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Welcome to the news after months of fighting libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar says he supports a ceasefire with the un backed government its been proposed by his ally egyptian president and sisi following talks in cairo now the socalled cairo agreement includes a ceasefire from monday and the exit of all foreign fighters have been significant sent banks will have to in recent weeks Government Forces continue to drive have to fight is out of the west capturing more towns including bani walid early on saturday after regaining from control of the capital tripoli and taking the city of on friday as you can see Government Forces in our gear up for an offensive to recapture the city of sirte and thats the hometown of the former libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and a half to a stronghold. Well have to has resisted the previous cease fire agreements but his defeat in the west has left him little choice but to take a different tone. From the americans in the fight against criminal militias interior we will exhaust bell the moose and reese from libya so we can achieve the hopes and aspirations of the libyan people to have a new day of prosperity this will reflect positively on neighboring countries into the region as a whole. Lets cross over to our libya correspondent mahmud of the one who joins me now from the capital tripoli lets talk about the push towards another important town to capture certainly from the g. N. A. T. Perspective what do you know about whats happening there. Well so here were just getting the ports from the said it. That. Forces loyal to the government of national called have made an incursion into this city from a couple of axes the Government Forces are vances today from the west an erection coming from the city of misrata and from grain they have been derailed by. Forces heavy fire and draw on the government to military sources say that the last of the adults in fighters today in the battle for the city of said it their strategic city of. Military commander of the center a little region says that theyre fighting to stop. By unique up shooting their strategic city of a city it but the government sources Government Forces excuse me are determined to move further south to chase that eminent of us forces in. Military bases in center of libya the aim of the government according to the military sources is to move east toward saudi world to recapture both. Aid and also the Oil Crescent Area that has the oil fields and Oil Installations on the coast in sin threat libya so what we know for certain now is there fighting is continuing get inside the city of sirte it after the Government Forces managed to get into this city center from several axes being. There have the force especially one brigade named 6 or 4 brigade thats an ultra religious brigade or a that belongs to the Salafist Movement of movement that have has pledged allegiance to have to recently is now resisting the Government Forces inside the city of it well of the one head in tripoli thanks very much. Well lets take you back just a few months in january the u. N. Backed government in tripoli was having to defend the capital from attacks as Khalifa Haftar forces closed in have to us forces control the area in red and the u. N. Backed Government Forces held the area in blue when turkey sent in fighters and military equipment to support tripoli is government in january it began making important territorial gains so by may Government Forces had seized the air base used to have to as warplanes to attack tripoli tripoli is government then recaptured most territory surrounding the capital the seizure of the city of meant that haftar lost his last major stronghold in western libya now rival forces are battling for control of the city of sirte Moammar Gadhafi is home town. He is the special envoy to most countries for the head of the g. N. A. S. At. The head of the path the air party joins me now. From london to tell you whether its on the program sir weve been here before have to agreeing to a cease fire or wanting a cease fire but its only his side thats asking for it to d. N. A. We havent agreed to anything. Actually under countering the g. N. A. T. Back in the moscow conference has signed a cease fire agreement have to back away and did not sign refused to sign in berlin virus settlers declared openly in front of the International Community the commitment of the g. N. A. T. To our cease fire agreement have to back away and we didnt come and face the cameras and declare a vote in front of the International Community that he would commit to a cease fire its only now that you know the 59th minute of the 11th hour as we see have to is militias being decimated theyre experiencing a melt down and have to as effectively down and soon it will be out that he is now ill not tell him its sponsors actually the egyptians are now calling for a cease fire this is a very disjointed was called for a cease fire why now why not 5 months ago why not 14 months ago why not 8 months ago or so obviously have to. Literally stooges of egypt are called drug and manipulated by egypt and egypt comes out with this initiative a Cease Fire Initiative and a Political Initiative yet its like a lesson so if youre going to let me let me jump in that theres a lot lot of got to get through so are we saying then this is really checkmate for half done a last ditch attempt really to be involved in the politics of libya will he be allowed to if his forces are routed from the south and from the east so he will be allowed to be on to other to have a voice in libyan politics if his forces are routed from the south and from the east. One who does have to represent have to represent himself here to present his own. Grand illusion of getting power to do a military coup or to do war he wants to take full power absolute politic aspect of it days of one man rule of get that you have to does not the east of libya does not result in the other side or segment of the Libyan Society and his at downtowns fail his campaign has failed because the libyan people will not accept as the libyan people went out and in a great deal of pollution 2011 exactly against this military tyranny and military 11 man rule for it have to take us back we will not accept a look at right we fought very bravely and we pushed him back and now we are you feeding him so he is defeated he is out he has no right to claim any political. Position or role because he does not believe polity he does not believe in sharing or in dialogue he only believes in one winner takes all he wants to take everything libya belongs to all the libyan plans if i was to come after me just let me just get back in there because he still has allies in terms of egypt and russia in your opinion where do they stand now are they still propping him up or are they looking to actually withdraw their support gradually and therefore withdraw from libya how do you see that dynamic. Exactly i think from what we see and we followed closely and there was a high level delegation of that of the g. L. A. And last 2 days ago russia is already jumping from after sinking ship france is that reviewing his strategy very quickly and soon is going to receive a delegation from the generally headed by the interior minister egypt is the only one and obviously the in what i did i mean them and others are doing because theyre only one way for them is to take everything and libya and put toward libya to have them but egypt has a dialin has a problem because egypt is a neighbor of libya he has a lot of interest in libya Economic Security political and egypt is still backing during the course is still gambling on have to although have to her is losing and hes going to be out so its at the end of the day its its up to the egyptian regime to decide do they want a long term strategic and mutually beneficial relationship with libya or do they want to still. Run forward and gamble on only one man and this one man is losing and losing fast and hes going to be out of the scene very soon after thats always been part of the problem he will not be part of the solution the winners the jna the legitimate government if its going to have an overwhelming military when its going to dictate which all of the other libyans what the outlook of libya in the future will be not egypt what the immoderate is not any other country youre welcome marty thanks so much for joining us from london sir thank you. Well began as an Anti Government protest in lebanons capital over the humbling of the economic crisis is causing new tension its just after 6 oclock in the evening in beirut and Security Forces on the street sees a live pictures coming to us from beirut now hundreds of people turned out to call for the government to resign over the state of the economy the lebanese the facing the worst economic crisis in decades with around 30 percent of the population out of work an attempt by protesters to march to the center of the city was blocked by the army as rival groups appeared well our correspondent zain joins me now live from beirut zain you just talk us through where you wall and whats been happening because obviously the military have been on the streets. Oh yes the army Security Forces theyre out in force you can see them in the distance they used tear gas to push antigovernment protesters away from the main square in central beirut some of the protesters tried to storm the Parliament Building and really weve seen scenes like this over the past few months then took over since a protest movement to try to topple the Political Class that has been in power for decades a Political Class that people here believe are corrupt and responsible for driving lebanons economy into the ground this is only on one side of the square 2 hours ago we were on the other side of the square where antigovernment protesters were not facing off with the military but with supporters of the Ruling Alliance supporters of the Ruling Alliance did try to storm the main square where antigovernment protesters were camped out and. The army had to stand in between the people at the divide is the tensions. Are you can see the Security Forces trying to push away the progovernment antigovernment protesters from the square so they can no longer try to storm government buildings so scene like this have been playing out in the lebanese capital over the past few months Economic Conditions are only worsening anger is growing and really the call to action today was was an attempt to relate to the revive this movement and to remind those in power that quote their socalled revolution is still alive and it hasnt gone away weve also seen the scenario of a curfew being called say. In response to the code 19 pandemic that has perhaps been an excuse to lock everybody down and make sure that these confrontations dont happen do you expect or can you sense that we could be heading towards that direction. Right. Well there is no doubt that containment measures had an effect on the momentum of this protest Movement People were afraid in fact a lot of people are still afraid to take to the streets but it was one of the reasons why the momentum slow that it lost its lost its heat really but yes there is a curfew but that curfew is now reduced to midnight till 5 in the morning so just 5 hours its not going to deter people any more people are angry 45 percent of a population of 4500000 people now live below the poverty line were talking about 30 percent unemployment businesses are closing down people are losing their jobs the local currency the lira losing 60 percent of its value over the past few months inflation is on the rise so this these economic hardships really is what driving the people to the streets but at the end of the day we have to. Bear in mind that its only a few demonstrators on the streets not enough people really to shift the balance of power the Security Forces the army still on the side of the politicians and thats why it is quite difficult for them to achieve their goal of toppling the Political Class at least using by using force or are using the street we can certainly hear the popping of what we might assume is either gunfire or tear gas but just explain to us where you are actually in terms of the location of beirut how close to the city center the parliament of the presidency is it significant where these demonstrations are happening. Well definitely more to square central beirut to the heart of the capital Martyrs Square really a lot of symbolic meaning because it was there when the protests began and where tents were set up for months in fact the Security Forces cleared the protest camp during the lockdown and the containment measures that were put in place to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus and protesters were were saying that you know they believe that the authorities use the coronavirus as an excuse to clear the protest camp a little this is where the symbols of power are not very far from here is Parliament Building not very far from Parliament Building is Government Palace so really the symbols of authority and this is what the antigovernment protesters have been trying to target as they push with their with their campaign but i must say in october there was a lot of you for you people were calling the movement precedented because it was most i think terry and people were holding one flag the lebanese flag this is a very deeply divided country but what they did intentionally or not they avoided discussing politically divisive issues but as the days passed weeks months those political divisive issues came to the front forefront and that is why this protest movement is losing its unity and it is weakening because there are some people for example who believe that early elections should be the way forward others believe well we should push for the disarmament of hezbollah this is an iranian backed group which is armed and it is it has be took power in the cabinet and and controls along with its allies parliament so you have these conflicting agendas which at the end of the day weakens the protest movement but like i said the balance of power is in the favor of the authorities and they are clinging on to power the pictures that were seeing here at the moment zain. Do show a wall of Security Forces either. Chain smoke grenades or responding to large plumes of smoke on the protest inside this causes a huge problem for the very newly placed Prime Minister who really has to try and sort this out and really isnt in in an intractable position between the various political factions even with within his own cabinet. Definitely the Prime Minister faces profound challenges he took office earlier this year he says his government is independent its made up of independent experts but they were appointed by the Ruling Alliance the parties that formed the Ruling Alliance in fact several of those parties threatened to withdraw their ministers from cabinet when the Prime Minister refused to implement what they wanted him to do he is in a very difficult position because the International Monetary fund his. Economic reforms the Structural Reforms fight corruption fight tax evasion trim the Public Sector before. The i. M. F. Gives the country billions of dollars of much needed aid cannot do that unless the Political Forces who appointed him and who back him agree to do so and if those Political Forces agree to carry out those reforms what theyre doing is they are giving away the power that theyve enjoyed all these years they are giving away the access they had to state resources which they use to. Try and tell them you know to give to give their supporters jobs for example in the Public Sector so without those reforms the i. M. F. Is not giving lebanon money without money the foreign currency in the central bank is dwindling and theres a lack of dollars in the country so the states. Will not be able to purchase fuel weed and medicine and what we understand is that they have enough money for weeks not months so the situation is that your at the end of the day it is a one sided government in the sand started one political camp is only represented i