tripoli a bit earlier in the week. flying high but still running low almost two months after the lifting of a no fly zone over tripoli the city's airport operates far below its capacity to the passenger traffic keeps increasing every month as more and more adeline's of putting tripoli back on their flight schedules the tripoli airport is once again buzzing with visitors a feller's have already within service and more expected to follow in the coming months but while flight controllers and customs officials a back of their desks it's still the militia who call the shots here and the rebels themselves admit that the situation is still way to trouble and to cede control to civilian authorities they're no longer flashing their guns to get make it very clear who is in control here the rebel brigade from the western city of his entire captured the airport in late august as the rebels over on the capital the control of this key facility how the town with a population of some fifty thousand rise to national prominence since th

guns are still a common side on the streets of tripoli of their prevalence has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in the design element of militia has so far failed to translate into national reconciliation the competition among various brigades may have become less visible but not less in towns the nato alliance would like to build up. on any division within the groups or the parties that they have revolutionised against the qaddafi regime and according to my own understanding they would like to see certain provinces being divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall is in town rebels are screening passengers bags under the posters left from the old regime to get out his golden framed portrait that maddest at the airport a year ago is gone hatred of him and have glued the libyan society for several months if he's killing the former unit appears to have died as well actually the work of art see tripoli. this is still ahead for you this hour a new year but not much cheer the leaders of the debt stricken euro zone for path

back on their flight schedules the tripoli airport is once again buzzing with visitors a fellow lives have already within service and more expected to follow in the coming months but while flight controllers and customs officials are back of their desks it's still the militia who call the shots here and the rebels themselves admit that the situation is still way to trouble and to cede control to civilian authorities they're no longer flashing their guns to get make it very clear who is in control here the rebel brigade from the western city of the entire captured the airport in late august as the rebels over on the capital the control of this key facility how the town with a population of some pretty thousand rise to national prominence since then does in time militia have successfully styled itself as the save guards of libya's future. for forty two years our country had nothing to eat and situation it's just one and same person. now we have a historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period we can build a new country and that. is one of the top guns in tripol

r t tripoli. because a the year has since thirteen protesters reportedly killed near the syrian capital by government forces arab league observers on a mission to the country to mask is to stop the bloodshed but they're going to ization threatening to pull out of the monitors gita the ongoing violence and journalist action what times he says the conflict is a powder keg that could ignite the entire region. it's certainly the western media viewpoint that we must believe the we must believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile phone which is now excepted as a source what is no doubt is that thousands of syrian soldiers are dying and they haven't died because of peaceful protests but this isn't a libya syria is a linchpin of the middle east and the united states and other countries some of the more intelligent people realize that there will be turmoil right across the middle east if anything happens to destabilize the assad government from outside forces but certainly syria the syrian governmen

artsy tripoli. and so heavy this hour a new year but not much cheer as the leaders of the dead stricken euro zone prepare for what could be a crucial twelve months with financial turmoil on their minds even as the rest of the world was celebrating the arrival of twenty that. would take the lead by just a few of the men to stories that made the headlines in twenty levon and around the world. that's later first an age of pro-democracy protests is how the candidates vigil in cairo square new year's eve in memory of those killed during the uprising that ousted hosni mubarak meanwhile the u.s. says egypt's current crews have agreed to hold raising pro-democracy rights groups earlier this week soldiers and police stormed offices of nongovernmental organizations including some funded by washington documents and computers were seized as part of investigations into the foreign funding of organizations the groups accuse the ruling military of using the same tactics of repression as the mubarak regime foreign

is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the good af is the army he still keeps the good offices army cap in his office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader son safe will islam. we are against any dictator of history repeats itself we will wage a war but we will let the rule of law decide his fate. didn't ghazi zintan misrata these libyan c.d.'s one after another rose against gadhafi is regime . their militias now represent the real axis of power in the country as their various and their legacy and agendas as the stripes on the only base new tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it has a hole which has been there but has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been the stabilized we see this all of the tensions there in the fabric of libyan society coming to the fore another militia commander in charge of tripoli rebels is preparing for an interview it's been a month since he changed his military fatigues for a business suit abdullah m

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guns are still a common side on the streets of tripoli of their prevalence has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in the design element of militia has so far failed to translate into national reconciliation the competition among various brigades may have become less visible but not less in towns but the nato alliance would like to build upon any division within the groups or their part is that they have revolutionised against the cutoff. and according to my own understanding they would like to see certain. robin says being divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall isn't tongue rebels a screening passengers bags on to the posters left from the old regime to get out his golden frame for trade that madness at the airport the euro girl is gone he should have he may have glued the libyan society for several months if you skilling the former units he appears to have died as well in the wake of artsy tripoli. still ahead here this outside the year in brief we take a look back just a few of the momentous stories that made the

your version what's going on has nato that democracy failed in the country last time have been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the little stuff of the jail even with the prime minister with the foreign minister where the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day in tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle the mob get together we see it live get back to you know it has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion was a real civil war and in some areas over libya of this civil war is not the words in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of well to the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces it's says zone of tribes it's a zone all of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the d

union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation but that's all political talk if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because the ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today and some people are really unhappy with that fact because then favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to them and dream about so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with five star hotels because you know and all that stuff but some people are thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people talk about neces

tripoli. well u.s. president barack obama has signed a bill imposing new sanctions against iran the measures targets the country's central bank and will particularly hit oil revenues relations between washington and tehran reached a dangerous point this week islamic country threaten to block a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf where it's currently holding navy drills iran promised to not let one drop of oil go through the strait of hormuz if the west goes on with sanctions the u.s. and the e.u. are stepping up pressure over iran's nuclear program iran a sense that it's ready for a fresh socks political analyst chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace at stake whether it's stubbornness over sanctions. i ask that americans could probably force use of their military which in the gove could probably force open the straits of hormuz but that would mean war with iran and that would be a huge huge escalation and would threaten world peace and therefore i think the iranians are really cha

southeast of the capital tripoli once known as duffy's main stronghold the forces loyal to the full mo conal khadafi managed to take control over the city and did manage actually to raise the green flag at one of the city's gates the green flag symbolize in khadafi that office rule in this far as the local officials happen recluses least five national transitional council people have been killed the same day the even justice minister announced that the international criminal court had allegedly agreed to let say for the slum to duffy's son to be tried in leaving and on the leave in hold although it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c. itself judge ellis said that the violence and this announcement may be cannot just hours later violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of been going as he was known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the ball and rolland to put it there on the capital they said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reports is that but also we can see that's then to see a warning that t

julian in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the of the i.c.c. in the hague to bring the case of a system nation of moammar gadhafi to international criminal court actually his response was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the international community that you leave does not have anything in common with the previous regime now that western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that and some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya like you guys probably have his working together with any a jeep for extracting oil the russian railroads are ready to give back the russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that new libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not ok let's talk about syria now that's been top p

tripoli. u.s. president barack obama has signed a bill imposing new sanctions against iran the measures target the country's central bank and will particularly hit oil revenues relations between washington and tehran reached a dangerous point this week islamic countries threaten to block a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf where it's currently holding drills tehran promised to not live one drop of oil go through the strait of hormuz if the west goes on with sanctions the u.s. and the e.u. are stepping up pressure over iran's nuclear program to iran has since said it's ready for fresh stocks present in a parent lobby group the national running american council says a lack of diplomatic relations between iran and the united states increases the risk of a dangerous outcome. closing the strait of hormuz for the iranian government would be the equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face it's heavily heavily reliant on its on its income from oil exports the vast majority of which go thr

the book turn our dad me the owner of the keep up shop in tripoli still undecided what's the most fitting time for syria's bashar al assad. doesn't exactly make the big. i mean that in the law that the city. of the city. you can make it a lot of people see it. out of solidarity with their arab brothers the owners of the shop have even put on display the syrian rebels tricolor but they're very firm on where the revolutionary support should be and we don't want syria and its soldiers we have. and of people such as syria these are just landed on the subject we have all we have you know but i think yeah we want to leave. in less than three months libyan rebels have gone from being celebrated as liberators to being called occupiers tripoli residents rally almost every week calling on the armed militia to leave and for some of the young man who looked on adrenaline and willing to part with their rifles syria seems like the next logical destination. i don't know what if we're all ready to join the syrian revolution and with the help of allah we will make sure that what happened in libya will rep