the u.n. leadership you talked in previous interviews. about how the current structure of the u.s. doesn't allow the secretary general to be a fact if you said that he and it's usually he. up until now you know it's been a he he is constrained by member states micromanaging things you said that you believe it would be a bad idea to limit the mandate to one term and in increase the secretary's discretion one that make it even harder for member states to have any faith in neutrality because that's the main consideration as far as i know that's from the russian point of view that's the main consideration in choosing a person who would leave this are going to be the main consideration i think the person needs to be fair but i think in these very troubled times in which we live the. also a need for leadership in the major organizations and the general and the secretariat micromanaged. it's. the u.n. organizations enjoy greater scope to run our organizations and the secure general does with the secr

the u.n. organizations enjoy fod greater scope to run our organizations and the secure general does with the secretary and so i think that's something the member states should reflect on. i also heard you say that the secretary general should be apparent and should have a mandates you engage with troubled or trouble some ladies like bashar al assad moammar gadhafi or i think what's more the relevant for today nicholas might do or what are the chances of the u.k. or the united states ever signing up for that. who in the charter of the specific reference to the good offices of the secure general and i think we could be used. actually. i was very pleased to see. personally go to tripoli my goodness couldn't have been of the more difficult time and he went to he didn't gauge with this including general have to so he put himself out there and i think that's important now my question and the next question may be a bias but i think it's not controversial to say anymore that the united nations is ofte

the u.n. chief says he is leaving libya with a heavy heart and deep concern, over the battle for tripoli. ♪ algeria,ontinues in thousands of protesters celebrating g the resignatationf ththeir presidenent. now they y want all thehe ruling elitite gone. ♪ we look at the race to contain cholera in mozambique after a cyclone. ♪ in the u.k. prime minister asks for another delayay for brexit, but will the eu granted? and in s sports, and england footballer says he can't wait to quit the game. he made the comments after several high-profile incidents involving fan racism. ♪ host: hello, welcome to the program. our top story, fierce battles taking place near the libyan capital as forces loyal to a warlord advanced to the city. the u.n. does try to intervene -- has try to intervene, with the secretary-general making a -- to rival centers of power, first tripoli, home to the libyan u.n. backed government, then to benghazi, the eastern stronghold. he remains deeply concerned about the military e

very much so the u.n. secretary general antonio de terrorists was in fact in tripoli when this violence broke out to specifically to organize that reconciliation conference that was due to take place mid april obviously the conference itself is now in question the fact that they are armed forces in the vicinity of tripoli that this conflict is happening obviously not the right conditions for a conflict conference about reconciliation to take place about there are some diplomats here arguing that after is using the military demonstration as a way of securing his place at that particular conference and of securing influence at that particular conference if so there is a possibility that conference could go ahead but that and that's a real but it would obviously require a deescalation of the conflict possibly a withdrawal of the troops that have been deployed by have to so it's a very tall order indeed to see that that conference going ahead as had been originally shuttled mike thanks very much let's talk now

the u.n. organizations enjoy far greater scope to run our organizations and the secure general does with the secretary and so i think that's something the member states should reflect on. i also heard you say that the secretary general should be prepared and should have a mandates you engage with troubled or trouble some ladies like bashar al assad moammar gadhafi or i think what's more the relevant for today nicholas might do or what are the chances of the u.k. or the united states ever signing up for that. who in the charter of the specific reference to the good offices of the secure general and i think he could be used more actually. i was very pleased to see. personally go to tripoli my goodness couldn't have been with a more difficult time and he went to he didn't gauge with all this including general have to so he put himself out there and i think that's important now my question and the next question may be a bias but i think it's not controversial to say anymore that the united nations

the u.n. organizations enjoy far greater scope to run our organizations in the secure general does with the secretariat so i think that's something the member states should reflect on. i also heard you say that the secretary general should be prepared and should have a mandates you engage with troubled or trouble some later it's like bashar al assad moammar gadhafi or i think what's more that relevant for today nicolas maduro what are the chances of the u.k. or the united states signing up for that. who in the charter of the specific reference to the good offices of the secure general and i think he could be used. actually didn't work out all those very pleased to see him turn you personally go to tripoli couldn't couldn't have been with a more difficult time and he went to he didn't gauge with all this including general have to so he put himself out there and i think that's important now my question and the next question may be a bias but i think it's not controversial to say anymore that the

the u.n. organizations enjoy far greater scope to run our organizations and the secure general does with the secretariat so i think that's something the member states should reflect on. i also heard you say that the secretary general should be apparent and should have a mandates you engage with troubled or trouble some later it's like bashar al assad you name moammar gadhafi or i think what's more that relevant for today nicolas maduro what are the chances of the u.k. or the united states ever signing up for that. who in the charter of the specific reference to the good offices of the secure general and i think he could be used. actually. i was very pleased to see him turn you personally go to tripoli my goodness couldn't have been with a more difficult time and he went to he didn't gauge with all this including general have to so he put himself out there and i think that's important now my question the next question may be a bias but i think it's not controversial to say anymore that the unit

the u.n. secretary general says he's leaving libya with a heavy heart as eastern forces advance on the capital tripoli. you're watching all to zero live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up hundreds of thousands in the algerian capital demanding more change after the president abdelaziz bouteflika resigned earlier this week. the british prime minister asked the e.u. for yet another delay she wants three more months. also ahead picking up the pace south koreans become the first in the world with nationwide five speed on their mobile telephone. our top story the u.n. secretary general antonio leaving libya after holding talks with rival for suze in the last hour he's been on twitter this is what he said i leave libya with a heavy hearts and i'm deeply concerned i still hope it's possible to avoid a bloody confrontation in and around tripoli the u.n. is committed to facilitating a political solution and whatever happens the un is committed to supporting the libyan people mystical ter

the u.n. organizations enjoy a greater scope to run our organizations and the secure general does with the secretary and so i think that's something the member states should reflect on. i also heard you say that the secretary general should be prepared and should have a mandates you engage with troubled or trouble some later it's like bashar al assad moammar gadhafi or i think what's relevant for today nicolas maduro what are the chances. the u.k. or of the united states aberrant signing up for that. who in the charter there's a specific reference to the good offices of the secure general and i think they could be used. actually while it didn't work i was very pleased to see it terrorist personally go to tripoli my goodness couldn't couldn't have been with a more difficult time and he went to he didn't gauge with all this including general have to so he put himself out there and i think that's important now my question and the next question may be a bias but i think it's not controversial to s

the u.n. secretary general has called for a ceasefire in libya to avoid what he calls a bloody battle for tripoli the security council is just how that emergency closed door meeting on the situation in the capital as fighting there intensifies dozens of people have been killed and that includes at least thirty fighters loyal to the eastern warlord have tied his forces are trying to take tripoli from the u.n. backed government the u.n. says at least four thousand people have been displaced and many more are trapped it still time to stop it still stime for a cease fire to take place for a suspicion of all still it is to take place and can afford the worst which would be a dramatic bloody battle for tripoli but it's still time to recognize there is no military solution only political solution scale apply to situations like the one in libya. still to come the calls for change are growing louder protesters demanding the sudanese president step down get support from several western nations when all

this is al jazeera these are your top stories so far the head of the u.n. says he's leaving libya with a heavy heart and is deeply concerned and turning good terror's met the president of the libyan parliament into brooke after meeting warlord to leave huffed out in hopes of averting a confrontation between rival armed groups earlier at least one hundred forty five fighters loyal to after surrendered to forces allied to the un backed government's afters troops are pushing towards the capital raising fears of renewed fighting just before his departure of the secretary general said that he was living leaving libya with a deep concern and a heavy heart quote i still hope it will be possible to avoid a bloody confrontation in and around tripoli he added and he said the u.n. will remain committed as well as he were the secretary general to supporting the libyan people hundreds of thousands of algerians are out on the streets of the capital algiers there protesting demanding further change the reports that the intelligence chief was sacked early on friday the pre

u.n. envoy to libya stated. made it clear that he had no interest in halting his advance so in general it is quite obvious that he is so quite determined to take over tripoli tell us more about khalifa haftar who is he and what is he what does he want to achieve he is a military man who participated in the coup of the libyan king back in the one nine hundred sixty s. he helped get daffy to take over power afterwards he was responsible for troops in chad where he was captured for almost twenty years afterwards he went to exile in the u.s. and worked for the cia there and he went back after the downfall of gadhafi and participated of course had a big role in expanding within libya. if i could add something else the thing is he is a military man who was completely against islamists he did accuse the u.n. backed government of supporting the muslim brotherhood who is basically in power right now in tripoli also he's a man who is interested in money and the money comes through oil and the central bank which is which h

as the country struggles to contain what the u.n. calls a significant surge in violence just ten days ago more than one hundred fifty three people died in one of the worst attacks between rival tribes and armed groups such as i said al qaeda are gaining strength just as the government is warning of turmoil un peacekeepers are leaving canada and the netherlands are withdrawing their soldiers nicholas hoch has this report from one of their last missions near the city of. they call this operation desert falcon on board this royal canadian air force helicopter or the dutch long range reconnaissance team they're about to be dropped close to the border with burkina faso in an area controlled by armed groups while iceland syria is on the defensive here the slow mixtape in the greater sahara the local ice aloft chute is on the offensive it's highly active in this border area and has claimed a number of attacks. too dangerous and sensitive the un would not allow us to film this infiltration operation with both canadians and dutch forces remov

military support for any of the parties in libya in fact there's a u.n. embargo on arms control but some countries have been blatantly ignoring that and the strange thing is that nobody seems to be in bulling until very recently to name them or frame them so do you think that this recent offensive by a highly for have to tripoli is going to change the mind of some of these countries whose back to him until now into not doing so anymore quite possibly yes certainly there was an article in the french position saying that from to the barest because they've given support in the past monitors or in the past when he was establishing its control in the eastern part of libya in benghazi and are in america but they weren't expecting him it seems to launch this offensive you can properly as a matter of fact i think. pretty well any observer of libya over the last to europe to has been well aware that that was his intention the timing took us all by surprise but the intention was the do you think. in london that western powers like france were indeed caught off guar

too dangerous and sensitive the u.n. would not allow us to film this infiltration operation with both canadians and dutch forces removing some of the footage we shot to protect their troops they say . while this is a peacekeeping mission in looks and feels like an exercise in counterinsurgency what makes this mission dangerous is that we have a lot of different layers of conflict drivers that that actually feeds. the danger in mali because we have a lot of smugglers smuggling activity illegal trafficking of criminality we have this ethnical tension between different groups we have the influx of terrorists from from the border region and from inside mali and also we have this tension between the armed groups that are sort of fighting for political power. and all these things add up to the one big dangerous melting pot. as the mission in mali is known costs a billion dollars a year and is considered the un's most perilous it's already cost the lives of two hundred peacekeepers that's more than any previous mission and some

the u.n. is warning mozambique is in danger of widespread flooding as it gets hammered by a second cycle in just under two months cycling can a packed category four winds but is now we can. pass sunday's legislative election in. have no opposition politicians on the ballot the election commission says parties of close to the government were unable to meet new requirements i'm up watching reports on the commercial capital cultural. campaigning for these elections has been everything but business as usual there are two parties able to field candidates for eighty three national assembly positions and they're both pro government. according to the electoral commission none of the opposition parties met the requirements of a new actual code and charter of political parties one view from the eligible republican block party is that the opposition party simply couldn't get organized in time to meet the requirements. it's also about taxes most of the national assembly members who cannot take part in thi

the heads of the u.n. organizations enjoy a greater scope to run our organizations in the secure general does with the secretariat so i think that's something the member states should reflect on. i also heard you say that the secretary general should be a prepared and should have a mandates you engage with troubled or trouble some later it's like bashar al assad moammar gadhafi or i think what's more that relevant for today nicolas maduro what are the chances of the u.k. or the united states signing up for that. who in the charter of the specific reference to the good offices of the secure general and i think we could be used more actually. i was very pleased to see. personally go to tripoli my goodness couldn't have been of the more difficult time and he went to he didn't gauge with this including general have to so he put himself out there and i think that's important now my question in this question may be a bias but i think it's not controversial to say anymore that the united nations is often used not

power struggle with the u.n. back government in tripoli the u.n. chief has been trying to head off for renewed civil war also coming up. in berlin thousands take to the streets to demand more affordable housing a growing population and not enough accommodations being built by driving up and house trucks. and who would have thought these strikingly modern designs were created a century ago at the battle house school here in germany we visited a new museum in the city of baltimore house began. a michael thanks for joining us. the united nations security council has called on militia forces closing in on the libyan capital tripoli to halt their advance but the militias commanded by a warlord called khalifa haftar have also suffered some losses inflicted by fighters for the u.n. back while the u.n. special envoy to libya has said he is determined to go ahead with a planned national peace conference in a week's time there are now fears of a renewed civil war libya has been riven by violence and division since the longtime dictator wylma gadhafi was over

you know in the auspices of the u.n. was canceled so kind of success ok for him ok so i mean he is the man people would be reading about and hearing about right now we've put a bit of a bit of a portrait on him let's have a look at that and then we'll continue our conversation that it. after is by no means a newcomer to libya's political scene throughout for decades the military strongman has shifted from the center to the periphery and is now a default front of the conflict in libya. once a close ally to mamma could duffy have to spend more than two decades exiled in the u.s. following the fall out with the former president. after return to libya and twenty eleven during the nato backed uprising that ousted and killed gadhafi he rose to become one of the top military commanders leading rebels. in twenty fourteen he started consolidating his power and now controls territory in the eastern and so the regions of the country now he has his eyes on the capital tripoli where in twenty sixteen an internationally recognized gov

in 2016, the u.n. panel ruled in his favor stating that he had been arbitrarily detained and should be allowed to walk free. and compensated for this loss of liberty. the foreign officers responded by saying, this ruling changes nothing. it was the foreign officer who responded, not the home office or the minister of justice. it is of course interested in relations with allies and others. we have precedent in this country relation to requests for extradition to the u.s. when the u.s. authorities have issues of hacking and national security. i would remind the house of a case in october 2012. when the current prime minister was home secretary. an extradition request very similar to this one was refused and we should recall what wikileaks actually did. who could forget the pentagon footage of a missile attack in 2007 which killed 18 civilians in iraq and two journalists. it takes a monumental amount of leaks in a variety of theaters, none of which have produced an outcome for the occupants of those count

the u.n.-recognized government. >> today the position of the clear.ent is really this is a coup. amy: and the international criminal court refuses to probe possible u.s. war crimes in afghanistan just weeks after the trump administration blocked the icc's chief prosecutor from entering the u.s. we will get the latest. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump issued the second veto of his presidency tuesday, blocking a congressional effort to end u.s. support for the saudi-led war in yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians and sparked the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the war powers resolution n was passed by the house earlier this month, following its passage in the senate last month, with seven republicans joining minority democrats. it was the first time congress has invoked the war powers act of 1973 to end a u.s. president's ununilateral decisin to wage war abroad. congressmember ro kha

well libya has had two rival governments over the last few years the u.n. recognize administration led by prime minister fayyad. is based in the capital tripoli most western nations support the unity government including italy which is worried that the fighting will force more migrants to cross the mediterranean qatar and turkey also box. in the east there is the two brew based government the center of power for highly for half time he is backed by egypt saudi arabia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support to have to and russia recently vetoed a u.n. security council statement to condemn his advance on tripoli now protesters in tripoli have urged the foreign ministry to summon the ambassadors of egypt's the u.a.e. saudi arabia and france and they say they want libya's representatives to the u.n. arab league and the african union to take measures against have tar. the and. let's bring in our panel now joining us from london and. director of the tripoli based sadek institute in rome francesco guy head of the political

city namely in the town of ms down south of the u.n. but have to his forces on the other hand threaten the have announced the western area a no fly zone for any other crafts other than there is and they threaten to target any military activities belonging to the government of national accord on the ground have to his forces according to the government sources have pulled out of the tripoli international airport and sources at the government of national accord say that they they now have recaptured the tripoli international airport but yet the clashes are still going on in that three neighborhoods around the airport which is around thirty kilometers away to the south was from tripoli is a city center on the other hand. sources from the city of misrata say that muscles forces that is the force of that forward or defeated eisel incident into a new sixteen are now what mobilizing that advancing towards the capital tripoli to join the government forces to as they say defend the capital tripoli against have to his forces. we were hearing inte

if he succeeds what could happen if the u.n. backed government fails it is quite unclear what we have what will happen right now because we could have one scenario which is quite similar to the egyptian scenario where they're cracking down the muslim brotherhood which is centered in the capital right now but the thing is that other countries around libya might be also in danger because he has threatened last year algeria. to start a war and he has said that he will move up to tripoli and then afterwards he might move to a jury which which might mean that there will be also turbulence as around libby. what could the international community do to stop this situation from escalating i think the international community can do very much because first international community all only condemns things by words does not interfere although there are also double standards like and like the emirates who stated that it is against this intervention but on the other hand or i guess this moves but on the other hand it supports. so we don't real

if he succeeds what could happen if the u.n. backed government fails it is quite unclear what we have what will happen right now because we could have one scenario which is quite similar to the egyptian scenario where cracking down the muslim brotherhood which is centered in the capital right now but the thing is that other countries around libya might be also in danger because he has threatened last year algeria to. start a war and he has said that he will move up to tripoli and then afterwards he might move to a jury which which might mean that there will be also turbulence as around libya. what could the international community do to stop this situation from escalating i think the international community can do very much because first international community all only condemns things by words does not interfere although there are also double standards like in the like the emirates who stated that it is against this intervention but on the other hand or against this move but on the other hand it supports. so we don't really kno

against a u.n. security council resolution he did say that he believed in his view that president trump did want to come to some sort of new deal but he said there wouldn't be a new deal because iran really had given everything with the existing deal that was the best they were going to get and he was not prepared for iran to give up on its dignity he said although he believed that president trump didn't want war he thought there were those around him including his national security adviser john bolton and other influences the israeli prime minister the king of saudi arabia the ruler of the u.a.e. who actually wanted regime change in iran possibly even to destroy iran as a country. there for the first time the u.n. in afghanistan has found that pro-government forces have killed more civilians than the insurgents from january until march this year the afghan and u.s. military contributed to more than three hundred civilian deaths the u.n. says taliban i saw as well as other fighting groups killed two

the u.n. secretary general says he is deeply concerned after meeting the libyan warlord only for after his will but his troops to advance on the capital tripoli. a setback to the plans to advance on the city more than a hundred of his fighters have surrendered to the un backed government. hello and welcome i'm peter double you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also ahead hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in algeria's capital algeria's demanding more changes after the president abdelaziz bouteflika resigned earlier this week. picking up the pace south koreans become the first in the world with nationwide five g. speed on their mobile telephone. we begin in libya where the latest diplomatic efforts to solve the military standoff between troops loyal to the warlord after the u.n. backed government seem to have made little progress the u.n. secretary general was in libya has concluded a meeting with after his troops are advancing towards the capital city shor

with both the u.n. recognize government and hoffa whose troops have now taken control of tripoli international airport hundreds of thousands of algerians are rallied in the capital for a seventh week and a row they're demanding even more changes despite the resignation of their longtime president earlier this week the u.s. state department is expected to name the wrongs are pollution or ecarte as a foreign terrorist organization should be the first time washington designates another country's military as a terrorist group. and the u.s. the democratic control or house of congress is suing donald trump's government over his emergency declaration to get funds first proposed border wall along mexico lawsuit says trump acted unconstitutionally all this comes as the u.s. president made a visit to the southern border where he said the country was full was there to inspect a small section of a newly constructed barrier that just replaced an older one and two thousand and sixteen he campaigned on a promise of bu

is that the u.n. secretary general does not need permission. from my little and. the u.n. secretary general needs to do is to do. a thing a conflict humanitarian emergency. then with this emergency within the u.n. trying to turn off this particular mark. to the office of the nation. and request access to. data that the government has. an independent comprehensive diagnosis of the extent of the crisis and. they do not need. thank you for your for. nearly a million people in mozambique are receiving vaccination against colorado the last month science only died most of those being immunized are in the poor city of beirut which was hardest hit two people have died from the disease and there are two thousand cases have been recorded for me the miller as there is from. this camp in john doe's home to more than six hundred people displaced by the high clone and the flooding that followed that's just a fraction of the one point seven million people in wasn't really could been displaced following that flooding people here say conditions of very difficult once you went to the tents

ruled inthe u.n. panel his favor stating that he had been arbitrarily detained and should be allowed to walk free. and compensated for this loss of liberty. the foreign officers responded by saying, this ruling changes nothing. it is of course interested in relations with allies and others. we have president in this country relation to requests for extradition to the u.s. when the u.s. authorities have issues of hacking and national security. i would remind the house of a case in october 2012. when the current prime minister was home secretary. a next tradition request very similar to this one was refused and we should recall what wikileaks actually did. footage of a missile attack in 2007 which killed 18 civilians in iraq and to journalists. it takes a monumental amount of in a variety of theaters, none of which have produced an outcome for the occupants of that country. julian assange is being pursued because he has exposed wrongdoing by u.s. administrations and their military forces. we only have t

now there was supposed to be a u.n. sponsored conference in libya later this month that conference was aimed to kick start a political process ending in national elections obviously that process is now in dire jeopardy because of this upsurge in conflict and great concern to the reported position of huffed clearly indicating that he is not going to back down indicating that he will not give in to pressure from the united nations among others the to withdraw in this upsurge in conflict ok mike hanna live for us from the united nations thank you mike david mack is a former deputy assistant secretary of state for near east affairs and a scholar with the middle east institute he's also a former u.s. ambassador to the u.a.e. he joins us via skype from washington d.c. mr ambassador replay shade it we also know you have a lot of experience when it comes to libya how much further do you think this confrontation will go we have had some analysts who say this will not be a traditional battle he doesn't think it's going to go that

thank you the u.n. chief is calling for a cease fire in libya to avoid what he calls a bloody battle for tripoli the security council held an emergency meeting on the situation as fighting there intensifies dozens of people have been killed in recent days that includes at least thirty fighters loyal to warlord tarr whose forces are trying to take the capital tripoli from the un backed government the united nations says at least four thousand people have been displaced and many more are trapped but it's still time to stop it still stime for a cease fire to take place for a suspicion of will still be to use to take place and to avoid the worst which would be a dramatic bloody battle for tripoli and it's still time to recognize there is no military solution only political solutions going apply to situations like the one in libya. tell ahead has more from tripoli. the situation is still a very tense in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli following get yesterday's clashes between forces loya

in february he releases this video calling for a coup against gadhafi against excuse me against the u.n. backed government he rails against them for not doing enough to get rid of these islamist groups so his goal is now to get rid of these is the missed militias that he accuses of terrorizing libya and what's funny here is the u.s. response according to one former state department official quote everyone was like is this a joke because he used to be a cia asset and now a sudden he's against the u.n. back to govern. it so have to are twenty fourteen who fails but he still continues to exert like a significant amount of control in this country and he launches what's called operation dignity where he's again trying to kick the islamists out of benghazi with the support of the u.a.e. of egypt of saudi arabia and this actually prompts a counter attacked by the islamist coalition by the islamist alliance plunging the country into civil war again in twenty fourteen and as you know libya now has these two were revealing governments one into a group and one in tripoli because of this now at thi

their guest that the u.n. should be. i'm really sorry here we are running out of time and i do want to bring in mohammed in london here is it a duplicitous game on the one hand the west saudi arabia the u.a.e. a bombing yemen on the other hand they helping them. well we could ask another question what why why they are doing that if this is the case what is the benefit phil these countries to do that i think. these countries we cannot deny you know there is there is a war there are casualties there are destruction there is a section in the country there is no one can deny this children civilians are killed schools hospitals so many civil. buildings in yemen are destroyed but again we are asking how can we come to an agreement to solve this problem how can you go to a negotiation there is no one talking about what the inside conflict the inside aspect of the conflict there is no one talking about what these and there are war against them unease again very jeems different regimes different governments since two thousand and

the u.n. my organization u.n.h.c.r. the u.n. development program have an agreement with the government even. we are assessing the villages from which these refugees are coming we are starting to implement from projects to improve the conditions but the real piece of work that needs to be done is on the fundamentals the reason why the people that. movement little access to jobs and to services pathway to citizenship these are the difficult issues there are difficult issues but these are the issues that need to be tackled we inspire in the refugees here back confidence that we allow to them to think ok i am voluntarily going back. there has been very respectful of the voluntariness every time there's been no more street car this has to continue and choice becomes possible. and no the main mosque thousands of soldiers are on parade and knew the military could learn some display but it's not the national it's the ethnic why states army is celebrating thirty years since the signing of a cease fire deal scott high level. along myanmar

u.n. but government troops are pushing towards the capital raising fears of renewed fighting algerian media reporting the intelligence chief has been fired. as a retired army general who is a close ally of the former president of. the british prime minister. the european union for another delay to bret's a. three month extension until the end of june. let's get more on our top story that's the conflict in libya. a retired military general who's joining us from beirut thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera there are reports that some of the armed groups from the western libyan city of misurata have started arriving in tripoli to defend the capital from from the front half the forces who has the upper hand here militarily. first of all it seems that the general have thought of us having this upper hand and the first of the offensive which he launched against tripoli but what happened in. the western forces stormed the one twenty something camp where the how far his forces the taken over. th

saudi arabia and egypt the u.n. secretary general is in libya and is calling for an urgent deescalation the u.s. house of representatives has approved a resolution to end u.s. supports for the war in yemen the resolution has been approved by a vote of two hundred forty seven to one hundred seventy five the bill will now go to president donald trump who had earlier announced his plan to veto it that happened last month ethiopian investigators say the pilots of an aircraft that crashed last month performed all recommended procedures to regain control of the aircraft it's part of a preliminary report into the accident that killed one hundred fifty seven people. their job to people of this investigation is to make sure that there is safety in the abberation sector it's not to blame someone it's not to get some sort of there are some things that we are going to do it as something very normal forming the procedures but of all the things to get results of this report is going to have to as sure seventy invalidation sic tha

just months after tumor angelina jolie was going on missions around the globe with the u.n. refugee agency and was soon named the agency's goodwill ambassador a title that would take her on missions from chad to pakistan sometimes with ten husband brad pitt meeting with people displaced by conflict and disaster. it's just. julie's film work also reflected stories she heard in conflict. or directorial debut in the land of blood and honey deals with. the year after in two thousand and thirteen julie addressed the un security council on sexual violence the world has yet to take up war zone rape as a serious priority hundreds of thousands if not millions of women children and men have been raped in conflicts in our lifetime the numbers are so vast and the subjects so painful that we often have to stop to remember that behind each number is someone with a name a personality a story and dreams no different from ours and those of our children. following julie's appeal the security council adopted its broadest resolution on sexual violence in conflict before their bodies are able jo

well libya has had two rival governments over the last few years the u.n. recognize administration led by prime minister fayyad. is based in the capital tripoli most western nations support the unity government including italy which is worried that the fighting will force more migrants to cross the mediterranean qatar and turkey also box in the east there is the two brew based government the center of power for highly for half time he is backed by egypt saudi arabia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support to have to and russia recently vetoed a u.n. security council statement to condemn his advance on tripoli now protesters in tripoli have urged the foreign ministry to summon the ambassadors of egypt the u.a.e. saudi arabia and france and they say they want libya's representatives to the u.n. arab league and the african union to take measures against have tar. the and let's bring in our panel now joining us from london and. director of the tripoli based sadek institute in rome francesco guy head of the political ris

top u.n. officials are visiting a head to refugee camps in bangladesh the u.n. says more international support is desperately needed to help nearly one. million refugees from me and maher the aim is to raise nearly a billion dollars and humanitarian aid one of those officials the un's high commissioner for refugees spoke to al-jazeera from cox's bazaar he says his mission is to see the return of for him to refugees to their homes in me and mark but i'm number of challenges are slowing the process. so you were my organization u.n.h.c.r. the u.n. development program have an agreement with the government even yeah. we are assessing the villages from which these refugees are coming we are starting to implement from projects to improve the conditions but the real piece of work that needs to be done is on the fundamentals the reason why the people left more freedom of movement little access to jobs and services factory to citizenship these are the difficult issues there are difficult issues but these are the issues that need to be tackled and we inspired in the refuge

the u.n. my organization u.n.h.c.r. the u.n. development program in agreement with the government of myanmar. we are facing the villages from which these refugees are coming we are parroting the man from project to improve the conditions but the real piece of work that needs to be done is on the fundamentals the reason why the people there more freedom of movement little access to jobs and services pathway to citizenship these are the difficult issues there are difficult issues but these are the issues that need to be tackled we inspired in the refugees here back confidence that we allow them to think ok i am voluntarily going back bangladesh has been very respectful of the voluntariness of return there's been lot more streetcar this has to continue until that choice becomes part of. a u.s. court has jailed a russian agent for eighteen months for conspiring to infiltrate the national rifle association prosecutors say the thirty year old marine attempted to influence the gun lobby group and sway the government's policies to favor

our role with the u.n. what is the u.n. need to us would do mean to the u.n. there's almost no regard for it and then frankly if they go it alone be isolationist approach this is just the trademark of this administration he the president of the united states donald trump has come to disrupt and so if he isn't turning things on his head in his mind and in the minds of those around him he's not really doing his job so essentially i think what this really is and this is really sad is that there is a sense that americans they think the administration thinks that americans don't want their taxpayer dollars to go to or it's funding abortion and i think again if you look at how the of the partisan breakdown is on this issue obviously we know that more republicans care about that but it in at the end of the day i just don't see any movement forward and that's what also troubles me is i think we're going backwards on women's issues and we're not doing what we should be doing as good stewards of issues women's issues we've been leading the way for eight years where it i

the u.n. security council on the fact that francaise chatted for a month germany's chair and now for another it wants to chair it for much longer or at least it wants to get a permanent seat i have to correct myself on the security council what are what are its chances germany for a very long time as you say sara has tried to have a permanent seat on the security council some of the arguments that he has said is that is one of the sort of key donors a major contributor to the u.n. budget it is also a key provider of troops within the u.n. framework those are those are arguments that germany has that time and time again germany is not the only country that wants a permanent seat in the in the u.n. security council as part of a wider u.n. reform other countries just brazil or india also want the same thing so their goal is clear whether they will reach that goal that is something more difficult analysts said that it's a very slow process and that it is very unlikely they will happen any time soo

also coming up tonight a u.n. security council resolution aimed at stopping the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war believe it or not some countries threatened to veto this if the your nuremberg moment your chance to stand on the right side of history. and to the thousands of women and girls who must watch i think members shave off that bit and go back to their normal lives while they the victims never can. well to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome that we begin the day with revenge islamic state and because easter sunday a terror attack today because government said that sunday's of suicide bombings of churches in hotels could have been payback for last month's mass shooting at mosques in new zealand the government also pointed to islamic state saying the group was probably linked to sunday's attacks just hours later islamic state claimed responsibility but as it has done before provided no proof instead a photo was put online does evening a chilling lineup of the e

the u.n. chief has a libyan war road to stop advancing on tripoli as his forces reach the southern outskirts. watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead. load not satisfied yet another round of massive demonstrations in algeria despite the president's resignation people a mahdi vent their anger at leaders they blame for ethnic violence that claims nearly one hundred sixty lives last month and their fields may be green and productive but pakistan's farmers say things have never been so bad we'll find out why. thank you for joining is libyan troops commanded by warlords. say they've advance into the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli in a push against the internationally recognized government the u.n. and world powers a demanding they host the offensive fighting has been going on iran the old international airports have to say as he wants to in his words liberate the city but the government in tripoli has a u.n. support and soldiers loyal to it say they've captured at least one hundred

the u.n. security council calls on the ward khalifa haftar as forces to halt their advance on the libyan capital tripoli. hello i'm maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. thousands of protesters celebrate the resignation of algeria's president now they want all of the ruling elite gone the u.s. president holds pos of the newly constructed border fence with mexico on everyone is happy to see him. and the u.k.'s prime minister asks for a number delay to bracks is but will the e.u. grant it. our top story this hour the un security council has called on forces loyal to the wall twenty five to to halt their advance on the libyan capital tripoli the president of the council made the comments following an emergency session on the crisis called for by person fierce battles have taken place around tripoli which is currently held by the un backed government mahmud had reports from the libyan capital. the prime minister of libya has you and back the government meeting the troo

well the u.n. security council is holding an urgent session on the libyan crisis mike hanna joins us now from the united nations what do we know about this meeting mike. well it's a meeting that's happening behind closed doors we spoke to some of the members as they were walking in all expressing great concern about the situation in libya the meetings being briefed by the special representative for libya us on salami who spoke to the security council via video link from tripoli we understand that he's told the security council that he'll be meeting with the libyan prime minister fires are such in the course of the day and then he will be holding a phone conversation with rebel leader in benghazi after speaking to the prime minister their security council meeting still under way been under way now for a couple of hours at stake as well of course is that national reconciliation conference that was due to take place in just under ten days time in tripoli the aim of that conference put together by the

of tripoli as i mentioned the u.n. security council held a meeting to discuss the situation in libya mike hanna has more from the u.n. . the emergency meeting concluded and the german ambassador in his capacity as president of the council issued a short statement he said the security council was united in its call for all parties to withdraw all their forces in particular the rebel a he said the council called to one all parties to resume a process of dialogue the un was due to sponsor a conference of national reconciliation in libya later this month that was aimed at creating a road map through a political process leading to national elections that conference now in jeopardy because of this upsurge in conflict secretary general antonio good terrorists had been in libya to actually organize this conference it turned instead to a mission of shuttle diplomacy we held a series of meetings with senior figures including the prime minister in tripoli and rebel leaders in both to brooke and benghazi he held a meeting with. th

just months after tumor ater angelina jolie was going on missions around the globe with the u.n. refugee agency and was soon named the agency's goodwill ambassador a title that would take her on missions from chad to pakistan sometimes with then husband brad pitt meeting with people displaced by conflict and disaster. from. julie's film work also reflected stories she heard in conflict. her directorial debut in the land of blood and honey deals with rape during the bosnian war the year after in two thousand and thirteen julie addressed the un security council on sexual violence the world has yet to take up war zone rape as a serious priority hundreds of thousands if not millions of women children and men have been raped in conflicts in our lifetime the numbers are so vast and the subjects so painful that we often have to stop to remember that behind each number is someone with a name a personality a story and dreams no different from ours and those of our children following julie's appeal the security council adopted its broadest resolution on sexual violence in conflict before t