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which aims to reduce violence in the north african country. now during the past year, libya has made swift progress and addressing a decade of chaos and violence that at one stage threatened to escalate and a full scale regional conflict representatives from the transitional government. they're taking part along with key foreign players, including the u. s. russia, turkey, and egypt, we share the goal of a sovereign stable, unified, secure libya, free from foreign interference. it's what the people will be deserve. it's critical to regional security as well. for that to happen. national elections need to go forward in december, and that means urgent agreement is needed on constitutional and legal issues that would undergo those elections. and the october 23rd cease fire agreement has to be fully implemented, including, by withdrawing all foreign forces from libya. we have security plan, we have a comprehensive security plan in order to fix your election and we expect the

release of the electoral law and the adoption of the electoral law. and with this and with your help, we hope to see the full with the full withdrawal of for and mercenaries and foreign fighters in order to also implement the relevant security council resolutions. this plan needs, funding and equipment. of course, this holds true for all the other plans as well in order to overcome this crisis. well, in a moment, we'll get some analysis from our diplomatic at, at a james base. he's in london, he's also covered libya extensively. but 1st, let's go live to adam rainy. he's following developments at that conference in berlin for us. now, out of this is by my understanding, the 1st time that the u. s. has participated in a berlin conference. how is their presence there, shaping things. so if i know it's still early days, well, it's clearly drawing

a lot of attention and making the libyans and other parties here. see how seriously the u. s. is taking this under the new administration under president joe biden. the trump administration didn't give it as much importance and that was clear to everyone. so there's hope there's this sense there, that, that blinking participation in this 2nd conference in his strong words of commitment to this whole process is a sign of what the u. s. is willing to do to help, but they're not really giving a lot of specific so far. and the comments we heard from the libyan prime minister just moments ago that our audience just heard as well. he's asking for support and he probably wants some real clear indication of what that supports going to look like on the ground. despite the progress we've seen in libya and recent months, it's still not a stable functioning democracy by any stretch. so they're looking for support from all the parties here to actually make this plan. have some meet on the bones that they've laid out because without that,

it's just not going to succeed. although they're all saying we need to get all foreign fighters out and we need to have these elections take place in a peaceful manner in december. and we have to unify the one military and get rid of these militias. so far, we're not hearing a lot of specifics about what that's going to look like. and the libyan delegation is probably at least behind closed doors right now, pushing these very powerful partners to tell them exactly how they're going to help them do. just that. adam rainy, they're on the ground for following that conference and bell, and we'll be seeing that later. thank you so much, adam. well, let's now bring in different medic, editor james base. he's following all of us for us from london. now, james, you've covered libya in great detail. you've been there, you know, a lot of the diplomats who are on the ground in berlin. what in your mind are the big sticking points in the discussions that are, that are happening today and tomorrow? well i think all of those attending are very, very pleased with what's happened in libya over the last year. because a year ago the country was divided into they were fighting each other. there was

effectively a civil war going on and things were only getting worse since then. we've had a cease far. we've had a transitional government, the government of national unity put in place. and things are looking positive for the 1st time. but as you say, there are sticking points that they're very worried about. and they know that the moments of hope in libya in the past a decade ago, during the so called arab spring was, when could afi was toppled. and there was considerable hope then, but of course, it led not to any resolution but to renewed fighting because of distrust among various groups in libya, competition among various actors for foreign and international players on different sides in the international zone. so they need to, i think, make sure that things don't fall off track again. they need to try and make sure there are elections. they're supposed to be on the 24th of december. they need to

make sure that those happen on time. and the other element is, is those foreign actors involved and the foreign fighters and foreign troops, which again, i think this, but in a meeting is going to call them all to withdraw the key ones among them. i think of the turks. now remember, turkey is attending this conference, it says it was invited into libya and it's there under an official invitation. the other key one, it was on the other side when the bill was divided and that is russia. russia says it doesn't have troops in libya, but of course there are russian contracts that security contract has effectively most and rich who are on the ground and most diplomats, you speak to say that there's no way they'd be there if president putin didn't. what, james, what is the current situation on the ground? and maybe i know as you say, things have improved, but there's still a huge amount of challenges ahead. how far away away from a more sustainable resolution. well, it's not, it's not a normal country even now,

but there have been slow progress and slow developments, including recently the reopening of the coastal road. remember libya is a country where most of the population live by the mediterranean. so that coastal highway is the key lifeline for libya and it has been divided cert was effectively the front line between the 2 parts of libya. the coastal road is now for now open, so that is a positive development. but there are many, many water is going forward for the international community. remember, of course there's general half the out there who is not really involved in this government of national unity. most of his foreign back back is not really backing him any more. because i think from speaking to people who actually met him, he's a megalomaniac, and he was not really a very effective commander, more very effective, running the parts of the country that he controls. but he still has significant

influence in those parts of the country. and the real ability to destabilize things, if he wants to come out to get it at a phase without analysis for us from london. thank you. jane hall moving on and dozens of people have reportedly been killed often as try kit, a busy market and ethiopia, northern region health workers in the village of to go go, have told the associated press that soldiers blocked medical teams from even reaching the scene. their talk happened during some of the most intense fighting since that conflict began in november and still not known exactly who carried out the attack while at speak to martin cloud. he's a visiting senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college london. and he joins us now from the mouth, and i want to start with these reports of these ethiopian forces, stopping ambulances from helping the injured. and we're talking maybe a few people that house has been justified. well, i don't think they justify these things. they just didn't comment. i had something that has happened repeatedly,

i'm afraid. it's not just the ambulances they have blocked as have the era trends have blocked aid access, you know, for humanitarian supplies. they have looted systematically of schools and hospitals and a clinics across to gray. so this is, this is not surprising, not from the european f for the cycle carried out as strikes last november. and has there been more since, and i know we're still waiting confirmation, but do you have a sense of exactly who did this well, the frankly, nobody else who could have done it. the era try and air force is not operating in the area. the to grants have no air force. who else could have done it? it must have been an ethiopian. jesse. i don't think that will come as any surprise to anyone. i don't think it was a, should we say a bombing raid that went over an extended period of time. but one bomb in

a busy market in the center of a town village is enough to kill a huge number of people on the market day. and you know that the, it's been condemned by the european union. i mean, jos burrell, the european foreign policy chief said the situation is appalling. today, a military strike has produced lots of casualties amongst civilians and the, i'm afraid that is true. and they're all right now, i know also these reports of great defense forces taking more territory and ethiopian troops on strategic retreat. is that why we might be seeing an escalation and attacks presumably? and then also just on that, i wonder about to gray and forces and their tactics here. how are they fighting? well basically the to grands have been on the defensive ever since the war began in november. they were 1st. busy driven out of weston to gray, then they were driven off of the capital mckellar. and now they have begun

to take back some of the areas that they lost. they are fighting and gazed. both in and error trained forces are transfer. you may recall have been coming in from the north. the ethiopians ask them to leave, but they have so far not done. so and a string of towns have now been briefly retaken by the grands in a very major offensive. they say they have captured up 210000 e. c o p, and troops. not course, that's not verified, but that's the kind of claim that they are making that they are now on the offensive. they've got the, they say the ethiopians on the run in some areas. but this is not a war that's going to be over in 5 minutes. last war in this area. last 17 years. this one's been going on them right month. martin, you mentioned the eritrea and family. there been terrible accounts of the atrocities being carried out in

t gray. where all the trends now i see the human rights council condemnation appears to done very little. i completely agree. the air trailers are predominant in the north. they of course, hold the territory right along the ethiopian border, which is, is part of gray. and they are then also said to be penetrating deep into ethiopia itself, including having security forces in small numbers in places like at the capital of ethiopia. and in plot parts of are mia now? those have not been confirmed, but those are the allegations that were made and they clearly are pretty essential to prime minister the prime minister abby's war effort. now he has, i said, often to leave, but how can they leave if he's a century, if they are central to his was it, i don't know how that's going to be a result. another carrier rating humanitarian situation as well. not until out

there. a visiting senior fellow in the department of war study that kings college london. great to get you insights here on out there. thank you for joining us. mm. awesome. thank you. now sir, dawn has all the un security council to intervene and a dispute about if you have the hydro electric dam on the blue nile to don an egypt where it could impact water levels to don foreign minister once the security council. so if you're, if you're not to fill the dam as they've planned this july, if you appear there, it says the dam is crucial to lifting millions out of poverty. while there's still plenty more ahead. ahead for you this news hour, including the final edition, find out why hong kong largest pro democracy paper is likely to shut down by saturday, growing discomfort just a month out from the tokyo lympics protests against the games. going ahead. while japan continues to baffle the time that i was defending champion portugal look to book their place for the last 16 of the earth piece. i will have those details for you.

ah, now iran says it stopped and attempted act of sabotage against the building of its atomic energy organisation. miss news just hours after the u. s. seized 33 media websites with links to iran on tuesday to ron condemned that move, calling it a breach a freedom of speech. while people attempting to access the english language site, press tv received this message. it had been seized by the united states government . while the u. s. previously sanctioned around revolutionary god and state media outlets, making it illegal for them to do business with americans. the department of justice has accused iranian media of spreading disinformation. now it's not the 1st time this has happened. back in october, the u. s. also took down about a 100 websites that were linked to iran. and this all comes as a crucial time for the new care talks in vienna. the u. s. and iran have not yet

met face to face, but to pronounce the saying they've made progress and that the governments involved should make a final decision soon. well, let speak to dawson jabari. she is in tehran, forth, dorothy, nice. 33 websites being seized. i imagine terrans, not particularly happy, can you talk us through some of the reaction you've been hearing that certainly, and absolutely nobody here is happy about what's taking place. the head of baron's mission to the united nation says that iran will pursue this matter through all legal channels that is available to them. we've also heard from the foreign ministry who is issued a statement saying that this is a breach of international law, and that it is a very hypocritical acts by the united states government. they are trying to sabotage the free voices of the iranian press. of course, these 33 sites are all branches, various options of say, tv owned website,

and the official, the government's meeting cabinet meeting, which took place earlier on wednesday morning. we heard from hudson, ronnie's chief of staff. let's listen into some of what he had to say. about, you know, me check on the con john the, what the us did to iranian websites was a breach of all principles of freedom of speech, which the united states is proud of. they restricted freedom of speech. we condemn this measure. we will use all our legal and international means to counter the wrong policy of the united states. it is not a constructive move at a time when nuclear talks are underway in vienna and ortho, as you've been saying, this is obviously an incredibly sensitive time. and now these reports, as well as some kind of attack at the atomic energy organisation. what do we know about what happened? well, there's been very little detail us and shared, but apparently the rains have foil and attempt to sabotage at one of the buildings that belongs to the countries and atomic energy organization in the city of catch,

that's just west of the capital, teheran and the attack took place early wednesday morning. we don't know what kind of an attack as exactly. but of course this is not the 1st time sensitive facilities have come under attack. when attends nuclear site was attacked in april . its power grid was attacked and the plant went offline for bits and then also was attacked in the summer of last year. all this is seen by many here as an attempt to sabotage the ongoing negotiations between iran and the western powers which have wrapped up in vienna. the 6th round of those negotiations have wrapped up. and of course we heard from president sandra honey earlier on wednesday, saying that the deputy foreign minister up a saddle she has brought back a draft, which the special committee that's informed with the various levels of government are looking at it very closely. he said that they are waiting for a response from the various establishment and mainly the national supreme council of iran that deals with the countries nuclear program to the side where the talks

will go next. whether or not around is willing to agrees to what's been drafted. indiana, we expect that answer in the coming days. and these attacks are always seen as a attempt by various powers to sabotage these negotiations whenever they get very close to some positive outcome. but the iranians officials have said that they will continue and these attacks will not hinder their negotiations. and of course, the president, like abraham bracy has also said that he is in favor of continuing these talks as long as they benefit the reigning nation. but certainly these kinds of attacks from the website's being shut down by the us authorities really don't help the situation to jabari there with all the latest for us, from the reading capital. thank you so much to offer. well, it's now get the view from washington and speech white house correspondent can be how good. kimberly, what are we hearing from the americans about the rationale for this action against the website then? and also the timing the department of justice is not discussing the timing. what it is saying is that it took this action in coordination with this number of

agencies including the f b i in order to protect american democracy. in other words, they are. 5 alleging that these websites are really being masked, in other words, they were acting as new sites, but were sabotaging us democratic processes. so this is the explanation that's a given, although there have not been any more concrete examples. certainly the timing is curious though, because as the by the administration continues to insist, the recent elections have nothing to do and will have no impact on the negotiations that have taken place in vienna and are still ongoing with the 7 round yet to be scheduled to discuss limiting arrives nuclear program, re entering the j c p. away. clearly, the timing of this indicates the exact opposite of what the white house is saying. the white house is insisted that it is the supreme leader. that is the decision

maker and the president elect and his refusal to meet with joe biden. something he said very publicly, will have no impact, but at the same time, this is a curious timing indeed, watching very carefully to see what the white house will say about this in the upcoming white house press briefing. we should also add that this is something that is important to this administration. rejoining the j. c, p away is a key component of jo bivens election campaign. and the fact that he would like to even expand it further limiting a ron's sort of regional influence and also his ballistic missile program. suggestions that have been brushed off by the president elect just makes us all the more problematic for this white house. white house correspondent kennedy house in washington, d. c. thank you. kimberly. well, let's not bring in mohammed l mastery. he is an associate professor of media and cultural studies, the for graduate studies, and he joins us now from minneapolis, minnesota mannered. there have been these questions raised around press freedom

being curtailed, but all media in iran, a state run and other countries also have their own state sponsored media outlets. do you think this could backfire for the americans, especially seeing as they they really give primacy to freedom of the press? well, yeah, i mean, the short answer is the, i think, i think it can backfire. but the united states has a history of sort of paying lip service to these, these democratic notions of, you know, freedom and freedom of speech and freedom of the press. and really kind of acting in ways that contradict their own, their own ideals. i think you know, your correspondence, we're talking about the timing. i think this is very interesting. you know, obviously that didn't go stations are ongoing. the u. s. wants to expand the terms of the nuclear agreement. meanwhile, the president lacked in iran is opposed to those. you know, to expanding the,

the terms of the agreement and in fact has reportedly said that he wants sanctions relief. so i'm looking at this as kind of a message that this is a, this is a message that the us government is trying to send to, to the new iranian regime or the incoming regime. but i do think it can backfire. it's, you know, i heard one analyst call this, you know, like in this, to a game of whack a mole, you shut down these websites. but then, or, you know, the right backup and reportedly, several of the websites are already back up. so it beg you the question, you know, what is the point? sure. what will the usaa said? the point of this is about battling disinformation, but as we been saying, they're also champions of a free press, or i'm curious, how do you reconcile those 2 principles? quite well, i think, and i think it's difficult to reconcile the principles and the point that i was making is that this can't really be about disinformation because the united states

knows full well that the websites are going to be back up in just a matter of day just not just a matter of hours and as you were saying and your lead up, this is not the 1st time that the us has done this back in october. they shut down, $92.00 websites and the websites were, were back up and running. so i think this is something that is political, it's, it's politicized. it's a message to the incoming iranian regime, but i think we have to point out also, i mean there's the ethical dimension. we can talk about that. but there's also the legal dimension. and i've heard some discussions or seen some discussions online about legality and legality. and the reality is that the united states under its own laws and they have expensive laws, the united states does have the ability to shut down websites for different reasons . copyright violations, child pornography, national security,

their host of laws on the books that allow the government to do this. mohammed mastery. they're an associate professor of media and cultural studies. the institute for graduate studies, great to your thoughts on out there. thank you for joining us again. mohammed me while back to the pandemic now and more than 20 cases of a highly infectious curve in 1900 strain have now been found in 3 indian states. it's closely related to the delta varying that was also fast detected in the country. how the visuals are saying this new delta plus mutation is a variance of concern. elizabeth per item has moved from new delhi. the ministry of health is worried. that's why they have classified. this is a variant of concern saying they give the title of variance of interest or concern when a variant is more trans miscible or is more virulent. they said they found 22 cases of the states of mad ostrom, entrepreneur, dish, and,

and catalogue the governance press information bureau is now putting that number at 40 days off the states to put very strong containment measures in place where the clusters of the various have been found that includes contact tracing, testing preventing any gatherings, and also prioritizing vaccinations that they're saying that so far they've identified 3 characteristics of what they call in the delta plots very. and that it is more transmissible that it has stronger binding to the receptors of long cells, and that is a potential reduction in antibody response. they've also said that india is one of 9 countries with what they're calling the delta plus has been identified. that also being found in the u. s. the u. k, switzerland, portugal, japan, poland, maple, china and russia. and they are trying to get the delta plus under control, which is something that they weren't able to do with the original delta variant, which we haven't balls and to get and abroad. we have the white house chief medical

adviser to add to the fact you're saying on tuesday that the original delta variant is america's greatest threat to get included on the control while. and just one month, the world's attention will shift to took care for the delayed 2020 summer olympic games purchased as have been using the occasion to gather outside the japanese olympic headquarters. calling on the government to cancel the games. in a poll, just last month, more than 80 percent of participants said they don't want b lympics to even go ahead. japan health care system is currently struggling with this pandemic and people are worried about a new such and the capital. meanwhile, olympic organizes have imposed a bad on alcohol as part of tough new rules for spectators. they say the usual festive mood at the event will have to be suppressed in order to make sure it's safe and secure, and only domestic fans are allowed to attend. now an additional $420000000.00 people will be exposed to extreme heat waves. if temperatures rise by

2 degrees celsius, those are the findings of the un draft report on climate change. it's also predicting up to 80000000 people could be at risk of hunger just by 2050. if emissions are not reduced, dropped report says the effects of climate change, including the extinction of species, is guessing was fast. well, it is now time for the weather and he is jeff with news of some current hot temperatures. hello, nice to see you. here's the weather story for europe. it's unsettled toward the west, but we've got high heat for the east and the cells. so in particular, st. petersburg, russia, look at this little one, i think he's trying to get some people there with the hose success. but this is certainly one way to cool down when you consider the temperatures in russia and moscow on thursday. we've got you in for 36 the all time june record is 34.9, so i think you will get there. let's talk about the act of weather again. we can

find that toward the west, northern iberia, up through the south of france, switzerland, germany toward the south east. and also the czech republic is where we run the risk of seats and brains and thunderstorms and even some hail, where we have seen it towards south of france, lately for the mediterranean temperatures are coming up here. we've got is near at 35. so per se, okay, you're in for $39.00 and we're going to keep this theme of the high heat going the scorching and stifling heat. in fact, for libya, tripoli, you're up to 45 on thursday. look at the average thirty's. so yes, 15 tunis, we had temperatures like that, but the wind has now knocked you down to 27 degrees. and in terms of the weather will find it around the gulf of guinea from the ivory coast straight through to sierra leone on thursday, in the forecast while still ahead here on out of their manuals deposed later on from future is back in military courses accused of crimes that could be had jails up to 15 in why cuba and the u. s. on returning to the air of confrontation,

5 months, and to joe biden presidency. and as toucher counts down to the big and a month time, we'll find out what the japanese think of these 10 demik delayed games coming up with pizza. and ah, be part of the debate itself to the end because it in the us or in the you have because it will just come back again when no topic is off the table. what we wanted to talk about were these men white men touching a large stream where a global audience becomes a global community. jumping to the comment section and part of the discussion, there are like kinetic efforts to silence fell opinions on the online face on al jazeera, frank assessments eastern argument for suggesting that the, by the ministrations alone game, it's very much of

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