today what is the result was what do what is better in libya today is that it's a form libya be able to start enjoying some of their freedoms yes that is the conditions that we have today it is it is a legacy when we get there he was toppled there was no institutions in the country to be able to carry all of that you know little narrow militia you yourself know what it did not by militias true they disagreed with your policy how they want security and freedom of speech does that reflect no that's the truth i mean i have been kidnapped but that's the signal to this case here that was kidnapped by a militia to settle things that's not better off place of us at least devotion to a cause no it is because really have been going to gadhafi for thirty some years ok and the changes of the death we did the deal and they're going to geneva because really they were started to lay the ground for his children to rule the government where the next fifty years the only army did its militias of his children they are not there is no real libyan army that the irony is necessary it is a difference toda

held in militia controlled areas of libya for years have returned home were evacuated by the smaller government and the un refugee agency recent photos and videos of somali refugees being tortured in camps in libya caused public outrage and forced the government of mogadishu to take action students from the u.s. school in florida were seventeen people were shot dead on wednesday have taken part in a rally for tighter gun control the man charged with the murders is a former student at that high school play syndicalist cruz bought his automatic weapon legally. according pakistan has handed four death sentences to a man convicted of raping and murdering a six year old girl the killing that led to nationwide protests sentiments are his body was found in a rubbish dump after she'd been strangled her parents were demanding her killers execution be carried out in public hundreds of far right supporters have held a march and bulgaria's capital after a court overturned a government ban on that event and will march on her as a world war two general government was concerned about how reflect on

former deputy prime minister of post gadhafi libya thank you both for joining me in the arena last of a given how many problems libya has right now political economic social security do you have any regrets about supporting the original nato led intervention in your country in twenty eleven to topple gadhafi i think i think we are very. patient are much higher than they should be because when you have people been living under forty two years of oppression you don't expect those people to be able to make a better to become a democratic society in a few months and that's what has happened so what is going on today is really we are paying for the legacy of the regime so no regrets about not only allowed no i do not because maybe if the intervention of had been libyan. could have been killed thousands and thousands on the hands of gadhafi how for you were an opponent of gadhafi for a long time where do you stand on the intervention was it a mistake to get rid of gadhafi in the way that he was got rid of and everything we've seen since i think it is a huge mistake and i think both libyans

former deputy prime minister of post gadhafi libya thank you both for joining me in the arena last of a given how many problems libya has right now political economic social security do you have any regrets about supporting the original nato led intervention in your country in twenty eleven to topple gadhafi i think i think we are very expect expectations are much higher than they should be because when you have people been living under forty two years of oppression you don't expect those people to be able to make a better to become a democratic society in a few months and that's what has happened so what is going on today is really we are paying for the legacy of the regime so no regrets about not only allowed no i do not because maybe if the intervention that had been libyan. could have been killed thousands and thousands on the hands of gadhafi how for you were an opponent of gadhafi for a long time where do you stand on the intervention was it a mistake to get rid of gadhafi in the way that he was got rid of and everything we've seen since i think it is a huge mistake and i think

but libya is also were each country libya is also a country with a lot of capable people and i think with more support from the outside these people will manage to respond more meaningfully to the crisis our. impression is definitely there with a little bit more off support a lot can be done and the libyans themselves as well how to respond to this crisis on the other hand it is true they need more support in some of the critical area. obviously mentioning more support. it. we look at how the the mean is covering certain conflicts in the world libya seems to have gone off the radar a bit and overshadowed by by yemen syria iraq how important in your opinion is to keep that coverage about libya going and how do you think more attention can be attracted to the crisis and the devastation in the country. we are certainly of the our pinion that it is important to talk about the situation in libya we are off your pinion that more needs to be done to support the different or far it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find a political solution within libya libya strategical the

a strong and united libya is the best defense against terrorism in the region. the violence among libyans that began in benghazi in may, 2014, and spread to tripoli has destabilized the country. until libyans resolve their underlying political divisions, there will remain a significant threat of civil conflict in libya. many of the ongoing political diversions are over power and access to libya's resources and further destabilization as possible where sanction -- where sanctions -- were sanctions to be lifted. we continue to encourage libyans to engage in political dialogue and refrain from violence. those who reject dialogue and obstruct or undermine libya's democratic transition must be held accountable. while we work with the international community to identify those individuals who pose a threat to libya's democratic transition, we must also continue to ensure that appropriate sanctions remain in place. the situation in libya continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the united states and measures ar

seven years since a revolution in libya led to the toppling of the leader moammar gadhafi the country now has two rival governments groups fighting each other and the failing economy hopes to the people of libya for their future and. if you haven't seen it yet you may be so much buzz around the comic book film. the hash tag. you're with the newspaper live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com conceived in moscow executed in the u.s. that's a federal grand juries take as it indicted thirteen russian nationals and three organizations for tampering in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election so for a senator ference in the polls is not fake news all the indictments marks the first criminal charges against the russians by special counsel robert mueller it centers on a social media effort that began in twenty fourteen and continued to the election it doesn't accuse any american of knowingly participating in the meddling president donald trump as you can see right there was quick to react on twitter saying the results were not impacted t

backed government of libya has reportedly formed a team to assess damage to infrastructure in the war ravaged city of sets and i still strong hold it was a place where terrorists shot some of the most gruesome videos the city was liberated more than a year ago but local still fear for their lives with the threat of jihadist returning to the area it large while residents continue waiting for life to return to normal. i. say. just because. it is a big islamic state in the world these are really very well granted food in in the complex and actually believes fully completely out of the mashed into the ground. and it's impressive even though it's been destroyed. as you can see here is damaged like it's been drawn in the. remember the area is completely destroyed and there is no local or international assistance for the population there are fears that ice will return to the share your again and be entrenched in after the one year war. several people were displaced from this area even after the return the can find their homes because of the mass destruction there is no house left intact espe

bank government in libya has reported they formed a team to assess infrastructure damage in the city of sirte the war ravaged portress where i asked terrorists shot some of the most gruesome videos it was liberated more than a year ago but local still fear for their lives as the threats are jihadist returning to the area looms large. ah. and that's i think. just because. there's a big. loser everywhere the ground the food in the in the complex and it should be shown that it is full of completely out of. mashed into the ground . and it's impressive even though it's been destroyed. as you can see here is that the state flag has been drawn on the side of this chair. and the limits of the area is completely destroyed and there is no local or international assistance for the population there are fears that ice will return to the share your again and be entrenched in after the one year war. people were displaced from this area even after the return the can find their homes because of the must struction there is no house left intact especially because of the four planes and almost everyone

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i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course choir there today maybe one or two years ago in storage and in other parts of libya fighting is continuing and therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of basic social services health water sanitation and others impact on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore the humanitarian needs are important more needs to be done to support the different or thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also of international attention comparable to the attention the international community has on other crisis in the middle east. it's a week since the winter olympics in south korea began and have been touching stories of mutual help and support sporting control for c.n.n. they have also made headlines. unfortunately with these winter o

i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course quieter today maybe one or two years ago in certain in other parts of libya fighting is continuing and therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of basic social services health water sanitation and others impact on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore the humanitarian needs are important more needs to be done to support the different thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also of international attention comparable to the attention the international community has other crisis in the middle east and u.s. attorney generals accused of racism for using the phrase anglo american heritage we have the details after this break. the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the islamic sta

i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course quieter today maybe one or two years ago in certain in other parts of libya fighting is continuing and therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of basic social services health water sanitation and others impact on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore do humanitarian needs are important more needs to be done to support the different or thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also off international attention comparable to the attention the international community has other crisis is in the middle east. now the u.s. attorney generals accused of racism for using the phrase anglo american heritage we'll have details after the break. the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the is

there are more young somalis being held now in libya some of my friends died there because of torture including a woman called bashara. in the morning by being hit with a stick and at night you were hit with sticks and. the body of zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been brought home from south africa. supporters are waiting outside the capital the airport there harare to honor their late leader who died on wednesday from colon cancer. still ahead on al jazeera death sentence for the rape and murder of a six year old girl in pakistan a killing that sparked nationwide protests and person anger and the philippines as the body of the maid is returned from kuwait. from brisk north in fuel. to the warm waters of southeast asia. welcome back we've been looking at some really unsettled weather across parts of the event of last twenty four hours or so and still some very heavy rain in the course of sunday as another area of low pressure begins to push in the snow in the northern parts of syria into turkey and the rainy says quite a long way south and maybe as far as kuwait mov

that's why the european union has been very effective in libya. in libya there has been a very positive outcome in investing in local administrations in civil society. you are right in saying that we shouldn't find taboo the idea of redrawing borders. you should remember that those borders were drawn very artificially at the end of the second world war. and some of the other countries in the middle east at the end of the first world war. look at the balkans, they were allowed to basically separate into different groups of people. local administrations, civil society, these are things that need to be invested in much, much more. it is hard from what you were saying that now, whatever lessons that may have taken from the neo—con period in washington, there's much apetite in the us to roll up their sleeves and get involved. trump hasn't even appointed a permanent undersecretary of state for human rights. there is just an acting woman in place there now. his message has been consistently that his main concern is security and not democracy or human r

>> in libya? yes. and i think that this is something we're still trying to piece together, we're still working to understand this. and what is extraordinary is that the slavery is part and parcel of their business model. >> trevor: right. >> you want to go to europe. you have been sold on this dream of europe, and they send out almost like advertising campaigns, people into these communities, these young kids, 17, 18, 19, we can get you to europe. you don't have the money? we will give you the money, we will loan you the money. so it's indentured servitude built into it. but that's the nigerian aspect, the different source countries. when you get to libya, they say, actually, how much did you pay? no, it is thousands more and this is how you're going to pay it off. >> trevor: when you look at the people who are traveling across to these countries, oftentimes, people don't seem to express as much sympathy for them because they go, like, they're trying to sneak into another country or get there, smuggle

the seventh anniversary of the revolution in libya but has there been any real change for its people. who were. the only politics race in superheroes one marvels latest comic book movie is being hailed as a cultural milestone. and all the russian government says there is no evidence behind the u.s. indictment charging russian nationals for interfering with a twenty six thousand presidential election comes after the u.s. special counsel robert miller charged thirteen russian citizens and three russian companies with criminal and espionage conspiracy it does not say whether the trunk campaign colluded with the kremlin mike hanna reports from washington. and anti trump protests march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day part of a massive campaign the indictments say were aimed at promoting donald trump at the expense of his opponents both republican and democrat. special counsel robert miller has indicted a total of thirteen russian nat

what happened in libya? how many beheadings happened in libya? hillary clinton said we came, we died. if that is leadership, bullying and violence, you should not be a part of our state department or any foreign affairs. thank you. yout: first of all, thank for a fellow minnesota and, for your views. i think of we sat down and had a cup of coffee in minneapolis or somewhere else, you would find we agree a lot more than we disagree on all of these issues. degree tod with the which i should be directed my views and concerns about this president. i believe deeply in bipartisanship in this country. i do not think we will solve anything without democrats and republicans worked together but i believe donald trump represents a unique threat to our institutions and democracy so i cannot stay silent on that weird i would like to get back to a place where there can be a republican president in the toure who i would be happy not fully support as a democrat but to stand behind and want to step up for. , notis about trump generally about republicans. on libya

displaced persons plans to leave the european union at seven years since the start of the revolution in libya but has there been any real change to its people. race and superheroes. comic book movie is being hailed as a cultural milestone. fake identities staged political rallies and a systematic campaign of social media trolling just a few of the allegations made in the u.s. and document of thirteen russians and three companies for criminal and espionage conspiracy that is part of the investigation into tampering with the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election mike hanna reports from washington. and anti trump protests march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day part of a massive campaign the indictments say were aimed at promoting donald trump at the expense of his opponents both republican and democrat special counsel robert miller has indicted a total of thirteen russian nationals and three companies for alleged interference

libya is most dangerous of all. cnn revealed last autumn that smugglers were auctioning off migrants as slaves there. and now correspondent, the one behind that shocking report nima is back going undercover in northern nigeria to show the central role that rape plays in the smuggler's operation. i spoke to her about this earlier. nima, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so, the idea of women and the sexual abuse and harassment, the physical dangers they face in all aspects of life, including the humanitarian area and naturally along the very perilous migration route that you've been covering, what did you find about the particulars to women in nigeria in your recent report? >> off the back of the end of last year, what we were trying to understand was how active are these routes? how active to they continue to be in spite of all this international talk about wanting to clamp down on the exploitation and the trafficking that happens along these migrant routes. so i and my producer, we posed as women attempting

there are more young somalis being held now in libya some of my friends died there because of torture including a woman called bashara torture in libya is a form of greeting in the morning you were woken up by being hit with a stick and at night you were hit with sticks and to fall asleep. the body of zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been brought home from south africa thousands of supporters were waiting outside the fort in the capital harare to honor their late leader who died on wednesday from colon cancer. is in harare. when the plane carrying morgan tsvangirai body landed hundreds of people were at the airport and shoving each other trying to get a glimpse of the cost and some jumped the fence tried to get on to the tarmac and security told them to turn back then ran to the cargo section of the air force where they saw the coffin leave in a convoy is supported by police has been brought here to a military base in harare government officials say because morgan tsvangirai was a former prime minister it is the norm as was to be done the body will be brought here an

others take a different view know to dean says he travels from the united states to libya every year to share the ok zhen with his friends and former neighbors he says things are better now than before the revolution for it was very difficult to come back to go to the airport today immigration you know and all that stuff now there's a. common leave you know a freely but the situation looks a bleak on the ground prices for every day goods have risen in the markets have taken a tumble and the libyan dinar has lost much of its value. the political division has led to a divide between the economic and security institutions the state has become so weak it's unable to control its own resources. are the backbone of libya's income and oil production dropped significantly between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen when four major oil ports were blockaded by militia. nobody is proud his profession is part of libya's heritage but he fears if there is no solution to the country's economic crisis crafts like his might fade away. tripoli. senior analyst. joins us now on skype from london thanks fo

>> in libya. >> in libya? what happens? do they get pregnant? >> that is why -- that's why you need to have those things. it's not a guarantee. sometimes we have to meet one of them, like somebody asks, i would like to assist you, you know what that means. don't tell me you don't know what i'm saying. >> yeah, i understand. >> reporter: taking me aside, eveke repeats again, condoms, don't struggle if you're raped, and trust in god. with that, we board the overnight bus to the north. the doors lock behind us. from here begins the journey into the unknown. a journey that promises a litany of horrors, rape, trafficking, slavery. once we're sure the bus has moved out of eveke's sight, we jump off. we, at least, are safe. so, if we had stayed on that bus, we would be on our way to kanu now in the north of nigeria. some time the middle of the day, 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon tomorrow, we would be arriving in kanu. from kanu, somebody would be waiting to take us on the next leg of the journey and from there through to libya. and in theory, on arrival i

i think the numbers coming through turkey has clearly gone way down, but the problem is that libya to all intents and purposes, a state with lots of people there with specific interests in making money out of migration, making money out of either portering, exporting and stealing from migrants, even selling them as slaves as we have heard before, and finally getting their money and putting them on unseaworthy boats in the hope that they will be picked up and brought to europe which is, again, they will not and they will simply be sent home again. the whole thing is a fraud and a sham with tragic, tragic consequences. we know that many of these people when they get to europe are now ending up in some of the camps that have been set up some of the camps that have been set up in places like italy and greece and that agreement we saw which was to return people does not seem to have stemmed the appetite of others to still continue to try this route. look, i think as long as you have the gross income inequalities in the world that exists, you will have a demand from people to getjobs to sup

nicolas sarkozy or his policy in libya. he also pledged to supporort tunisisia and he said that tunisians are the ones living with the stress and instability in libya. he insisted on medititerranean policy and more cooperation with europe and security and immigration. anchor: keeping us up-to-date from the tunisian capital, for now, thank you. billenate has backed a outlawing public statements which attribute the crimes of nazi germany to the polish state or its people. the bill, which sets fines or a maximum of three years behind bars, has sparked anger from israel. poland's president must sign the bill into law. to get more on this, our correspondent is standing by in jerusalem. for israel, this is about: wanting to change history. what have reactions been to this today? >> there have been reactions all week, since this story first arose and it looked like this was going to be signed into law in poland. the reaction was at first confusion and then outraged because if there is one place where the history of the jewish geno

others take a different view noted dean says he travels from the united states to libya every year to share the ok zhen with his friends and former neighbors he says things are better now than before the revolution for it was very difficult to come back to go to the airport today immigration you know and all that stuff now there's a. common leave you know a freely but the situation looks a bleak on the ground prices for every day goods have risen the markets have taken a tumble and the libyan dinar has lost much of its. the political division has led to a divide between the economic and security institutions the state has become so weak it's unable to control its own resources. are the backbone of libya's income and oil production dropped significantly between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen when four major oil ports were blockaded by militia. he is proud his profession is part of libya's heritage but he fears if there is no solution to the country's economic crisis crafts like his might fade away. tripoli. the u.s. president has dollars questions about gun control of all those in

tunisia was a successful example, but what can you do if your neighbour is libya, for example? a failed state and a lot of militias fighting each other. and when you have a million unemployed people, libya used to absorb 50% of them, now half of libyans are outside their country looking forjobs. the european union has proposed strategies, but countries are competing with each other, having diverging economic interests, and so you could perpetrate chaos like in libya. it is not like the region has been without european and american attention for years. it might not thank us for that attention. you have the economic unravelling you have described, which with all the consequences of hunger and migration and all these things. and you have a lot of sectarian conflict, one group against another, which demonstrates how hard it is to stop the winner taking it all. the economy needs stability. if you have at least five failed states in the middle east, a war in yemen, libya, syria, how can you have proper economic growth and find jobs for people? this is the dilemma. and so they need to

tunisia was a successful example but what can you do if your neighbour is libya, for example? a failed state and a lot of militias fighting each other. and when you have a million unemployed people, libya used to absorb 50% of them, now half of libyans are outside their country looking forjobs. the european union has proposed strategies but countries are competing with each other, having diverging economic interests and so you could perpetrate chaos like in libya. it is not like the region has been without european and american attention for years. it might not thank us for that attention. you have the economic unravelling you have described, with all the consequences of hunger and migration and all these things. and you have a lot of sectarian conflict, one group against another, which demonstrates how hard it is to stop the winner taking it all. the economy needs stability. if you have at least five failed states in the middle east, a war in yemen, libya, syria, how can you have proper economic growth and find jobs for people? this is the dilemma. and so they need to promote

somali refugees once held captive in libya kissed the ground as they finally arrived back home. two palestinians have been found dead off the shelling by israeli forces on gaza that followed an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers along the border israeli jets launched a series of air strikes on a number of sites in the southern gaza strip its military blames hamas for saturday's explosion several palestinians were injured in the israeli raids today's incident on the girls' the street border was severe we were responding appropriately i said my wishes for a quick recovery to the wounded. it's going to hairy forces in west jerusalem what is the situation. well as you say those the most recent development is the discovery of those two bodies what the medical sources in gaza the minimal of the health ministry in gaza is saying is that they were two seventeen year olds who were discovered east of rafa down in the south of the gaza strip near the egyptian border also presumably close to the israeli border if it was east of the town of rougher the medical sources yesterday nig

eleven somali refugees who were held in militia controlled areas of libya for years. they were evacuated by the government and. russia's foreign minister has dismissed. thirteen russian nationals friend of. a. presidential election and donald trump's favor u.s. national security. and washington ever less meddling in the u.s. election there was plenty of disagreement on other fronts as well at the munich security conference report from germany russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov took center stage at the munich security conference. of a military buildup in eastern europe describing international relations as going. to the european union. we want to have a predictable and strong view which will be irresponsible on the floor and. clearly aimed at the united states tact washington's policies on syria and iran we cannot approach these issues from an even more dangerous point and i mean the middle east conflict and try to resolve it through heightening the tensions between sunni and shia it's highly dangerous. the president trumps national security adviser was quick to h

it's been seven years since the start of the revolution and in libya but have there been any real changes for its people and we travel to the site of one of the worst mass of the breakup of yugoslavia ten years after officially declared independence. the f.b.i. has indicted thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies over alleged tampering in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election where the office of the special counsel robert muller described it as a criminal and espionage conspiracy to support donald trump and disparage the candidate he defeated hillary clinton one of the accused as you have got a probe goes in a close contact of russian president vladimir putin he said to have funded the internet research agency that's a russian based social media manipulation firm that's accused of working to undermine u.s. political candidates it is a major escalation in the ongoing investigations as mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . and onto trump protest march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alle

to lizzie was a successful example but what can you do if your neighbour is libya for example? a failed state and a lot of militias fighting each other. and when you have a million unemployed people, libya used to absorb 50% of them, now half of weddings are outside their country looking forjobs. now half of weddings are outside their country looking for jobs. —— half of libyans. the european union has proposed strategies but countries are competing with each other, having diverging economic interests and so you could perpetrate chaos like in libya. interests and so you could perpetrate chaos like in libyam is not like the region has been without european and american attention for years. it might not thank us for that attention. you have the economic unravelling you have the economic unravelling you have described, which with all the consequences of hunger and migration and all these things. and you have a lot of sectarian conflict, one group against another, which demonstrates how hard it is to stop the winner taking it all. the economy needs stability. if you have at lea

the united states and egypt support the un's action plan for libya for credible and peaceful elections in their country this will promote stability much needed stability for libya and their economy to prosper as the security council affirmed on december the fourteenth the libyan political agreement in our view must remain the framework for a political solution throughout libya's transitional period a foreign minister sugar and i also discussed syria and how we can work together to reinforce the un legend eva political process which is the only political framework through which this conflict can be resolved and and egypt has played a very important role in supporting dialogue between opposition representatives and the central government in damascus on the middle east peace reiterated that the trump administration remains committed to achieving a lasting peace agreement between the israelis and the palestinians.

others take a different view noted dean says he travels from the united states to libya every year to share the ok zhen with his friends and former neighbors he says things are better now than before the revolution for it was very difficult to come back to go to the airport today immigration you know and all that stuff now there's a. common you leave you know a freely but the situation looks a bleak on the ground prices for every day goods have risen the markets have taken a tumble and the libyan dinar has lost much of it sir. you. see the political division has led to a divide between the economic and security institutions the state has become so weak it's unable to control its own resources. are the backbone of libya's income and oil production dropped significantly between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen when four major oil ports were blockaded by militia. nobody is proud his profession is part of libya's heritage but he fears if there is no solution to the country's economic crisis crafts like his might fade away. tripoli. now u.s. president will host israel's prime minister at

across this border, libya is in chaos, and isis has bases. the manchester bomber trained in libya, and so did the sousse gunman. back in the capital tunis, the night raid yields results. suspects are arrested and will now face trial. tunisia has made huge progress against terrorism, but if its tourist industry is to recover fully, it will need to stay vigilant. frank gardner, bbc news, tunisia. time now for all the sports news in sport today. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is sport today live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: j°y joy to jamie anderson in the snowboarding. eden hazard scores twice for chelsea as they move fourth in the premier league beating bottom of the table west bromwich albion and you see an opportunity and you take it — we've got a wonder goal from the asian champions league. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with the winter olympics with tuesday's action underway in pyeonchang seeing the mixed curling bronze medal contest kicking things off. but on monday it was the outdoor e

boat capsized three people are known to have survived well ten bodies have been found on beaches in libya and so the most of the people aboard were originally from pakistan people smugglers continue to operate out of libya a lot the number of migrants crossing to europe has dropped since the e.u. pressurized authorities there to crack down. spoke with not feed a moderate journalist who's following the story he spoke to us from doha. writes largely assume that migrants a lot of the illegal migrants were travelling. on the side can board or were member of. pakistanis who were employed in north african countries since they got to me it started to be you know. a big big jump run across the political situation and why limbs they wanted to escape to do their european countries and their lodging they were from libya and tunisia that's what is assumed. conjecture indian style is that there have been some humor striking the wreckage that if you know breaking bringing people in old we don't count the guy taking those orders we don't see him and you. african you know you're like years to to enter yo

like an animal i was sold four times in open markets in libya the last time i was sold for ten thousand dollars i was tortured every day. story isn't unique and this international released a report recently describing how somali refugees were being tortured in libyan detention camps it said they were held against their will by armed groups in exchange for money. hundreds were reportedly sold for as little as four hundred dollars of far cry from the journey these migrants had hoped for. for two years i was in a libyan prison i spent fifteen thousand dollars and i still wasn't able to reach europe now i'm just happy to be back in country and see my family human rights groups say the european union's strategy to stop refugees from traveling across the mediterranean has led to more people being stranded in libya the somali government has been successful in returning small groups of refugees home by how much the government of somalia is committed to bring back its people who are in prisons around the globe we've been able to repatriate some somalis who were in libyan prison a month ago we re

like an animal i was sold four times in open markets in libya the last time i was sold for ten thousand dollars i was tortured every day vivan story isn't unique annecy international released a report recently describing how somali refugees were being tortured in libyan detention camps it said they were held against their will by armed groups in exchange for money hundreds were reportedly sold for as little as four hundred dollars of far cry from the journey these migrants had hoped for. for two years i was in a libyan prison i spent fifteen thousand dollars and i still wasn't able to reach europe now i'm just happy to be back in country and see my family human rights groups say the european union strategy to stop refugees from traveling across the mediterranean has led to more people being stranded in libya the somali government has been successful in returning small groups of refugees home but how much the government of somalia is committed to bring back its people who are in prisons around the globe we've been able to repatriate some somalis who were in libyan prison a month ago we r

there are more young somalis being held now in libya some of my friends died there because of torture including a woman called bashara torturing leave is a form of greeting in the morning you are woken up by being hit with a stick and at night you are hit with sticks and to fall asleep. the body of zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been brought home from south africa thousands of supporters are waiting outside the airport in the capital harare to honor their late leader who died on wednesday from colon cancer. philippine ambassador to kuwait says he received almost six thousand complaints of abuse towards filipino workers last year the body of a filipino maid found in a freezer in kuwait last week has highlighted the mistreatment of some domestic workers in the gulf present territory ban the further deployment of filipino workers to equate triggering a diplomatic crisis sami said on has the reaction from kuwait city. praying for closure church services in kuwait spare a prayer for john a democrat. maria khanna two spares a thought for the domestic worker whose body wa

risky new tool in the libya. at this time on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. i welcome to the al-jazeera news our arms the whole robin is our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes four israeli soldiers are injured by an explosion along the gaza border israel hits back with airstrikes also washington and moscow trade barbs after thirteen russians are charged with meddling in the election that brought donald trump to power and. i really kind of question whether or not they should vote for. mixed feelings as the gun show goes ahead in florida an hour's drive from where seventeen people were shot and killed at a high school on wednesday. and we'll hear from the indigenous kenyan forest communities who say they're being forced off their ancestral lands. welcome to the news hour four israeli soldiers have been wounded two seriously during an explosion along the gaza border now israel's military has been quick to blame hamas its responded by launching air strikes against a number of sites in the southern gaza strip palestinian security sources

libya yemen and there are many examples of what the us has done and basically it's able to get away with these things because it is able to exercise its veto. israel has hinted it might get involved in syria to counter iran ten. sions between tell of even tehran have been on display at the munich security conference israeli prime minister used his speech at the summit to warn against a growing threat from tehran this is a brief. brief description of the middle east as it looks like though i call it the red in the black the red is isis. the radical the sunni is the black is iran and its offshoots the radical shiites as the red compresses. and it will be wiped out very soon from the map of the middle east iran is moving in iran's involvement in syria has long been a critical issue for israel but now the prime minister's rhetoric may even be time for actions to speak louder than words so we want is changing the ground rules in syria i've said we will not allow them to do that if mr us invites iran in militarily that changes our position such words once enough benjamin netanyahu brought some

huntress i would say you borders notability libya in ways that expose people to human rights abuse do you accept this blame i accept that a much better job could be done of honoring the human rights of people trying to get into europe that does not mean letting every one of the men at nevada get those and let me know the building is and we know consciously that these peoples are in libya in a failed state. we agree that these people are living in the failed state only with the argument we don't want to have them in europe our human rights guarantees extend to what we do outside europe and that has to be held in mind regardless of whether it's turkey or libya or any other country it's the same degree of attention for the basic human rights and dignity of those people but then as i say i really want to insist once they get here we have to do a better job of protecting their human rights that is no less important which country is on your mind when you say something like that what i have in mind actually is the intolerable burden we've placed on greece and italy we've left them to deal wi

now the capital of libya is in danger of losing its historic heritage due to the current instability in the country an essential science has been neglected and left out in the open a photographer from the city has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness. i'm a little put in the here thirty third the old city is our history it's our past historically it is the oldest trade of does it really with africa it. would think. it's on the up and even i like to take photos of the old city it's my passion. to remember seeing the no one and fifty there is no restoration of any preservation of ancient buildings and. instead of also people took part on twitter their bloated photos of the old city taken by me and other people they wrote about the city so there was in fact. the concerns about the historic heritage of libya shared by your desk as well the organization has put five of the country's sites on its world heritage endangered list citing the conflict of fact in libya some of those sites date back centuries and even millennia. the round up of our top stories tonight i'll be back