Again joining me in the studio now is Political Correspondent hans brandt and chief political editor. Is standing by for us at the chance really mikael im going to start with you how significant are todays International Peace talks in berlin for the future of libya. They are absolutely crucial potentially this could be a major step forward in turning the region of libya which has been spiraling spiraling into civil war over the past couple of years into a controllable more controllable scenario more and more countries have started engaging with their very own entrenched interests since we saw gaddafi ousted the former libyan dictator now the big question is when with all these major powers sitting down at the table can can at least a benchmark ceasefire be achieved. Do we know where the 2 major rivals at this point have arrived in berlin. But we know that general arrived here yesterday evening we expect him to have had bilateral meetings weve just seen the u. N. Secretary general and t
Together with his Libyan National army he hopes to capture the countrys capital and take full control of this Oil Rich Nation and its partly because of oil that russia and turkey have waited in on opposite sides of this conflict. With turkey behind. His u. N. Backed government and russia supporting huffed. Moscow has denied reports it sent mercenaries to reinforce the generals fighters but on thursday turkey confirmed it had started deploying troops to help in tripoli despite a un arms embargo. With libya so unstable the fear of a surgeon islamist terror has worried many European Countries but other factors mean in the e. U. Is split over its alliances. Officially the tripoli based government has the backing of europe including germany but italian Prime Minister because if a contest met general haftar earlier this month rome sees him as crucial in stemming the flow of migrants across the mediterranean. And frances concerns over terrorism as well as its interests in libyas oil wealth ha
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An atomic bomb. So there have been rocket attacks in and around baghdad after those u. S. Drone strikes which killed irans top military command the qassam salomone in iraq 48 hours ago no one exploded in the heavily fortified green zone near the American Embassy also the brigades that pro Iran Military group is warning iraqi forces to stay away from u. S. Bases also grief and rage have filled the streets of baghdad and the shia holy cities of karbala and najaf weve seen these sorts of funeral processions taking place for sort of money and the Iraqi Militia leader dont forget the band mohan this who was killed alongside him diplomats and leaders meanwhile are scrambling to ease the crisis between iran and the u. S. This is the Qatari Foreign minister who has been dispatched to me irans leaders youve also got france the u. K. And saudi arabia all calling for calm ok that sort of coverage with some a bit of a reporting from baghdad. Multiple attacks have been reported in and around iraqs