allegations that possibly muammar gaddafi may have been involved in financing that campaign. when they listened in to the conversations of sarcozy and his lawyer, they allegedly heard evidence that they had got a network of informers telling them what had been happening about the bettan core cause. the allegation is that sarcozy may have offered one of the judge a top post in monaco in turn for keeping him informed. >> it sounds complicated as french politics usually is. what's the reaction in france to this news? >> on tuesday there was plenty of reaction, ranging from shock to resignation. so far there has been little response actually to the placing of sarcozy under formal investigations. still early on wednesday morning here in france. there has been a handful of unp,

. >> reporter: fighters have been looking after the security since the downfall of muammar gaddafi in1. they were due to hand over to government fors on saturday. the fighters were put on the payroll to get them to cooperate with the government and established rule of law. that is clearly still a work in progress. >>> preparation are are being made to lift the "costa concordia" wreck off the coast of italy. the largest maritime salvage in history is due to begin in a few hours time, 2.5 years after a cruise ship ran aground. still ahead - anglican church to vote on whether to allow women to become bishops. we'll brick you the details. -- bring you the details. >> it's a chilling and draconian sentence... it simply cannot stand. >> its disgraceful... the only crime they really committed is journalism... >> they are truth seekers... >> all they really wanna do is find out what's happening, so they can tell people... >> governments around the world all united to condemn this... >> as you can see, it's still a very much volatile situation... >> the government is prepared to carry out mass

three years ago lib ran-- libyans celebrated the overturned muammar gaddafi.ay no one seems to know how to pull their nation out of the abyss. >> brown: with me now is frederic wehrey. he's a former u.s. air force officer who served as a military attacheÉ in libya. he's been to the country often since the overthrow of gaddafi, and is now a senior associate at the "carnegie endowment for international peace." >> why this violence? i mean there are many different players involved but give us a sense of who the key ones are. what is going on in a basic sense the two rival factions in these rival town, the zintanies have controlled the airport. the misrati a are allied with islamist militia that enjoyed control in a previous parliament. that parliament is no longer in poer with. i think the islamist militias felt like the windows what closing, that they had to act now to seize the airport from these zintanies that were holding the airport there. there is also some factional politics that relate to what is going on in the east. you had a again gaid general who laun

. >> reporter: nearly three years after the fall of muammar gaddafi, libya has descended into lawlessnessthey are still haunted by the attack in benghazi. what role should the u.s. play in libya now? >> having removed gaddafi, things have been getting worse for quite some time now. i do think they should be much more engaged now with the factions in libya. >> reporter: an official says the u.s. has been actively engaged on the ground with libya and will remain so. this follows a partial evacuation of the embassy in baghdad last month as isis rebels threatened the city. and the evacuations of cairo and damascus in 2012. has it been too dangerous to keep any embassies in the middle east open? >> no. the decision is to keep highly skilled professionals on the ground, trying to advance our interests, even in a war zone, even with bullets flying around. we're used to it. we're good at it. >> reporter: still, one u.s. official says the pentagon had been pressing for weeks to evacuate the embassy in tripoli, especially after the airport had come under attack. that left the americans no way to ge

reporter: the weak central government failed to arm in the groups that helped to overthrow the muammar gaddafi regime material three years ago. for days the clashes continued. heavily armed militia men controlled the streets, rival groups controlled their own territory. fighters faced other hard line fighters, calling themselves libyan revolutionaries. >> translation: we condemn this attack. we tried with necessary means to stop this, and agreed with all sides not it fight. we hold them responsible for this attack and the bloodshed. >> reporter: the situation is so bad the united nations pulled staff, citing security concerns. after the fighting and the closure of tripoli international airport it would not be possible to continue the work, and ensure security and safety of its staff. there has been efforts to try to bridge the bitter divisions in libya. diplomats gathered to call for a national dialogue. >> translation: the first committee concerned security - to put in place a system to protect the borders and combat terrorism, organised crime and arms trafficking. the second is to create a p

investigators are probing whether he received alleged illegal funding from the former libyan leader, muammar gaddafiit is this phone tapping that led to the current investigation. at the moment, nicolas sarkozy is denying any wrongdoing. we will have to see how the rest of the day pans out here in france. his lawyer and the judge have also been placed under formal investigation. >> caroline, what is the consequence for french politics? blow course, it is a big for former french president nicolas sarkozy. he was widely expected to make a return to politics very soon, probably as soon as this fall. his right wing party has been damaged by political infighting. there is no clear leader at the moment. he still remains the favorite among the conservative candidates to run against president hollande in the next presidential election in 2017. in 2012 when he lost against hollande, he said at the time that he wanted to quit politics. since then, especially this year, he has been traveling across france meeting with the french people, even meeting with the german chancellor, angela merkel. an indication for

it's the worst fighting since the fall of muammar gaddafi in 2011. the state department is vzing u.s. si -- advising u.s. citizens to leave libya. >>> investigators will not travel to the malaysian aircraft site because of fighting. >> a heavily armed convoy of sources is heading to the crash site of malaysian airliner mh17 trying to secure the area. it's a sprawling site across 25 square kilometres. up until now it's been in the hands of the pro-russian separatists who are accused of actually bringing down the airliner using a surface to air missile. at the same time, the ukrainians are trying to clear the area, securing a path for investigators that arrived from australia. they are in kharkiv at the moment, and malaysian and dutch investigators. up until now there has been no serious investigation as to what brought down the plane, and who brought it down. we also know that the ukrainians are starting a final push towards the city of donetsk. that would be a major coup for the ukranian forces. the city of one million residents is important in this

spectre of the surface-to-air missiles loomed large in afghanistan and libya after the fall of muammar gaddafi'sent. there shoulder mounted anti-aircraft missiles have been smuggled into chad, mali and tunisia, according to a united nations report. over the past three decades 35 civilian aircraft came under attack from the miss eels, leaving 500 dead, according to the congressional research service. since the 19 '70s, 700,000 surface to air miss eels have been manufactured by the u.s. and russia. they are sold and stored in sometimes leaky government arsenals, prone to theft. al qaeda is believed to hold a stockpile. >> i think it's a cause of concern. in those areas where hot conflicts were going on, you have non-state actors that can get the weapons that they have been proliferating. >> if the craft was shot down by a missile, it likely it would not have been carried out by these devices circulating in the illicit arms trade. >> this is not a man pad, a shoulder fired surface to air missiles. this is a tracked vehicle with a missile system on the back of it. it's a large vehicle, and it will b

there were claims he took money from the former libyan leader muammar gaddafi. mr saabing owesy said it was ridiculous. others involve mrs. bettan core. mr saabing owesy was cleared of taking envelopes full of cash. other officials are awaiting trial. sarcozy supporters say he's the victim of a witch-hunt. the government denies pressure. >> it's good news because it shows that in france and nobody is above the law. and we know that the investigative judges are very powerful. and it's bad news because it smells like political revenge. >> sa cosy hinted that he'd like to stand for president again. he's consistently denied doing anything il. the comeback is running into more and more illegal obstacles. >> it's a number of japanese citizens are thought to have been kidnapped. spies used them to learn about customs. now they are doing an investigation into the face of those missing. >> this man has not seep his brother for 40 jeers, since the day he disappeared on the way to work. 10 years ago he heard report of a plan who fit his description and obtained a pictured

prosecutors allege sarkozy accepted $67 million in a legal campaign funds in 2007 from libya's muammar gaddafi. this could be a setback for sarkozy who was considering running in the 2017 presidential election. >> to the weather, tropical storm arthur was upgraded, now a hurricane gaining strength as it bears down on the east coast. this is a picture from space showing the size of the storm. the hurricane is expected to hit the carolina's later today. evacuation orders are in effect in the outer banks. we are in north carolina. are residents heeding those evacuation warnings? >> the areas with mandatory evacuations, the national park and sea shore, they've moved out. take a look at conditions. you can't tell there is a storm on the way, calm, beautiful sunrise, waves are fine, wind minimal. you can't really see anything here. still, many here and along the eastern seaboard are preparing for arthur, an unwelcome visitor this holiday weekend. >> overnight, the coast showed few clues that arthur is growing a few hundred miles away pushing toward the shore. >> we are taking this storm very serious

libya is facing its worst period of violence since the toppling of muammar gaddafi three years ago.e than 150 people have died in tripoli and benghazi during two weeks of fighting, including 50 over the weekend. the u.s., the un and turkey have removed their diplomats, with the u.s. evacuating its embassy and moving officials to neighboring tunisia. escalating violence in eastern ukraine is hampering efforts to reach the crash site of downed malaysian airlines flight 17. more residents fled to bomb shelters on sunday as government forces clashed with rebel separatists in two major towns. at least eight civilians were killed. international monitors had reached a deal to visit the crash site in rebel-held territory, but the fighting has kept them away. alexander hug of the organization for security and cooperation in europe's monitoring mission said the fighting has sowed confusion. rapidlyituation has changed. as is normal in the conflict, the front lines were not clear. it was a blurry picture. >> ukraine has seen intensified violence in recent months as the u.s.-backed kiev governm

there have been claims that he took money oh from muammar gaddafi. he said that's ridiculous. other allegations involve this woman, lillian, some call her the richest woman in france. he is accused of taking envelopes stuffed with cash from her. his former campaign treasurer are awaiting trial in that case. >> supporters say he's the victim of a which hunt. the socialist governor denies pressuring the judiciary. >> it's good news, because it shows that in france, nobody is above the law and we know that the investigative judges are very powerful, and it's also bad news, because it smells a little bit like political revenge. >> sarkozy hinted he'd like to stand for president again in threw he years time. although he's consistently denied doing anything illegal, his political comeback seems to be running more and more into political obstacles. >> more than two houston thousand workers have been on strike in south africa over wages. the indefinite strike threaten to say bring the engineering sector to a halt. the country is suffering from a five month long strike by mine workers.

the government has been unable to control fighting between the rival groups since former leader muammar gaddafi was overtlop. the violence as they await the results of last month's presidential electionless. >>> iraq's parliament failed to reach a consep us on the new government -- consensus on the new parliament. bad weather played a part. >> the parliamentary session that was to begin has been cancelled until tuesday. kurdish mps were not able to make their flights because of the sand storm you see behind me. that parliamentary session postponed until tuesday. there's good news. it looks like there is agreement on the appointment of the speaker of the house. it's a key position. once they agree on the speaker of the house it kicks in a constitutional process allowing 45 days to choose the next prime minister of iraq. it has been controversial, but it looks like there is agreement that dr salem al-bajori may be the speaker of the house. we'll find out more on views when parliament meets. while this goes on, the islamic state made for gapes, taking obvious -- gapes, taking over a town 70km outs

was part of an action taken along with the arab league and other european countries to take out muammar gaddafi but now you have a state that seems to be coming apart. what role should america be playing? >> this is very difficult. i spoke to the state department yesterday. the fighting near the embassy was not aimed at the embassy. it was two factions fighting. one had a big, big sort of military base near the embassy and the other was firing at it. and the actual rockets and missiles and bullets hit the embassy. so there was no choice but to evacuate. obviously these situations are very difficult in the world. while we should be as humanitarian as possible, i am dubious to really influence outcome in this part of the world. we have not been able to do that in almost any place at all, maybe tunisia. >> what about russia. the big question in commentary as russia forthifies positions in eastern ukraine, europe has been slow to ratchet up economic sanctions even as fresh evidence suggesting culpability and providing the weapon that took down malaysia airlines flight. this is tantamount to appease

to air missiles has long loomed large in places like afghanistan and libya after the fall of muammar gaddafi's government. there shoulder mounted anti aircraft missiles and grenades have been smuggled into chad, somali and tunisia. at least 35 civilian aircraft have come under fire, leaving more than 500 people dead, according to the congressional research service. since 1970's, more than 700,000 surface to air missiles have been manufactured across the globe, mostly by the u.s. and russia. they are then sold and at times stored in leaky government arsenals, prone to theft and export. >> groups like al-qaeda, according to a study are believed to hold a stockpile. >> i think it's definitely a cause of concern. in those areas where there are hot conflicts going on, you have non-state actors that can easily get these weapons. they have been proliferating. >> officials say the aircraft was intentionally shot down by a surface to air missile. analysts say the attack would likely not have been carried out by these shoulder devices found circulating in the $1.1 billion illicit arms trade in the world

there are allegations he accepted millions of dollars from the late libyan dictator muammar gaddafi. sarkozy is the first president taken into custody in france. he denies wrongdoing. >> a fast moving wildfire now burning through 2700-acres in northern california. it started about noon on tuesday in the pope valley area of napa county. the fire threatens 200 homes, prompting mandatory evacuations. crews report its 30% contained. the cause still under investigation. >> let's look at temperatures we can expect to see across the country today. >> we turn to he knee dionne. >> it is going to be a sultry day, already very warm across much of the eastern u.s. in d.c., 81 degrees as you step outside. it is 77 degrees in new york and we're already feeling that heat index rising. it feels like we're in the low 80's across most areas. we do have heat advisories in place across the philadelphia area. d.c. and baltimore, he expect the heat index making it feel 100-105 this evening. >> it's going to be wet, hot and miserable. >> yes, all of that. >> thank you very much. >> 54-year-old michelle ho