representative omar along with adam schiff and 5 other house democrats sent a letter to africa general stephen townsend that basically demands the afrikan clarify how it investigates civilian casualty allegations and according to the daily beast reminds africa that providing clarity about the reasons for discrepancies and defining who the military considers a combatant is required by recent legislation and while this seems like a good oversight on their part many including yourself are pointing out some underlying problems with this attempt at africa accountability what are those problems. so that's a good question we still need. as an attorney to legitimize africa. and. revive it some sort of. better accountability in. the u.s. africa command takes announcer asking how an answer is to be present only talking many of the congress. and we don't we don't see that as the right approach and all we think that the older gentleman to. its spirit the u.s. in africa shut out. and yet i think it will just paints africa as active benevolent organization once it's clearly not. so i think that that's what you have

africa command general stephen townsend to say that for too long russia has denied is the full extent of its moments in the ongoing libyan conflict and he says well there's no denying it mel. absolutely and for over a year we've known that there are in russia trainers russian snipers russian law just stations and these of course since september 12th 100 mercenaries trained kremlin directed just as they used in ukraine syria and 6 other conflicts around the world but there's been denials up until about a week ago and for the last week all the russian guests including on various jazeera networks have been not saying we have no information we don't know what's going on and they've been saying well other countries have troops there too so this subtle shift in the russian talking points so that they are now open about their engagement and that's something that after comments he did on africa is really concerned about in addition to everything else is permanent russian basing and they use these technical military terms and the same and they put out talking about how the russians will try to