Libya's Revolution Is in Ruins

There are about 10 of us and the Libyan Coast Guard just got a call from the Italian saying that there are inflatable boats here somewhere full of migrants. It's very rough here today, so we're trying to gather the oceans right now. and find them before, yeah, I don't think these guys know it's Olivia because they're coming right back at me. I think these guys think that the Italians, the boss here, have trusted them. I think we're Taking you back to Libya Libya with the global migration crisis overwhelming Europe in 2016, the EU came up with a new $215 million plan to pay Libya to contain the problem.

This strategy means that Italian warships are now responsible for diverting thousands of migrants back a year. to a Libyan state in difficulty why Libya has become a heart for smuggling FEMA Saba lambdak Aliyeva Savannah and Libya sure actor of the multiple dual and multinational of lacan astronomy Kalia Road RCS in an official in she held the super atom RCS see that's almost it's called lorena race double backboard Hallion in the storage module went ahead and flattened the needs. This anarchy has affected the country since the fall of Gaddafi and today Libya is fractured into two rival governments.

The UN and Western allies support the national accord government. or the GNA, which controls the capital Tripoli, but with a failing economy and growing insecurity, the DNA is struggling to maintain its control. Libyans are increasingly frustrated and desperate for change. It is a broken economy the financial infrastructures have collapsed in Deena Libya they have collapsed 600 percent in the last three years there are about 500 people also waiting here the lines that go around the block trying to recover their salaries because there is a problem so big in the country So how does it work? You have to stand in line and get money.

You are left without a salary with a weak government and deep-rooted discontent. Conditions have ripened for terrorist organizations to thrive in 2015. Thousands of ISIS fighters established their largest stronghold outside Syria. and Iraq ruled the coastal city of Cert for two years, terrorizing the local population after a seven-month battle. ISIS was eventually defeated with the help of US airstrikes and a ground offensive led by GNA-funded militias in the West. First alert of that in December 2016 and now that you continue to patrol the city but are heading to the easternmost point that there is the greatest threat of Isis returning, what is the security situation at the moment?

I mean, how much of a threat is Isis, Miss Barack Furman? The Medina Family civil doctor had that limit rate that was defeated there to feed her runner, so ever since you guys kicked out Isis, you've been weak crying right out of it. Bernie Taupin measure and me in the matter, our minute let the same me or army or she will kill me or Splash, who do you answer to? I mean, for the last few years you have been under the jurisdiction of the ADN, right, I have in the last few months you have not received a salary.

Leah's real fee is to carry a computer, but a child has a full phone and how the office in the media will moralize Medea, he and has a cell phone or Shabaab line like California lighting, I'm a Lou, we get them enough, Sir, pass the washable Dulhaniya before the lobby. The risk of not paying these militias is that they could look for sources of income elsewhere. In 2014, the National Petroleum Corporation or NOC, Bolivia's largest oil producer, was attacked by malicious individuals fiercely opposed to the GNA. We spoke to NOC President Stephen Ala. How much? The money is that Libya is losing from the current situation in terms of the security surrounding oil.

With the question of reducing our income, we lost more than 136 billion US dollars. 126 yes, how long for the last ones, so if you can think about the security situation. yes, when you go, yes, you have good climbs, good weather, you have water to boil. Elvis, Elvis, people forgive you on the beach, all the successful tours we have, but we have. I guess this is what happens when oil gets caught up in politics. Yes, the lady is considered charming. She is one of the only respected neutral voices in Libya, but to keep the oil industry running she must work with the government struggling to maintain control and with hundreds of militias competing for Libya's most valuable resource.

To what extent the political situation in Libya and the power struggles seem to be happening across the country, how much is due to who controls the oil? All factions want to control the oil in Africa if the oil is controlled by militias and this will prolong the life of the civil war in the country. Unfortunately, how rampant smuggling is, including oil smuggling, here in Libya, this smuggling business is huge and hundreds of millions are lost. Unfortunately, the same people who are smuggling their food, the same people who were taking the humans and also the drugs and weapons that the GNA reportedly has. militias paid to act as coastguards to stop illegal smuggling some of these ministers have been accused of working in the illegal migrant trade the GNA has been accused of working with smugglers to stop migrants from reaching Italy is the guilty trip of those same people who are guilty of some of these criminal activities.

I think it's a good question and Yahoo would like to say it in the same positions very clearly. No, I'm not saying no criminal. I'm not accusing you of doing that, but I should know. the DNA, so I mean, the assumption is clear, we are gratifying agonists and you know, engaging with those criminals, very well, very careful, but the DNA deals with militias here in the subrata smuggling center. This militia group is led by Abdul Rahman, my boy, who is named after characteristic, in addition to fighting for control of territory in western Libya, the GNA also paid him as a coast guard to stop smuggling.

Vitia took us to pick up a boat full of immigrants trying to get to Italy, so It's going to go wrong, it's going to happen, let the guy tell some more young people how you guys treat the guy friend you meet, obviously, we've Seen reports that they are unkind to them, there is no Kennish, what an idiot you are. make you in the ditch that does not use colors our chefs work alone using AA many of the - I see an alpha seen and flamenco has to be market look Faith I do it, yes, we eliminate a Pollock Elizabeth Crichton Tommy so you know me, the smugglers are manipulated in the same unit while we were with him.

Betta began to mock one of these smugglers, Taylor 3/10 and Soriano, but Peter himself has been accused by the UN of smuggling immigrants. He denies these charges oh yes thank you yes so say as you would supposedly corrupt militias like these making the most of the government payroll Libya has descended from a place of hope just seven years ago to a largely lawless country with where we sat down with Harold, a senior DNA advisor, to ask him about his vision for Libya's future. It is very difficult to see a State that is failing its people like yours.

I mean, the economy is a complete disaster. Social services do not work. The militias have more control than perhaps even your government. Do you recognize the urgency of addressing these issues properly? Now, if your country wants to move forward, there is hope because we see a momentum where even people are fed up with this kind of chaos. This is something we have inherited. It's something we're trying to manage. It will take some time. time, although the militant force that is responsible for freeing cert from Isis and continues to protect cert at this time says that they have not been paid for the last few months, are you concerned that, given the dire state of the economy in at the moment in that these forces, whether you call them militias, will not turn against DNA, why did you call them militias?

That's a question, you as Nia have to know when the fight happened of course we had organized forces and there was what do you call them to support the forces do you want to call them armed groups do you want to call them delicious call it what you want but at the end of the day it was under the total control and umbrella of the GNA and the Ministry of Defense the issue of salaries It is a financial crisis or a situation in which we spoke to many people, but not many people have said that the problem is the DNA and that they cannot see a future for Libya with the travel power that the GNA should have in a temporary period.

Until the Constitution comes out and there are proper elections for a stable state, this frustration will be fully accepted and recognized by us. I will not deceive Libyans by telling them that we are the best government, but we are the best government available.