He has successfully made all the charges against him part of his campaign to be re elected president , claiming as usual this is a witchhunt against him, accusing the prosecutor of political motives. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Thats how decisions are made in every case. The 13 charges against donald trump include racketeering, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiracy to commit perjury and conspiring to file false documents. Forgery. His legal Adviserjohn Eastman and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani are among the 18 others charged as part of the widespread criminal enterprise. Frankly, we did win this election. As he refused to accept defeat, trump and his allies focused on georgia, claiming incorrectly that thousands of fraudulent ballots had been counted forjoe biden. Calling georgias senior Election Official, asking to find enough votes to tip the state his way. The trump teams lies, like the cl
factor, making extreme wildfire behaviour more likely and more aggressive as we see projected trends into the future. speaking there to kimi barrett. to libya now, where clashes between two powerful armed factions in the capital tripoli continued tuesday after violence erupted on monday night. the fighting is the worst the capital has seen for months. it was triggered by the reported seizure of the commander of the 41m brigade by a rival militia. libyan politicians have called for calm and flights from tripoli s international airport have been suspended. we spoke to islam alatrash, a journalist in tripoli, who gave us an idea of what the last 2a hours have been like in the city. the situation now is ok. and we were so afraid of the clashes in different places, especially in southern tripoli, after they closed the airport and moved all of the flights to the international airport. so, many people was afraid
about the situation in tripoli. now, the situation is ok and feeling better than yesterday. so, actually, it was one of the baddest days, especially after 2018. so, we was actually feeling safe after two hours, and the clash is back now and many, many families are afraid about the situation, but now, thanks, god, for everything, everything is ok and feeling better than yesterday. so that s the latest from tripoli. adulkader assad is a senior political editor at the libya observer. he said the clashes were designed to delay the next election. whenever there is a fragile stability, a sense of security, two armed groups pop up and start clashes in tripoli, especially in tripoli, in order to give somewhat a sense of insecurity and instability
so that they can, let s say, stay in power, for libya to stay stateless, without a state institution and elected government. so that s the obvious reason. other reasons are because the 41m and the sdf are two popular, let s say, armed factions, and this could be vying for more power, vying for getting more ground in tripoli and southern tripoli. so this is another reason that maybe prompted the whole thing. speaking there to adulkader assad, who is a senior political editor at the libya observer with that update on events in tripoli. you are watching bbc news. stay with us.
Eleven years since Libya’s uprising, a deepening political crisis now threatens progress made to help communities rebuild over the last year. Tens of thousands of Libyans risk losing access to adeq.