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Christopher Livesay: The city of Sirte. Colonel Ibrahim Bin Rabaa is the commander of Libyan counter-terrorism forces in Sirte. ISIS killed him. Christopher Livesay: So far this year in Libya there have already been more than twice the number of ISIS attacks. But we ask and we hope for help from other countries. Christopher Livesay: That's largely because ISIS isn't Libya's only problem. Christopher Livesay: And take this border crossing, between Libya's rival governments in the East and West. When ISIS was around, trafficking was at its peak. Sometimes they would even put terrorists on the migrant ships to Europe. Christopher Livesay: The two cousins eventually met in battle.

As Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó continues to hold rallies across the nation after declaring himself ‘acting president,’ international pressure is mounting on Nicolás Maduro, who was sworn in for a second term after an election riddled with fraud. The New York Times reporter Ana Vanessa Herrero joins Hari Sreenivasan from Caracas for more. Read the Full Transcript More nations join the United States today to demand new elections in Venezuela. Pompeo called President Nicolás Maduro's government a "illegitimate mafia state." Ana, we have a situation now where you have multiple parties, multiple countries from the outside recognizing Guaidó as the president and then at the same time, you've got the military that has expressed, at least publicly, their support for Nicolás Maduro. What is the situation on the streets, regardless of what's happening politically? And just to translate that into everyday life, we're talking about prices changing literally every day sometimes, even in the supermarket. This is something I've witnessed, being in the supermarket and checking the price two or three times and see how they change it over an hour, and let's not forget this is a country that is reaching up to 70 percent poverty. Well that is what experts say — it's happening exactly that and that is why the defense minister, when he spoke immediately after (UNTELL) exile an opposition congressman in exile jumped to Twitter and said, wait a minute because this person that just appeared on TV, the defense minister that is, doesn't represent the troops, he represents the high ranking officials who are involved in criminal activities, who the United States (UNTELL) already.