in the un to lift an arms embargo imposed during the twenty seven uprising that brought down moammar gadhafiis regime well r.t. interviewed the country's former interim prime minister mahmoud jibril for his take on the situation and there's a glimpse of what's coming up. illicitly speaking who holds power who holds guns you know so there is. this decor to me between the. post conflict periods it's difficult to stop national consensus it's not an easy thing especially in a country where we create a culture who is totally absent you know needs time needs patience and he's a real lover of this country measured world is dialup real between all those groups if we manage to have a national dialogue with everybody can express his points of view he can talk about his all rights what he wants what he thinks of libya's of the future if we can have this national killed today not tomorrow i think he'll be able to be in a much safer hands in the future. and as libya continues to deal with the fallout from the twenty seven revolution one of the main foreign supporters of the uprising could be further impl

citizens there live under one of the longest-ruling dictators in the world, colonel moammar gadhafi,eld power for 42 years. >> libya was one of those countries people never imagined it would see the revolution spread to. because gadhafi was so in control. but i'm a revolution junkie, and it succeeded in tunisia. it succeeded in egypt. i wanted it to succeed everywhere. >> for decades gadhafi was one of the world's most eccentric leaders, known for his flamboyant outfits and his all-female bodyguards. but he was also an open supporter of international terrorism, with links to the lockerbie bombers, the i.r.a., and other militant groups. >> he kept libya under very, very tight wraps. he would disappear people. there was no freedom of any kind. massacres in prison. so he was a horrendous, horrible, brutal dictator. >> anyone who spoke out against him at all would be arrested immediately, sometimes tortured, sometimes killed. >> tracy shelton is a 34-year-old freelance journalist from australia who heads to libya to cover the conflict. >> it began with protests, as in many of the arab co

to lift the weapons embargo imposed during the two thousand and eleven uprising that ousted moammar gadhafi to try to reequip its military the country's interim prime minister during that civil war has been telling us he why it's vital that the army gets the hardware. realistically speaking who holds potent who holds guns you know so and so that is. this to me between the poet and an official poet of post conflict periods of the difficulty to stop national consensus it's not an easy thing to spew shit in a country where they would crush the culture it was totally absent you know heeds time needs patience and love of this country that measure would this dialup between all those. if we manage to have a national day what is it a body can express his points of view to come to his own rights what he wants what he thinks of libya's of the future if we can't have this national killed today to morrow i think he'll be able to be. in a much safer hands in the future. you can hear more of what libya's former interim prime minister has to say at six forty five pm g.m.t. right here on r t i started comi

former french president nicolas sarkozy got a lucrative campaign contribution from ousted dictator moammar gadhafitakes a new turn as we report on our web site. was a comment rushing towards mars could collide with it next year and calls an explosion equaling twenty thousand gigaton bomb find out how that could affect plans for a manned mission to the red planet head to our t.v. dot com. online entrepreneur kim dot com has lost the latest round in his legal battle to avoid extradition from new zealand to america record is overturned an earlier ruling that would have forced the u.s. to hand over a crucial documents on the case but the extradition hearing itself has not yet started with the investigation ongoing dot com who made a fortune from his file sharing service mega upload was arrested by new zealand police during a raid on his mansion in january last year he's wanted in the us on criminal charges of facilitating piracy and racketeering but maintains his innocence claiming he's the victim of a smear campaign earlier are to talk to who says online freedom is at the mercy of government. what i

ramped up into whether former french leader nicolas sarkozy was illegally bankrolled by libya's moammar gadhafi before being part of the push to oust him. online entrepreneur kim dotcom is a step closer to being extradited to the united states from new zealand an appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have allowed him and three co-defendants broad access to the evidence against them the four are accused of massive copyright fraud through dot com as mega upload files sharing website with the extradition hearing set for august dot com said he can't be held accountable for other people using his site to illegally download songs and films his lawyers plan to appeal to new zealand supreme court which could further postpone the extradition hearing dot com told r.t. the online freedom is completely at the mercy of governments. what i have since i got dragged into this case is a lot about privacy abuses about the government spying on people they're not spying on individuals based on a warrant more than just my own body armor and all the time and what that means for you and anybody if you are

and he embraced some of the world's most notable tyrants, moammar gadhafi and bashar al assad. fidel castro was his close friend and mentor. he made political sport of attacking u.s. policies. and president bush was one of his favorite foils. >> translator: yesterday, the devil came here. right here. and it smells of sulfur still today. >> reporter: in 2007, barbara walters asked what his message would be to the american people. >> we, the venezuelan people, love you. we want, i want, to be your brother. a great leader of you, martin luther king, is my leader. his dream is your dream, is our dream, is my dream. >> reporter: ambitious and defiant to the end. the question tonight is, who will follow the most dominant latin american leader of his generation? matt gutman, abc news, miami. >>> and still ahead here on "world news," one prescription drug, very different prices and right in your neighborhood. >> $15. $21.59. $147.99. >> we're going to tell you a simple way to save a lot of money on drugs tonight. real money, next. [ male announcer ] it's surprising what your mouth goes

former french president nicolas sarkozy got a lucrative campaign contribution from ousted dictator moammar gadhafi takes a new turn as we report on our website. plus comments rushing towards mars could collide. next year and cause an explosion including a twenty thousand ton bomb and how that could affect plans for a manned mission to the red planet and r.t. dot com. as mikhail saakashvili prepares to stand down as leader of georgia later this year the question turns to what his legacy will be some say is that main achievement is an attempt to rebuild the country literally while new constructions across the capital were meant to attract new investors their real impact on the economy has turned out to be superficial sorties and discovered. over the past five years georgia's outlook has changed dramatically of president mikheil saakashvili is architectural programs but not everyone is in the mood to admire these architectural novelties and his family lost their home and leases several years ago after falling on hard times they had been promised a new flat by the city's authorities but the promise ha

members of the former regime from participating in political life and saddam was a diplomat during moammar gadhafi his rule before the nation's eight month long civil war in two thousand and eleven. pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has returned to his country after five years of self-imposed exile he was the united states main political ally in the war on terror until he stepped down in two thousand and seven made increasing calls for his impeachment which are of set his sights on a political comeback for may elections with a pledge to save the country that the us is waiting to withdraw from troubles in neighboring afghanistan and taliban terror threats are mounting in the region political analysts sult on how many things which are off his back by foreign patrons with their own stake in his country's. best has. to its advantage it looks for. the preference is always that military dictator but the situation now in pakistan is that a military dictatorship is possibly out of the question so the next best thing is to prop somebody who was that trusted man and you can find some evidence on

chavez's long list of dubious friends who's who of american enemies from mahmoud ahmadinejad in iran moammar gadhafi in libya and iraq's saddam hussein the price of his socialist agenda chavez himself term limits were abolished even his critics admit he could have gone on winning elections indefinitely his biggest failure may be his unilateral success a legacy of one before his death critics said chavez was leaving venezuela in the control of narco traffickers and this morning u.s. officials are wondering how his passing well impact relations with the oil giant yes of course the big question what's going to happen to the oil can't think it any more obvious look i'm not going to sit here and glorify venezuela or chavez or socialism for that matter and in fact there are many legitimate criticisms to be had take for example the heightened rates of violence and censorship and prosecution of political dissidents but you hear the less appealing aspects of chavez i ad nauseum from the corporate press so my job is to tell you what they won't lift the veil on the most egregious myths said about the venezuela

i had her on the show recently, couple months ago, talking about moammar gadhafi, who she had interviewederal times. just the amount of travel, the amount of situations that she put herself in is really extraordinary. >> yes. and most of the time, it was through her own booking. she would get on the phone and book these people. you know barbara was often criticized for her social activity because she would socialize with a lot of people but a lot of that was calculated on her part. she knew how to make relationships, get insiders to listen to her, and then she could book them and get big gets. that's what her business was. >> i hope she's on air for a long time to come. bill carter, appreciate you being with us. thanks. >> nice to be with you, anderson. >>> let's get you caught up on some of the other stories we're following right now. susan hendricks is here with the "360" bulletin. >> former south african president nelson mandela remains hospitalized for a lung infection. he is said to be responding positively to treatment. he was conscious when he was admitted. it is the second time th

. >> chavez literally demonized america, moammar gadhafi, mahmoud ahmadinejad. despite the news today is one man down, their work continues. yesterday, north korea threatened to break its 50-year truce with south korea after the u.s. and china proposed strict new sanctions on pyongyang. secretary kerry responded to the threat. >> rather to threaten to abrogate and threaten to move in another direction, the world would be better served if he would direct his people and make a decision himself to engage in a legitimate dialogue and legitimate negotiations. >> but if the past is any precedent, sane dialogue and earnest negotiations are tough things to come by when you're a dictator in troubled waters. robert, we have seen dramatic changes around the world in terms of dictators and dictatorships falling. but i guess my question is, as someone who's worked inside the white house, which is worse, the dictator or the void that is left after he or, i guess, she falls? >> i think it's a bit of both. i mean, look, incidentally, i'm riding up on the train yesterday and sit

where moammar gadhafi was threatening to level the city of benghazi. so that takes you back to one of the first questions that you asked about, yeah, it's all fast-moving and how to make sure that you are not making any mistakes but you don't have the luxury to stop. you have to handle it all at the same time. that's one tiny little window into how dynamic it is to address all those challenges. so hillary clinton goes to paris to try to assess what everybody is on the issue of libya. because this administration is not going to get involved in any sort of military intervention unilaterally. there is no repeat of that for this administration. and they don't want to be leading the charge and then find out that everybody is standing way back in the back, criticizing them for having gone forward. so they're keeping their cards very close to their chest. and hillary clinton is in essence kind of lining up her ducks, or as i said i in the bo, go to her checklist. what do we need, what does the u.s. need to make the decision to go for intervention? and she goe

we all remember gadhafi, moammar gadhafi speaking to television. it seems like these people. ten to who other people and other countries have done. they speak the same language, the same, gadhafi, mubarak, they all said the same words. the internet is our enemy, terrorists fighting us, tell americans to stop financing terrorists as if it's a playbook and they repeating it over and over. i think where we go from here is the right place with what kerry doing. not giving weapons which, you know, we don't know who we are dealing with. we know there's elements inside the free syrian arms there's hard-core islamists and we need to reform them somehow so they are giving them $60 million and it's in food and other kind of aid and in teaching them how to govern eventually in a post-assad era. educating them and opening schools. this is what the arab world needs today to partner -- we need to partner with them. we can open schools all over that region sheikhs, not mullahs, but real leaders to govern their country. >> always good to come back. >> thank you. >> always welcome here on the

libya, the year before last, there were a number of a-list celebrities who met with, you know, moammar gadhafir, beyonce, nellie furtado, lionel richie. why is this different? >> brooke, i think anytime there is an opportunity for some kind of communication, let's face it you can say it facetiously if you want, but dennis rodman knows more about kim than a lot of our government officials right now. and basketball starts a conversation that could maybe bring -- i think as long as he's having a conversation, maybe he can impress to this guy another way of thinking, he's 28 years old, he's a young guy, he's impressionable. yes, he loves power. yes, he loves leadership. he's following in his father's dictatorial footsteps but he may learn about humanity by talking to somebody he admires. we have all been able to touch somebody's life by having a good conversation. beyond politics, human to human, man to man, there may be something that happens in this parlay, you might say. >> i have to leave it there. who would have thunk we would be talking kim jong-un and dennis rodman but there we go. thank yo

role in the killing of moammar gadhafi. >> guest: well, i think that was unfortunate.never believed or never wanted to send the u.s. military in to south africa to write wrongs. i thought that would have been a mistake there, and i thought it was a mistake in libya. i don't think that's a way to build democracy. and anytime you create the downfall of either a tyrant or a democrat through undemocratic military means, you find the restoration of order and tranquility a very difficult thing to accomplish. and so the problems follow you in those cases. now, we may stop covering these things, but that doesn't mean that they're not very difficult and troubling consequences that follow on the heels of these kinds of enterprises. i think that was a mistake to do what we did in libya. and the way he was executed and the thought that we might bear some responsibility for that was more than unfortunate. >> host: and, finally, the political situation in ghana. >> guest: well, kwame wasn't perfect, although i thought he was a marvelous scholar, and i read a great deal of his work v

i taped ahmadinejad in the wolf, did chavez in the afternoon, and moammar gadhafi at night.followed that up right away, talking about bush. he said that bush, the reason he called him evil was that bush tried to assassinate him. and he said he had proof -- that he had proof. venezuelans confessed to him that they were part of an assassin team. he was kind of paranoid, wolf. he had many facets to him. he liked to sing, he was a crazy american baseball fan, but he was very defensive. he didn't trust hillary clinton, he didn't trust america. he was unlike other leftists, he was not anti-religious. he said he was a practicing catholic. he believed in jesus christ. he was a very convoluted figure to me. there were many facets to chavez. i think he was, in many sense, a failed leader in his country, but he sure -- he was very defensive. >> what kind of insights did you gain into hugo chavez, the person? i mean, he's known as a larger than life figure, but when you had the opportunity to interview him, what struck you about him? >> reporter: he was the kind of guy, he was larger th