did you find qaddafi? >> dornstein: come out, come out, wherever you are. >> and we were just going through those places to show a western journalist how an authoritarian regime was operating and, you know, what kind of files they kept. >> dornstein: jesus, look at this room. suliman seemed to share a deep interest in the secrets of the old regime. what do we think these tapes are? >> dornstein: for suliman, the search for answers was personal too. >> one of the reasons i went to tripoli is to find out what happened to my uncle. he was taken in '89. he was killed in the abu salim massacre. 1,200 were killed. we didn't find out until 2003. >> this guy protested in bani walid. >> even when they said that he died, there was no body. they didn't give us a body, so... all of those years of uncertainty and there's no closure. a very big segment of libyan society would have a story that is similar to this. you know, people who wanted answers and tried to find some old names, you know, to solve a mystery. but the

long-time ruler colonel muammar qaddafi. the envoy to libya says the peace deal isn't there yet but appeals tour closer than ever before. >>> the death toll from a series of bombings in northeastern nigeria on sunday evening has now risen to at least 80. four explosions also left around 150 people injured. no one has claimed responsibility, but boko haram fighters have been blamed. the armed group has been trying to carve out a state in the northeast since 2009. >>> human rights watch says the egyptian military's campaign against isil in northern sinai is harming thousands of civilians. the rights group says the government has evicted over 3,000 families and raised thousands of homes in northern sinai. cairo is trying to create a buffer zona long its border with the gaza strip. >>> the israeli army has detained four pal tip general chirp in occupied east jerusalem. they were returning from holiday when we were picked up on

today, the government of libya announced the death of muammar qaddafi.end of a long and painful chapter for the people of libya who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic libya. >> but the libyans did not get any opportunity to do anything. because europe and president obama got the hell out of that country as fast as possible leaving islamic militias to run wild. now, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the chaos in libya and coming through libya. just two months after the qaddafi announcement you just saw, president obama removed all-american troops from iraq. our forces were providing stability in keeping were keeping iran from dominating iraq. nevertheless, mr. obama pulled the troops out. >> now, iraq is not a perfect place. it has many challenges ahead. but we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. we're building a new partnership between our nations. >> in hindsight, that statement is ridiculous. as soon as our tr

not only did i agree to hold that cable back until later, when qaddafi died. julian assange agreed to hold it back and "the guardian" held it back. to the future of journalism journalismonestly, will look profoundly better 10 years from now than it looks today. -- iu look at the coverage will use ours, not to be arrogant, but because it is one of the most intimate with. if you look at the coverage of ebola, and you think about what the coverage would have looked like in a pre-digital era, it would have been fabulous. great newspaper stories, great photography, courageous journalists. all the stuff. but you would not have had the videos on the "new york times" website that describes, for ridinge, one young man outside the hospital with his parents screaming because there was not room in the hospital. you would not have had the video in which anus ambulance driver drove through the streets in monrovia looking for ebola victims whose family did not want to touch them, so they could pile in the back of his truck to find the hospital that would take them. let us pu

. >> just one thing, you know, qaddafi. >> stephen: i remember qaddafi. >> former leader of libya.me to the united nations. and he was making a long speech. normally all presidents and prime ministers have 15 minutes. he was speaking a hundred minutes. by the time-- he has brought his own interpreter. he couldn't continue. he said that i cannot go like this, can anybody help me. he collapsed. >> he spoke until his interpreter collapsed. >> yes, that's right. >> stephen: wow. >> that's one thing i can tell you. >> that is the only thing you can tell me? there are better stories than that? here's to you, good luck with your 70th session. that's longer than the simpsons have been on. and have a very successful and hopefully peaceful week. now to do nate go to cerf.un.org. secretary-general of the u.n. ban ki-moon. we'll be right back. okay, look, we've got four great ideas. let's talk about some ways to promote these. let's just throw everything out on the table. let's just spitball, and there isn't a bad idea, all right? thursdays -- shrimp. uh-huh, yeah. you can have them -- every t

but then the two sides would keep the defense system in case somebody like qaddafi were to get their hands on the bomb. >> with the death of a series of soviet leaders until gorbachev took over, didn't margaret thatcher famously say we can do business with this guy as opposed to brezhnev? james graham wilson: she hosts gorbachev and is tremendously impressed by him. she says he is a man that we can do business with and tells reagan as much. another point to the story is that another thing that was not so well known at the time is that reagan was always reaching out to soviet leaders from the first few months in office. he wrote handwritten letters to brezhnev, saying we need to find a way out of the cold war. he always had this impulse to reach out to a soviet leader but obviously gorbachev was the one. >> what was the cold war all about? james graham wilson: the cold war was about three things, i think. the division of germany, and europe more broadly. nuclear weapons. and a real, unsettled ideological culture at the end of world war ii over what was the fair, the most fair way of o

thus the fourth anniversary of the capture and death of libya's long-time ruler colonel muammar qaddafivoy to libya says the peace deal is not there yesterday but appears closer than ever before. >>> okay, let's return to our top story. events rapidly developing events taking place in burkina faso. we understand that the coup leader has agreed to step aside and the prime minister that was being held by the group, the security group has been released confirmed by the french ambassador to enter keep a faso, niklas joins me live now. niklas, where are we with this? have arms been laid down? the prime minister has been released. just update us with the latest details. >> reporter: well, yes, indeed the prime minister has been released. this is according to members of the opposition. but negotiations between the presidential guard and the regular army are ongoing. and this is being mediated by the chief of the army. now, the problem at the moment is that many members of the presidential guards are not ready to lay down their arms. so this morning, the army put up an ultimatum for the preside

charles: is there argument that we helped get rid of qaddafi, help to destabilize syria, got rid of saddam even though these guys were brutal dictators, all of these major, major terror organizations that exist now and threaten the world probably could have never grown to the size or strength. >> there is a flip side each one of those arguments. saddam probably could have been swept by the same forces. very similar dictators. we did not help the secular muslims get an upper hand and beat the islamicists. also in egypt, mubarak was pretty much done for. humpty dumpty had fallen off the wall. the egyptian military was unwilling to stage a massacre of its own citizens that would have been required to suppress those protests. and incidentally they were not islamists. there were the young modernists. it was the islamicists came in after the fact when this administration was neglecting the details. >> you know this stuff better than anyone. i appreciate your comments. comments. thanks a lot. it was a crazy day on the market. a big rally today. you have a lot of questions. afraid, nervous, but op

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qaddafi it? steve: it's that time of the year. you never know. nick: we love the music that we love this weather. 80 in the city 68 below and 89 i should say the official high new york city. 61 is where we should be and i have to emphasize what we love this weather it should be cooler this time of year and we are way behind in rainfall. there's not much coming that department. 93 and 45 in the wreck gets. continuing to lose two or three minutes per day. 75 now. humidity is dry. highs scattered clouds. we are staying dry as we look at "fox 5 sky guardian." we have nothing to worry about in the forecast. it will stay nice and dry and that's good news. highs today into the upper 80s to most of the locale poughkeepsie 8689 the city 84 jersey shore 85 islip and 80 on the east 10. the warmest around the city mid-70s now. seven m. belmar 70 across long island but we chopped into the upper 50's in monticello and 68 suspects in last night and early this morning patchy fog may occur in some of the cooler spots to the northwest pretty light southwest wind w

. >> would you have kept him in power, muammar qaddafi?mow march kada kadavy, i agree with you on this point, muammar qaddafi was frightened by what he saw. the united states wasn't going to tolerate nuclear weapons. so he did a deal. should we have worked to keep him in place or should we -- >> no. the most important thing was he get rid of the nuclear materials. imagine what would have happened if he hadn't done that and isis moved in and took over in libya? they would have ended up with -- >> my question is did barack obama make a mistake by pushing muammar qaddafi out? >> i can't say that he did. i don't know how long he would have survived under those circumstances. we came very close to having a radical group acquiring nuclear capability. the same thing in eastern syria when they built a reactor. fortunately the isies took it out in '07. isis would have occupied that part of syria and they would have inherited the nuclear materials. so we have come very close already with respect to the possibility of these materials flowing into the

vacuum there, obvious to everyone, and didn't follow up after the military coalition ousted muammar qaddafi and then bringing it back to syria at the forefront of this annual meeting of world leaders. and talking about vladimir putin moving in with material, money and military equipment to back the assad regime. yet the president said he's willing to work with russia and iran to try to bring a resolution on syria, something that he himself termed in this speech a catastrophe and his deliberate approach with his emphasis on diplomacy that has earned himself criticism around the world. >> and at home, mike, it seemed that he was speak together american audience although this is going out to an international audience. did it seem that way to you as well? >> i thought the president in an impassioned speech, and the frustration shining through president obama, i don't think there is any question about it. we have heard it from him before. i remember in the philippines last year when he had a joint press conference with president aquino there dismissing out of hand rather angerly as we see the pr

his argument is putin's argument is to charlie rose, hey, if you drag him out of there like you did qaddafiam hussein, you want that route in the middle next to israel you? want isis in there? and we, at the u.s.a. don't have any answer. we trained five guys and i think you know this for $250 million. five guys trained. >> if you are going to fight. you fight to win. when we send -- when obama sends our troops harm's way. win something fifth or sixth on our priorities. first it's don't hurt anybody, don't break anything, don't offend anybody, et cetera. the russian military is a basket case, but it is brutal. and it may do a much better job than we did of dealing with islamic state. just because they will do what it takes. >> yeah. it will be interesting to see. that's trump's philosophy. let everybody kill isis and then we will clean it up. believe me, once they kill isis, they are there to stay and we ain't getting them out of there. >>y. and putin will be there long after obama is gone. >> all right. thanks have much. we appreciate it when we come right back, the left continues it brand

wept down in 2003 and took down saddam hussein himself, one of by products of that qaddafi saw what wehum he stuff. evidence had centrifuges. >> libya wasn't as powerful as iran. >> imagine the situation if, in fact, hadn't done that and isis had taken libya, they would have inherited that nuclear material. >> they might inherit it now. >> right. >> that's what we are worried about. >> can't now it was surrendered to us by the lubbians. we got aq kwon because he is the guy who supplied the libyans with the nuclear material. >> do you think obama and kerry didn't know. >> that didn't act like it. well established pattern of dealing through the use of force or the realistic threat of use of force. >> some on the hard right believe, liz, that president obama wants to it diminish america on purpose. that he doesn't have -- you write a book about exceptionalism. he doesn't want us to be leading the world against these people and, believe this is the hard right he is actively trying to weaken this country. do you believe that. >> i do. >> on purpose he wants us to be weaker. >> yes. because

qaddafi was told, if your agents are found guilty, you have to admit responsibility for the attack, and all he would admit to was responsibility for the actions of my agents. i think it's terrible that we allowed him to get away with that statement. when i spoke to the lockerbie families, i said i wished we could have gotten more for you. al megrahi was the only person convicted because he's the only person that the evidence led to. but if he did this, he didn't do it by himself. al megrahi's the tip of the iceberg. >> woodruff: "frontline" airs tonight on most pbs stations. that brings us to our newshour shares of the day, something that caught our eye which might be of interest to you, too. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation announced a new class of 'genius grant' fellows today. the winners include a urban sociologist, an environmental engineer and playwright lin- manuel miranda. in a foundation video, miranda spoke of "hamilton", the broadway musical he wrote about founding father alexander hamilton that opened in august. >> i fall in love for a living. i write musical

when qaddafi was taken at a libyan we had nothing to replace him with, we see what happened in libya. is it impossible to find a moderate with based -- with the different sectors involved? gen. petraeus: there has been a lot of discussion of this. besser jeffrey has written about this. sen. manchin: that is the caution that we have with assad right now. we'll -- who do we replace them with? you playaeus: again, the car that you're dealt. you can influence that sometimes. there may have been a moment to do that. i ended up being in afghanistan in months of that. i was there for the initial piece. we should remember -- i have been prior -- i have been tough on crime mr. maliki here. but during the surge in the years after the surge, he is the one who went after the shia militia in foster. very frankly impulsively come as you recall, in the charge of .ights we called it march madness in march of 2008. it was a very close-run affair until we could get all the forces marshaled to support his elements that were on the ground. was a resounding victory there and sadr city and a number of othe