RT News - August 16, 2017 (12:00 MSK)

From desperation to liberation - hope for Syrians in Deir Ez-Zor as the army works to repel Islamic State from the city. Concern and confusion over the Korean crisis - with Seoul uncertain of the United States' strategy, and with both preparing joint military drills likely to further infuriate the North. The head of the Libyan National Army exclusively tells RT about which nations are helping or hindering his fractured country's drawn-out conflict.