instead they reconvened the previous parliament, the general national congress. no single group is in charge of the entire country. a patchwork are in control. this is a libyan city after a car bombing. the group has since disbanded and now are at war with each other. >> it's very difficult to ascertain to understand what this government will be able to re-establish some degree of authority. i mean, they had decided to move the parliament, which they thought was at a safe distance of where the conflicts had been erupting so far, but it seems almost as if they're being chased by the islamists, it doesn't look like they will be a safe having for much longer. the urgency and acuteness of some kind of deal from a regional security perspective becomes all the more pressing. but whether the extremists will be listening should they bring clarity there. i suppose extremists having the upper hand are not willing to make very many concessions, and it is the legitimate, in quotation marks, government that will have to look at some form of power sharing. but whether that will

instead they reconvened the previous parliament, the general national congress. >>> no single group is in charge of the whole country. a patchwork of militias are engaged in daily battles to wrestle control of different cities. now this was the scene in bengahzi after a car bombing on friday. the armed groups fought together to topple muammar qaddafi, but they have now since disbanded, and are at war with each other. and it's leading to suffering. libya said 280,000 have been forced from their homes. 100,000 of those are fled over the past three weeks were tripoli and surrounding areas. well, for more on this we're joined live from london. a senior lecturer and study of islam and the muslim world in london. good to have you with us. first of all, do you think that ban ki-moon and u.n. officials will be able to broker some reconciliation, is that looking imminent? >> well, it's very difficult to ascertain when you have a fluid situation. we see at present of course the arrival of the secretary general and special envoy demonstrates how urgent the issue is. but at present with taking con

instead, they reconvened the previous parliament, the general national congress. no single group is in charge of the country. a patchwork of militias is engage to wrestle control of different cities. this was the scene in ben ghazi. the armed groups fought together to topple the dictator muammar qaddafi in 2011, but they've since disbanded that alliance and now they're at war with each other. allison director general of the institute. he join us now live from bay root. good to have you with us. first of all, do you think the u.n. can pull this off? can ban ki-moon create a reconciliation between the two sides? >> i personally don't think that the violence has been the answer so far, and many libyans do. but the dialogue is not necessarily the solution. i think once the desire for a more inclusive process. what really needs to be done at this moment in time is to reflect upon the members of the security council and their respect of libya, going in there and accepting the legitimacy of the ballot box and trying to understand the distortions within the process is not

while sudan and qatar are said to be supporting the, the dawn of libya its appointed general national congress and prime minister have condemned any international intervention. antiaircraft guns in benghazi have fired volleys. it's been seen as the last stand to declare what he calls terrorists. but fighters like those a group labeled terrorists by the u.s. have also dug their heels and with each burst of bullets like these, hopes of peace fade further in the distance. osama ben jabi, al jazeera. >>> houthi fighters seized the al qaeda strong hold on friday, meanwhile, local political parties have signed a ceasefire deal in the city of ib. the agreement doesn't call for armed groups to leave ib. yoayoaltayatollah khomeini, made comments while meeting with a group of yemeni clerics in oman. help us draw all of this together and make sense of it, what is the latest, the ceasefire deal calls for end to hostilities but doesn't require any armed group to leave. >> yes, that's right. and that's why it is the main sticking point. that deal is initial, it is not final. and we understand that tribemen

the election. they have thrown together their own alternative government in the national congress in tripoli. their biggest opponent is x general khalifa haftar, a former qadhafi man who joined forces with a militia group. his organizations are said to be militarily supported by saudi arabia, egypt, and the united arab emirates. >> there is no libyan army right now. there are only single groups and factions. some groups actually call themselves the libyan armed forces, led by general haftar. but there are also armed clans and jihadists. >> and it is the jihadists racking up the military successes. in august, the islamists took control of tripoli's airport. they then went on a rampage to the capital, seizing ministrie and the u.s. ambassador's residence. they uploaded a video celebrating their victory. the situation in libya has grown to a military stalemate, a fight where no one side has the upper hand. >> next we had to asia, where in hong kong protesters and police have clashed once again. several people were injured, and a number of people were arrested. >> demonstrators prevented police from blocking the road. heavy-handed

the run. just says that they are greying. it radio. well, you know,e report agrees e director of national intelligence general james clapper who basically testified to the same effect in open session in congressrlier this year. he said the terrorist threat from al qaeda and all of its loose affiliates was equal two or greater than what we saw before 9/11 in 2001. so i think that this is another piece of evidence that says the war on terror is not over. and the notion that we can just say oh, that stuff is so far away and act like it's not going to effect us, we can't ignore. i think it underlines why taliban and al qaeda potentially taking back over in afghanistan when the president withdraws american forces next year. if isis is allowed consolidate control over the vast territory used to be greater for jihadis,. >> ambassador, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> let's all go off-the-record for main. this is so unfair. it's just plain lousiy. i just read online, yes, read online i'm not part of fox news management that the navy seal who killed usama bin laden has given fox news an interview and that interview will air in a november documentary. well, what's the problem? although the interview wi

the nominee for surgeon general. that has been availabling amount. one reason is the national rifle association took issue that guns are a health care issue. like many closing congress, the nomination is stall. would it have made a difference? i don't know. we'll see. that's the show for today. kob ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to a news hour from al jazeera in doe he, i'm adrian and coming up, in the next 60 minutes a call for help and kurdish forces in kakook are holding off isil but need reenforcement, oscar pistorious sentenced five years for killing his girlfriend but may be out in ten months.

the nominee for surgeon general. that has been availabling amount. one reason is the national rifle association took issue that guns are a health care issue. like many closing congress, the nomination is stall. would it have made a difference? i don't know. we'll see. that's the show for today. thank you for joining u.s., i'll ali velshi -- joining us. i'm ali velshi. see you tomorrow. >>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. a shift in strategy in the fight against i.s.i.l. will turkey's decision help it save an embattled border city? >>> ebola, new guide lines for u.s. health workers, and an african country declared virus free >>> under water mystery, is a russian sub marine lurking in swedish waters >>> honouring the dead. a feu

the nominee for surgeon general. that has been availabling amount. one reason is the national rifle association took issue that guns are a health care issue. like many closing congress, the nomination is stall. would it have made a difference? i don't know. we'll see. that's the show for today. >> >>> the u.n. considers sanctions against five high-profile yemenis as fears of a sectarian war grow. >>> hello, this is al jazeera, live from doha. i'm adrian finighan >>> also ahead - kurdish forces get a boost in their battle against i.s.i.l., and the syrian town of kobane >>> cuba sends hundreds of medics to west africa, making it a key player in the fight against ebola. plus... >> i'm nicole johnson in pakistan. we

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the united states congress. we are spending money that future generations simply cannot handle. it will break our economy. national security advisers to the president have said that our national debt is one of the gravest threats our country faces. let's look at what the senator's record has meant. when he was elected to congress, our national debt was $5 trillion. after voting consistently with the white house in washington, d.c. against coloradans, that debt is now over $17 trillion. we simply can't afford it and future generations deserve better. >> mr. udall, the same question for you. >> the same question. you heard congressman gardner say again he would repeal the affordable care act. that would take us backwards. let's put the insurance companies in charge again. that would be a great day. he has voted to turn medicare into a voucher program. that would put insurance companies in charge of our seniors' health care. that would be another bad day for our seniors. i have long been a leader on budgetary matters in the senate and previous to that in the house. coloradoens are fiscal hawks. they want to see the r

the duplication of inefficiencies in government. i will make sure that we live within our means of the congress. we are spending money that future generations cannot handle. it would break the economy. national security advisers have said it is one of the gravest threats the country faces. let's look at what the senator's record has meant when he was elected to the congress the national debt was $5 trillion. after voting consistently with the white house in washington, d.c. is now over $17 trillion we can't afford it and future generations deserve better. >> moderator: same question for you. udall: you heard the congressman gardner say he would repeal. let's put the insurance companies in charge. that would be a great day. he voted to trim medicaid into a voucher company. that would be another bad day for seniors. i have long been a leader on budgetary matters in this and previous to that in the house. they want to see a return on taxpayer dollars but they are willing to invest and i supported the approach. i asked the congressman to join us because it strikes a balance between fast expanding and strengthening the benefits and reforming the tax code. let's trip up some of the subsidies and i

and the general welfare of the united states does not mean the welfare of individual citizens. it met the collective welfare of the nation so that the whole point was to say that congress could not take transfer payments from one individual to the other. you say, where'd you get this from? a, it comes from the text. b, every single interpretation of the constitution through 1920 took this point of view, that factional struggles could be limited only by putting limits on the tax. so now, do we have a changed world? we do. but it turns out that none of the new deal reforms which expand federal power or weaken property rights in fact get you to a better place. that is what i want to make very clear. when i tie this back to classical liberal theory, the text supports it. i do not think anyone would want to deny that. but it turns out that none of the new deal reforms which expand federal power or weaken property rights in fact get you to a better place. that is what i want to make very clear. when i tie this back to classical liberal theory, the text supports it. i do not think anyone would want to deny that. but i'm also saying that the theory that animated it is a theory

the next generation of cures. your thoughts? >> i don't envy the position all of you members of congress are in with our nation in a very difficult fiscal deficit. circumstance trying to figure out how to balance the needs to support important government activities and i would submit that medical research is a very important government activity which, if not supported by the u.s. government, the basic science that nih done simply won't get done. at the same time i know you have to figure out how not to have a circumstance where we bury our heads in the sand as the deficit grows, so you're faced with many difficult choices. one of the things we have been trying to do, and it has helped a bit, is to try to identify other ways to support medical research and other than the traditional nih appropriation. one that got started about six months ago is a partnership between nih and ten large pharmaceutical companies called the accelerating medicines partnership which is really unprecedented in its scope. the goal here is to try to identify that next generation of drug therapies that we know is waiting to be discovered given all of tbreak

general's point of view, tell me what you want me to do. i was a student at the national war college as a lieutenant colonel and we had a representative from congress come to speak to us by the name of newt gingrich. newt said to us someday some of you will rise to higher ranks. he will be generals and your political masters are going to tell you go to this. attacked us and intervene here. he said it's critical for you to ask this question and then what? about iraq. we went and end the mission was to take out saddam. we did in three weeks. we stayed there for 10 years. okay mr. president saddam is gone and then what? the same thing in afghanistan. get al qaeda. we didn't pay attention to the mission and now i'll qaeda is gone and we are standing there in the middle of afghanistan. and then what? we are still there. if you don't see this clearly through, if the political objectives are not clear, given to mission creep, the military doesn't understand what they're supposed to do. they get bogged down in missions like nation-building that may be unintended in some way. there's another part of this now that it's become more critically important as we

you know when i was asked to run for congress two years ago i left a job that i loved. in the national guard as a major generalthis on and i very early learned that i was walking in the footsteps of giants. i was walking in the footsteps of legislators like paul simon, like when bashar and kenny gray, like jerry costello. southern illinois expects leadership like that. southern illinois expects statesmen like that so it's been a learning experience for me to walk in those footsteps. you know, as a politician it's awfully easy to make promises so what i'm going to ask you to do tonight is examine the promises and then look to performance. i have been endorsed by the illinois farm bureau because i promised i would support agriculture and i have done so. i promise that i would support our coal industry. i've been endorsed down, and of the three candidates on the only one that has the endorsement of the united mine workers of america because i have followed through with that promise. i promise to support veterans and i have followed through on that promise. >> moderator: senator bradshaw. bradshaw: hello and thank

a strong surgeon general who, for instance, every year gives a state of the nation's health and a state of global health so that that should be able to start a conversation with congress as to what our priorities should be. and if they are not acting on what those priorities are based upon the best science, the public should be able to hold those people accountable. i think the surgeon general's position is an immensely important position if utilized appropriately with a surgeon general that merits the position of surgeon general. >> is earn the right and quite frankly one that has risen up through the united states public health service because there are many capable officers who have come up like the early, navy and air force have surgeon generals, they don't reach out into the civilian sector to find the best democratic or republican surgeon general. they promote from people who merit to be promoted to the next rank, vice add miller or lieutenant general and they serve with the combat ant commanders on and give advice on health for our military and does it with the u.s. public health service. why have we departed? why have we almost made this look like a patronage

you know, when i was asked to run for congress two years ago, i left a job that i loved as commander of the national guard, major generale this on and i very early learned that i was walking in the footsteps of giants. i was walking in the footsteps of legislators like paul simon, like glenn -- like jerry costello. southern illinois expects leadership like that. southern illinois expects statesmen like that. so it's been a learning experience for me to walk in those footsteps. you know, as a politician it's awfully easy to make promises. so what i'm going to ask you to do tonight is examine the promises and then look to performance. i've been indoors for the illinois farm bureau because i promised i would support agriculture, and the dems a. i was part of the successful adoption of a farm bill, the first time since 2007. i promised i would support our coal industry i've been indoors -- for three candidates to the on the one who is the united mine workers of america as i followed through on that promise. i promised to support veterans and i have followed through on that promise. bradshaw: hello, and also thank you to eve

that, yes, we hope our your average generations will be able to benefit and share what i hope to share one day, but at this point the efforts in congress and at the nationalel along with other areas of our lives to privatize that system in ways that will put a lot of people, one in particular that has a difficult time getting a job making equal pay for equal work. they would be thrust into poverty if we allow privatization to come in and take over our social security system. so the system, i believe, working as it is. we should do something to shore it up, but in no case would i support a change where we would privatize social security. it is just as bad as protesting education, the pensions, privatizing child welfare and oklahoma. privatization means profiteering, and that is why we are seeing. people deserve to profit over private interest. social security is a system that is there, has been there, service people who have worked all their lives and who in their twilight years deserve to have air reasonable income and some security that keeps them from being poor. >> thank you. lankford: first off, it is probably more likely they will see bigfoot before

congress appear oversight. and so espionage has generally been viewed as being a province of the executive. and the way the nationhanged espionage policy was change the executive. by the mid-1970s there was broad agreement after the church commission that having this responsibility, this knowledge, this oversight, only within the executive branch was insufficient. and the grand compromise of the 1970s was to create two bodies in congress and a rather unusual court to spread this transparency and accountability over all three branches of government. so we end up with house permanent select committee and senate select committee on intelligence. we end up with the fisa court. the theory was that that was sufficient transparency to legitimately get consent of the governed in a representative democracy. after all, this isn't ancient athens. that consensus that the grand compromise of the 1970s was adequate has eroded. and now, and i'm sure we're going to talk about the 215 program here pretty soon and people at nsa are going to say, wait a minute, wait a minute, it's been authorized by two presidents, the congress leg

general's point of view, tell me what you want me to do. i was a student at the national war college as a lieutenant colonel and we had a representative from congresse to speak to us by the name of newt gingrich. newt said to us someday some of you will rise to higher ranks. he will be generals and your political masters are going to tell you go to this. attacked us and intervene here. he said it's critical for you to ask this question and then what? about iraq. we went and end the mission was to take out saddam. we did in three weeks. we stayed there for 10 years. okay mr. president saddam is gone and then what? the same thing in afghanistan. get al qaeda. we didn't pay attention to the mission and now i'll qaeda is gone and we are standing there in the middle of afghanistan. and then what? we are still there. if you don't see this clearly through, if the political objectives are not clear, given to mission creep, the military doesn't understand what they're supposed to do. they get bogged down in missions like nation-building that may be unintended in some way. there's another part of this now that it's become more critically important as we have

generations simply cannot handle. it will break our economy. national security advisors to the president have said it's one our e gravest threats country faces. let's look at what the senator's record has meant. elected to congress, our national debt was $5 trillion. after voting consistently with washington,house in d.c. agains coloradoans that debt is over $17 trillion and we and futureforward it better. ons deserve let's put the insurance companies. he voted to turn medicare into a program. that would be another bad day for our seniors. been a leader on budgetary matters in the senate and previous to that in the house. coloradoans are fiscal hawks return on o see the dollars. let's lower corporate tax rates strip out some of the subsidies and incentives that intended but don't offer growth. so the first democrat to do and the exemptions are for medicare.urity and e should make sure we keep the medicare in place. just yesterday at the denver chamber voted to cut $800 billion. i believe we should protect and nets ve our social safety including medicare and social security. he has no plan. i believe that we can tkpwroe the our economy and pass balance budget amendment and repeal and replace obamacare and this de

a strong surgeon general who, for instance, every year gives a state of the nation's health and a state of global health so that that should be able to start a conversation with congress as to what our priorities should be. and if they are not acting on what those priorities are based upon the best science, the public should be able to hold those people accountable. i think the surgeon general's position is an immensely important position if utilized appropriately with a surgeon general that merits the position of surgeon general. >> is earn the right and quite frankly one that has risen up through the united states public health service because there are many capable officers who have come up like the early, navy and air force have surgeon generals, they don't reach out into the civilian sector to find the best democratic or republican surgeon general. they promote from people who merit to be promoted to the next rank, vice add miller or lieutenant general and they serve with the combat ant commanders on and give advice on health for our military and does it with the u.s. public health service. why have we departed? why have we almost made this look like a patronage

as of one generation ago two-thirds of the members of congress had military experience that gave them greater ability to weigh such things as defense budgets and national security issues than their successors in the intervening time who had none of that. today's crop of those will provide a new brand of. too early to say whether out of that will come eisenhowers are reagan's of the future, but it is encouraging. maybe i should say the kennedys and the johnsons and the other democrats who have served in uniform in world war ii. >> a nice concluding note above partisanship. hour or ask you all to join me in a round of applause. first, remember that there will be going to the book signing tent, and you can purchase a copy and get it signed. now you can applaud. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> that was chase untermeyer, author of "when things went right", and jonathan darman, author of "landslide". up next is paul barrett, the offer of "the law of the jungle: the 19$ billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win." we will be back shortly wi

the state legislator and springfield. when i was asked to run for congress to years ago, i a left a job i've loved as commander of national guard, major generalke this on. i very early learned i was walking in the footsteps of giants. was walking in the footsteps of legislators like paul simon. southern illinois a expects leadership like that. southern illinois expects a statesmanlike that. it has been a learning experience for me to walk in those footsteps. as a politician, it is awfully easy to make promises. so what i will ask you to do is examine the promises and then look to performance i have been endorsed by the illinois farm bureau because i promised i would support agriculture in i have done so as part of the successful adoption of a farm bill the first time since 2007 and promised that would support the coal industry. of the three candidates and the only one that has the endorsement of united mine workers of america because i have followed through on the process i promised with veterans and i followed through. bradshaw: hello. thanks to everyone who'd put this together right now in hong kong thousands of people are on the streets be