libya has been in chaos since moammar gadhafi was overthrown three years ago. >> so instead of the running of the bulls it's been the running week. u.s. markets are off to their worst start in a long time because of problems overseas, specifically china. where stock trading was halted drops.

and coalition air strikes helped the rebels overthrow the dictator moammar gadhafi in 2011 during theg what they then called the not war in libya. the rebels killed moammar gadhafi after they found him hiding in a drainage ditch outside his hometown and isis fighters took control of that city last year as part of their expansion in libya. ambassador skip goeneim is former assistant secretary of defense and right now the director of middle east policy forum at the george washington university. good to see you, sir. >> hi, shep, how are you today? >> the not war there in libya, we weren't having a war but now we have to go back in there. what are your thoughts? >> well, it's just as you said a country in chaos, and lawlessness, and this is exactly the kind of breeding ground isis and al qaeda love to go into and they are there and they are breeding and growing in strength, and something needs to be done and the frustration is the very one you talked about, which is who are the allies. who can you anchor with on the ground and while i do believe air strikes as we do in syria and iraq can

reporter: he has been a pretty controversial figure in a power figure since the 1960s and loyal to moammar gadhafiurned against the leader after forced in exile in the late 1980s following a failed conflict with chad. now he returned from exile in the u.s. to support the up rising that toppled gadhafi in 2011 after that he is back on the religious groups from the muslim brotherhood to other conservative groups. haftar commanding forces to the forces loyal in tabrook but they don't want him to play any role in the future of libya and we have a libya political analyst and director of the anticorruption organization and joins us on the phone now from tripoli, how significant is this de-fection of him turning around and accusing general hafta of many things? >> actually i don't think it's a significant thing on hafta and libya. for three or four months he uses it to give us some relief. >> i'm sorry, the line is not terribly clear but can i ask you whether this defection affects the delicate balance of the new unity government? >> i don't think so. it doesn't affect anything in the future. what it can

it is libya's worst bomb attack since the fall of moammar gadhafi in 2011. no group has so far admitted carrying out the attack, which comes amid years that the islamic state is using chaos in the libya to expand its power in the country. reporter: the injured were rushed to a hospital. dozens of others did not survive when the suicide bomber blew up a truck at a police training center in the coastal town. the base was used to train libya's border police and coast guard. some 400 recruits had just gathered when the truck bomber struck. "you came driving really fast, then he drove through the gate as if it was a large vehicle. next to him was a man with a kalashnikov. once he was inside, the car exploded." this latest bloodshed follows attacks on 2 of libya's biggest oil terminals. fires are still raging at one of the two that was set ablaze on monday. that followed clashes between islam and state militants and forces allied with the countries internationally recognized government, and the fire is still spreading. "i appeal to the national oil company and to

accumulating too much power and he called the army chief of another version of the former leader moammar gadhafi. >> translator: by god we had it with the constant violations and assassinations and abuse, burning residences, demolishing them and forcing civilians to flee to tripoli and elsewhere and cannot be associated with hafta and disassiciate with him and illegal actions. >> find out more about the new unity government and indeed this defection in libya on the website as well as the rest of the day's news. a need for speed turns america's stock market upside down. and meet the computers that can make hundreds of million in milliseconds >>> for investors in the stock brutal. the s&p dropped steadily since

other people interview bin laden or moammar gadhafi and he was doing nothing different. others criticize him for meeting with a guy who imports drugs into the united states. >> maybe he could have picked up the phone and said i did this interview here is where he is. maybe he did that. maybe he didn't. more on that with geraldo coming up in a few minutes. >>> hillary clinton a run for her money. the latest poll shows them running neck and neck in iowa and new hampshire. ed henry following the campaign. i can imagine the clinton camp woke up a lit nervous or a lot nervous to these new polls. >> today this is what the washington post called the nightmare scenario for hillary clinton that the front runner could lose iowa and new hampshire. her campaign manager acknowledged they are trailing in new hampshire. he also admitted that this race is tightening big time in iowa. look at the new poll numbers out from the wall street journal specifically in iowa. clinton 48%, sanders 45%. she used to have a double digit lead. same poll new hampshire sanders 50%, clinton 46% and remem

with its control of a good part of libya and all the arms that had been under the control of moammar gadhafi from more than four decades are now spread out throughout that region. so al qaeda and isis are very much on the run with the capability to do things that no terror group had had in the past. this is a very daunting task for any civilization to deal with. and you look at the situation in this hotel, hopefully there are assets that can be responding there quickly. again, i don't mean to belabor the subject of benghazi, but i happened to see the movie the other night and just seeing the heroism of the american men and women, cia assets that were there, and the military, we have the capability, we have the know-how. unfortunately most of the local countries do not. >> i do want to just give an update here. as we are talking, we are now hearing reports, we have not confirmed here at cnn, but reports of at least 20 are dead already. and tim, i know this is what you said you very much feared that these announce could go significantly higher. >> exactly what i worry about. i don't know how m

it was the country's worst bombing since the fall of moammar gadhafi in 2011 and was quickly condemned. >> ( translated ): we confirm that we are totally committed to carrying out a full investigation and following developments and updates and providing full disclosure that deals with this cowardly terrorist act. >> ifill: the government based in tripoli is an islamist regime. a rival government operates in eastern libya, along with various armed factions. in yemen, dozens of saudi air strikes hit the capital city in the heaviest bombardment yet. the saudis and other sunni arab states are supporting yemen's president against shiite rebels. today's attacks hit the presidential palace in sanaa, and a rebel military base. meanwhile, loyalist forces also landed at a key port overnight, opening a new front. iran claimed its embassy in sanaa was hit by the air strikes, but there was no visible damage. paris spent a tense anniversary today: one year since islamist gunmen attacked the satirical newspaper "charlie hebdo," killing 11 people. the city was already on edge when an apparent suicide

civil unrest in the north african nation following the overthrow of moammar gadhafi has created, as somescribed, an ideal safe haven for isis. should the terror group be forced out of iraq and syria, or even if they're not. that's also the concern. joining me now, lieutenant colonel mitch utterback. why is it so important to watch libya? strategically? >> well, strategically it's isis' second front. it's literally an isis colony. they're a great military, strategic power. they have a great ability to figure out what's going to happen next and think ahead in the future. they know that libya's an ungoverned country. massive oil revenue and oil resources there. you know, it's a strategic and it's a financial safe haven from which they can launch and plan attacks, certainly, into europe and eventually into the united states. we've got to pay attention to it, and it's great to hear that we are. jenna: so close to europe, as you mentioned. no central government, we do know a lot about the militias that are in control of different parts of the country or at least the territory at this time, and

libya has been in chaos since moammar gadhafi was overthrown more than four years ago. >> so instead of the running of the bulls it's been the running of the bears on wall street this week. u.s. markets are off to their worst start in a long time because of problems overseas, specifically china. where stock trading was halted twice this week because of big this morning we can say the shanghai index was both up and down before closing up 2%. and a good u.s. jobs report today could actually bolster the markets here. >> tonya couch has a date in court this morning. she's the mother of the so-called affluenza teen brought back to texas yesterday. couch will be arraigned on charges she helped her son flee to mexico. ethan was convicted of killing four people while driving drunk. a youtube video allegedly shows him violating his probation. ethan remains in mexico fighting extradition. country, donald trump packed a full house last night in burlington, vermont. thousands of trump supporters cold as well as hundreds of protesters. it came as trump unleashed a new attack on the clintons with

i was curious if you could situate the overthrow of moammar gadhafi within the larger context of obama'sforeign policy? thank you. >> yeah. well, there are many things that converged there. one is, you know, that actually is like the most, the clearest instance of a humanitarian intervention that we've done, in fact the impulse kind intervening really was one of humanitarian concern for civilian populations that we saw at great risk. coupled with essentially the credibility of the international community which had been enshrined with the joint security council resolution essentially calling on bad behavior to stop it essentially gadhafi ignores that, there's a huge humanitarian consequences for the people who were endangered in places like benghazi, misrata, and other places. and essentially the international community is just seen its word proved to be totally hollow. situated inside, so situate the context of our entire foreign policy, one from a humanitarian intervention standpoint, it achieved a finite objective of stopping at averting a humanitarian catastrophe in the case of gadhaf

i was curious if you could situate the overthrow of moammar gadhafi within the large e context of obama's foreign policy. thank you. >> there are many things that converge there. one, is, that actually is like the most the clearest instance of a humanitarian intervention that we've done. in that, you know, the impulse behind intervening really was one of humanitarian concern for civilian populations that we saw at great risk. coupled with essentially the credibility of the international community which had been, you know, enshrined within a u.n. security council resolution essentially, calling on that behavior to stop, if essentially, gadhafi ignores that, there's a huge humanitarian consequence for the people who are endangered in places like benghazi and other places, and essentially the international community's just, you know, seeing its word proved to be totally hollow. situating it inside the -- so situating in the context of our entire foreign policy, one from a humanitarian intervention standpoint, it achieved the finite objective of stopping and averting a humanitarian catastroph

moammar ga. >> we will have to ask the international community as we asked them before with the tyrant gadhafi. we will ask them for help for these criminals who are murdering us without mercy, there were many places that witnessed explosions. >> the european union is calling that lawlessness the greatest challenge libya faces. today the eu's foreign policy chief, frederica mogherini revealed a $109 million package to support the 98 sent military. logistical support but no ground troops. >> we agreed that a libyan response determined by the libyan unity that can be supported in the way the lynnians will determine by international union and also by the european union but it has to be libyan led and based on the libyan oournt. united nations. >> the libyan unity government is turnlgt base currently baseda because of security concerns. >>> an i.s.i.l. fighter has apparently killed his own mother. in raqqa, i.s.i.l.'s de facto capital in syria. >>> fingerprint belonging to the main suspect in the paris attack. investigators said there is no way to tell when fugitive salla abdeslam left the print. d