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In response to the continued and just blockade and brutal aggression on the great people of yemen and our great country the Yemeni Armed Forces launched the biggest attack on the capital of our saudi enemy riyadh using drones and a massive number of Ballistic Missiles we stress once more that more fierce attacks and military operations on the enemy will be launched to the blockade is lifted and till our freedom and independence are gained mohammad in son are with more on this one mohammed what more have you managed to confirm either way because thats a lot of claims from both sides at the moment. Yes what we can confirm that the as long as the both sides that the whole of these claim that they have had their target which are the Defense Ministry and also the Intelligence Center along with the. Air base along with other military positions and jayson. While the huh saudi arabia has claimed also that if you have an intercepted the missiles. But there are also the the the the eyewitnesses that have described the said that they have heard powerful explosions in the sky and also and the ground some of these. But we couldnt and ben then fully can. Confirm such reports or from from social media but so far. These want to send the masses to the saudi arabia that. They want to. Live to the blockades and the war and also in earlier stages the whole it is official has called for 4 or 4 he expressed his readiness to travel to saudi arabia to sign an agreement with saudi arabia and that in case a saudi arabia accepts their own Peace Initiative which we described as a comprehensive peace deal that could join of the political factions to forming a unity government but so far what is happening in on the ground that the whole of these with the fall down of the ghanian will be bar they have come closer to the 2 province which is the last stronghold for the international the United Nations backed governments. Now and now our 4th from the from this side of the hold these are also they have their own fight with the Southern Transitional council forces from the other side in abyan. Thank you for that update mohammed a lot in sanaa yemen now but i shall know a consultant to the Yemeni Embassy in london but i you have heard mama talking about some of the big picture long term goals of peace deals and unity government i mean arguably we are as far away from that as ever. I mean as the u. N. Envoy. Station with the with. The fact that a lot of. Ready ready ready these 9 and the escalation they have been doing on either. Side of the u. N. Envoy is a kind of a ready roadblock. Is that its not clear to the audience how. Long it. Has been. Happening in mt it is very worrying nevertheless. That. On t d. V that is of course going to complicate the. Talking about this being the biggest attack yet on saudi arabia we wont know that until later but if nothing else it shows the strength that they have to launch these attacks one of our earlier guests today called them an Insurgent Group id say theyre probably well beyond that now. Well i mean whether they are honest i mean they do or i find a. Story the. The the issue for me 1st of all is. That. The the same that they deem that. Office and or on the society doesnt look like they need the political d will to resist or should they feel that if they. Are smarter than both of them again. 3 the others from the council of the Transitional Council is backed by the u. S. But also doesnt enjoy also that much. Because of because of many many many reasons but with the on the Human Rights Violations there on d the front the the the International Community may say that they want a international. But they lack the means to act i mean it was important. For the fusees their strategy has been just wait the latest conflict as much as possible and eventually the question what we. Should always good to talk to you thank you for joining us today. Moving on in the arab league is holding a virtual emergency meeting on libya have calls growing to find a political solution to that crisis the french president says turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya that can no longer be tolerated more from laura but many discovery of more bodies in southern tripoli the military says the bodies belong to people kidnapped by forces of warlords highly sought after. And its not the 1st the uns top rights body ordered a Fact Finding Mission after the discovery of mass graves in dar huna previously a stronghold of have to and his forces. After a 14 month military campaign to take control of the capital after failed the internationally recognized government recently recaptured term along with all the towns in western libya and on monday the chief International CriminalCourt Prosecutor said in the statement she would not hesitate to expand investigations and potential prosecutions to cover any new instances of crimes. But there is a possibility of more violence to come libyas Government Forces in opposition to the west of so that the demanding have to both retreat from the strategic city. On monday the u. S. Ambassador to tripoli and the head of Africa Command met with libyas Prime Minister fires as. They discussed efforts to stabilize the country but also how egypt has weighed in on the conflict egypts president seems to have threatened military intervention if jan a forces opponents to it so that. His government calls a threat a declaration of war and the u. N. Spokesman gave this warning. The last thing that libya needs right now is more fighting more. More military mobilization more transfer of weapons more presence of either foreign fighters or mercenaries and thats been more than the pointing in the fischel meeting with president keiser eat french president a man you want to get takis intervention in the conflict did you took his own did you take him up but you dont and again i have already had the opportunity to make this very clear to president i now consider this turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya and is in breach of all the commitments it made at the berlin conference tuckey has intervened in recent months providing support to Government Forces france has been accused of supporting have to. Something it continues to deny my call has also spoken to us present all trumped by phone the leaders agreed on a need for ceasefire and libya and the resumption of negotiations. But with clear divisions between International Figures weighing in on the conflict there remains the question with these divisions need to more scenes of destruction in a country torn apart by years of war lure bad money and is the. Stuff put out here syrias foreign minister is weighed in as well saying his country supports a ceasefire and also backs the forces loyal to war 24 hafter you know on the high today libya is a victim of foreign interference the foremost of which is the turkish aggression that aspires to control its wealth in principle we support the ceasefire and we call for the resumption of the 5 plus 5 talks at the same time we support the Libyan National army led by Khalifa Haftar and we support all institutions in Eastern Libya we came on the unity and sovereignty of libyan territories also we stand side by side with our brothers in the arab republic of egypt to defend their National Security and to the arab National Security more with mahmud out though i had now in the libyan capital tripoli it would same optimistic mahmoud to think that the arab league in its virtual emergency summit today could come up with even a pathway forward. I dont think so. Obviously the government is not only denouncing the what it calls the double is thailand a policy by the arab league dealing with the libyan crisis but also it has just decided to downsize its diplomatic representation in the arab league on our account of what it calls the double standard policy by the arab league concerning the libyan crisis and also as it says there. The that egypt the egyptian regime that has called for that summit has been also derailing the ceasefire calls in the past in fact has been encouraging the warlord honey for have to to walk forward in his military campaign in western libya now the. Foreign ministry denouncing the calls by egypt rejected the could the calls by egypt for that arab summit and also it says that its a violation of the internal panel of the arab league because it has not consulted the tripoli based government which is recognized by the International Community and also a violation of the United NationsSecurity Council resolutions and the regard to the it could nation of the. Government of National Accord the libyas of representative of the league. Just stated that egypt has been. Accused of. Facilitating the transfer of medicine rhes to the world including the russian mercenaries and generally speaking that ship. Based government is not expecting any solution out of this summit in fact it says that it is not considering any outcomes of that summit given the fact that it has rejected and take him part in it or carry the one who is in tripoli thank you for that its weve also got manic trainer whos reporting for us from the coastal city of misrata east of the capital. The g. And a with turkish support has been able to take control or take back western libya other now position to the west of sirte and what were seeing is a lot of you know political maneuvering by various countries but whats important to note is that these forces that are in the west of sirte are primarily from the city of misrata and they know the area very well they know the territory the ins and outs of sirte they they went into certain 2011 and captured and killed more mortgage duffy and in 2016 when i still took control of these are the same forces that went into sirte and liberated it from isis of course they did that with american support u. S. Africa command carried out airstrikes at the time and we thought we saw u. S. Delegation coming into libya yesterday meeting with the d. N. A. Janay leadership so you know forces here on the ground say they will not negotiate with after they say that they will they will enter syria based janay and turkey are saying that they call for a cease fire but they insist that forces retreat from central libya but the specifically in sirte and from. The whole situation in libya has changed drastically in just the past 6 months if you go back to january turkey rapidly passed a law which allowed it to deploy troops to libya for a year pretty soon turkish troops landed in the capital to support the government of National Accord despite protests from greece france and egypt the following month the United Nations tried to broker a cease fire no success there the g. N. A. T. Then pulled out of further negotiations after the killing of civilians by half to shelling of the capital but in march the u. N. Special envoy to libya quit his job over Health Concerns where journey further complicated the peace efforts the g. And a then began making advances reclaiming control of land from the Khalifa Haftar and in may. Be u. N. Diplomats confirmed the presence of russian mercenaries from the valley. In a group the same month the g n a claimed control over a key airbase by the tunisian border dozens of towns and supply routes soon after a number of flights carrying russian mercenaries were spotted leaving the battlefront around tripoli but as the g. N. A. T. Continued advancing east egypts president announced he would intervene militarily in support of after should he see it necessary there are so many players involved lets try to make some sense of it would be in london a titter in chief of International Interest a Current Affairs magazine with a focus on the middle east and north africa was nice to see as i went through all of that list and also listening to mahmoud earlier its about everyone else isnt it its about turkey its about egypt its about france its even about the United States now all about who they support and what they want. I think thats exactly right and i think its very interesting that in your presentation in the discussion that youve had so far theres been no mention of any libyan agency i mean libyan desire any libyan push for what exactly they want instead and this is the reality of what it has been like since 2011 since the nato intervention that ousted get their free we saw france u. A. E. And there are many other different nations whether its a techie added to it as well and this is why the current ongoing conflict the reason we dont have negotiations yet is not necessarily because the libyans are rejecting it but because the international cowers havent come together to agree some sort of framework within which they are going to operate in libya in other words turkey wants to know to what extent that western area will expand so that it can exact its influence egypt once since then defined to be within its sphere of influence the u. S. Will doesnt want russia involved russia thinks its the opportunity of a lifetime and is trying to establish its military bases there and france is livid that its being sidelined out of a former colonial territory and therefore its kicking up a fuss to make sure that nobody benefits in other words if i dont benefit nobody is allowed to benefit and i think this is just part of the quagmire that is libya so does libya itself in whatever form have a voice here i mean if youre going to have an Arab League Emergency summit about libya it is there any real voice coming from them or is that are they being drowned out. I think this is the reality of the matter is and as cruel as it sounds the libyan voice is irrelevant now at the moment and i think its because there is a precedent in libya in which if anybody wants to step which power they visit to foreign capital none of the libyan parties have actually tried together Popular Support for their respective sides and this is why we see so many divisions so many factions tribes switching sides every now and then because nobody has managed to get the libyan people on board and thats why everybody is relying on the foreign power with regards to the arab league the arab league is part of this growing warning that egypt is trying to give to turkey which is turkey you did say ok hats off to you you rescued the d. N. A. But lets not get cocky about it lets now sit at the table we can have that im bringing i get asylum as the alternative turkey come and lets sit down but the problem is turkey is scarred by its former experiences in syria whereby without the use of force turkey was not allowed or was not to listen to in the Syrian Affairs so turkey now is operating one of policy in which lets use as much force as possible to get as much territory as possible until we are forced to sit at the negotiation table and this is why we see the arab league operating in this context egypt wants to say to the world that the arab league which is always a pretext for intervention in the arab world i am ready to take the steps and i will enter libya if you do not abandon sit down and come to the table and negotiate turkey until now essentially saying egypt theres nothing you can do to us we are going to take a certain job for and the u. S. Is trying to balance between 2 allies egypt and turkey are strategic allies for the u. S. So he does not prefer one over the other and increasingly when you look at the statements particularly french statements you know i know many people are belittling frances involvement given its been outmaneuvered but nobody should underestimate frances influence over nato france has liaise with the u. S. And the african has now come out with a statement which can only be interpreted as telling turkey to start reigning itself in to start adopting a more conciliatory policy and in other words tie. It is running out for jackie and i think the final proof of this is the fact that the heavyweight delegation of tech you went to tripoli to speed up the process of military bases in other words there is this a window now in which everybody is trying to scramble to assess their forces until negotiations come about when they will come out thats unclear thats until these hours come up with a framework but the direct answer to your question is this the libyans are now irrelevant they will follow the orders to stumble or moscow or washingt