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in many countries, there's a dictator, saddam hussein and there's moammar gadhafi and all the people or against him who because against gadhafi there must be good and virtuous. then someone like aung san suu kyi happens and we don't know where to put her. did this give you any insight into why things like that happen? >> no, , but it made me realize the more interesting for me deal of journalistic inquiry was exactly that gray zone that's often time left unexplored but that became an interesting psychological i guess problem for me to understand how it is that individuals navigate the circumstances and the characters in the book i purposely chose people who i at least couldn't come to some final conclusion about where they good or bad? there were people who defied my attempts at categorization. i would welcome of the people's choice of in that i wouldn't argue they were objectively, but they were by me and that's what interests me in them and that's how you ended up in the book. i was searching for the characters were even after spending how many hours with them over months in some c

being diagnosed late last month to reel at the anti-government protests that ousted longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 he was later appointed prime minister and head of the national transitional council. malaysian authorities say they are concerned that people smugglers are still operating despite the coronavirus pandemic after more than $200.00 were injured refugees arrived illegally on the island. they say they were taken there by a human smuggling ring the men accused of taking them escape before arriving and malaysian waters a 2nd refugee camp has been quarantined near athens after a 53 year old man tested positive for grown up iris about 1800 people living in the last camp are being screened john's raw place is in athens and says the greek government is incredibly worried about the number of refugees and migrants who could become sick. this is the 2nd camp that's been placed and locked in a space of just 3 or 4 days as a result of a positive test the great concern here is to the greek government is to move with speed because this camp holds about 1800 people the entire that's more

situation on the ground libya has been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago various forces backed one of 2 rival administrations the u.n. recognized government in the capital tripoli controls the area in blue border collie for half formed the soft clad libyan national army controls the area in red . fires are saraj is prime minister of the government a passionate record in tripoli while half dozen ministrations based in the eastern city of tobruk his forces are trying to capture tripoli for a year now so far haven't succeeded beyond the school city's outskirts sammy hamby is editor in chief of the international interest a current affairs not assist magazine with a particular focus on the middle east he says the timing of the ceasefire isn't just about ramadan is calling a ceasefire now because the tide of the tripoli offensive has old now his 2 main bases the spine of the tripoli offensive is now under siege that's what the air base where the supplies come in from the east and that one or both of these bases are holding out which it seems

here in the last period of in many countries, there's a dictator, their saddam hussein and there's moammar tanabe and all the people who because they're against cannot be they must be good and virtuous and then we don't know where to put her. does this give you an insight into why things like that happen? >> know, but it made me realize the more interesting for me field of journalistic inquiry was exactly that gray zone. that's often times left unexplored but became an interesting psychological i guess problem for me to understand how it is that individuals navigated those circumstances and the characters in this book i purposely chose people who i couldn't come to some final conclusion about. were they good or were they bad -mark they were people who defied my categorization i would welcome other people's choices in that regard and i wouldn't argue that objectively uncharacterized double but they were by me and that's what interested me and then that's how they ended up in the book, searching for the kinds of characters where even after sending how many hours them over months in places, y

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being diagnosed late last month jabril led the anti-government protests that ousted longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 then became head of the national transitional council the head of the roman catholic church pope francis is held palm sunday mass in line with italy's ban on public ceremonies usually tens of thousands of people will attend in the square outside instead it had a very modern congregation and was streamed online from inside st peter's basilica to the faithful online the ceremony is the 1st major event of the christian holy week a social distancing meant that mass was affected around the world this is how it looked in jerusalem where the traditional procession was called off palm sunday marks the time that christians believe jesus arrived in the city before his death on good friday south sudan has confirmed its 1st case of the coronavirus vice president greg mashad said the 29 year old infected woman arrived from ethiopia in february she's now being treated in isolation the public health brutally tested. it is over. in an individual that says pick but isn't it to the u.n.

sit here in the west, right, in many countries, there is a dictator of saddam hussein and there's moammar gadhafi and all people who are against him good because they're against gadhafi they must be good and virtuous. some elect aung san suu kyi happens and we don't know where to put her. it is give you some insight into why things like that happen? >> no but it made me realize the more interesting for me field of journalistic inquiry was exactly that gray zone that's oftentimes left unexplored but that just came an interesting psychological i guess the problem for me to understand how it is that individuals navigate it, the circumstances and the characters in the book i purposely chose people who i at least couldn't come to some final conclusion about, with a good or bad? they were people who defied my attempts at categorization. i would welcome other people's choice and that regard. i would argue they are objectively on categorize a bowl. they were by me and that's what interested me and that's how you ended up in the book. i was searching for the characters where even after spending ho

other case i could see this that parallels this, is pan am 103 disaster and libya was behind that and moammaradhafi denied, and finally fessed up and the lockerbie, and then it took economic pressure to do this. don't you need something like that? >> it's a fair question. and typically, and i think what you're getting to is that it's a sovereign nation, and they claim protection. so we've alleged public nuisance, negligence, not just how they handled this, but also, with a lot of other factors of them dealing with the situation, but it's important under the federal sovereign immunities act, there are exceptions to that. there's a commercial activity exception, so we allege that they're handling with the wuhan virology lab, the hoarding of ppe, they went from a net exporter to a net importer of ppe and keeping the world in the dark and running the hospital system. those or objectives we believe fits into the sovereign immunities act and why we believe our claims have merit and why we don't think we'll be the last state to do this. neil: you're the only state doing it, but you might be lighting