Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Perhaps the most transformative thing happening in Europe right now is happening in Moldova.

For years, the Eastern European country was consumed by its own corruption.

Now, after a shocking couple of weeks, one anti-graphed campaigner has become Prime Minister

with a mandate to clean up the rot.

Last night, viewers of America's Democratic primary debate were treated to some of the rough and tumble of the campaigns to come, and tonight holds more.

Pay attention. Historical data show that these debates move the needle far more than the much more widely watched general election debates.

First up, though. more than the much more widely watched general election debates.

First up, though.

In Libya, the capital is under attack.

Rebel warlord Khalifa Haftar has been mounting an assault on Tripoli since April.

He wants to claim the city and the country as his own. His forces already control three quarters of Libya and its largest oil fields. It's the country's third

internal conflict in almost a decade. It's been eight years since Muammar Gaddafi was

overthrown in 2011.

We are told that Gaddafi is dead.

The Libyan freedom, fighters have finally succeeded.

I think today is a day to remember all of Colonel Gaddafi's victims. The country has been in chaos ever since.

The putative government of national accord, the GNA, is holed up in Tripoli, barely keeping the

lights on, its influence extending not much farther than the city limits.

Yesterday, the GNA claimed to have retaken the strategic town of Garian,

which Mr. Haftar has been using to support his assault on Tripoli.

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