u.k. prime minister's resume rolled out the red carpet for the whole trump state visit u.k. labor leader jeremy colbert was leading tens of thousands in a protest against him so i say to of visitors that have arrived this week thank you only please about a will's that is one of peace and to some money he's one of recognizing the values of all people. that defeats racism defeats misogyny defeats the religious hatreds that are being fueled by the far right in politics in

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the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their fee from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad ins that if they let the libyan prison there is a war.

the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their fee from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad is that if they let the libyan prisoners of war in chad at least they can be starting the libyan national army but as part of the an f s l the national front for those invasion or libya when this to be. was successful in his coup against or send anybody these are these are the charlie and leaders that he had to leave the area that he thought was him down with the help of the french the whole project failed and the americans help but the prisoners of war who were in chad and transported them to the united states so general have to is living in the us as an exile from libya you are living there too that you know each other before we did not but we knew each other when he came to virginia and we lived for many years together as acquaintances friends in the northern virginia city of fairfax and as far as i know he was with all the libyans who came from chad. who want to help and who want to rebuild thei

the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their feet from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad is that if they let the libyan prisoners of war in chad at least they can be starting the libyan national army but as part of the an f s l the national front for there's a division libya when this to be. was successful in his coup against her sent heavily these are these are the charlie and leaders will have to leave the area he thought him down with the help of the french the whole project failed and the americans help but the prisoners of war who were in chad and transported them to the united states so general have to is living in the us as an exile from libya you are living there to get you know each other before we did not but we knew each other when he came to virginia and we lived. for many years together as acquaintances friends in the northern virginia city of fairfax. as far as they know he was with all the libyans who came from chad. who want to help and who want to rebuild their lives t

the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their feed from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad is that if they let the libyan prison there is a war in chad at least they can be starting the libyan national army but as part of the an f s l the national front for there's a division libya when this to be. was successful in his coup against or sent heavily these are these are the charlie and leaders will have to leave the area he thought him down with the help of the french the whole project failed and the americans help but the prisoners of war who were in chad and transported them to the united states so general have to is living in the us as an exile from libya you are living there too that you know each other before we did not but we knew each other when he came to virginia and we lived. for many years together as acquaintances friends in the northern virginia city of fairfax. as far as they know he was with all the libyans who came from chad. if you jesus who want to help and who want to re

libya including ships in libya's territorial waters those who. say that they have received orders to detain old british nationals in sayyid libya is also threatening to target any flights from between libya and and turkey we know that turkish flights have been suspended libya as of 2014 but only libyan flies only libyan a line libyan admission companies convecting flights between turkey and libya but not to push. airlines since 2014 we know that have that is accusing turkey of supporting the west in the camp led by the u.n. to the united plane minutes at a place that i so with not have to able to. to implement is that yes yes he can and it's been getting the civil civilian locations and the rest of libya including the city of misrata and the city of. caprica legibly which both of them are under control of the of the u.n. they're connive the government of national accord as i mentioned. that night the airport and tripoli is the only operational airport in the city and there's only one operational airport which conducts international flights and the rest of libya which is in the city of misrata and that both under the control of the government of na

hole but because interest in libya including ships in libya's territorial waters those who are saying that they have received orders to detain old british nationals and cited libya is also threatening to cause it any flights from between libya and and turkey we know that turkish flights have been suspended libya since 2014 but only libyan flies only libyan a line libyan admission companies convecting flights between turkey and libya but not to push. airlines since 2014 we know that has that is accusing turkey of supporting the west.

libya and the fighting in libya. we knew they were high-ranking. they were able to grow in the .anks of the islamic state joined the fight in iraq in 2004. thelaims, from syria, killing of two politicians. radical jihadist groups. topple they tried to baghdadi. frictionsere are belonging to al qaeda because of .unisian scholars figures from some the government, about 3000 fighters joint islamic state from syria. the united nations said up to 5000 fighters joined syria. there is a huge potential for jihad in tunisia. it is a difficult situation. they are exporting fighters. human rights watch are criticizing tunisia because they are not getting back there fighters from syria. get thoset want to people back. we have tunisians in camps and also in libya>> in tunisia, the president is in better condition. he was taken to hospital in critical condition. after receiving medical care, he said his father's condition was improving. summit has kicked off. we can go across to justin mccurry, covering the events for us. what is the main take away from day one? been tension hanging over the proceedings. there have been no substantial meetings between the leaders. suppose the two main takeaways are issues dominating this summit. will be on donald trump and the chinese president. over the next couple of days, get to work. abe does not want to be presiding over a failed summit if he is to succeed in -- in bringing the disparate issues to the table. >> is this the only showdown we can expect? >> we thought it was. we have seen major differences. we knew there were differences in european and u.s. attitudes towards climate change, what we are calling climate crisis. those differences have been exposed by the french president with donald trump here

restart in libya where forces allied to libya's u.n.ecognized government have retaken the town of garrion 80 kilometers south of the capital tripoli from forces loyal to the warlord holly for have to. it's a major setback for have to his campaign to take tripoli which began almost 12 weeks ago and was his major forward base just a couple of hours' drive from the capital after bax an unofficial rival government based in the eastern city of to book he says he still has control of the city we'll have more on that story as we get it. the u.n. special investigator has called for a criminal inquiry into saudi arabia's crown prince and one of his main advisers over the murder of journalist. and yes killer mars delivered her final report on his killing she says there are legal grounds to launch an international inquiry has more from geneva. she led the un investigation into the killing of saudi journalist jamal how shocking. it took months of intense work very firing evidence and studying information shared by many governments to establish the

temperature kept down to the middle maybe low twenty's as the case for argyria tunisia and in libya and in libya something of a massive produce some locally but quite interesting some storms. al jazeera was goes on a roller coaster journey in iraq and discovered how for an entire refugee community itself beliefs and identity. i'd like to prove to the world cup comes up. i will be able to prove myself to my town from friends and myself. able to play beside the child afghan united on al-jazeera. after decades of being programmed with instructions they turn gray computers canelo love on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence can monitor our movement. and decide on our future the big picture codes of the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine part one on al-jazeera. welcome back you're with the news hour a quick look at the headlines that mexico's president has criticized donald trump for threatening to tariffs on mexican imports because of immigration under his money lopez obrador says mexican people don't deserve to be treated t

libya, where forces allied to libya's u.n.-rec iced government -- u.n.-recognized government have taken control of a town from haf tar. five people were killed in the offensive. take tripolito began weeks ago. his forward base just a couple hours from the capital. leads a rival government and says he still has control of the city. more on that story as we get it. the human special investigator has called for a inquiry into saudi arabia's crown prince and one of his advisors for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. he has delivered a final report on the killing. there are legal grounds to launch an international inquiry. more from geneva. >> she led the investigation into the killing of jamal khashoggi. it took her months of intense work, verifying evidence, and studying information shared by many governments to establish that saudi arabia bears responsibility for the killing of the saudi journalist. >> estate response ability thank the question as to who is liable for his killing. the inquiry was a human-wide inquiry, not -- you and inquiry inquiry warranting further investigation of high-level saudi officials individual liability, including that of the crown prince of saudi arabia and of his key advisor. callamardent: agnes says he should be investigated for his role in the killing. authorities have dismissed the findings as inaccurate and contradictory. amongst 36 countries that have complied with all the obligations and human rights mechanisms. callamard has breached procedures. this is something which has skewed the procedures ushered in as part of the procedures and trials in saudi arabia. we do not believe she has respected her mandate in full integrity, and therefore has not been able to do her work professionally. denieddh had initially jamal khashoggi was even killed, but backtracked when turkish authorities released police footage of saudi agents who traveled to turkey days before the murder. later,an eight months the turkish investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to his remains and who gave the order to kill him. was with him in the moments before he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul last october. he was going to retrieve documents for their upcoming wedding. frustrated over international inaction, she says the u.n. must step in and punish those who killed her fiance. >> it has been nine months since his murder. it is enough talk in that is time for action. i am expressing to world leaders to take a concrete step about this matter. correspondent: as pressure was piling up against saudi arabia, the authorities arrested 11 suspects and charged them with the murder. five of the suspects could face death penalties. the u.n. special reporter says a top aide to the crown prince who is suspected of being involved in the murder is not facing charges. this case has sparked international condemnation and talks of sanctions. the u.s. president has denounced the murder, but resists growing congressional calls to stop selling weapons for riyadh. >> now that the special reporter has delivered the results of her inquiry, it will be up to the united nations secretary-general weather to launch a criminal thattigation as many worry the u.s. might use its influence to stop any attempt to investigate saudi officials, including mohammed bin solman. >> the executive director director of the arab said should of washington said it is now up to whether to investigate. >> all fingers point in the direction of a saudi official who either ordered or participated in this crime. however, as you have indicated in your report earlier, the saudi's deny that. clearly, that is not enough. this is the conclusion of the report, and the responsibility now, she is making it very clear, belongs on the shoulders of the international community. itselfans that u.n. needs to pursue this matter and countries on their own, particularly countries that have a relevant stake or relevant role, whether turkey or any other country, can actually pursue this based on its own legal constraints and possibilities, including the u.s. if it chooses to overcome the political position taken by the administration. >> let's return to our top story. the news that libyan government forces have retaken a key strategic town from warlord haftar's forces. tell us a bit about this town and why it is important that government forces have retaken it. correspondent: first of all, the city 80 kilometers south from tripoli has been the major supporting hub for forces fighting the government in southern tripoli. since have had control gharyan. they had a central command. military sources with the government told al jazeera that government forces have managed to take control of the whole city of gharyan, including the 'sntral command of haftar forces. they were used to run the battles against the government in southern tripoli. a town forces will go to in the southwest of gharyan city. it is only one city in the west , inibya supporting haftar the south of tripoli. the city of gharyan has been sending troops and ammunition to haftar's forces, now we are getting reports from the government in gharyan saying dozens of pro-haftar fighters were killed today. on the others, the government forces lost eight fighters and 17 were wounded. >> this has been going on for a long time now. difference forhe the government forces? correspondent: because the fighting in southern tripoli has taken long, about three months since haftar launched his military campaign take the capital. factions has been able to take control of the southern suburbs of the capital. the government forces tried to switch the battlefield away from tripoli, first, to distract haftar's forces and to open a new frontline to alleviate the pressure on southern tripoli. days ago, government forces took control of strategic locations in and around the inactive old international air base southern tripoli. >> thank you very much indeed. ♪ >> the father and daughter who drowned in a river on the u.s.-mexico border is highlighting the danger migrants face while trying to reach america. you might find the images in the report disturbing. embracendent: a final that has attracted international attention to the dangers central americans face on the way to the united states. this is oscar martinez and his 23-month-old daughter. they died last weekend in the rio grande that separates mexico and the united states. a journalist found their bodies. >> it was something that moved me deeply. it showed that up until her last breath, she was joined to him not only by their shirts, but also in that embrace in which they passed together into death. martinez was from el salvador, crossing with his daughter on her back tucked inside his t-shirt when they were stripped away -- swept away by strong currents. >> something bad like this happen before. it appears very calm. that is why the father thought he could cross. the rio grande has a lot of powerful currents downstream. >> president donald trump threatened to impose tariffs on mexican goods. critics say new measures have led to migrants taking even more dangerous and isolated routes. there is also something else happening. we have seen a record surge in the number of people traveling with children to the united states for asylum. many are doing that because they have been told if they ask for asylum as a family, there is more chance they will be released into the united states at least while that process plays out. things have now changed. people asking for asylum in the united states are being put back into mexico while that process takes place. traveling with children may no longer be an advantage. as word spreads, that may mean the migration dynamic alters again. the most desperate to escape the violence in their homelands will still keep coming. >> 20 democratic presidential candidates vying to take donald trump's job are about to lay out their policies in the first of several live tv debates. correspondent: it was a night the democratic party and its presidential candidate will never forget. ,espite poles and predictions donald trump became president of the united states, leaving democrats to lick their wounds. >> no you don't, donald trump. lineupondent: the first of democratic candidates have their sights set on the election, but the challenge will be energizing their base and making gains with non-college-educated voters. party organizers say it is about getting boots on the ground. >> an incredibly diverse group of 50% of them speak spanish, 20% speak creole. they will be in airbase communities munication with voters and registering new voters. shows 6 million voters who backed barack obama in 2012 helped trump win in 2016. the next presidential election may be about more than getting those people back. >> president bill clinton once famously said every u.s. election is about the economy, and that may be the democratic party's biggest challenge. if markets are still doing well, analysts say democrats will focus on the president's behavior, making this an election about morals, not numbers. >> if the democrats can mount a good attack on all the stupid things trump has done. correspondent: this professor says the democrats may focus on the president's temperament, not policy. >> it may be an election about trump's behavior, morality, rhetoric, which is sometimes a xina phobic and racist. xenophobic and racist. a democratic: party activist says her primary concern is immigration policy, but she also wants candidates to speak from the heart. >> say what you believe. a lot of times we are getting muted because we are scared of what the reaction may be. what worked for trump's he was not muted. he said what he believed and he stood by it. former vicet: president joe biden is leading the pack, but in the end, the 2020 race may be more about personalities than anything else. come,e still to including, palestinians reject donald trump's deal of the century. and a ship sales toward italy in direct defiance of the italian government. ♪ >> we are approaching midwinter in australia. temperatures reflect that. they are on the low side of winter. we have seen record lows as far north as darwin, as far south as tasmania. the pressure is sitting high down here, which means things don't move. 19 degrees in adelaide. increasing in sydney. even though you have that reads up the coast, there are no significant showers. perth, down to 16. degreesleaving 15 behind. has warmed up in darwin. 20 in the sunshine had a bed incoming front. not really midwinter at all. there is a very slow circulation of air, a bit of cloud in the south. otherwise, average temperatures, by day, talking about wall-to-wall sunshine. it hast, you might think to be frosty. no. 23 or 24 degrees. ♪ >> our top stories on al jazeera, forces allied to libya'scked government took a city south of the capital. haftar launched his campaign to take tripoli weeks ago. gharyan was his forward base. u.n. special investigators called for a criminal inquiry into saudi arabia's conference over the murder of jamal khashoggi. the saudi envoy to the u.n. has accused them of prejudice against the kingdom. images of a father and daughter who drowned on the u.s.-mexico border have caused outcry over the dangers migrants face while trying to reach america. oscar martinez and his 23-month-old daughter died while traveling north from el salvador. have rejected the u.s. administration's $50 billion economic proposal for peace. it was unveiled by a senior white house advisor, jared kushner, during a conference in bahrain. palestinians say the country is not for sale. senior what has advisor jared kushner gathered dignitaries, investors, and politicians from the wider world to discuss how to kickstart the palestinian economy over the next decade. he called his p

really the key here that's why libya is a place where it exists in the super will be very curious whether where they're going to last longer or clear libya policy for libya morons. it's a real it's easier should there be a camp like egypt or libya becomes like yemen you should look him up and say well just see what happens there for the moment anyhow but it's good to have you back on the program thanks very much for your time. if you can state media says around 250 people have been arrested in connection with a failed rebellion in the northern state of. that number includes at least 39 members of an ethnic i'm hard a political party dozens of people were killed in the attack in the fighting that followed the central government has accused of hottest former security chief of organizing the rebellion harding has the latest in a suburb of. well since saturday there's definitely been and increased military presence several roads were closed earlier in the week since saturday several of those roads have opened we actually don't have any reports at least on thursday that roads are still closed so we do think the road systems have gone back to normal but the bi

libya was a good idea. we were part of libya as well. this wasn't this president. that was the last president. there will be questions that come before you whether regime change in the middle east is our business and whether or not it has been to our advantage. i guess the question really is going back to libya. do you think regime change has been to our advantage? ms. craft: you know, i believe what is really important is that we show strength, we show deterrence. i mean, we have a situation in iran with the most corrosive behavior. we have seen no change in their behavior. you're speaking about iraq. you know, they are trying to take iraq and make it into a client state. we have a special political mission there. senator paul: if the president was here he would respond. yeah, iraq is opened to that because iraq's shiia majority now rules the place because we toppled hussein. so, i mean, we created the opportunity where iraq is aligning themselves with iran. it's iraq having great sympathy for iran. and so we just have to think these things through because all throughout the middle east it's been run by iron fisted men and no diplomats, no democrats, no people who believe in constitutional republicans, no jeffersonians, but they have stability. when they toppled we have instability. in syri

libya where forces allied to libya's u.n. recognize government have taken the town of garrion 80 kilometers south of the capital tripoli from forces loyal to the warlord only for have to. these pictures show government forces entering the city 5 people were killed in the offensive it's a major setback for afters campaign to take tripoli again almost 12 weeks ago arion is his major forward base just a couple of hours drive from the capital after bax an unofficial rival government based in the eastern city of to brooke he says he still has control of the city. but in one story as we get it now the u.n. special investigator has called for a criminal inquiry into saudi arabia's crown prince and one of his main advisers over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and yes kalama has delivered her final report on his killing she says there are needle grounds to launch an international inquiry. from geneva. she led the un investigation into the killing of saudi journalist. it took her months of intense work very fighting evidence and studying information shared by many governments to establish the sun to arabia bears responsibility for the killing of the saudi journalist excellences state try sponsibility begs a question as to whom is ultimately liable for its killing the inquiry was a human rights inquiry not a criminal investigation it does nevertheless found credible evidence wire and further investigation of the high level saudi officials individual liability including that of the crown prince of saudi arabia and obvious key advisor saod elke attorney agnes kalama says the sound a crumb prince should be investigated for his possible role in ordering the killing saudi authorities have dismissed the u.n. findings as inaccurate and contradictory to say that war is we are amongst the 36 countries that have complied with all the obligations under the human rights mechanisms that i'm kalmadi has breached procedures that need to be adopted given to the special repertoire this is something which has skewed the procedures i should in as part of the procedures and trials in saudi arabia we don't believe she has respected her mandate in full integrity and therefore has not been able to do her work professionally riyadh had initially denied her she was even killed but backtracked when turkish authorities will east police footage of sandy agents who travel to turkey days before the murder. more than 8 months later the turkish investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to his shot his remains and who gave the order to kill him his fiance had easier jenkins was with him in the moments before he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul last october. he was going to retrieve documents for their upcoming wedding frustrated over internationally in action how does just the u.n. must step in and punish those who killed her fiance. we couldn't it's been 9 months since jim marrs murder so i think it's enough off talk and it's time for action i'm also expecting the word leaders to take a concrete step about this matter. as pressure was piling up against saudi arabia after the killing the authorities arrested 11 suspects and sized firm with the murder 5 of the suspects could face death penalties the un special rapporteur. on e a top aide to the crown prince of peace suspected of being involved in the murder is not facing charges this case has sparked international condemnation and talks of sanctions the u.s. president has denounced the murder but resist growing congressional calls to stop selling weapons to riyadh now that the special rapporteur has delivered the findings of a inquiry into the killing of. it will be up to the united nations secretary general or whether to launch a criminal investigation but many worry the u.s. might use its influence to stop any attempt to investigate senior saudi officials including the crown prince mohammed bin so man. geneva. i mean josh allen is the he's acting director of the arab center of washington and he said it's now up to the international community to take action all fingers point or evidence point in the direction of saudi officials who either order or ready participated in this crime however as you have indicated in your report earlier the saudis deny that and are hiding behind the haphazard judicial process that they haven't pursued thus far the mess to clean clearly that's not enough this is the conclusion of the quarter and their responsibility now is she's making it very clear belongs on the shoulders of the international community that means that you and itself needs to pursue this matter and then countries on their own enough i think it will be companies that irrelevant. stake of this or relevant role in this whether turkey or any other country can actually sue this based on its own kind of legal constraints and possibilities including the u.s. if it chooses to overcome the political opposition biased political position taken by the administration which on the top story the news that libyan government forces have retaken a case to change a town from the water 100 to have to as forces went out and one had this live for us in tripoli as to tell us a bit about this town and why it's important to have a government forces in retaking. well lauren 1st of all the city of the young around 80 kilometers to the south from tripoli has been the major supporting hub for have to his forces fighting the government forces in southern members of the un have those forces took control of that in march and from there the had a central command and by the way military sources with the government today told that the government forces have managed to take control of the whole city of that including the central command of have those forces that they were used to run the battle against the government forces in southern tripoli now have to his forces with the road to the town over and southern the west of the city now it's only one city in there west of libya supporting have to which is the city of atlanta who are in the south of tripoli the city of that he has been sending troops and munition to have to his forces in southern tripoli and now we're getting reports from military sources with the government in the city and saying that dozens of proof. have to the fighters were killed today in the battle for the u.n. on the other side the government of the government forces lost 8 fighters and were wanted in today's clashes listeners have been a situation has been going on for a long time now what's meant what's made the difference the government forces how they suddenly met managed to take it back. well because the fighting. in southern tripoli has taken longer about 3 months or since the have to a large of his military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli and it's has been no neither one of the warring faction has been able to take control of the southern suburbs of the capital tripoli so the government forces tried to switch 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libya and ongoing chaos in libya in syria in venezuela the suffering imposed by as a consequence of sanctions on iran i think that you know the mainstream media the corporate media deserves much of the blame but i think it's facilitated by a shift in tactics that the pentagon war machine has undergone since the 2003 invasion of iraq which of course involved large numbers of troops on the ground quote unquote boots on the ground where hundreds of thousands of u.s. soldiers were stationed in iraq were occupying the country were patrolling the streets every day and as a consequence of course the iraqi people didn't like being occupied and so there was a resistance movement that formed and so thousands of u.s. troops were killed many thousands more suffered life altering wounds serious serious injuries and that made the war you know more more real for people that made it in other words harder to conceal by the mainstream media but way think we saw especially with the obama administration as it turned towards out things like drone warfare a turn towards you know the heavy use of special operations forces things that can be more easily concealed and that's very interesting but let's go to remain and let me just add to that proxy wars exactly here it is right now the the european union in nato countries that are part of the european union they're getting a lot of pressure from the trumpet ministration to fall in line. regards to iran and there seems to be some resistance pockets of resistance but at the end of the day they're going to have to follow the united states because the united states has supplied so much pressure here i mean it would be barely help. the europeans could be a little bit you know grow a little bit more of a spine if i can say it that way and say that you know they don't have a problem or ran into not a threat to them and certainly not an accidental threat to the united states in any way at all but the europeans tend to just fall in line and i think i find that really disappointing go ahead in rumania. i think part of the challenge that we face in europe is that europe itself is not united answered it across the european union you can see recently with the bonds is it in trouble and you have the regime in washington actively cultivating right wing and authoritarian regimes across much of europe so any attempt to bring about a consensus amongst european nations as to their approaches on iran or many other foreign policy issues is increasingly difficult and challenge i think in comparison to the antiwar movement that we saw the for the invasion of iraq in 2003 conflicts was very different that was a campaign which had been built up over multiple years and also sanctions that had been imposed on iraq since the 1st gulf war and in that time you had the development of a substantial network of an antiwar movement all across the united states you had the build up of opposition to dissension on iraq across europe and internationally and you also had many within governments in europe who are strongly opposed to what they saw was an invasion that would worsen security and bring about many negative consequences in the region as it did our challenge today is that the campaigns to escalate crises are constant and much faster so there's a shorter time to build a broad based movements in response to them these are often situations or areas which many citizens don't have that much information they don't feel the connection they're not as aware of what's happening there and i think also whether politicians are citizens many people have been saturated over the last more than 15 years of continual war and aggression not only by the united states. by the united states by russia saudi arabia many countries have been pursuing very aggressive their interest policies on a global scale. i mentioned earlier in the program i mean i'm i'm sure you remember when trump ordered the missile attack against syria very early in his administration and you know the way i look at it russia gate has always been just a hoax a myth that was it worked for ratings for a while rachel maddow but when trump agree just really broke international law in attacking syria for and now we know that there was no chemical attack it was fake it was staged here but the liberals that went to his side calling him presidential i mean it's it defies logic to me because you you know you are they were going chasing this hoax for over 2 years and still doing it there's nothing there but that bombing campaign was the legal we did see it but they were called beautiful missiles what's happened to the left go ahead in washington. well i wouldn't call that the left a would say the left was not calling them get a full missiles but i do agree the again i met and b. saying n.b.c. n.b.c. is the left i think you would agree with that m.s.m. b.c.'s left. well i call them pro democrats and i don't really think of them as the left but in any case i agree with your premise which is stating that the democrats tend to cheer on their republicans and when there are doing something that is totally illegal but it is. fighting bombing supporting military industrial complex i do want to say though we have had something extraordinary in this year which is the democrats and some republicans coming together to try to oppose the u.s. support for the saudi bombing in yemen and that actually passed in both the house and the senate the 1st time using the word paris act and a lot of support from grassroots communities to make that happen unfortunately trump vetoed that and we didn't have the votes to override it but it is a good example of forcing enough republicans to join with democrats to say no to support for an illegal war. are you agreeing going to jump in. well i think the last point i just mentioned is critical the increasing opposition to the war in yemen and the role that not only the united states but european countries are playing on it playing it and we've seen an alliance between many governments and citizens working to weapon sales to saudi arabia working to raise awareness about it so i think there is actually a peace movement that is by her that is present on your other point with regards to coverage of this is i wouldn't necessarily call m s and the left either their very central establishment but we've seen this in the 1st gulf war busy we've seen this in the 2nd gulf war you have an almost watching us approach across media in celebrating congratulating and cheerleading the military aggression wrought and that's not unique to the united states we see this across most countries and most media what is necessary in terms of campaigning in engaging as organizations and citizens is this constant effort to reach out to raise people's awareness and i think what's critical today to dina legitimize war as an approach to addressing conflicts internationally to look at any of the major large scale armed conflicts over the last 20 years they have almost all ended in strategic failure is actually the canadian general to sing all the commander of all and forces in rwanda after only a delay or who said quite explicitly war and the military cannot bring peace they never how they never will at the same time we've seen the incredible development in the last 20 years of the field of peace building international organizations and agencies working on the ground in tunis affected by violent conflict very effectively gauged to prevention very effectively gauged working in mediation and peace processes and for 30 years we had a i have a job and i have a job and here we're going to go to a short break i'm happy about your break we'll continue our discussion on the anti-war resistance stay with art. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. one of. the 2 going to be cross with a white woman for 3 of them or 10 people. i'm interested in the waters of our. first city. seen this before in the eighty's with the rise of japan and the us how to respond rejiggered the global currency markets at the plaza accord this was reagan and the same people that gave us the plunge protection team after the crash of 1000 so china doesn't seem to be wanting to play that game so they're going to have to come up with some other strategy and a moment appear on the horizon. a little. too. it's. very well see you you'll soon see. the project was good if you run your birth were like if you miss the truth don't blame people what. people who've. given. you a minority view that. this. is new the know you you presume this. media must feel to them for you to. continue going to. give meaning to their history or face it. you are never. going to. be as good as you move to new war you are more you would almost 2 days. away as. welcome back to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the anti-war resistance. ok let's go back to walter in washington if we all remember when barack obama made his ran for president for the 1st time in 2008 he i would call him a moderate anti-war moderate pro peace candidate and it was appealing to people and speed up to 2016 and donald trump was doubting nato and doubting the the necessity of foreign wars in the middle east the necessity to have infrastructure at home and both presidents in office. were bent back into the stablish midway's to me what or what happens because i would say donald trump endangers his reelection with a lot of people that voted for him just on the issue of noninterference in foreign wars and i mean those were veterans' families of veterans maybe it was a sliver of the electorate but it might have been important what happens to these presidents that run on these platforms but when they get in power in all changes go ahead walter. well i absolutely agree that it's a very important issue i think it's an under-rated issue in terms of public opinion and electoral significance for obama i think not only was able to defeat mccain on the basis of his being seen as sort of more opposed to the iraq war i think that was also central to his primary election victory over hillary clinton within the democratic party and yeah absolutely i mean i think that there are some people who may have voted for trump on the issues of war and peace or i think more likely just sort of stayed home and you know people who would have maybe otherwise voted for a democrat but stayed home because they were so this. gusted by by the endless wars that are going on all around the world waged by the united states look i mean i think the united states is fundamentally acts as an empire when it comes to its relations with the rest of the world i mean there's no sense of cooperation there's no sense of mutual respect i mean there's just sort of dictates given by washington and that's created you know as a system that is much more powerful than i think that individual person sitting in the oval office that includes of course the military industrial complex you know the big weapons manufacturers boeing busy lockheed martin all the people who make billions and billions tens of billions of dollars off of this perpetual warfare state and i think it actually goes deeper than that i think that the big banks and corporations in the united states you know they need access to markets they need access to labor forces to exploit and the sort of rules of the game internationally as they like to refer to it when it comes to trade i and other economic policies you know the washington consensus is something that they value very heavily so that the institutional weight of all of those interests all those very very powerful people and institutions i think can basically overwhelm any individual sitting in the white house but but to go back to our conversation about the antiwar movement i think that it can also be said that a mass movement can overwhelm those very powerful entrenched interests and fight back in a very effective way you know. media if you go ahead jump in go ahead you're going to. i just wanted to add a piece to what walter was talking about and that's small interest groups that are powerful lobbies in the united states that help to shape policies on particular issues for example the groups like a pack or the christian zionists that help to keep the u.s. relationship very tight with the israeli government or groups right now that we're seeing a venezuelan americans when they trumpet ministration wants to win florida in the upcoming elections and there's about 200000 of them could that could really tip the vote or we have some conservative iranian american groups that for them the most important thing is u.s. policy around iran so those small groups they don't reflect public opinion in general but they have an outsized influence you know when you know public opinion but public opinion is manufactured i mean if you look at it we could take the example of venezuela oh it's a socialist country that's why the united states has intervened i mean that's a ridiculous claim to make but that peddles all of the time and it's bipartisan as well i mean the coverage of been his whale is just appalling it takes someone like max blumenthal from the gray zone to go down there with a camera crew and just absolutely humiliate the mainstream media and their reporting fictions ok venezuela has a lot of problems there's no denying it but it's not a justification to invade the country violate the country's sovereignty break international law but those just those issues that i just mentioned they're never mentioned in the mainstream no wonder people don't understand what's going on because the the the narrative is manufactured in a way that is so self-serving to power but why wouldn't the american people europeans say all this quite oh god it sounds all right though he's completely an invention of washington and the media goes along with it that's why we have permanent war go ahead in romania. i think when you speak about manufacturing opinion and consent one of the things that we see though is while you have that constant narrative coming from across the breadth of media most people don't necessarily buy into it or agree with a look at a holes in the united states or across europe the overwhelming majority of citizens is the average citizen in our country are sick and tired of war they're opposed to wars they're opposed to invasions but the problem is on the one hand you have this almost homogenously narrative coming from across different media and you have the lack of making visible any practical alternatives so just because the news stations are constantly broadcasting how evil this regime or that regime is whichever angle they're coming from it doesn't mean that the majority of citizens actually buy into it our challenge is that because of the constant bombardment of war that we have facing the concept bump argument of crisis and challenges in people's lives from the invasions of iraq afghanistan september 11th the financial crisis bret's it this constant messaging of crisis and stress i think the average citizen when you speak to them doesn't see practically what can i do to bring about change so you may have some support for candidates who say they're opposed to war they're opposed to foreign interventions and then there are those promises are broken which most citizens are very used to from political leadership and for italy but i think we need to be working at this point in history drawing lessons from the civil rights movement the environmental movement the women's movement to really be building a broad based alliance of citizens and people from all different backgrounds recognizing the incredible destructiveness of war we can see what has resulted across the middle east and north africa following the invasions of iraq the war in syria libya and yemen and also dealing with dismissed that has been perpetuated for hundreds of years that war is good for business war is good for weapons industry which is the growing dramatically for mercenary corporations which have been for smuggling. market economy but the overwhelming majority of businesses in the industry and workers and citizens like suffer from war so there's an opportunity now at this moment in history to actually build a broad based movement and also gauge with governments around the world to find practical and effective alternatives to deal egypt of my drive and the momentum for war whether that's coming from a democrat or republican president whether it's coming from the united states turkey saudi arabia russia or what have you to. really citizens who are tired of this constant military consular yeah i mean basically you know that we go we go to walter you when you have well you have a candidate you know she really shows her cards and it's really quite amazing how t

to libya now as forces loyal to $125.00 threatening to target turkish planes and ships in libya after spokesperson said that turkish citizens in libya will be restive he's accused of supplying weapons to forces allied with the un recognized government in tripoli have to know wanted an offensive to seize control of the libyan capital in april meanwhile the u.s. state department is investigating how have to us forces obtain american made antitank missiles forces loyal to the u.n. recognize governments that they found the weapons off to capturing capturing the city of honey on earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launches with the u.a.e. montes the recipient if the m.r.i. did provide the weapons it would be a violation of sales agreements that the united states and a u.n. arms him back on his back in 2011 brunell's in washington has more. the weapons in question here they're called javelin anti-tank rockets and they're manufactured by the us defense giants a raytheon and lockheed martin jointly and according to the markings on the boxes the crates of these weapons were shipped in they were sold from the united states to the uni

temperature kept down to the middle maybe low twenty's as the case for argyria tunisia and in libya and in libya something of a massive cloud of produce some locally but quite interesting some storms. i don't want to leave the world where everything is designed in california. they're cutting it. it is in the hands of the corporation the only way to be subversive is to be able to control the technology but massimo bands he has built a chip that anyone can use to build anything. cost like a pizza spearheading a global movement to democratize technology meet your make up part of the rebel geek series on out is iraq. again and reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera. mexico's president has criticized donald trump for threatening to slap a new tower of mexican imports because of immigration as manuel lopez obrador says mexican people don't deserve to be treated that way and he's sending his foreign minister to washington for talks. the u.s. secretary of state has warned that america will not relent on its side actions against iran like compares visited germany to pressure europe to back washingto

libya and now with smadi is also saying that for them to have imposed a view should have been shouldn't because you know flights between libya and that turkey we understand that these flights have been suspended and to libya since 2000. the only libyan lines connecting connecting flights from between libya and his convoy now as for this is that because as you know that there are no flights to people through the country what has been. taken control of the overflights going between libya and. that. 1 over the end of may see again tripoli and those cities. under the control of the government of the national accord. well that's our correspondent mahmud out the why had speaking to us there live from tripoli he's across that story for us and we'll bring you more as we get it. well the u.s. government believes last month's drone attacks against pipelines in saudi arabia were launched from iraq rather than yemen that's according to the wall street journal it says u.s. officials looking into the incident blame iran backed groups operating in southern iraq until now yemen street the rebels were thought to be behind the attacks the iraqi government is demanding more information our correspondent john hendren has the

libya comes after the threats made by the spokesman of the warlords and for have to last night threatening to target all turkish interests in libya including get turkish vessels in libyan waters and also asking to detain all turkish nationals on libyan soil but on the other hand in western libya especially in the main airports in the city of misrata and the capital tripoli in a to get airport flights are going get very normally there is no action to the threats made by have to the spokesman last night and we understand that this is not the 1st time have to visit forces threaten to target for an entrance but in all cases have to force are angry that has supported the government of national accord that he captured in their city of the u.n. in some of the capital tripoli. the road from tripoli to reenergize open again. the city and surrounding area have been a battlefield for the past 3 months. following the latest fighting with honey for have to his forces soldiers loyal to libyan government regained control of that again as we drive towards the city the remnants of the battles little on the roadside. sandbanks built to defend the city now a stumbling block for call drivers. government forces have recaptured have those military camps like many from other riyadh who resisted hav

libya on their journeys horrors, notjust at sea also in libya on theirjourneys beforehand and are really getting the opportunity now to process the gravity of what has happened are not allowed to do so in a safe state. the passengers on board at the moment are mainly from libyawhat today hope for what is the feeling on board of what future they may have? there is a lot of anxiety and many questions about what might happen on shore and even though we do our best to provide information about the basic silent process and what the reception may be once we reach land there is an underlying tone of will we be welcome and how will we be treated, based on how they have been treated, based on how they have been treated over the last 16 days. are they aware of the comments from people like the interior minister of italy? we have not discussed the tweets but we meet every morning with our guests and we talk about the political developments and any updates we may have.” the political developments and any updates we may have. i think eve ryo ne updates we may have. i think everyone on the ship, guests included, are aware that we're up in a political game and that it should be comparable to being in an ambulance and being taken to hospital. it is not meant to take this lo

libya and in libya something of a massive cat could produce some locally but quite interesting some storms. after decades of being programmed with instructions data angry computers. can now now on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence can monitor our movement. and decide on our future the big picture decodes the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine part one on al-jazeera. welcome back a program out of our top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. police say you have to scramble employee has killed 12 people at a local government complex in virginia beach the suspect died after a gun battle with the police. mexico's foreign minister says he'll hold talks in washington on wednesday of a president from splines of tax all mexican goods from mexico to stop the flow of migrants or face tariffs which could climb to 25 percent. and leaders of muslim nations have condemned the u.s. for moving its embassy to jerusalem the organization of islamic cooperation has been meeting in saudi arabia delegate said any recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital undermined the 2 state solution. but tensions between tehran and washington continues to rise the white house is seeking support from gulf states to back its sanctions and its tough stance on iran and as our diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations for some there are echoes of a previous u.s. push for war. tensions are rising the u.s. is building up its forces in the gulf there are threatening voices coming from both sides on the face of it it feels similar to the buildup to the invasion of iraq in 2003. a war that devastated the country and destabilize the region one advisor who advocated strongly for war 16 years ago now has an even more powerful position john bolton is president trumps national security adviser but this time around as he builds a case against iran he finds even less international support than the u.s. had for its campaign against saddam hussein carne ross is a former british diplomat who resigned over the iraq war. it had far more diplomatic cover and it had support from the u.k. and other allies i mean the coalition in support of the invasion of 2003 you know may not have included france but it included a lot of other countries reluctantly or willingly and willingly went along. diplomatic efforts to create such a coalition have not happened in this case there are also big differences between saddam hussein's brutal regime and the current leadership in iran which arguably has much greater capacity to fight back across the entire region from the late 1990 s. veteran diplomat richard butler headed the u.n. weapons inspection team that worked in iraq comparison with what they would face today a horse of a completely different color iran is fast wrong far more capable far more culturally and historically determined then the hussein regime in iraq by 2003 the goal of the us was regime change toppling saddam hussein and his government 16 years on donald trump is a president who campaigned on removing the us from foreign wars even if he wanted to carry out regime change against iran he doesn't have enough troops in the region the real risk right now according to diplomats in international capitals and here at the u.n. is the rising rhetoric and the risk of a miscalculation james 0 at the united nations people in democratic republic of congo have been paying tribute to the veteran opposition leader etienne tshisekedi attended a ceremony 2 years after he died in belgium aged 84 political turmoil had prevented the return of his body until now reports from kinshasa. some point is that it is a caveat calling this a huge fake you know that if they get to the baby here out on the eiffel on fact there is a huge momentous occasion. for the. president that. they want. one. that happened a few months. and even speculate that maybe he won't believe. that he would. actually say that. behind the scenes telling. the u.s. military rulers and protest groups to return to the negotiating table to reach a deal of the country's transition to a civilian led government and religious group showed support for the military council which has been in power since the ousting of president omar al bashir in april outside the defense ministry thousands demanding civilian rule defined warnings from the military to stop the demonstration on thursday a senior army official said the protest had become a hub for criminals and was posing a danger to the state. and saddam's main opposition group the sudanese professionals' association has condemned the closure of al-jazeera his office in khartoum suppose person said it was quote a new setback to the gains of the revolution the committee to protect journalists also weighed in the middle east and north africa coordinator says the raid and closure of al-jazeera was cartoon viewer is a worrying sign saddam's military rulers intend to suppress coverage of pro-democracy events. military leaders statements they should immediately reverse course and allow al-jazeera to operate freely. protesters in the capital of honduras have set fire to the entrance of the u.s. embassy tires were set ablaze before soldiers were called in following a 2nd day of demonstrations it's not clear why the u.s. embassy was targeted but teachers and medical workers have been rallying against presidential decrees which they fear could lead to major job cuts. well it's been 6 months since the mexican president and the us money lopez obrador came to power $1.00 of his main challenges is tackling the violence that's plagued his country for more than a decade the president has also made the issue of missing people a priority $40000.00 people have disappeared since 2006 that means each year more than $3000.00 people are reported missing in mexico $26000.00 bodies remain unidentified in morgues and other places. the government says between december and may this year 337 bodies were found in $222.00 mass graves across the country its promise to spare no expense to find a solution to the decades long problem as part of our special series marking 6 months of his government al-jazeera as john holeman traveled to send a lower to talk to the victims and perpetrators of mexico's violence. loose movie is sifting through mud from the bottom of the canal trying to find the remains of her son he's been missing since armed men burst into his house and took him away that was 5 years ago finding pieces of his body is probably the closest to closure . and i know that. my life is gone through a 360 degree spin i don't have peace i can't sleep here waiting for someone to come and tell you there he was dumped here a 1000 questions were no answers. those questions are being asked by groups of relatives who are scouring the country looking for the 40000 missing for the 1st time we have the chance to put those questions to a man who admits disappearing people he works for the similar lower cartel i asked him why they hide their big tins the answer he says is simple we're more than without a body because no crime belts were nobody no. it's a common belief in the criminal world it's not completely accurate but the lack of a body doesn't make any murder investigation much harder but that's not the only reason gangsters disappear people it's also meant as a warning to kruger we have a saying it's a dodgy business but we play straight so when someone's given a chance to work on his own to sell the product they don't pay their dues we make an example of them and say to others work rate well the same is going to happen to you oh no but of course many of those who disappear in mexico as simply innocent bystanders that hasn't stopped the gangs from inflicting on thousands of families and then ending punishment afterwards when you when you've seen the results for the family how was that made you feel when they're still looking for their lost their lost relative and you know where they are or you know that at least they're dead but you don't tell them i mean how does that feel remorse. it's something that we know was painful for the families sometimes to come and ask us and i know where their relative is but i can't tell them because i'll probably end up just like the victim. maybe you feel better because they could be your friends or people you know but there's nothing you can do. now the government has a new plan to find the disappeared it said unlimited funds will be made available for searching the forensic facilities to identify bodies. but that won't take away the motivation for criminal groups and certain authorities to hide their victims while that remains so too will these desperate searches for lost loved ones john home would i would visit a similar. and on sunday we'll have more in our special series on the 6 months of the lopez obrador presidency we look at the steps the mexican government is taking to stem the country's soaring murder rate $28000.00 was the most brutal year since records began in mexico with $30000.00 killings that's next in our special series on the 6 months of the door presidency. and he's one person's been killed and dozens injured after a tornado struck the southern chilean region of b a b o the storm formed just before 6 pm local time sweeping into the regional capital los angeles and knocking out power to around $12000.00 homes in the region is no stranger to natural disasters earthquakes are common but tornadoes are far more rare. now government departments in the united states are odds over the introduction of 5 g. technology billions of dollars are being made from the sale of satellites and with space to want us companies but some scientists say that's getting in the way of their ability to forecast the weather mike hanna explains now from washington d.c. . when hari concerned he hit the u.s. coast it was disastrous but it could have been far worse if where the scientists had not predicted the path of the storm and the point at which it would hit several days before they go on hurricane sandy very impressive storm the national oceanographic and atmospheric agency noah says this will no longer be the case if bandwidth in space is sold off to 5 g. companies the reason noah says senses on satellites at measure crucial indicators like water vapor are being compromised by the signals from 5 g. providers in a shared bandwidth there is genuine concern here that as 5 g. is deployed in it interferes with those atmospheric signals that we're trying to detect with the weather satellites that we will not be able to provide the same quality and reliability a forecast that we have currently. but the f.c.c. and the 5 g. industry denies there would be any interference and wireless industry representative brad gillen said in a blog post it's an absurd claim with no science behind it he maintained that no as claim relies on the study of a microwave sensor that never went to to use not so insists the scientists well i can tell you that there are many scientists know or nasa and outside of the government that are looked at us and also our international colleagues and determined they are there is a serious threat here and that the science must be considered or we do risk losing our predictions or major storms that would impact society the updated senses also improve research into climate change factors a critical study given the unprecedented increase in extreme weather conditions ranging from intense drought to an seasonal storms. but this argument is rejected by influential figures in the administration who are climate change skeptics including the president himself officials from the u.s. state department attempting to bring the 2 sites closer together a unified position is critical as a meeting will spectrum regulators is due to take place later this year but the scientists are hoping that the conflict will be resolved by an international convention that would deny 5 g. operators access to the same bandwidth as the weather senses. in a month that seen a series of tornadoes strike us states the fear of scientists is that the trumpet ministration may be reluctant to sign any more international agreements and will side with those intent on securing a river new stream from 5 g. providers. rather than those attempting to predict the next economically crippling threat from the weather. mike hanna al jazeera washington. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. police say a disgruntled employee has killed 12 people at a local government complex in virginia beach the suspect died after a gun battle with the police we do know who this suspect is we have not been successful in notifying certain family members and once we are able to do that busy we will release his name once we're going to mention his name once and then he will be forever referred to as the suspect because our focus now is the dignity and respect to the victims in this case and to their film. officers who are processing through what this could be described as a war zone there along with. u.s. businesses are warning that billions of dollars of trade could be affected if president donald trump's threat to impose tariffs on all mexican goods goes through mexico's farm ministers heading to washington for talks on the taxes which trump says will stay in place into the flow of microbes to stop u.s. seaports of started collecting higher tariffs on chinese goods us president trump increased levees on may the 10th but allowed a grace period for sea cargo that had left china before that date imports my list of more than $200000000000.00 worth of goods and now being taxed at 25 percent up from the previous rate of 10 percent and no trade talks are scheduled between the 2 sides after the last round ended without a deal if you're such a state might pump aoe is a european tour seeking support for washington's arline policy on iran he began his trip in germany where the government still favors the 2015 nuclear agreement. leaders of muslim majority nations have condemned the u.s. for moving its embassy to jerusalem the organization of islamic cooperation has been meeting in saudi arabia delegate said any recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital undermines the 2 state solution. and protesters for and against sudan's military leadership have demonstrated in khartoum pro army and religious groups showed support for the military council which has been in power since the ousting of president omar bashir in april outside the defense ministry 1000 is demanding civilian rule defied warnings from the military to stop their sit in. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story of them so much data. on counting the cost from credit fuel bloom to currency crisis how can you fix turkey's economy. made in america how much would consumers pay for u.s. made goods and the debt crisis is making it harder for mozambique to invest for the future. counting the cars on i just. reining in iran saudi arabia hosts 3 summits calling for action against her brand of riyadh accuses its rival of threatening regional order but beyond such high level meetings what can saudi arabia do does it have enough support this is inside story. hello everyone i'm come on santa maria welcome to inside story an emergency requiring 3 consecutive summits in the one location it certainly sounds like something that needs to be addressed and quickly and according to saudi arabia the emergency is iran the kingdom gathered arab leaders for meetings of the gulf cooperation council the arab league and the organization of islamic countries and said the international community must quote use all means to stop iran from interfering in other countries affairs the question is though is there an emergency or is this another power play in the gulf with the addition of a u.s. military presence we'll discuss that and more with our panel in a moment 1st this report from hash. a rare moment between qatar and saudi arabia. qatar prime minister shareholder. greeted by saudi king solomon binoculars he's in mecca at the kingdom is hosting emergency meetings of the gulf cooperation council the organization of the islamic conference and the arab league to counter what they say is iran's growing influence but the saudis who are eager to show they have wider backing face a daunting task and doing the blockade imposed sr $1017.00 the thai prime minister is seen here shaking hands with the king of bahrain another blockade in country and then the kuwaiti amir steps in trying to bring the saudi king and qatar the prime minister to engage in further talks that might ease tension and bring harmony to a d.c. in disarray king said man made it clear in his opening speech that he sees iran as the biggest threat to stability in the region. the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and developed polycystic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but for the sardi's to build a coalition against iran they need to end the impasse created by the 2 seek weiser the diplomatic spat started with saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt sever ties with qatar imposed a land sea and blockade the blockading water accuse qatar of supporting extremism accusations strongly dismissed but qatari government kuwait is mediating in the conflict and the u.s. is concerned the feud might undermine its 1st isolate iran and defeat icily in the middle east. is flawed from the state law because in one sense. they don't want to talk to iran iran has asked for a dialogue and they don't want to sit on the table and talk to your own and sort out all the issues that we have of iran on the other hand there are instead of uniting and unifying the gulf region to stand with a block of solid block they're actually dividing it into different countries they are this integrating. regional organization that you see you see there of conflict within between the g.c.c. member states the blockade against qatar so you can't have one. standing against your own if you want to push back in one sense and this and this is this united and this is this fragment that at the end of the meetings the g.c.c. and the arab league expressed support for saudi arabia against what they describe as iran's destabilizing activities in the region as a diplomatic boost for saudi arabia but also a period to more tension in the region. so let's meet the panel for today 2 of our guests here in doha with me in the studio as magid study who is a professor of the. cutter university we have also got a professor of political science from kuwait university and in tehran has son the an assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran welcome to all of you 3 professors on the show. get into it majid let me start with you. i mentioned this in my in my set up a little bit earlier the emergency and i am using escorts there because this seems to be this promise of we need 3 summits right now to deal with this emergency is it an emergency or is this in fact a way of war most creating the feeling of an emergency yeah well let's just clarify one thing which is that 2 of the summits were murders he said ok this climate summit is enormous i would always rail issue but certainly there is some insight held consecutively in the show of emergency if you will because it was very clear for the saudis that they needed to prop up the situation with between the united states and. vied with with the american agenda in the region of course what the saudis are they're banking on the i'm about is what that is that the white house would change its position so quickly because their white house went from calling for war with iran to basically now the exxon mobile staff going back to work on sunday in the uk so there is absolutely no sign of any tension tension between the 2 countries is this still not a bit of ambiguity there i mean the classic from the trumpet ministration of mixed messages bolton says one thing trump says the other thing and we never quite know what the official line is i think i mean if we look at the pattern of behavior when it comes to trump administrations very clear that this issue now it's been treated exactly like the north korean deal so you can see very clearly started this collation threatening talking about even you know. i think what he said with trump said in the u.n. was. think of the living thing all of the total destruction of yet original of korea now the same thing has been said about iran but also as well what happened with north korea then he started praising the leader of north korea and then asking for the summit and then holding the summit and then not really caring what happens after the summit because it's all a political win for trying the same thing is what the white house now wants from iran. it's very clear that the iranians are more stubborn they're not going to get into bed easily with the americans just over a photo shoot and they're right now with the saudis and there are things that are left high and dry without any any real agenda in the region towards what's going to happen it's very clear that when it comes to the military the u.s. is not appropriate for war when it comes to how it's dealing with its citizens in this company of the agents not having up for war but the saudis and their morality is no are left with a summit that is basically only condemnation of the acts that took place during the last month but with no pussy ger to deal with it in the future even so let's talk about that condemnation and bring you in at this point tell me what your thoughts were on the language particularly of king solomon the way he said we will use all means to stop iran iran's criminal acts naked aggression against an instability it was all quite aggressive language really exactly i mean we have to look at this issue of the summit the 2 emergency summit that we had. last night up until dawn as a part of the ongoing cold war mentality and practice that has been the norm the new norm since 2016 at least one saudi arabia sever ties with iran and other g.c.c. countries followed suit especially a bar a and also other g.c.c. even qatar and kuwait. withdrew their ambassadors and lower their diplomatic at the present taishan and to hang on so what's going on is that this is a rather solve all of pushing back by the saudis the leader of the g.c.c. to assad their message to the iranians especially after the loss of bombings of the 3 i think asking salmond stated very clearly the op inning and opening statement that iran is responsible for the shannon. again and for what's taking place to undermine security and stability in the region the heightened tension is because of the escalation of rhetoric between the united states and iran and now we have the escalation and from day one i said there is no war and this region but it's just part of the. administration flexing its muscles to gain some. some credence and some votes among his staunch voters and his base who are totally his base as the americans keep saying so the condemnation was expected and that the saudis are trying with the i'm oddities and mayor de bar a nice to try to with. the free hawks we have ox and olives and the g.c.c. and the hawks are taking the stage and they're trying to send a message to the iranians to their to their constituencies and to the americans that we are standing tough against the iranians and that is what there was white condemnation although it was not the reflected in the speeches on the other summit the emergency summit or the arab league summit but it was clearly in the in the find of communique that there is a strong condemnation of iranian behavior is iran has brought this upon itself for supporting proxies for for a. sectarianism and for pushing the region into the abyss so it is a clearly a message was clear of it sent by the communique the final communique the arab summit final communique and before that the g.c.c. find the communique also so is this a bell of the saudis as you describe all that condemnation is this the saudis almost taking the baton from the united states as magid said. the united states slightly backing down a little bit is the saudis taking the baton and saying right we will allow lead the charge against iran and us if you want to support us come along that case because the. perplexing issue is that the. well nor be beyond condemnation of iranian behavior which was and practice which was expected was the issue of what are the practical measures that will be taken by the g.c.c. leaders and by the arab leaders to. put in practice this condemnation translated from condemnation to a practical approach to try to push iran to change its behavior and this is issue no regime change and then there is a contradiction by united states and this is what's really puzzling pompey about a year ago stipulated to 12 conditions on the iranians and that they should really add here too in order for the americans and the iranians to strike a deal. and talk he'll present trump a few days ago just obliterated all of that and erase that and he just stated 11 point and that is iran should not become a nuclear pollen and the ayatollah khamenei stated that clearly that there is. any an approach under any any policy and effect is that it's against islam to have a nuclear arsenal so we are at with this stand still is ongoing but what are the conditions what the what is the really the united states strategy. is in that while for its stated by pump your it is the one point about the nuclear issue stated by trump so there is a lot of confusion and then you throw in bolton here you know and then you have more confusion regarding how to deal with iran from the american perspective and leaving their allies puzzled leery about really about what is the any area of the americans here let's say than what has the nominee has to say in teheran bring you into the conversation not maybe not so much the reaction that we've heard from the iranian officials but what you think about how they've interpreted this as a bellow was saying the 12 points versus the one point the slight backing down from the u.s. the aggression. from saudi arabia and of course i think the iranian reading of this all of this you know saber rattling on the part of the united states is that they don't have a core here and consistent policy bay only want you know to push to maximize the pressure on iran to see afterwards what will come up i mean there are of course iran harks in washington who are advocating you know war a military attack on you iran but in general there is no consistency there is no coherence in there with regards to saudi arabia and the summit emergency summit as there is nothing emergent about them. from what i hear into iran it's basically what the saudis want to call emergent actually it's you know it's part of their maximum pressure whenever bit escalation decreases in the region there is deep the escalation in the region by the on the part of the in that this this on iran saudis try to you know feed the fire and put some for the future if you want it and i think this policy is part of it is you know bringing back the. maximum pressure on iran and part of it is to push back against iran's diplomatic outreach in the region you know iran's contract with the with its neighbors of the gulf is that pakistan ride trying to you know deescalate the situation in the region has a lot to do well with what saudi arabia did last night a bottom line then that the saudis are looking at trump as an opportunity will. iran be worried or how worried will iran be or in the end does iran you know regardless of who signed a communique and who didn't do they know who their friends are they know who they can trust they'll carry on as they were of course i'm in saudi arabia basically divided the region into 2 camps doesn't you know basically go in there and sitting and listening to what king someone has to say doesn't mean that you agree with them that even they're the most the closest alliance the saudi arabia had during the past you know decade or during that basically for decades. was the g.c.c. and within the g.c.c. as a nation there are that hawkish attitude towards iran and there are the doves or doesn't who don't want an escalation with iran on top of them qatar under blockade kuwait and on mine who don't know who basically are trying to deescalate the situation practically they are going against saudis official line of escalation on iran about to go in against saudis a courtroom isn't against iran with regards to the trump because they see trump as an opportunity and i think their policy will continue with the way it is until they exhaust the trump variety bowl with regards to iran much of the way that has done is it talk to us there about the camps the way saudi arabia he says is divided then can you just elaborate on that a little for of viewers and remind us who's on whose side basically or maybe more the point to making in the end when push comes to shove if push comes to shove who will back saudi arabia well at the moment a few states that are aligned with saudi arabia's foreign policy initiatives in the arab world who seem very clearly that they that they had a better moments. have to in libya maybe the new military council in so the probably the only countries where you would find. well support for any saudi initiative and even in that case i'm skeptical about how much of support the saudis can get from these going to be it's seen very clearly in that look at don't like for example the saudis wanted to alie all the arab and muslim world against to cut back but they ended up being a very small number of states most of them backed out of the blockade. and in the crisis but also it's very important here to note that the saudis were banking on their efforts being a side show of american aggression towards iran but they didn't bank on the idea that the. americans would have a very very quickly like this and this is why i said before that they were left high and dry and this is not now these summits are in their view mirror. you've seen the declarations that came out of it they're communicating at the end even though the countries who were attending the meeting at least your voi

situation in libya in the past 2 years of the prosecutor stated to the security council that she's looking at crimes against migrants in libya she's looking at crimes against migrants in libya in connection with libyan agents so we only ask them their perspective to go after the most responsible doctors which are the agents and officials that are orchestrating this policy that designed it and to stablish it to achieve their own political go and go. to europe and this is pretty much ok and would you finally expect jail sentences will. really. know of international criminal court is going to. individual. did there are enough information to go after the those are all designed to enable the commission of. crimes so we are looking at the former italian minister me need to community was signed the agreement to train in finance and provide boats to the libyan coast guard and is the one who just said there are several layers of for sponsibility or are we just expect there to not to exclude the e.u. agents from the allegation just because. you're going to have to wrap it up there because we've run out of time so sorry to cut you short there just at the end but we've run out of time

libya it started in eastern libya. remember the crackdown on the press and also in syria it is different so this dennis scenario in many aspects i would argue is quite different and it lends a lot of lessons from its previous. anecdotes in the i'm going to come to my own question really in play devil's advocate here because while we say is the technique working is it successful there is the alternative and you've talked about people being shot and killed and we've heard of reports from various eyewitnesses in khartoum talking about bodies being pulled out of the river whether they be professionals or from various demographics or the other counter-argument is are people too scared to come out onto the streets knowing that if they do demonstrate in the small or large numbers there is the possibility that they could be fatally hurt. you know that the rapid security forces in no remember on monday last week. when the crackdown on the city in happened the moment the news is spread that 4 or 5 people only people or 5 people were killed. in the capital and in others to dennys cities and towns were filled with people there at the response actually even . more aggressive at that time so i think the more the transitional military council resolves to a repressive measures arresting people killing people the more it antagonizes in the streets and people will come out more interest and some of what is happening i think we should see what happens certainly in the coming days of them again joining us here. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with kevin but still ahead here on out as. i. mulled over one of europe's poorest nations plunges into a new political crisis. also why one man's word of god is another man's noise pollution we take a look at the controversy surrounding some afghans churches and had to have the bruises and the blues on the just one game away from the stanley cup standoff that story sport picture of late. the web sponsored by cattle and ways. well we're 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libya, destabilize libya. process the challenges of china's growing influence and ongoing threats from iran, the challenges of venezuela, those are minimally some of the hots spots in the world right now. when i ask about the most pressing issues -- and i -- i certainly embrace the humanitarian issues. but these are the types of issues you'll be called upon as the united states ambassador at the u.n. to be dealing. let me ask you this, what u.n. functions would you zrib as being of the greatest value to the united states? >> senator, thank you. i believe that the security council is going to be providing the greatest assistance to the u.s. in calling out bad actors and in highlighting anyone that demonstrate anti-israel bias or anti-semitism. and i also reiterate that the security council is going to be an area that china and russia can actually call themselves out by allowing the world to see how they do not assist us in human rights abuses. and especially in calling out corrosive behavior as we have in iran. it is a moment that we can use to highlight bad actors whether it be iran, the houthi rebels in kareemen, russia, china, the way they treat the uyghurs. we have so crisises that the security counsel -- it's important we be able to use them in establishing sanctions and also in making certain that we tackle human rights abuses every day. >> and one follow up question, the -- you mentioned the security council. certainly it's an essential element of u.n. there is a host of other functions that the u.n. has i would commend to your attention. but russia, the president seeks to develop a greater personal relationship with mr. putin and russia. how will you seek to avail yourself of that as it relates to russia, the security council. >> thank you, senator, you know i'm not going there to be russia's friend. they're not our friend. they underminus at every opportunity that they have. and you better believe i will keep a clear eye on them and understanding where we can work together, whether it's north korea, or other areas that we need to call them out on. we have to be very protective of ukraine. we have to understand that they are propping up the assad regime. and also their human rights abuses. our country has applied more sanctions in in administration than has ever been applied on russia. and i will continue to hold them accountable. we will continue to apply maximum pressure. and if confirmed i will promise you that we would be shining a light on russia. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, senator paul. we have been anxiously awaiting your arrival. you see we didn't wait for you. >> being the ever courteous senator from kentucky. i will make my return. i'm sorry i was late i was voting in another committee though. >> we understand that thank you. >> senator isaacson. i know in lady very well. she is a great nominee, a great individual and someone i cherish my relationship with her very much. first of all, mr. chairman, to you on the ranking member, she has been very good at her job as ambassador to canada. but also been very good always looking out for the best interests of the united states. if you listensed to her testimony and i was listening from a phone booth because i have a emergency going oh on back home. that's why i'm running back and forth. she is aware of the anti-semitism around the world. she is forceful in the remarks about that. and she knows how to use her voice and position at as vad advocate for the right thing today in. she will always try to do the right thing. i was one of the two people nominating samantha power when barack obama aped her u.n. ambassador i did it in this room. dy it because samantha power had and i think exhibited in her term there the same type of qualities that lady has. and if you got that kind of a continuation of representation in the united nations which is a unique organization to start with then you need to take advantage of that experience and that ability. now, i didn't hear doctor doctor i'm probably doing something wrong in the testimony there is a chart over there a lot of red squares on it. would you tell me what that is behind mr. cardin. >> knows are absences from post. >> what kind of absences? >> just. >> that's what we are trying to determine. >> okay. well i don't know where she was. but where it was was in the best interests of the united states of america i can tell that you i think you were doing trade negotiations during that time a lot. >> yes, sir, more when president trump first asked me to be the ambassador to canada he made it very clear as we discussed in your office yesterday that this was a real job, that we were going to be renegotiating the most important trade partnership in the world with our number one trading partner, canada. little did i know i would be living and it's my duty just because your job requirements took you somewhere that wane if your office don't mean you weren't doing your job. it may mean you were doing more of your job than somebody else. you show me somebody always sitting in the office they are not doing much. i just wanted to bring practice that we didn't practice. i wanted to bring it up. >> may i add while i was not in my chair in my office i have a of staff of foreign service officers second to none and i felt very confident with my -- with not being in my office because i had people there running the mission as we discussed every day. and i -- i must brag on the foreign service officers, because without them the mission even before i arrived, the mission would have not been run so smoothly. >> just two things -- i took too much of my own. time and i apologize. i'd like unanimous consent that the letter from gordon giffin the i think the chairman read from that letter. >> it will be snit zplood i want to thank you very much. i'm sorry i went off track a little bit. but i think it's important when we we have somebody representing to the united nations they be an engaged person who believes in the things we believe in as americans and work hard to get that done. i think samantha power did did that. i know you'll do it. and i'm proud to support sfwlu thank you senator isakson. >> thank you senator isakson. senator cardin. >> thank you mr. kmarm. ambassador kraft thank you for your willingness to serve our country and thank you to your family for j being willing to share new public service. we appreciate that. i want to make sure that we have a person as our ambassador at the united nations that is an advocate for the u.n. we have problems with the united nations. make no mistake about it. but it serves a critically important function for u.s. national security. and our ambassador -- representative to the u.n. needs to be an advocate to make the united nations as effective as we possibly can with u.s. influence. i want to talk about one issue first. that's the human rights council. i strongly have disagreed with axes in the human rights council. in fact senator portman and i filed legislation dealing with action in the human rights council. but the question is whether we participate or don't participate as a member of the human rights council. and there is a concern that if we are not at the table countries such as china or russia get a much larger audience than if we were there participating. so i want to get your view as to whether you think it is right for us to walk away from the debates in which we cannot win or we are better off staying there making our points and doing the best we other day. especially talking about the goals of the u.n. whether or not we are in the room with the human rights council or a member is really not as important as the -- as the ability -- as the u.s. u.n. ambassador to use the security council as a platform to call out the countries on human rights abuses. if confirmed, i will use the security council as a platform and also understanding that it is not acceptable for the human rights council to constantly undermine israel, to constantly show anti-israel biasen a anti-semitism. that is not -- >> i agree with you on that. i'm not sure the security council has the effective way to count whaer the human rights council does. the actions of course there are subject to consensus with the p five if we don't have the permanent members in agreement we can't get action on security council. i'm not sure that's a substitute. i think using security council is critically important. but i would urge your understanding of recognizing we're going to be dealing with nations that don't agree with us in forums sometimes we can't control the outcome. should we participate or walk away? >> senator, there are members of the human rights council that are the very members that are committing these horrible human rights abuses. >> no disagreement from me on that. >> i mean, i find it just appalling that we have members of a council that are supposed to holding accountable. >> let me go to a second subject. you gave athought views that i strongly agree with in regards to climate change. and then you said you don't want to assume an outsized burden on behalf of the rest of the world. so i want to drill done on that for a moment. because the united states is part to the 1992 u.n. convention on kpliemt to have those issues with the commitments themselves. then 2015 there was an agreement reached in paris there was an agreement reached by the 100, now 95 basically provides voluntary -- are you concerned by the actions of the united nations that the united states is assuming an overburdened share? is this a concern you have with the work you will be doing in the united nations to make sure that they are shared globally? >> we will always, the u.s. will always be a leader. >> i have a limited amount of time and i don't want to be rude. i would like to get your view as to the framework whether we were working with the global community on climate issues. >> we feel like as a member of the paris climate agreement we weren't showing leadership. we conversed robustly, we expected other countries to step up. while they did commit, they really were not serious. i feel very strongly if confirmed, the climate change must be addressed, we need to balance american economy with the environment and we need to stress to other people the innovation and technology to be used as tools to mitigate climate change. if confirmed, i will be the advocate and addressing climate change. >> we cannot count on these actions globally.. do support and commit globally. paris is not right what is right? >> thank you senator, absolutely i do agree with you, including and engaging everyone in the conversation. if you think about why we are committing on the robust manner and other people are not serious, we have underdeveloped countries that are being taken advantage of by china. with their technology and innovation. that is not for sustainability. this is for ownership. we are committed to owned underdeveloped nations we need to use our technology and our innovation sustainability and underdeveloped countries that is what we do really well. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you senator. >> thank you and good morning ambassador, thank you for being here i wanted to close the loop on the travel question. about the rules for travel correct? >> every trip you've taken , every single one of your trips were approved before you took them by the state department. every trips you took comply with the state department and what they have in place for travel? >> yes, senator. >> we assumed arcs ability our response ability for our expenses whether it's diplomat or personal. if you personally paid for even official business? >> all travel expenses. >> it's fair to say you saved taxpayers money. >> yes we did. >> i think i know the answer to the question. could you be in two places at once? >> i certainly try up that's why we have . >> what was your top issue with canada , my guess is the trade integration. >> the nafta renegotiation , i'm the current ambassador to canada and will be working this evening with the prime minister coming into washington. i will be with him tomorrow. it's important. we had moments of doubt and that is why it was imperative, whether this was in canada for the meetings, i was not going to let the country down nor the ambassador or the president. >> a significant number of these church -- up on that board negotiate within the united states. >> yes, the majority of the negotiations occurred in washington at ustr. >> the state department would often suggest whether it be a northern governance premier meeting were different meetings with governors in order to really stress the importance of our trade with each state. each state obviously, canada, i think the 33 of them is the number one trading partner. >> the state department asked you, suggested that you attend certain events within the united states promote a top priority of the ministration which is the u.s. mca negotiations and agreement. and that's correct. i received a lot of invitation. i would have to make difficult decisions, staying in washington would be the number one priority. this would be promoting after, u.s. mca, i would most certainly travel. >> so the bottom line being, this was not possible for you to both be in negotiation and at some ceremonial event at the third country embassy. you had to make a choice and you prioritized, in those cases, the top priority of the administration regarding the relationship with canada. >> yes senator. talking about attending some of the other events. i think it was important as to whether or not i was present or, obviously if i was not able to attend. it is important to include your team at your mission. i had 400 members, 400 and incredible members, it's important for them to have that exposure and to be able to attend so, on many occasions they would ask if they could attend national days or other holiday events throughout ottawa, it's a different mission. >> i don't mean to diminish the importance of these events where they socialize in the diplomat cora gets together. i cannot speak for the canadian government but i have this sneaking suspicion that a forced to choose between having you here and helping focus and land a trade negotiation with them or having you attend this week's cocktail party at some embassy which is not i know that's an important event they would probably have preferred we prioritize the trade deal. that's my guess. >> absolutely. this was not the time to socialize but a time to work. >> i want ask you one where priority quickly, what have you done in your capacity as the ambassador to canada to advance the president's policy toward venezuela? >> thank you senator i know it's important to you as to who would have ever thought that we have 4 million refugees in venezuela. its real importance with canada also, with the lima group, they were gracious enough, i was able to attend the lima group +1 meeting in ottawa. there ambassador designates to canada. they did not, obviously have an embassy because the maduro government the appointees are at the embassy in ottawa. we arranged for our meetings to be at my residence to best understand the latin america countries and the hardships that are being placed on them and taking in refugees such as columbia. taking in 1 million refugees. you know, they have humanitarian issues within their own country. i think it was important to allow, you know, a place that the ambassador designates, could be heard, and he was very helpful in answering questions and taking back to the interim president, the concerns of the other countries. and you know and, it is so important, there's no other option then for maduro to leave. you know it's just really important for us as americans to be, you know, demonstrating the fact that we do care and we are engaged. >> thank you mr. chairman, ranking members, thank you. we have three hearings going on at the same time on three different committees on which i serve so, i apologize for being out of breath i literally ran up the stairs from this appropriations hearing where we are marking up and advancing i think an important bipartisan amendment. now, so, my apologies. thank you for being here and congratulations on your nomination and for the work that you've done representing us in ottawa. we had the opportunity to talk about some of the concerns, other senators have raised today. our role in the united nations, both in its founding, in leading it, and in giving it direction as it is a multilateral entity that helps the world come together to confront the u.s. press and mobile challenges is a significant and interesting concern to me. the trump administration has demonstrated, repeatedly across a number of engagement, a strong impressment for unilateral action and bilateral relationships or multilateralism if confirmed he would be stepping into the most visible and important role, i think our government has in a multilateral institution, literally designed and built and funded largely by the united states. in a time when china is asserting its role in multilateral institutions, at least in what they say, to a large extent what they do. as we discussed, the first time i ever met a chinese flag rank officer, was in a peacekeeping, a un peacekeeping mission in south sudan. filling the vacancy, i would argue or withdraw from a number of institutions and organizations are created. our withdrawal from un bodies as the senator asked you about, does it weaken our ability to push back against their expanding influence and in particular, to effectively question and challenge china's human rights violations? >> thank you senator and for the opportunity for us to talk about our daughters and the importance of , i understand the? when they say we have lost the way we lost the values that the way the un was founded upon, we were founded with the quality, peace and security. and making sure we take care of social economic issues and human rights, that's an issue where we need to be very careful and shining a light on china. the way they treat them. they have become the second- largest donor which, obviously which is a reflection of their economy at the un, we need to be even more cautious and diligent in the relationship if confirmed, i will build with other members and making certain i understand, yes china is participating in sharing in this burden, as we will always be the leader in contributing to the un however, with china as you well know, they have a motive which is better leverage and taking advantage of these underdeveloped countries through the un system. >> my hope, madam ambassador, that your voice will be loud and clear and consistent in contributing to the un, not just our financial contributions but our voice and advocate for human rights. on a bipartisan basis across a number of administrations, the un has been a place where we have pushed back criticisms and questioning and challenge of actions of key allies pushing forward on concerns that aren't raised anywhere else. it is important to strike the right balance. i'm particularly concerned about, what seems to be a withdraw from this long- standing bipartisan commitment to a two state solution. could you tell me about your view of the two state solution and the central world the un can and should continue to play in advocating as a passport in the middle east? >> senator, i'm going to be confirmed, i will support the presidents vision for peace and security in the region. this is why it's so important, every time any member or anyone for that matter shows any anti- israel bias that not only do we call them out but we explain the process this is slowing -- >> do you know whether the presidents vision for peace and security include supporting a two state solution? i don't. you senator, i've not been part of the middle east peace process. if confirmed, i will tell you, there will be no stronger friend then kelly kraft and the united states for israel. no stronger person to promote israel or normalizing themselves in the system. >> i have two more questions i will ask briefly, you may want to respond in writing afterward or in some other way, i want to respect the time concerns we have. first, being an ambassador is a full-time hands-on job, as i'm sure has been discussed when i was at the other hearing. your representation that a lot of you travel out of ottawa has been advanced, if, adequately documented and supported, i'm willing to take it at face value but i'm concerned about issues that have been raised about your engagement in attendance in ottawa, new york is harder. there's more nations and more work and direct, and i would hope you could persuade me that you will be fully indirectly engaged in providing the background, ebola has broken out in uganda. i'm concerned while there's many other pressing issues, i know i'm detaining some of my colleagues with their chance to question, i would welcome hearing from you how you view, this is another opportunity for the administration to lead in a multilateral response, a global response rather than a unilateral response. peace in the middle east, ebola, human rights, and our role overall in the un. i need to hear from you are committed to understanding the value of how we dealt and how we will sustain the institution. thank you madam ambassador, and will have time that i appreciate the chance to continue this. >> do you want that to go to the record? >> yes. thank you senator. >> thank you so much. >> senator cruise , thank you mr. chairman. ambassador crap, welcome, congratulations on this nomination. thank you for your distinguished service. i'm confident in this new post that you will do an exemplary job. i have a word of encouragement in that it is interesting, the principle criticism is manifested on this colorful chart, the committee has put up , the principle criticism it seems leveled against you is that you have traveled and worked too hard in your current post which i find not terribly persuasive criticism and a strong indication that the end result of this is going to be your confirmation but let's dive into the criticism more because i don't think it will stand the barest of scrutiny. i understand some of the travel represented on that chart, including travel to montrial, is this correct? >> that's correct. >> calgary is in canada. >> absolutely pure >> i'm assuming, i don't know this but i'm assuming some of this included travel to toronto. is this right? >> yes. >> so the last that i checked, you were not the ambassador to ottawa but the ambassador to canada? >> the investor representing the united states in canada. >> indeed. beginning argument, you're traveling around the nation, you appointed , you were appointed ambassador to, meeting with business leaders and community leaders and those various towns that somehow a dereliction of duty if you went to your office in ottawa and locked the door and stayed sitting in her office, that is the exact office of what it investor would want to do. as i understand is a can portion of the travel includes travel to participate in strategy and negotiations for the usmc a. is there a higher priority ensuring the strong and continued economic french up relationship and trade between united states and canada ? >> there's no issue, it's important that the prime ministers coming in today to further discuss the usmc a and how he could help implement in ratifying the usmc a through his parliament. and at the same time >> i guess if you want a good ambassador they may well have left you in ottawa and said you not, we are doing important step between the u.s. and canada , you just stayed up there in the office and we will do the meeting and negotiations >> every state in the u.s. relies on the trade partnership with canada if i need to speak to a governor or legislature or mayor. it was vitally important. >> i will say you and i have known each other a long time we are friends, i will say anyone who knows you, knows that you are tenacious, you are hard- working, you do not know how to do a task halfway. that that is simply not in you to do the task halfway, rather, if given a task you will dive in with both feet in and with the energy and passion you have , as how you've done an ambassador to canada, i'm confident how you will do the job as the ambassador to the un as well. let's take a moment to talk about just how important the job of ambassador to canada is. canada is one of the most important global allies. there, the u.s. defense arrange with canada are more extensive than any other country. we have more than 800 agreements on cooperations across national security, they are one of my countries that participated in the u.s. of 35 program. and you have been the point person for the past year and half with u.s. policy, with canada, can you describe, briefly, how you approach that job, and what you did to strengthen the friendship and relationship between united states and canada? >> thank you senator. as you know, it is in vitally important to have the relationship if we go into negotiating. ambassador, he was extremely important in including this friendship and this initial respect, if you don't have respect, when you are sitting at the table and you disagree, then you won't come back and it will not be productive. we've had several issues as far as meetings, especially when it came to china and use of 5g technology i'm continuing to stress canada, 2% for nato publicly one more time, the fact that usmc was so important to the canadians everywhere i would go whether it is toronto, calgary, montrial, quibec, rhode island, they would ask me about nafta and usmc at the time it was in nafta. and how important it was to them to their families and to their economy. their community, that we, the united states, and canada had a very healthy trade agreement. i was available 24-7 as i will be as confirmed, as the embedded to the united nations. >> thank you ambassador. >> thank you very much senator cruise. i appreciate your unpaid advertisement for spending the 2%, we've tried that, the best person i've seen as president of the united states, he's done a good job of getting their attention. everyone's getting their attention on that issue. >> thank you mr. chairman, ambassador craft , thank you for being here today and to consider taking on this difficult position. i appreciated the opportunity to meet with you yesterday as well as our conversation and your passionate support for the un system. i think that is critical to anyone who serves as the ambassador to the un. i appreciate the opportunity to talk with you about the united nations population fund. i believe this plays a vitally important role in providing health services to the vulnerable women, two men, and two children in the areas of conflict, poverty, or instability in venezuela, for example, they provide hospitals with desperately needed supplies and training for the few doctors that remain on how to deliver babies. and as we discussed, this work is, it's at risk because of the determination of the partners with the programs in china that promote coercive population policies, i very much appreciated your commitment to look into this reports and i have asked multiple representatives from usa to the state department about these reports and i have seen nowhere , any evidence that, any partnership that exists in supporting the programs in china, so, those require abortions for women so, i very much appreciated your commitment to looked to those reports. would you also meeting with the director, the united states sits on the executive board, they approved the country program. i hope, if confirmed he will agree to meet with the executive director. >> yes, absolutely. thank you. >> i also appreciated your agreeing to look into the disturbing reports recognizing the reports at the world health assembly. unfortunately as we discussed this is not the only concerning instance of attacks by the u.s. mission to the un on women's health i will sure that if you are confirmed, the mission to the un, that you will lead, reassert this role at the leading proponent for the women of their rights and their health around the world. is this something that you believe is important for the ambassador for the united states to do? >> absolutely. as we discussed, both of us being mothers of daughters as you could see beautiful granddaughters it's so important that the u.s. takes the lead in the organizations that promote the health and well-being, maternal and child health and voluntary family planning. i could give you my word, i will do everything in my power to continue that support through organizations such as the usa id. the world food program and the world health program, unicef, we have so many wonderful organizations they are allowing women and children to be healthy and as you know and we discussed women and children are would keep communities thriving we will lose the economy in those communities so thank you for sharing, yesterday, i'm looking forward to confirm toward working closely with you. >> thank you very much for that commitment. as we know, this has been the policy of the united states to empower women around the world, that is good, not just because this is the right thing to do that women give back to the families and the communities, more to their countries, they contribute to this stability of community. in that regard, this committee and this congress passed and the bill was signed into law in 2017. it was the peace and security act, it is a commitment to ensure women are part of the negotiating process in conflict areas when peace is being negotiated. the administration, just last week put forward a strategy to implement the women, peace, and security act, it is important. if confirmed, can you commit to furthering the effort at the un including through the body such as you and women who promote the limitation of the principle of women, peace, and security? >> yes, senator, i commit i will be an advocate for women's issues and making certain that we really highlight women and children as well as young girls, so that they could also be strong women in their communities and countries. they can have the opportunity, if confirmed, the u.s., un ambassador. >> thank you very much. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you senator . senator paul. >> congratulation on your nomination but i was trying to introduce my own bill to prevent government shutdowns in another committee. i could not leave though, i was excited to try to get people to pay attention to this. they are excited about your nomination. as you know i supported you to be the ambassador to canada and i will support you to be the ambassador to the un. i do want to explore a couple of questions and issues that are important with regard to the middle east. i do agree with president trump, the iraq war was a giant geopolitical mistake . >> senator paul, as we had this discussion in your office, you know i understand that president trump has made this statement, he believes the iraq war was a mistake. if confirmed i will be filing the presidents policies. >> do you agree with the president ? >> i will not second-guess the administration, the current administration, i do acknowledge that the president has made this statement he disagrees with our --. >> the reason this is an important question it's not about history or something that happened that has no influence over what happens now, it instructs dozens and dozens of different conflicts around the world. do you think that the regime change in libya has been to the world advantage or to our advantage? >> i think the regime change in libya has been important, especially because we do have, you know have power in different situations going on at the moment. it is really important we have a strong presence there. >> do you think the world is better off with the regime change or the current situation in libya? >> well, we had not had a regime change as of yet. and we had a regime change, we are part of france and the united states toppling that leader. some would argue that we were worse off, that the place is chaotic. it has been rife with terrorist camps, we have now competing factions, we are now giving arms to cutter as of last week, cutter is giving one side of the war, we support the other side of the where we used to support the un sanctioned government now we support some other generals now it sounds like an unmitigated disaster. the reason that i mention this, if this is what happened in iraq, we toppled a strong man, who wa

libya after a spokesman says turkish citizens in libya will be arrested turkey's accused of supplying weapons to forces allied with the un recognized government in tripoli after launched an offensive to seize control of the libyan capital in april meanwhile the u.s. state department is investigating how have to us forces obtain american made anti-tank missiles forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government said they found the weapons after capturing the city of ariana earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as the recipient of the amorality is did provide the weapons it would be a violation of on sales agreements with the u.s. and a u.n. arms embargo imposed back in 2011 although bernal's is in washington now with the u.s. reaction. the weapons in question here they're called javelin anti-tank rockets and they're manufactured by the us defense giants raytheon and lockheed martin jointly and according to the markings on the boxes the crates of these weapons were shipped and they were sold from the united states to the united arab emirates in 2008. the weapons themselves are very sophisticated they're capable of taking out any tank anywhere in the world be it russian or chinese or other types of tanks and we did contact the state department and received the following communication from them the state department spokesperson telling al-jazeera we take all allegations of misuse of u.s. origin defense articles very seriously we are aware of these reports and we are seeking additional information we expect all recipients of u.s. origin defense equipment to abide by the end user obligations and what that means is that obligation simply means that when the united states sells a weapons system to another country that country agrees not to resell or re send that weapon to another country a 3rd country a regime under u.n. sanctions or in this case apparently a warlord also under u.n. sanctions so it's unclear what the united states would do if it were proven definitively that the u.a.e. had done this and violated the end user agreement but we do know that president trump considers the u.a.e. of very important ally of the united states and that also the president has valued u.s. arms sales very highly especially to the region. jonathan and weiner is a former u.s. special envoy to libya he spoke about where the u.s. stands on nations. we don't know that it's been continuously violated we know it's been violated at various times and those are different things but there was a period is the who were before in 2014 which president obama intervened in met with the ghost aides at camp david and their leaders and said cut it out stop supplying weapons stop using different libyans as clients in terms of providing weapons the united states did not want any more by late in the arms embargo to libya because we saw that as a potential recipe for promoting civil. sudan's military council as well and that no damage or destruction will be tolerated as the mass rallies planned for sunday fought to go ahead protest leaders are calling for a 1000000 man march to keep up that demand for a civilian rule rights groups want to fishel to guarantee the safety of the protest as but the sudanese professionals' association which has let the protests has the security forces raided its headquart

libya maintain his support in the east of libya demonstrate to his international backers you egypt to a lesser degree russia and now france is sort of defected from supporting him but did to demonstrate to his backers that he has some some leverage and some momentum . well the web is up next then a self described neo nazi is sentenced for plowing into protesters in a racist attack. plus career rising new records for france's europe's wealth is in a searing heat why. hello again across united states we are dealing with heat as well we've been talking about europe but the united states is also looking at a heat wave across the central plains high pressure is dominating much of the central areas and that's allowing a lot of the temperatures to rise and you notice here on saturday not only from dallas but all the way up here toward southern canada we are talking about temperatures into the low thirty's now that heat is going to stay all the way over here towards the east coast as well even as we go towards sunday no scattered rain showers will be across the region that will cool things off for several hours but we're not talking about widespread cool down up here towards new york though it is going to be $29.00 degrees and down towards washington about $33.00 degrees few parts of the caribbean a sing off and on rain showers but with the heaviest rain though is going to be across much of central america over here towards the yucatan peninsula and into most of mexico for the next coming days so for parts of cozumel cancun you could see the afternoon showers as well but it will be heavier down here towards nicaragua we do expect to see a temper there of about $32.00 degrees and guatemala city at about $25.00 degrees for you and then here across much of argentina we are going to be seeing a mix of clouds and rain over the next few days that is coming into play with cooler temperatures for one as that is at 13 and rio a nice day at 28 degrees for you. across china millions of cameras are watching citizens every move in school or their behavior one i want to east investigates china's surveillance crackdown on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you. talk about your watching i'll just time to recap our headlines now u.s. president donald trump and chinese president xi jinping are meeting at the g 20 in a bid to make progress on trade talks both sides are locked in a trade war that seem tariffs imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods. trump extended an invitation to north korean leader kim jong un he suggested they meet at the border when he visits south korea after the g. 20 summit concludes. forces loyal to libyan all however have to of threatened to target turkish flights and ships told you supports the u.n. recognize government based in tripoli those forces have been fighting off in advance. for almost 3 months. now the e.u. is sealed a major free trade deal with merkel the south american trading block after 20 years of talks the deal will see terrorists dropped on billions of dollars worth of good goods rather the 2 sides accelerated negotiations as donald trump ramped up tariffs on partners and rivals alike trumps election has led the e.u. to expand ties with other trade partners its close deals with canada mexico and japan over the past 2 years. after more than 2 weeks stranded at sea a german humanitarian ship carrying rescued refugees and migrants has docks in italy in defiance of the government the captain of the sea watch 3 was detained after she forced her way into port by dodging police boats she says the lack of help from italian officials and worsening conditions on board had forced her hand police of lead more people off the vessel in the past few minutes it's not known if the crew or some of the 40 migrants on board finland france germany luxembourg and portugal have agreed to take them in. the crisis in venezuela has dominated the latest meeting of the organization of american states a new report says it could become the largest migrant crisis in the world by the end of 2020. has more from the colombian city of may the. immigration crisis on the us mexican border hundreds of thousands fleeing poverty in central america deadlier peoples in nicaragua known. as you're going to station of american states annual assembly got underway in the in the west no shortage of urgent problems to deal with. a 3rd attorney for nations represented here there was one issue overshadowing them all the ongoing political and economic crisis in venezuela in the fate of millions of its desperate migrants integrity of public official the secretary general of the organization promised to continue pushing for president nicolas maduro to step down. we must continue to work on applying increasing pressure and this meeting is part of that increasing pressure. but a number of countries protested the decision by the oas to receive representatives of political opposition after the government of nicolas maduro withdrew from the group earlier this year was a good way took it a step forward abandoning the general assembly altogether. but i thought here in the prepared we phased in over the last couple of years we've seen an internal dynamic taking place in a way that we can't embrace that undermines erode to us institutionally the simmering divisions in the region on how to move forward when it's well or have now clearly come to the surface and they're showing after months of protests crippling american sanctions and then attempt and an uprising in venezuela that have failed to provoke regina change in the country. what all members do agree on is the magnitude of the crisis a report presented here says that in this way. an exodus could reach 8000000 people by next year making it the largest in the world even surpassing the 6700000 people who have fled serious conflict or u.s. representatives appealed to the international community for more support. stream we worried because so far we've only been able to raise just 21 percent of the one required by the united nations response plan which was presented at the beginning of the year funding legs far behind what's needed. as my daughter's maintaining his grip on power the oas is saying the time has come to end all restrictions on the movement of venezuelans forced to flee in the region recognizing them formally as refugees something so far receiving countries have avoided doing listen to. the. european powers haven't done enough to help iran avoiding crippling u.s. sanctions that's the view of iran's deputy foreign minister after hours of talks in vienna on the 2015 nuclear deal the meeting was billed as the last chance to save the agreement paul brennan explains. in 2015 the negotiating teams came to the lavish public coburg in vienna to sign and seal the. nuclear deal 4 years later they're here trying to save it britain china france germany and russia have announced that in sticks is now operational a complex barter type system to let european countries trade with iran while avoiding u.s. sanctions tehran has set a july 7th deadline that's when its threatened to begin enriching uranium close to weapons grade purity if its oil exports aren't resume and i believe that it was a. positive and constructive meeting. i can say want to step forward compared to the previous meetings we have but it is a still not enough and it is it is still not eating you don't say expectations china the biggest buyer of iranian oil has also hit out at the united states for its unilateral action we reject the unilateral imposition of sanctions and for us the energy security is important and the importation of all is important to the chinese security energy security and also to the livelihood of the people president trump took the united states out of the j. c.p.o. a deal last year and is pressurising the european signatories to do the same at the same time the u.s. is demanding that iran must abide by the deal of limited stockpile of enriched uranium previously iran exported excess uranium to stay within the limits but the sanctions now prevent that the u.s. special envoy. on iran is touring european capitals to muster support for president trump stance on friday he was in london we are trying to restore deterrence to reestablish deterrence against iran. we are also putting ourselves in a position where if we are attacked by iran we can respond with military force but that is only if but on the nuclear deal european countries are sticking with iran calling the agreement a major contribution to stability in the region can the in stix trading system deliver enough economic benefits to keep iran from abandoning the treaty perhaps not but it's been described as the last chance paul brennan al-jazeera the u.s. government believes last month drone attacks against pipelines in saudi arabia will launch from iraq rather than yemen that according to the wall street journal it says u.s. officials looking into the incident blame iranian backed groups operating in southern iraq until now yemen's who the rebels were thought to be behind the attacks the rocky government is the man doing more information french president emanuel macaws been leading calls at the g 20 summit for coordinated action on climate change and it couldn't be more timely france's just registered its highest temperature in recorded history as europe deals with a particularly severe heat wave the southern town of v.l. hit 45 point one degrees celsius breaking the record set in a 2003 heat wave in spain more than 600 firefighters in 6 water dropping out craft are battling a massive wildfire in the catalonia region high temperatures causing concern over the wellbeing of players in the african cup of nations in egypt and women's world cup in france and the united nations world meteorological organization says the years 2015 to 2019 are on course to be the hottest 5 year period worldwide since records began. we expect that heat waves will become more frequent more extreme intense and they will start earlier and they will finish later and so what we're seeing now with you know temperatures of $45.00 degrees in france it's june you know that this this we shouldn't be seeing temperatures like this in june it's too early in the year the paris agreement makes professions to keep temperatures to under 2 degrees celsius above the pre-industrial era by the end of this century so we're not talking about $2525.00 the end of this century and if at all possible to go further and to keep them to less than $1.00 degrees celsius above at the moment we've got about a one percent want to grease celsius temperature increase so you know we're getting there rapidly but be a singer today in europe or what we saw last month in india what we will probably see and many other parts of the world in the coming months of the year it shows that you know climate change it plays out through our daily weather heat waves extreme heat is the clearest signal from climate from climate change it's not the only one you know there's a direct link between climate change and precipitation or rainfall doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to get more rainfall but we're seeing more of it and very very very heavy episodes and we're seeing less of that when we went by and when we really need it a region in southern pakistan has been hit by severe dry was a room water shortages the government says it will declare a drought no rain by mid august. reports from sort of par car. the wild has a special place in portland folklore southern part of the bird is considered sacred and killing it a sin but in the last few years peacocks have died in their hundreds more humanistic over their habitat their numbers continue to do an. environmentalist believe in addition to human intervention climate change is also to blame. the desert ecosystem is sustained by replenishing the underground water table but its depletion has accelerated with no rain and rapid extraction. of them to undergo to try to put a source is affected biodiversity here a lack of rain and very strong winds during unusual seasons is having an impact there diminishing numbers of peacocks and deer is also destroying the beauty of. in addition to drought and persistently high temperatures a lot of damage has been done by humans to this fragile ecosystem well for the local population and mega projects such as pakistan's largest open pit coal mine also use high volumes of water the mining company says it's doing all it can to minimize the environmental impact it's not just the packers wildlife which is this is what is happening to a major source of livelihood for the people here nomadic cattle herders who graze these lands for centuries are having to move because of extreme weather changes. the main source of income is agriculture and livestock in the sudden their park region. an estimated 6000000 cattle are a source of meat for all of pakistan. but with a persistent dry spell not enough fodder is available. and what's available is too expensive for many herders many are selling their cattle at a fraction of the market price. though. there were no rains from the last few years drought no fire and no water have made my cows weaker and that's why we're leaving this area. the government says it will have to declare a drought emergency in the region if there. are no rains by august basically. economy and i wear. top our cars economy is based on agriculture and livestock both need to be modernized with drip irrigation kitchen gardening and modern cattle farming in order to save lives. arid areas are at the highest risk from manmade and natural changes in the environment. and those whose ancestors have called this region home say they are struggling to survive. some of a job with al-jazeera in the 3rd parker desert in russia meanwhile at least 2 people have been killed during heavy rain in the southeast several tributaries of the river in the siberian region of burst their banks entire villages have been swept away as well as 13 major bridges. the man who drove his car into a group of protesters in charlottesville virginia has been sentenced to life in prison for committing federal hate crimes before his sentencing james alex fails expressed his remorse for the attack which killed one person then left dozens more injured had to call him reports. it was the moment the country realized white supremacist worm boldin taking to the streets of charlottesville virginia in mass with tiki torches they shouted a chorus of racist and anti-semitic chants was they protested the removal of the confederate statue their hate would not go unchallenged hundreds of counter protesters met them head on there were clashes and then there was this crash. james alex fields was behind the wheel he was found guilty of killing heather higher and injuring dozens in this chaos he pled guilty to federal hate crime charges in exchange prosecutors dropped the death penalty and now he's learned for his crime he will spend the rest of his life in prison susan bro is highers mother she says she believes her daughter's death and his sentence sends an important message the last time i saw my daughter was to identify her body and to sign the papers for her to be cremated and i held her bruised jane and bruce starman and i said i'm going to make this count for years and that's what i've done and i will continue to do you don't get to not my child down and silence that voice without 500 more raising up. this was a moment where the country's divisions were on full display and it provoked arguably one of the most controversial comments from a u.s. president provokes controversy often in the u.s. a very different group but you also had people that were. very 5 people on both sides but the courts disagree at least for one saying he is not a good person he's a murderer a racist and now a prisoner for life. al-jazeera washington. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just now u.s. president trump and chinese president xi jinping are meeting at the g 20 in a bid to make progress on trade talks both sides are locked in a trade war that seemed terrorists imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods. one basic fact remains unchanged china and the united states both benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation cooperation and dialogue are better than friction and confrontation earlier trump extended an invitation to north korean leader kim jong un he suggested they meet at the border when he visits south korea after the g 20 summit concludes forces loyal to libyan all of a half ton of threaten to target turkish flights and ships the spokesman for half of those forces also said turkish nationals in libya would be arrested this week fighters loyal to the u.n. recognize government recapture this strategic town from half those forces they were trying to seize the capital for 3 months the warlord accusing turkey of supplying weapons to forces allied to the tripoli government. the e.u. sealed a major free trade deal with mercosur in the south american trading block after 20 years of talks the deal will see tariffs dropped on billions of dollars worth of goods the 2 sides accelerated negotiations as donald trump ramped up tariffs on partners and rivals alike from selection has led the e.u. to expand ties with other trade partners its close deals with canada mexico and japan over the past 2 years after more than 2 weeks stranded at sea a german humanitarian ship carrying rescued refugees and migrants has docks in italy in defiance of the government the captain of the sea watch 3 was detained after she forced her way into port by dodging police boats she says the lack of help from italian off

within a day but have to or is trying to shore up his support in the west of libya maintain his support in the east of libya demonstrate to his international backers you egypt to a lesser degree russia and now france is sort of defected from supporting him but did to demonstrate to his backers that he has some some leverage and some momentum . well the weather is up next then a self described neo nazi is sentence for plowing into protesters in a racist attack. plus mercury rising near a cold for france's europe's wealth is in a searing heat why.

we start in libya where forces allied to libya's u.n. recognized government say they've retaken the town of garrion 80 kilometers south of the capital tripoli from forces loyal to the warlord holly for have to. it's a major setback for have to campaign to take tripoli which began almost 12 weeks ago darien was his major forward base just a couple of hours drive down a main road to the capital after bax an unofficial rival government based in the eastern city of to brooke after claims he still has control of gharyan u.n. special investigator and yes kalama has called for a criminal inquiry into saudi arabia's crown prince and one of his main advisers over the murder of journalist. she's been delivering her final report on his killing it found saudi arabia responsible and she says there are legal grounds to launch an international inquiry ashaji was killed inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul last october excellences state trust sponsibility begs a question as to whom is or geometrically liable for each killing the inquiry was a huma

within a day but have to or is trying to shore up his support in the west of libya maintain his support in the east of libya demonstrate to his international backers you egypt to a lesser degree russia and now france is sort of defected from supporting him but did to demonstrate to his backers that he has some some leverage and some momentum he's lost a lot of momentum in the last week and so it'll be a very interesting going forward what gains have to will make and whether he will actually start attacking turkish interests actively or whether this is just an announcement in the past we've seen sometimes have to makes announcements and takes no actions and sometimes he does and that's a little bit what's unpredictable right now when i want to ask you more about that because he specifically threatened to target flights and ships coming from taki what's the actual capability of his forces to make good on a threat like that. well he's been kind of losing lately he had a bunch of drones that were hit from from the sky by. western planes including there was an american mercenary involved that recently got return

libya after a spokesman says turkish citizens in libya will be arrested turkey's accused of supplying weapons to forces allied with the un recognized government in tripoli after launched an offensive to seize control of the libyan capital in april meanwhile the u.s. state department is investigating how have to us forces obtained american made anti-tank missiles forces loyal to the u.n. recognize government said they found the weapons off the capturing city of earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as the recipient if the emraan did provide the weapons it would be a violation of on sales agreements with the u.s. and a u.n. arms and go as well back in 2011 mahmoud is in the libyan capital tripoli. the 80. messages these. messages tank misses were found dozens of them were found by the government forces as the recaptured this town of it again about $880.00 although it could imitate is that the south from the capital tripoli but according to government spokesman today the united arab emirates has supplied those weapons and all the weapons including get drones and. fighter jets to the water load have got we understand that the united arab emirates has been providing have to do with weapons ammunition and fighter jets since he launched his military campaign not only to be captured or to take control of the capital tripoli but in 2014 when he finished launches his military campaign known as oppression dignity in the east of libya rob reynolds in washington has more on the u.s. reaction. the weapons in question here they're called javelin anti-tank rockets and they're manufactured by the us defense giants raytheon and lockheed martin jointly and according to the markings on the boxes the freights of these weapons were shipped and they were sold from the united states to the united arab emirates in 2008. the weapons themselves are very sophisticated they're capable of taking out any tank anywhere in the world be it russian or chinese or other types of tanks and we did contact the state department and were seized the following communication from the state department spokesperson telling al-jazeera we take all allegations of misuse of u.s. origin defense articles very seriously we are aware of these reports and we are seeking additional information we expect all recipients of u.s. origin defense is. meant to abide by the end user obligations and what that means is that end user obligation simply means that when th

libya including airlines and shipping. after spokesman also says turks in libya will be arrested because turkey has been accused of supplying weapons to forces allied to the un recognized government in tripoli and while the u.s. state department is investigating how half his forces obtained american made antitank missiles forces also the u.n. back to governments of they found the weapons after capturing the city. earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as a recipient so if the americans did provide the weapons that would be a violation of arms sales agreements with the us correspondent about the one who has been to that libyan town the government forces captured from have to fight as this is his exclusive report from. the road from tripoli to open again. this city and surrounding area have been a battlefield for the past 3 months. following the latest fighting with honey for have to his forces soldiers loyal to libya as you enter the government regained control of the u.n. as we drive towards the city the remnants of the battle is littered on the roadside . sandbanks built to defend the city now a stumbling block for car drivers. government forces have recaptured have to it's military camps like many from other riyadh who resisted have to his invasion. led was forced to leave his home city in march he says he left his family behind and took part in several battles until he and his comrades.

government's policy on libya they say confusion over the white house position is being used by armed groups in libya to justify fighting on friday the deputy prime minister libya's u.n. recognize government expressed concern over a phone call between the u.s. president and warlords in april that will soon after half past forces launched a military campaign to take tripoli to cohen has more from washington. this is a letter from the democratic members of the house foreign affairs committee that's the secretary of state mike pompei when they're urging him to come out and clarify exactly what the position of the u.s. is when it comes to libya now the secretary of state had said weeks ago that they still back in the u.n. backed government and they urged restraint here for syria but then u.s. president phone call was khalifa haftar hour and the readout of that was fairly confusing they seem to be back you have to are saying that he was fighting terrorism in this letter the congressmen and women are saying that that was just confusing and that it sent the message to armed actors that are now using that confusion over u.s. policy as justification to continue the confli

to libyan war after are threatening to target turkish interests in libya including airline flights and ships spokesman says turks in libya will be arrested turkey's accused of supplying weapons to forces allied to the un recognized government in tripoli. the u.s. state department is investigating how half those forces obtained american made antitank missiles forces roiled to the u.n. back government said they found the weapons after capturing the city of very and earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as the recipient if the m.r. artie's did provide the weapons it would be a violation of arms sales agreements with the us. has been to the libyan town the government forces captured from haft are they retreat from the area is seen as a significant setback that they were had has this exclusive report. the road from tripoli to open again. the city and surrounding area have been a battlefield for the past 3 months. following the latest fighting with honey for have to his forces soldiers loyal to libyan government regained control of the yan as we drive towards the city the remnants of the

president obama he hasn't got the united states into full fledged wars like in libya and in syria going to iraq was a mistake and libya as well as been bogged down in iraq there's no doubt about it and in syria it is not about that seemed to me it was just have this kind of arrogant notions toward war and control of the cold relationships i mean we will in fact have the power to bring the forces binns will to the table and negotiate a working relationship and room reconciliation that's our strength reconciliation not not not regime change always as regard to china. that's the multilateral negotiations and in time you cannot undo the china tribulation but bluster and 11 speech and one threat we cannot have negotiate with threats. and bluster when the need that when we will respect will negotiations for transition and transformation but is chomper really any different from other presidents ronald reagan when he came here didn't get a full state visit he addressed parliament and he came here when there were death squads in central america the invasion of grenada a commonwealth territory a us president's visit of this cou

have to our significant role in fighting terrorism and security in libya's oil resources and the 2 discussed a shared vision for libya's transition to a stable democratic political system that to many seemed like an endorsement including to the democratic members of the foreign affairs committee who have sent this letter to the secretary of state writing the call has led to uncertainty regarding the u.s. position and that libyan armed actors are using the confusion to continue the conflict there urging him to clarify the country's position this is part of a broader fight for influence according to federal filings just last month after hours organization agreed to pay $2000000.00 to a u.s. lobbying firm to help improve his image in d.c. the white house says he has not been invited to meet with the president at the white house. but they've said very little about which side of the conflict the u.s. actually supports members of congress say that needs to change. political hay al-jazeera washington. the pressure of u.s. sanctions is having a major affects only runs economy with export margins tight invest as attending to bu