the berlin process, my people are looking forward to seeing more concrete measures which have a positive impact and the ground. it's time for actions because my people have heard enough. thank you so much. p and dunc, give it a lot, i'm the secretary general decarlo. thank you. first let me express my appreciation to minister moss and the federal republic of germany for hosting this 2nd berlin conference. united nations is pleased to have co convened. i also want to thank germany for the leadership of the berlin process in support of the libyan people. we were especially pleased that representatives of libya prime minister to beta and foreign minister mongo. she joined us for this session and thank them for sharing their views on libby as transition and for their requests to the international community, which we will do our best to honor. b, a has made significant progress since the 1st berlin conference in january 2020.

the october cease fire is holding a political roadmap, agreed by the libyan political dialogue formed resulted in the formation of the new interim unified executive authority and a commitment to hold elections by 24 december 2021. on the way forward elections will be crucial. they respond to the all who whelming desire of the libyan people to reinforce and consolidate the independence sovereignty territorial integrity and national unity of libya. united nations is providing technical assistance to live in authorities on the conduct of these elections. it is critical to ensure the full equal and meaningful participation of women in youth in the elections as candidates and voters, as well as to enable the full participation of internally displaced persons

regarding the sci fi agreement, united nations looks forward to deploying monitors and support of the libyan lead and libyan owned cease fire monitoring mechanism. it's critical to implement all present provisions of the cease fire agreement, including the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries who are scorched not only to libya, but to the entire region. member states and regional organizations must apply and enforce the arms embargo on libya and assist libya in controlling and managing its borders. we welcome today the president presidency counsels, establishment of the high national reconciliation commission, especially is focused on community level engagement with the rights of victims. central to the process. these efforts are important for sustainable peace. the un, together with the african union, looks forward to supporting the implementation of

a libyan lead and libyan owned rights. bates process on reconciliation and transitional justice at the level of participation. and today's meeting demonstrates the regional and international commitment to peace and stability in libya. i'd like to pay tribute to the work and dedication of my colleagues in the us support mission in libya. under the able leadership of special envoy, young coolish, they played an important role in getting us where we are today. as secretary general good, tara stressed and his message to the conference today. the united nations is fully committed to support the libyan people and their efforts to achieve an inclusive democratic society for all libyans. thank you don, can you get to me please? i need to fax to you, which most flopped off invite and that's awesome. and i need to show you that i

have been bringing some coverage from berlin, where talks are being held aimed at reducing the violence in libya as well as mapping out some sort of a root some some parts towards the elections, possibly to be held in libya. in december we heard there from rosalie, decarlo, humans and secretary general for political and peace building affairs. talking generally about the operations that the un has been carrying out in order to try and move this process forward. but prior to her, we also heard from that sheila money goes to foreign minister of libya, who said the time for it is time for action. my people have had enough. we're going to get some analysis from our diplomatic editor james bays in london. james has covered libya extensively. the 1st we're going to go to adam reiney who's following developments at the conference in berlin. adam the, the statements that we've been hearing so far, not just from the people on that podium, but also us secretary of state as well. seem to suggest that there is

a high degree of confidence about how these talks are progressing. that is being reflected in the rooms where the meetings are taking place. well, the sense here on the ground is that this is a strong partnership in its early stages. you had the german foreign minister speaking thing. we're not talking about libya anymore. we're talking with libya about its future and you had these very strong words. you mentioned from the libyan foreign minister. and she said it's time for concrete action now. all the parties, but the u. s. turkey and other groups are all saying we need the foreign fighters out. we need to get malicious, integrated into the one unified libyan military. and we must have elections by december 24th and create this stable peaceful libya. but we're still not hearing so much about all the particulars that's going to make that possible. and it's clear

from the foreign minister of libya that she really wants to hear these concrete proposals and see them put in place on the ground. i'm thanks very much indeed. that's adam ready, talking to us from berlin for those talks are being held. i want to bring in our diplomatic, at a james base. he's life for us in london. james, there is an underlying problem in all of this isn't there because whilst these talks are going on and they sound reasonably positive, as, as adam was saying, there is still the issue of nationalities and foreign interests and foreign fighters on the ground in libya. how much of a hurdle is not likely to be i think vanity is one of the number of hurdles, but probably one of the most serious hurdles ahead. let's not on the state. the fact that libya has had an amazing transition over the last year that has ceased for it has one government rather than 2 and the fighting is stopped. that is very good news. and this is a moment of hope,

but we've had moments of hope in libya before 10 years ago, i was in the b 5, which is era. the full of good. after the death of daffy libyans thought that was going to be a new start. and instead we've had 10 years of division and conflict in the country . i remember when the current secretary general, the united nations and tony terrorists took over his job 4 years ago. he felt that a wall of files he was faced with in the middle east, libya was probably going to be the one that he could make some progress. and yet, when he went to live here in 2019, he met general half the general. after that moved on tripoli and things dramatically escalate, said we have another moment of hope. the point to this conference is to give everyone a nudge and you heard it from roach, me to carlo, who is the secretary general's political chief, that foreign fighters they need to be dealt with. but the other thing that needs to be dealt with, and this is where the us potentially some tension with interim government is that

election. she mentioned the date, the 24th of december. the libyan foreign minister didn't mention the date and the libyan side haven't come up with the legislation to provide the funding organization for the election. and there's word in tripoli. the the interim government may seek a postponement of that date of the 24th of december. now the international community want to keep the momentum up. they've seen how moments of hope have been dashed and things of disintegrated in libya. they don't want that to happen again. we saw during the conflict james, and that there were many foreign governments who had influence on the ground and during the fighting in libya, how do you think the dynamics between those different foreign governments might play out into the future of libya as it goes forward? well, everyone looks at libya and looks at the potential price of a country that yes, has been war torn and the country that really hasn't been functioning properly for very many years. but it does have great oil resources. and that, i think,

explains why so many countries got involved in libya after 2011. and how, given the divisions on the ground among the libyans, those got exploited. and we had this, this conflict that got worse and worse. now those interest in libya are still there . there are neighboring countries like egypt, regional countries like the u. a. that certainly on what to do. turkey obviously has a very important role in libya going forward. but i think one thing is certainly changed in recent months. and that is the bite administration, the trump administration really was all over the place on libya or not all that interested in libya. and it was a phone call between president trump and general hosta. but many believe general have to thought he had the green light to move on, tripoli, so the u. s. now much more engaged. that's important. and the other thing is, when you have a divided libya, you had to divide it european union. you had italy and much of the you on the side

of the tripoli government, but france with quite a bit of sympathy with general half the now there is one national unity government, an interim government. the e u seems to have a common position. so these are positives, but it's a very tricky part ahead. i'm not going to say that there are not different players regionally and internationally with vested interests and interest in evolving themselves in libby or in the future. but our diplomatic at a james base live for us in london. james, thank you. dozens of people have reportedly been killed after an air strike a busy market in ethiopia in northern to gray region. how the workers in the village of taco, have told the associated press soldiers blocked medical teams from reaching the scene. if that happens during some of the most intense fighting since the conflict began in november, it's not known who carried out the attack. him morgan's joining us. no. from godaddy from sudan near the border with a field. yeah. this is coming at

a time when there is a significant humanitarian crisis in the hearts of cheese. right. you've been there, you've been talking to, or rather you've been talking to people who've been being there, just bring this up to date with what the situation is there. well, there's 2 things to look at here. there's that air fryer on civilians in the tunnel northwest to bring capital mickely. and then there's offensive that has been launched by the green people's liberation from the t p l, which the government has been fighting since november. both events are likely to result in more people being displaced. the un has already said that more than 2000000 people are internally trapped inside a great, i'm more than 5000000 are in need of waiting period, a for survival. 70000 people have cross interest to dance and body and let's face their spread across refugee camp here. but people who are in figure are in dire need of communitarian assistance, and you may have heard relief supplies, and the situation is getting worse. it's worth noting grow that this comes just

days after be in parliamentary elections were held and which degree did not take part and because of the ongoing conflict. so if anything people are expecting to ation, people are expecting that the situation integrate will get worse. and that the parents, the tuition will be dire, they're expecting more displacement and refugees here say that they're concerned about their relative. we're still trapped in other parts of become of the region because the border areas have been lost and they won't be able to access the roads to be able to make it through refugee camps. therefore, they will have to suffer from the impact of the conflict here. but thanks very much and do that to them. more than talking to this from gathering in sudan, which is near the border with you. or martin plot is a visiting senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college london. he says evidence suggest the e c o p and air force is responsible for the attack on the market. there, frankly, nobody else who could have done it. the air try and air force is not operating in the area. the 2 grams have no air force. who else could have done it?

it must have been an ethiopian jet. i don't think that will come as any surprise to anyone. basically, the to grams have been on the defensive ever since. the war began in november. they were 1st driven after weston gray, then they were driven off of the capital makella. and now they have begun to take back some of the areas that they lost. they are fighting and gazed both ethiopian and era trained forces are transform. 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. now, of 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 peons on the run in some areas, but this is not a war that's going to be over in 5 minutes. the last war in this area last 17 years . this one's been going long term right months. the southern african development community has approve the deployment of troops to mozambique to help the government was the ongoing violence. their talks are being held in the capital makoto and april on group storm. the time of palmer in the north killing dozens of people, and displacing thousands of others hot metastasize across this meeting for us from colorado in neighboring is in bobbie. so the c d. c is made up of several southern african countries. it's going to deploy troops. do we know what the troops are going to be doing? well, must be expensive, didn't believe. and you said that the region, countries in the beach and will play a primary role in helping my big deal with terrorism and couple delgado club and

that extend bye for was faint and saved. and the aim behind it is that whenever a country in the region has a problem, the neighbors come in and intervene. what we know so far, what we think, i'm not saying that the troops were do is there will be fight most and be me for example, they will help patrol the indian ocean coastline and they will petrol the border area. we have met with some of the pages that need to be coming from there also patrol from the border areas at that neighbor mozambique as well. that in theory, every country in the reason is that an african me to contribute to the stand by force. but it could not make lee, many countries are having a hard time. you cannot move you because of the covered 19th and then another talent do they have, for example, most cutting means not trying to raise money to procure vaccines to come back on a virus with a big come to live. so that's what's the biggest economy in the region, and they also going to put on it problems. they've had to cut by just the defense

budget as well as and by way, which way to be good? i mean, it says it's under sanctions that could limited as well what it could do to help intervene and, and help them be the all these things are a play. what's important to note is that this wouldn't be the 1st time that she from the reason of them, different countries are coming to another country, for example, in the late 1990 and bob way and goal and then maybe send soldiers to the need for governments in the early ninety's and bobby, for example, deploy too much, i'd be centralized, be to deal with an anomaly at times it has been done before. the question now is who which countries will form part of the send by force? when would they come in and what exactly would they do? justice must be. yeah, the, the question of the timing is important. isn't that because it's one thing to make the promises. another thing to actually see it through as you're saying, and this is all happening against the backdrop of the ongoing violence that we're seeing in was m b g. exactly. i mean the talk the attack on palmer thought to on

the 24th of march and it's still been ongoing. i mean, it's not as intense as it was, but you still seeing weeks later, people are still trying to leave that area where that was attacked. for example, last week, aid was saying that people just outside palm, i just went out into the forest to get water to find food there were ambush, the bodies were found days later, they will be hated. some of these people were children and in other parts of the province micro mia, for example, bodies were found in a thought they'd be best for days and more thing, but the prior, another area and the problem also the things keep happening. they seem that these attacks keep happening, people on the ground need help. now they seem to be some movement in terms of what the regional planning to do. but that's you said when it's going to happen when the chips going to go in and what exactly are they going to do on the god. that's what people are waiting to see and find out from the leaders when they expand more and what the long term plan or goal is going to be harder. thanks very much indeed. how

to talk to talking to us from hot audi. sedan has asked a un security council to intervene in a dispute about ethiopia as hydro, electric diamond, the blue nile sudan, and the egypt. what you could impact water levels. should i just for minutes? that was the security council, or g p a not to fill the damn this july as planned. if he says the dam is crucial to lifting millions out of poverty. but the more ahead on the news, including the u. n. is wanting to justify in matter. gosh, millions out on the brink of starvation, near mark deposed leader on fast to cheese backing isn't as cold accused of crimes that computer jail, but up to 14 years defending champions. portugal looked a book fair place in the last 16 of the year olds. peter's going to have all the details. ah,

iran says it stopped an attempt to sabotage against the building of its atomic energy organisation. a few hours ago the u. s. seized 33 media websites with links to iran on tuesday to ron condemns the move, calling it breach of freedom of speech. the u. s. previously sanctioned runs revolutionary god and state media outlets, making it illegal for them to do business with americans. this is about it has the latest from to all these sites are all off branches and off shoots of the official fate, tv websites and belonging to the state. and these have been really, there's been a lot of anger by officials from various levels of government. we heard from iran had her on un mission, who said that the radians will pursue this through legal channels that it is shameful. we also heard from the countries communication minister, who said that this is not something the us is able to do because it's illegal. he call the illegal act. we've also heard from the countries foreign ministry who

issued a statement saying that this was a shameful act dot carried out by the u. s. government. and it's not, it's a double standard for them when they preach about democracy for them to do this to the iranian sites. well, that's called our white house correspondent, kimberly hall could, who's in washington d. c. so ron is saying that this is a double standard by the us. what are the american saying about in the united states? government says the reason that this action was taken was to defend us democracy. they allege that, in fact, these sites were really just posing as new sites in order to spread misinformation this information to manipulate the us democratic processes. and as a result, a number of agencies including the f b, i took the action of taking these sites down. now, the timing is certainly interesting because it comes days after the results of the

iranian election and the announcement of the president elect, who has been very clear with regard to his position that he will not meet with president joe biden. something that the white house says is of no concern because they say nothing has changed in their eyes. that in fact, the supreme leader is the one who makes decisions and their primary goal of trying to revive the j. c. p. a. that agree with the limit arise, new your program, that there is nothing different about those negotiations. they're moving forward and they, the arrow is in the right direction. but clearly, given the fact that this is happened now, and the white house is saying that nothing has changed. well, obviously something has changed. and so we're trying to get clarity on that. there is an upcoming white house press briefing, and certainly this is something that will be posed to the white house press secretary, jim saki in the coming hours. that's why i was corresponding kimberly hawkeye, talking to us from washington dc. well, hong kong is pro democracy newspaper. apple daily has confirmed it will shut down

operations by saturday after its assets are frozen. the announcement follows the arrest of its chief columnist, the writer, known by his pen name. lee ping is the 6 staff member to change this month under basing national security law. the big pollen has this update from hong kong. i will daily have said that the last edition of its popular pro democracy newspaper will likely hit the sounds on thursday. the board of directors say this is due to current conditions prevailing in hong kong and comes as yet another one of his employees was arrested under the national security law. this time of popular and prolific columnist who is known for his outspoken views on china. this is seen as an extension of a raid and a number of arrests from last thursday. and with 500 police came into the building behind me, arrested a number of executives and editors, and confiscated reporters journal note books and computers in the 1st of such

a move on a media organization. apple daily, owned by jimmy lie, he's the media mogul and a 1000000000 are known for his outspoken views on democracy and as far supporter of democracy in hong kong. he is currently in jail facing charges under the national security law of collusion with foreign forces amongst other charges. his assets are frozen by the government, and so over the assets of next digital media, which is the parent company of apple daily apples aly had been warning that it was quickly running out of resources to pay itself and continue operations. well, the 1st person in hong kong to be charged under basing national security law is on trial talking in case is accused of terrorism and inciting secession for driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers while flying a protest flag last july has been denied a jury for his trial with the government, citing concerns about the safety of juniors me and more. suppose leader on sushi is

facing a new trial on wednesday to charged with violating the colonial era. official secrets act, which kind of is a heavy jail term of up to 14 years. the military is already brought a series of criminal charges against us taking power funds. louis has more from calling them for the challenge against hong kong to g for breaking the official secrets. it's one of the most serious charges against her. it carries a maximum punishment of 14 years in prison. and she's been charged along with 4 others, including astray and economic advisor, shawn to know who was arrested several days after the qu, now the case is being heard in the supreme court, which is highly unusual. the verdict of the supreme court cannot be appealed because it's the highest court in man. but we also understand that the supreme court will be hearing arguments about whether the district court may be more

suitable court to hear this case. few people doubt on santucci will get a fair trial. there have been several irregularities before and during her hearings, including how her lawyers haven't difficulty getting access to her. how the charges against her have been announced. days, weeks, and even months after she was arrested. members of the public and journalists have no access to the proceedings. now, meanwhile, violence and unrest in myanmar not only continue but appear to be spreading opposition to army rule, had initially been peaceful protests on the streets. but these have been turning increasingly violent with bombings, as well as killings of june, to appointed local officials. a legged draft un reports paints a grim picture of our foss warming planet and what it means for billions of people

around the world. it says dangerous temperature searches above $27.00 degrees celsius of more than doubled since $979.00, and they're going to continue adding an additional $420000000.00 people will be exposed to extreme heat. waves of temperatures rise by just 2 degrees celsius. the parts of africa being especially vulnerable, the dropped report also predicts up to 80000000 people could be at risk of hunger by 2050. if we don't reduce our emissions significantly. and that global warming cost at least 60 percent of heat related deaths. in half a dozen countries for jennifer frances is a senior scientist, the would well climate research center in the u. s. she's joining us now from money and in massachusetts. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. first of all, give us an idea of what parts of the globe are most likely to be hit by this. well, there's a large areas of the globe that are potentially going to be subjected to heat waves

that are life threatening. of course, the tropics are already very warm, and places that are both warm and humid will be where we're going to see the most impacts on human life. because when you combine that humidity with high temperatures, it means that your, your body cannot get rid of the heat that it generates as a, as a part of its normal operation. and if that combination of heat and, and moisture gets too high, that's when we see a lot of people succumbing to these heat waves. but you know, it, we've already seen heat waves this summer in the northern hemisphere, in the western part of north america and parts of europe in the middle east. and but you know, it can, it can extend pretty far north as well up into even siberia, where last summer we saw the temperatures exceeding 100 degrees fahrenheit. for the 1st time,

i was really appreciate the report just before we came on air and as far as i understand, we're not just talking about the impact of heat on an individual's body. we're talking about the wider impact of these heat waves. can you just talk us through what the potential and effects could be? well, we're pretty much a, spans all realms of life. we're talking about agriculture. making it more difficult to grow crops that we normally would grow in certain areas. and especially if you combine that with either drought or too much rain and we can see both of those extremes happening. it also affects our fisheries, as we, as most of the heat that is trapped by greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide, in particular, goes into our oceans. we're already seeing the impacts of the warming oceans on destroying our coral reefs. shifting species of fish farther towards the poles and also melting the ice up in alaska, the arctic,

and even antarctica. so it's hard to under, under, under state. how important this is this extra warming, not just for people, but for all life on the planet, the toner, the report was very down beat to put a mom and it was very grim, disgusting, almost being that we should while we should carry on trying to deal with or mitigate to some degree global warming. what we should actually be doing is trying to defend ourselves against it. how likely do you think it is that we should actually start shifting our focus? well, i think we need to do both. because we need to address the underlying disease, which of course is our emissions of these. he trapping gases into the atmosphere that have been accelerating if anything. so in carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and also methane are 2 of the, of the most important ones. but at the same time,

we need to also prepare ourselves for the ongoing, increasing both heat waves, drought flooding events, and all kinds of extreme events that we know are connected to, to global warming and to various aspects of climate change. so you know, these 2 things have to go on in parallel. it's really good to get your thoughts on this. jennifer francis, we appreciate your joining us and i'll just to thank you very much. indeed. you're very welcome. oh, people and madagascar are on the verge of starvation after the worst drive there. in 40 years, the u. n's. food agency says there's a desperate need for a, with mall nutrition, more than doubling in the past 4 months. alexia bryan reports this days it waste land and southern madagascar was once airable and fertile, but years of drought mean only a few patches of green remain. the lack of water has destroyed crops, and sandstorms covered whatever's left and a layer of dust. the.