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Recognize the ministration in tripoli theres been fighting against the warlord i have ta well his forces launched an offensive to capture the capital last april turkey says its troops will protect its rights in the mediterranean and its interests in libya ankara and tripoli recently signed deals on military cooperation and maritime boundaries but opposition parties in turkey are against the government move they say that must 1st give priority to a diplomatic solution but lets go straight to ankara women how to do is live for us now mohammed so is this proposal to send turkish troops a libyan like to pass the Turkish Parliament and could there be any opposition to that do you think. Well daryn yes opposition to them most of it coming from the e. U. To one of the opposition parties in parliament which is about 36. 00 members in parliament and they say their members will vote no. On the government to force look into diplomatic channels to and that the conflict in libya instead of deploying troops and say should not involve itself in the affairs of nations of course the capacity is confident that it is going to pass the motion the defense minister has been speaking saying turkish troops are on the run by not only waiting for the good in light from parliament which will come in a little less than 3 hours from now when will top and also from the commander in chief but again president on himself is the architect of these full on and its its it looks us if turkish troops could be in libya if this motion pauses within days im on the just remind us exactly what are turkeys interests in libya. Well for public consumption officials are saying that leave be a country that has the maritime borders with. Ease the obligation to ensure that what they are calling a coup prove doesnt come to power but again there is the obvious side of it which is the amount of time bound to deal they hide. Behind with the government in tripoli which is recognized by the United Nations of course turkey fills out the it is on the right side of history supporting a government that is. Recognized by the International Community and particularly the United Nations about the modern time bound to be ugly meant is. Integrity parts of these plan to deploy turkish troops to libya because for the 1st time turkey is failing but its coming in from the cold when it comes to the issue of Energy Reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean sea the agreement between israel in get cyprus and greece left it out now the agreement signed with libya gives it. Great tech and also more influence on the Eastern Mediterranean sea and its looking more and more likely that those countries the poles through turkey will have their way without the support of techies so turkey knows very well the time boundary deal would be obsolete if health and takes over power is what it is very keen to avoid on what all this is all about all right a moment of. Mama thank you for that lets cross over now to libyas capital tripoli and talk to mahmoud up there why have the mood if so if this Troop Deployment in libya is approved by the Turkish Parliament how is it likely to change the balance of power on the ground there do you think. Well well definitely change the balance of power on the ground because as you know the key is the measure of the military support of the west to the new camp led by the. Government of National Accord and all the west to the new camp in libya led by. You and bad the Prime Minister is relying on todays mandate to make a change on the ground in favor of the Government Forces as you know that recently have to his forces have been advancing in southern tripoli taken control of several important locations including military camps and the fighting has been getting closer to densely Populated Areas they military and suffering igs exacerbating it day after day and the government with the military change maybe will be helpless as you know dead in the other camp led but have to it is supported by several regional and International Powers and the government says that if half the us forces do not have legal Standing Group routing medicine to use from the bagnall Company Along with other african mercenaries from sudan and chad also have that as was have been supported by advances weapons from russia and the United Arab Emirates then its the governments ride as a legitimate buddy to see military cooperation accords with other governments and terms of International Relations so it will definitely make a change on the ground and all the western camp led by israel lying on todays mandate to be part in place as you know. That the Government Forces have been a striving to be parallel have to visit forces out attack and today have to forces launch an annual fence of in Southern Turkey but military commanders with the government say that so far they have the pair of them have their forces advance or at a much more in tripoli thank you. Meanwhile greece israel and cyprus are expected to sign off on a multibillion dollar pipeline agreement which puts an odds with turkeys deal with libya to extract gas from the sea the east med pipeline as its known will begin in israel in the valentine basin offshore gas reserves in iran across the mediterranean to the greek island of crete and then on to the greek mainland could provide up to 10 percent of the use natural gas needs lets bring in manisha tuck in hes an International Oil and Energy Consultant and former Research Officer at opec vienna he joins us live now from london manisha how significant is this east med gas deal being signed today and what do you make of the timing of this deal. I think you must have mentioned already or implied that this is a war political negotiations between these 3 countries 1st it was between cyprus and greece when this gas was discovered or 5 years ago and then israel joined this negotiations have been going out on the political liberal quite a many times last summer as well. It is what for to my mind it is still missing that commercial company i suspect that has to be investment of 67000000000. 00 committed to this and this as you mentioned already it is mired in political controversy and there is scope of to keep challenging it and so on so there would not be a commercial Company Ready to invest that much in do small project is more it cannot be more of a political issue yet im not going to also thats an important point you make should manage share because as the as you were saying israel greece and cyprus are all opposed to turkeys recent deal with the un recognise Libyan Government which expands and grows claims over this large gas rich area so do you think todays signing perhaps is meant to send a strong message to turkey which is the political angle that youre talking about. This of course it is another push and other gesture at a politically by these 3 but let me say that before this or even in powell and earlier the brits the oil the gas reserves in offshore cyprus were being discussed by cypriots to be passed on exported through egypt because egypt has a big gas fields or just close to the s. And the idea was that the pipeline going from zoar field to egypt were already ellen g. Liquefy the gas to confection plants are available that would the best way to export Natural Gas Resources of Cyprus Offshore that has been discussed but then the other alternative is to join with the israeli offshore gas and export it through this to europe but even his ideas also have been thinking not the said he only has come to europe with ok thinking also of exporting the gas to egypt and to middle east countries at the same time so it is. Potential one way or the other or various alternatives ok but politics is a chess game that the politics on unfortunately is is playing a game and sensitivity of cyprus and terry key is a major issue in our atmosphere let me ask you a final thought because were going to push the time here i mean russia and turkey as we know have a number of gas deals already insert he clearly wants to expand its claims in the mediterranean but isnt there an oversupply of gas in the market now anyway so how will this new deal impact the energy space do you think. Yes there is there is a good point you mentioned that few years ago this gas discovery was ideal but now there is excess gas in the world offshore east africa to africa offshore australia in japans are many places available and are ready to export some more and a pipe down to be constructed so there is a lot of gas available around the world in general and some argue it that even European Market is really saturated there is of course the gas coming from russia for years and decades and European Union has been trying to diversify that europe would use other sources of gas of than russia and gas from us are where john comes to terry ok an option which is being fought on is a larger scale so there is that issue as well to have a europe independent from russia or less dependent on russia and this could be a help but the volume of this east european gas project is really not that significant it is important but i think that he would to make an impact on their russia on the european gas market monistat 2nd we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for your analysis thank you leisure. Well lots more still to come here on the news hour including parts of indonesias capital loss submerged as flash floods and landslides hit the country. We go to sri lanka where the new president rolled in the civil war is causing fear among some of my knowledge its. In sport the winter classic in texas provide some ice hockey with a difference santa will be here to explain that all of that later. Now taiwans top military officer has been killed during a Helicopter Crash landing 7 others were also on board when the helicopter made an Emergency Landing on the north of the island rescue teams have been dispatched the Defense Ministry says there could be survivors well the Inspector General of taiwans air force spoke at a news conference. A helicopter was affected by the weather visibility is not very good we have yet to clarify that troops on the ground can see their ground after the aircraft disappeared from the radars 2 helicopters immediately took off from sunshine airport also 90 minute set off for the rescue operations we have yet to confirm the extent of the aircraft damage some of the passengers are still stranded in the wreckage and some of them arrived we are waiting for information from people at the site. Where Russ Feingold is an asia Political Risk analyst he says this crash will impact the Campaign Talking Points in the lead up to the election on january 11th. President as well as the parliament of taiwan will be elected on january alive this tragedy does occur within a few days of the election and of course one of the most prominent issues in this election is taiwans National Defense with regard to threats from china so this kind of accident involving suggestion your leadership will unfortunately become part of the political discussion in the final days before taiwan selection the incumbent president s trying way and shes been a supporter of increased military spending so she will continue to give that message to the public to be hopefully itll be a period of no campaigning whether its the rest of today or tomorrow but once the candidates return to campaigning i think well see president s side emphasized that she has been a supporter of the military and shes been a supporter of increased military spending in the other side will probably look a way to criticize for example by saying yeah you spend more money on the military but youre not spending it correctly youre not spending it on an update its for example about a prob you talking point from the other sad japanese prosecutors have raided the home of the foreman isaan chairman colace cohen he fled to lebanon despite living under a strict bell conditions he was awaiting trial for financial misconduct got in the holds lebanese citizenship says he left to escape what he calls political persecution lebanese Authorities Say he entered the country legally. Evacuations have begun and relief supplies of a rifle thousands of australians found in fire ravaged towns people have been killed this week in New South Wales and Victoria West 17 people are missing some lettuce reports. 4000 a stray leonids were forced onto the beach and stranded here for 3 days now how has arrived for the victorian town of mela cooter the navy ferried people out by the only route possible this ship masked in the smoky haze at the moment were moving people way up or see if the smart clear it will be obligated aircraft into melich her to towards the steam that transportation of people out of there as well when you want to they have a narrow window or high temperatures and strong winds a forecast for australias southeast on saturday in New South Wales fire and rescue has advised her to leave the residents to prepare for extreme fires in the shaded areas from batemans bay south to the Victorian Border a 250 kilometer distance down the coast and another block inland i think the big thing that weve got on the wide the moment is that its the largest mass rely cashen of people out of the region that were going to sign and people are going have to the rights people are queuing up to get into petrol stations through traffic is unable to get or really have to go to help them make it out of thousands heeded the advice to leave batemans bay and drive north towards sydney many with nothing left to say but themselves and house is gone its completely burnt we found out yesterday morning to show. We went out there that the block that we were on has been burned from one side of the other does not apply to grass on it theres nothing left. About 1300. 00 homes have been destroyed in New South Wales since the fire season began in october its been a record breaking year the fires arrived earlier and with more fury the normal straight in Prime MinisterScott Morrison counted claims as a consequence of manmade Climate Change is no doubt Natural Disasters turned that why andrew because thats what by our Natural Disasters what were saying is we. We have we cannot control the Natural Disaster but what we can do is control our response firefighters are trying to control the risk by destroying the bush 1st back burning to create natural firebreaks residents prepared to those choosing to stay gathered supply lines and feel for generations in pumps if the wind trying just for the good impact brought heavily on my house in the night is the time of day and we can take the family members further up the road from the site you know it by simply. Of all these residents restocking preparing to face the finest head on shell of dallas or. At least 21. 00 people have been killed in flash floods and landslides in the asia 18 hours of heavy rain caused rivers to burst submerge in parts of the capital jakarta and surrounding areas tens of thousands of people have been taken to the template shelters its called hide the reports. The heaviest rainfall in more than a decade has caused deaths and flooding in jakarta and surrounding areas in west java the rain began on tuesday night and triggered landslides on the citys outskirts indonesias Meteorology Department has called the rain very extreme nearly 20000 people were stranded as jakartas domestic airport was shut down after its runway became submerged people have drowned and others have died from hypothermia or been electrocuted as Power Supplies were damaged by the flooding thousands were forced to evacuate their homes crews are pumping out flooded areas and rescuing those who are stranded the Indonesian Disaster Agency says the rains in rising rivers have submerged at least 90 neighborhoods flooding is common in jakarta this is month soon season and forecasters say more downpours are on their way its got harder aljazeera. Supporters and members of an iran backed group withdrawn from the u. S. Embassy compound in iraqs capital baghdad after a 2 day siege but in return they want to Iraqs Parliament to vote on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops recent u. S. Airstrikes have stoked anger at their presence in the country while similar fulton joins us now from the iraqi capital simonas the mobilization for s