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Place. in brazil and identified attackers have shot and killed the leftist member of rio de janeiros the city council not able franco and her driver were in a car when banning another vehicle opened fire and killed was an expert on police violence and no social work in rio slums. in syria it looks as though the siege of rebel held east into kuta is coming to an end a monitor group says that more than twelve thousand civilians and how leaving the area and crossing into government controlled terri...

Of of gone refugees living in pakistan with their right to stay severely restricted the face of mass deportations back to their country well go live to islamabad for the latest. and the top brigs of negotiated today on views of dr treaty thats likely to new arguments with britain and time is running out the u.k. is set to leave the bloc in less than a year. i dont welcome im. a temporary truce ordered by russia has taken effect for a second day in eastern huta a monitor group says a barrage of a...

The dossier to buzzfeed. no comment from kramer or his attorneys today. >> bret: thank you. spokesman for a syrian search and rescue groups as residents of one damascus suburb of being targeted by extermination. civilians are being killed, wounded, and forced from their homes by a syrian government anxious to stamp out a resilient opposition. conor powell reports from the middle east newsroom. >> syrian and russian jets continue to pound eastern ghouta, leveling hospitals and residential buildin...

Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and had really improved his image with the west, thanks in part to lobbying, consulting and law firms in the u.s. who made millions off him. one of them is the livingston group which works out of this building. its headed by former republican congressman bob livingston. federal records show the firm made about $2.5 million over less than two years, setting up meetings with congressmen and looking after libyas interests in washington. a livingston aide s...

Traditional lobbying organization should have registered under the foreign agent registration act, who is a lobbyist and who should register, than the traditional lobbying law. and in this case, they were working to bring intellectuals to libya who had foreign policy ties in america to elites whether it was cheney or people in the state, defense department and they wanted these people to influence policy on libya. >> we spoke with aman kelly, a partner with the group whos leading an internal inv...

We were working for libya. if we discover that there was anything inappropriate that we did, we will take all appropriate measures to remedy it. >> plenty of others made millions off gadhafi. rhonda udomes lobbying firm got more than a million dollars a year to push for it to be taken off the list of terrorist sponsors. it was all registered and above board. >> critics say you knew about his history, about the chance he could maybe never change and you made a deal with the devil. >> i didnt make...

To send in agents to learn about the rebels and assess their needs. clintons special representative, the state departments christopher stevens seen here in 2008 in tripoli is on the ground in benghazi scoping them out. >> we sent somebody in to get that kind of on the ground assessment of their identity, of their leadership structure to talk with them firsthand and to see what direction we think theyre moving in. weve seen some positive sign signals. >> reporter: recognizing the rebels a senior ...

September. cnns senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins me life. $38.5 billion to you and i that sounds like an awful lot of money but in fact its just a drop in the bucket. was it worth the political jockeying? >> who knows. well see at the end of the day because it was very, very intense, deb. it was down to the wire negotiations last night with only about an hour and a half left before the clock struck midnight and major parts of the government going to shut down a small group of n...

Thats deceptive. >> despite not being a traditional lobbying organization should have registered under the lobbying act than the traditional lobbying law and in this case they were working to bring intellectuals to libya who had foreign policy ties in america to elites where there was dick cheney, people in the state department, the defense department and really wanted these intellectuals to influence policy on libya. >> reporter: we spoke with eamon kelly a partner with the monitor group leadin...

Protest the release of the lockerbie bomber from a scottish prison. another firm called the monitor group made several million dollars in its dealings with libya. according to documents posted on-line, the monitor group charged the libyan government $250,000 a month between 2006 and 2008. in return, according to the documents, the firm sent academics to meet with muammar gadhafi. some of them wrote articles about the libyan leader. the son saved on the thesis for the phd.. the monitor group want...