me about the terrible situation with this, you know, militias run rampant and nobody really controlling them. and listen to what he told me about the state of his state right now. is libya a failing state? translator: libya is not a failing state. the state of libya doesn t exist yet. we are trying to create a state and we are not ashamed of that. outside world believes that libya s failing but libya was destroyed by gadhafi for 42 years and destroyed by a full year of civil war. and that s why we re trying to rebuild it. so there you had it from the prime minister s own mouth. this is not even a state yet. and we see it play out. this is the highest profile of these kidnappings but it s been going on for a long time and people are saying this happens, you know, to high connected people in libya as well. it s just happened to the prime minister. he went on national television, really to try to calm