i don'think we know enough. >> we know, harriet tubman was not born harriet tubman. another name was given to her by her parents. harriet greene and benjamin ross. she was born to a loving family in maryland, she was one of nine children and one of the incredible things about her life was her parents even though they didn't live together for the entirety of the time in maryland, they managed to do almost be impossible, keep the family together. there is this moment for enslaved children, the is a transition to the work that one would be expected to do for the majority of their lives and she's like six years old, she is hired out away from her mother and family and she's basically forced to do what i would call adult work. she is emptying traps along the eastern shore of maryland, getting dead rodents out of traps she was doing domestic labor, difficult labor so we think about what we expect of our children nowadays and what six euros were doing then. they are starting schools and of course none of this was for her. she was exposed to a very difficult, hard life of la

still a bachelor, buchanan became the guardian of harriet.n one of the earliest photos from outside the white house we see you can in standing next to his niece on the upper left, along with other members of the cabinet and the social circle at the polk white house. isy prominently to the right dolly madison, who is pictured in the second photo to the right. buchanan greatly respected dolly madison and her unmarried niece standing next to her in the photo. and a pain was something of a romanticish test -- interest. he asked to host an event at his warning house. the flirtation did not lead to marriage. had aill, buchanan heartfelt poem and kept a still about desolate cut out of her. she kept a fun interest in paying for the rest of her life. what about buchanan's friendship during this period? ignored her.ely the flight did not go unnoticed. remindedpresident polk the nation of his pledge to serve a single term. both parties sensed an opportunity to score a major electoral victory. in the aftermath of the mexican-american war, they formed a b

let's go to our correspondent, claire harriet, who has been listening in tunis. so let's talk through some of the highlights. she did say what had been achieved was that they had agreed on a date for an election in december 2021. but the problem seems to be nothing has been decided on an interim government for the time being. how much of an issue is that? well basically, yes, the announcement of is the most potent is this election date for the election december 24th 2021. the interim government, what that, what that was supposed to be, and what that should be is a list of names to take on the key costs of a transitional phase to get from now until that day. so they would be in course, she just said they are for 13 months. so effectively what they're trying to do is replace the current transitional phase with a new transitional phase. and the logic for that is that would be more legitimacy and more organization to get to that point. and where she also said was that the, it's not over in terms of choosing the individuals who are going to take the post, such as prim

let's go to our correspondent harriet tears in tunis. clare, what do you make of the outcome of these talks? are they disappointing? i think from the point if you're of the united nations and the special envoy there, stephanie williams there for sizing. what's been achieved from the talks. so the major headline from this week was the elections the day that's been set for that. the 24th of december 2021 though they were obviously very optimistic about that. stephanie williams was absolutely thrilled about that date. her predecessor ghassan salami who resigned in march, stating stress and exasperate she at the international community is what he described as a lack of support. he has said, this is the most optimistic he's been in libya. sources are telling us that there is an element of skepticism about whether those elections will actually take place on december 24th 2021. but that's the date that's what they're working towards. and they have to him said in the week you would solve all the problems of the country if a decade of war. and a

so they're not clear harriet reporting live from to this many thanks to the u.s. president has spoken publicly for the 1st time since alexion loss to joe biden. donald trump updated americans on his response to the coronavirus pandemic, but he also came close to acknowledging he may not be leading the next administration. until now. trump has alleged voter fraud and claimed without have a dence to have won the presidential election. according to some estimates, a national lockdown cost $50000000000.00 a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. ideally, we won't go to a lockdown, i will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administrator she will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lock to look over the 1000 pandemic is gathering speed in the united states with record numbers of new infections being recorded every day and public health experts are warning. the situation could get worse while brunell's reports. 19

thanks very much for harriet theron tunas.now azerbaijan is agreed to extend a deadline for a media to withdraw from a disputed district under the deal to end. fighting over the region of new going to occur on media is in the process of handing over cowboy jar, but agger among the 600 armenians living in calvert jars so deep that many set fire to their homes as they left. while the deal has been celebrated in azerbaijan, it has led to angry protests against the armenian prime minister. they call on will go to car, back as internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan, but it's been run by ethnic armenians since a war in the 19 $190.00 s. . and it's surrounded by disputed areas. kalpa jar is one of several districts in azerbaijan, which were controlled by armenian separatists for decades, but one backed by as very forces in the past few weeks. well over the next 2 weeks, armenia is also due to vacate these all the areas you can see there in yellow, but it's going to keep control of the election corridor, which is a mountain

under harriet lane, buchanan's washington was never there than during this administration. the entertainment included morning receptions, evening receptions, children's parties, old-fashioned evening parties with music and supper, and splendid balls. so many functions vied for attention that washington socialites often attended three balls in one evening. buchanan also continued to enjoy romantic flirtations now exclusively with southern widows. even before returning to the united states, a rumor circulated he intended to court the widow, sarah polk. both parties categorically denied it. in the summer of 1859, he became attached to a wealthy 33-year-old widow and mother of three, pictured on the right. when she visited buchanan at the soldiers cottage, the president reportedly rushed out of the parlor to change his clothes, returning dressed within an inch of his life. as kate thompson, wife of the secretary interior, called it. presidentof 1859, the 's acquired bath and three children. but these aside, buchanan remained in cordially a bachelor during his presidency. with k

well clear harriet juno's one of those latest round of talks so you. need to go what are they hoping ball come out of it so what's happening in tunis is the 1st in paris a meeting of the libyan political dialogue forum these are talks brokered by the united nations and the u.n. has an fated 75 delegates from libya to take part but that number 75 doesn't actually have anything to do with that via the un charter was that number because it's the 75th anniversary this year of the saying of the u.n. charter so these 75 people are broadly representative of libya according to the acting u.n. special envoy stephanie williams and she's an american diplomat who's address the conference this morning in arabic seeing we're on the very edge of a new libya so what is the aim for this new libya well in a word it's elections these delegates are tasked with devising a road map that's the un's word essentially a blueprint for a specific set of mechanisms to low elections to happen as soon as possible and these elections are to result in a single unified libyan governmen

think it shapes the kind of subject about walt whitman and the democratic american democracy, or harriet beecher stone but also enormously popular book and finally for similar reasons he quotes around page 17 i think that all of those virtues show up in this book that he's given us. the kind of biographies what they do generally is follow his life, sometimes his political context there's no biography of but they are kind of standard one volume. they do such a wonderful job, but there's the kind of classic single volume biography. and donald says in the preface this is a biography from the point of view because he didn't have much connection in the society and culture and he was self educated. he was the ultimate self-made man and he entered the presidency the least prepared of any president that we have ever had. in a sense i guess i am taking the opposite point of view on. from the realm of experience from, and you mentioned this just now, from the very highest to the lowest until the very dogs believe in him. emerson had a certain way of writing that was like that. and he felt the same

and i think that it shapes the kind of subject for the american democracy and harriet beecher stowe. but also enormously popular and finally he quotes around 718 being attuned to the culture from opera and skespeare to the religious sensibilities of the age and ihink all of those viues show up in this book. let me begin b asking a fairly simple question what is t differenceetween the cultural biography and t best biographies by david. what they do generallys follow his li, sometimes his litical context but they are kind of standard volume. michael does a wderful job then there's the kind of classic and donald says in the preface th is a biography from lincoln's point of vi because he didn't have much connection to the society and culture of his era. he was selfducated and donald even says he entered the pridency the least prepared of any president we've ever had and i guess i'm taking the opposite point of view emerson said of all the great heroes in history, lincoln stands alone and you mentioned this just now from the highest to the lowest. emerson felt the same way about shakespea

first when you see is madam harriet who is operating and oyster restaurant. not far from her, there are two slave traders. see if hatch or who is quite notorious for his engagement in the slave trade. as well as why's on the bottom so what it shows is that there is the idea that the slave market as a vice. port and a little dark corner of the city and he only went there kind of like a red light district. people think of the slave market as operating in red light districts but that wasn't the case at all wet this reflects that this kind of commerce, the slave trade, purchase of people, was essential to the commercial district in new orleans. women were a part of those districts so there is no way that women could avoid slave markets. even if they never bought a slave, they could not avoid encountering a slave market and even in some cases, benefiting from offering their goods and services to those invested in the slave trade. this was a newspaper advertisement from a local jailer. when an enslaved person ran away and was captured, people would take those captu

what you see here, the first red arrow, is madam harriet. she is operating an oyster restaurant, and not far from her are two slave traders, c.f. hatcher, quite notorious for his engagement in the slave trader as well as d.weiss or david weiss, toward the bottom. what it shows is that there's ideas that the slave market was a vice, centered -- put in a little dark corner of the city and you only went there -- kind of like a red light district. people think of the slave market aspirating in red light districts. that wasn't the case at all. what this reflects is that this kind of commerce, the slave trade, the purchase and selling of enslaved people, was central to the commercial districts of new orleans and that women were part of those commercial districts so there was no way that women could avoid slave markets, even if they never bought a slave. they could not avoid encountering the slave market or, in some cases, benefiting from the -- offering their goods or services to those individuals who were invested in and involved in the slave tra

and i put them in this culture in the 1850s because the reason that harriet beecher stowe "uncle tom's cabin"ade such an impact, it was aairly simple thing. it showed enslaved people were human beings with rl feelings, family feelings, religious feelings, with the sense of humor, with a love of music today to us tt sense the old-fashioned or to tnk about at, but enslaved people were being treated as things come as property. legally they were property. they were not reall human beings. all of thisas supported by the pseudoscience of that era, some of which said tha african people were of a a different species and so forth. paula genesis, the was some of that going on and was all kind of pseudo-scientifically and even religiously supported by supposedly the curse of ham in the bible a all that stuff. lincoln contracted that in the pure speech and says these are humans. enslaved people are felw humans beings. even to say that he doe't go on and on about bute says that's a fundamental point of view. in the sense even thoh he progresses, he doesn't really move beyond the basic fundamental u

being stripped of our rights we've been abandoned and need to fight for all the women in poland that harriet miers. is pregnant with her 1st child. she supports the demonstrators from home because of the coronavirus. with me but no i haven't been at any of the protests my husband and i wanted to go but the fact that i'm pregnant kept me from doing it finishing it used. olga and her husband artur are looking forward to the birth of their child they already know they're expecting a girl. and the doctors say she's healthy. but what if that weren't the case what if the fetus was terminally ill and unable to survive. if i found out now that the pregnancy was threatened or that something bad would happen to the child right after birth and then she would die and i'd still have to carry the baby to the end . i be able to feel the baby but i'd know that it would die. that would be an inconceivable atrocity to the mother am the child who's going to die anyway. what really has is the timing. you know being in making a decision like this during a pandemic when you can actually predict people being oppos

giving the nhs in england the resources it needs. 0ur health editor hugh pym and camera operator harrietity hospitals of derby and burton nhs trust, where nearly 600 staff are currently off sick, or self—isolating, because of coronavirus. everyone is on edge at the moment and wondering if it will get to that level again. the general state of exhaustion and burn—out is still there. for some people it has come asa there. for some people it has come as a shock almost like they've been to warand got as a shock almost like they've been to war and got ptsd. the faces behind the masks. they work through the first wave and now they face the 2nd. kelly and as a nurse in the intensive care unit at royal derby hospital. she says that they are feeling the strain. for us it is scary, it was a struggle the last time. ithink scary, it was a struggle the last time. i think we are all running on adrenaline at this point. even looking back at the last wave feels a bit like a dream or nightmare. we are exhausted and it will be a struggle. the atmosphere here is calm, the staff are simply getting on with th

harriet reports from tunis, the a summer of protest in libya. after 10 years of war with 2 rival governments battling for control. basic services aren't being met. corruption is way to spread, and the global pandemic has worsened the situation. the majority in the room do not want the status quo. the un's top diplomat in libya, stephanie williams has a message for the country's political class. and they were put on notice you have an opportunity now to be relevant. you can rise to the occasion. or, you know, you can go the way of the dinosaurs summit. ingenuity has ended with $75.00 libyan delegates and going to hold elections in december next year. but failing to decide on who will lead to the country until then, the un is focusing on what's been achieved. save the talks, skepticism remains. what is happening now is basically recycling old talk more than giving real guarantees for libyans that the sessions will actually lead to a strong government or one that's able to achieve the real demands of the libyan people . the conflict has left people

national accord say their leaders are not being properly represented the 2 newest negotiations play harriet's reports. the united nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups they've gathered here in tunis to find a way forward acting un envoy stephanie williams is clear on the aim of the talks in tunis so. we are going to work with the 75 participants on or on the road map going forward the political road map going forward with the key objective being the scheduling of national elections. cycles of violence for nearly a decade after the tribes and groups don't remark a daffy turn on each other. and it has morphed into a conflict in which regional and global rivalries are being played out. libya has had 2 rival administrations for years with the u.n. recognizing the government in tripoli and the warlord khalifa haftar are leading his forces in the east last month libya's domestic warning sides agreed to a permanent ceasefire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting but the u.n. says the mil

from tunis clare harriet's reports. the united nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups we've gathered here in tunis to find a way forward. acting un envoy stephanie williams is clear on the aim of the talks in tunis so. we are going to work with the 75 participants on our on the road map going forward the political roadmap going forward with the key objective being the scheduling of national elections. cycles of violence for nearly a decade after the tribes and crips don't market afy turn on each other. and it has morphed into a conflict in which regional and global rivalries are being played 8. libya has had 2 rival administrations for years with the u.n. recognizing the government in tripoli and the warlord khalifa haftar are leading his forces in the east last month libya's domestic warning sides agreed to a permanent cease fire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting but the u.n. says the military officers h

month military representatives from libya's 2 warring sides signed a permanent ceasefire claire harriet's reports on the talks from tunis. the native nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups they've gathered here in tunis to find a way forward. acting un envoy stephanie williams is clear on the aim of the talks in tunis so. we are going to work with the 75 participants on our on the road map going forward the political roadmap going forward with the key objective being the scheduling of national elections. cycles of violence for nearly a decade after the tribes and groups brought don't market afy turn on each other. and it has morphed into a conflict in which regional and global rivalries are being played 8 libya has had 2 rival administrations for years with the un recognizing the government in tripoli and the warlord khalifa haftar are leading his forces in the east last month libya's domestic warning sides agreed to a permanent cease fire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting

harriet with more from tunis, where the talks are happening. essentially we don't know why the talks were extended, they were due to finish on saturday, the 14th. but then as you see, there was a amazement of elections to take place in december of next year. so what we think is on the agenda to be is that delegates will be discussing mechanisms in order to implement our select rather prime a prime minister and other key positions. so the thing to bear main debate, these key these key positions is that they will be entered in posts, interim posts in order to last until those elections can take place in december of next year. when. what about point when the people of libya can vote on who they want to have and power? so in essence, what is coming out of 2 micio, we expect, is that one transitional phase. the current one is going to be replaced by another transitional fees. and the logic behind that is that this would be an organized freeze because the current transitional institutions, they are imposed really a because of circumstances because of

al-jazeera is claire harriet, tell us more from tunis, a moot point if you are of the united nations and the special envoy there. stephanie williams there emphasizing what's been achieved from the talks. so the major headline from this week was the elections. the date has been set for that. the 24th of december 2021. no, they are obviously very optimistic about that. stephanie williams was absolutely thrilled about that date. her predecessor ghassan salami who resigned in march, citing stress and exasperated at the international community's what he described as a lack of support. he has said, this is the most optimistic he's been in libya. sources are telling us that there is an element of skepticism about whether those elections will actually take place on december 24th 2021. but that's the date that's what they're working towards. and they have to, as i'm said in the week, you want to solve all the problems of the country ever decade of war. in a week's talks chine, if you don't try to solve some of the problems, you're never going to get anywhere and see the fair to the status quo

it's more interesting when you consider that harriet beecher stowe herself lived in the same part of elite elmira society. one wonders what those conversations were like. one of the more interesting figures in elmira was the commandant henry colt. he also is kind of on the injured reserve, if you will. he was with a new york regiment and he had been injured in battle. they put him on duty in elmira to run the p.o.w. camp. it's interesting when you look at the memoirs, the vitriol is quite thick. and some of that, i think, is guided by the controversy over andersonville at the time, but what is really interesting is, although they have terrible things to say about the conditions and the food at elmira, especially the winters, they love this man. love this man. and in the memoirs of anthony kylie, they talk about how humane and kind that this man was. so he's their jailer. and they write in their memoirs about how terrible a place elmira was, and yet they love the man that is in charge of it, which i find kind of interesting. in january, when he returns to duty, the prisoners give him

harriet truman was not a great speaker. but he was plain spoken. there was no artifice. there was nothing fake about his speech. for that reason, people listened to him. truman really had to deal with something that many of the others didn't have to. remember when he followed into the white house. it was franklin roosevelt. franklin roosevelt had died, and truman became the president. for a year after, many people referred to truman as his accident see. he was carried a big low there trying to continue with roosevelts programs, certainly they were very big shoes to fill. so, these are the qualities professor dallick teaches us of the effective presidencies. what about the least successful presidents of the 20th century? he tells us that they lacked vision. or they failed to come up with simple statement or phrased to explain where they hope to lead. i'm thinking here of three presidents of the 1920s. warren harding, calvin coolidge, and herbert hoover. i'm wondering if you ever studied this in history class or political science or even in communication, if you remember a

it's more interesting when you consider the harriet herself summers in elmira, new york. so these two ladies would have been circulating in the same part of elite elmira society. one wonders with those conversations were like. one of the more interesting figures in elmira was the commandant of the elmira p.o.w. men. he is also in the reserve, if you want. he was worth the new york regiment, and he had been injured in battle, with the 104th new york. and they put him on duty at elmira to run the p.o.w. camp. and it's really interesting that when you look at the memoirs of the prisoners, in the years after the war, the b trio is quite take. and some of that, i think, is guided by the controversy over andersonville, at the time. what is really interesting is, although they had terrible things to say about the conditions and the food, and elmira, especially the winters. they loved this man. loved this man. and in the memoirs, especially the memoirs of anthony kiley, who we will talk about, they talk about how humane and kind that this man was. so he is their jail or. and they

let's go to harriet. she supports president trump. something, and i have heard it a couple of times about really ticks me off these 545 missing immigrant tilden. i don't -- immigrant children. i don't know if people are aware, but during the obama administration, there were thousands of immigrants lost due to protocol who they didn't find them again. they were put into the hands of the human traffickers. there was the marion, ohio incident and many immigrant children that were sexually hurt because of the lack of protocols of what was going on in the obama administration. i just wanted to straighten that out and i wanted to straighten out the people just don't get it about illegal immigrants. often, and one person i followed many years ago was terry anderson, who explains immigration hurt black americans. i just wanted to put that out there. it is available. there were many things on tv almost 20 years ago on dateline states weree border having issues of hospitals closing, losing jobs, they were depleted, financially depleted because

. >> that daughter must be harriet stanton blach, you have written about her. here's a question from katherine loper, can you share your thoughts on popular mainstream resistance in the early 20th century. >> resistance, did you say? >> yes. >> well, there's no question that there was tremendous amounts of sexism in the society. and political leaders of the suffrage movement experience tremendous amounts of ridicule in supporting the right to vote, but i personally think the real obstacles were not cultural. they really came from political leaders. leaders in the political parties who didn't want -- we have already talked about the republicans in the 1870s and the democrats in 1910s who didn't know how they were going to be able to control how women voted. because they couldn't use women for partisan gain, and i believe that that was the major obstacle to votes for women this the end. i would say i see jim come back. does that mean we're running near the end of time? >> i think it does, i just have one last thing to say, remember our former governor anne richar

that includes very important names like harriet chapman katz. protege to susan anthony.nd she is chosen by susan anthony to lead the movement into the 20th century. there is anna howard shaw who becomes the president of the mainstream suffrage organization, the largest, the national american. you have that second generation. and i would put alice paul who is only in her early 30's and -- early 30's in 1920 in the third generation. the third generation emerges in that second decade of the 20th century and says, ok, we are done with waiting. we are no longer going to be polite. we are no longer going to ask for the vote. we are no longer going to be in ladylike about this and polite. we are going to be confrontational. we are going to be in the face of the congressmen and the president. we will embarrass them if necessary. we will carry on a public spectacle. and rattle the cages. and make sure everyone knows how american women are being betrayed by congress. betrayed by politicians. we are going to demand the most. -- demand the vote. they are seen as insurgents. the main

. >> and i put him in this culture in the 1850s because the rep that harriet beecher stowe's uncle tom's minimum made such an impact it was a fairly simple thing. showed that enslaved people were human beings, with real feelings, with family feelings, with religious feelings, with a sense of humor, love of music, and i mean today to us that sounds very old fashioned, something to think but that, but enslaved people were being treated as things, as property, as animals. legally they were property. they weren't really human beings, and all of this was supported by the pseudo science, thing know graphic sued dough science which some of which said that african people were of a different species, and -- poly genesis, some of that going on, and it was all kind of pseudo scientifically and even religiously supported by supposedly the curse of ham in the bible and all of that stuff, and lincoln cuts right through that in peoria speech and says, these- -- these are humans. enslaved people are fellow human beings. and even to say that -- he doesn't go on and on but says that's my fundamental point

when i see here is the first red arrow, that's madame harriet. she's operating an oyster restaurant. not far from her art to slave traders. one is quite matory us for his engagement in the slave trade. what this shows is that there are these ideas that the slave market was a vice. that it was put in a little dark corner of the city and you only went there like, you know, a red light district. people think of slave markets operating in red light districts, but that is not the case at all. with this reflects is that this kind of commerce, the slave trade, the purchase and sale of enslaved people with central to the commercial districts of new orleans and that women were parts of those commercial districts. so there was no way that women could avoid slave markets, even if they never bought a slave. they could not avoid in countering the slave market. in some cases, actually benefiting from the offering of goods and services to those individuals invested and involved in the slave trade. that is not how that was supposed to look. [laughs] so, i apolog

14th, 1864, just days prior to the date when article 24 of maryland's new constitution took effect, harriet sent a letter that testified that her owner, quote, treated me badly and this was my principle object in leaving, they informed me that abraham lincoln could not free me and that he had no right to do so, end quote. along with slavery much of the codes were no longer in effect but the constitution did make leaving an employer a punishable crime for black marylanders. countless cases of child abduction emerged after the war as southerners made efforts to reconstitute their labor force. the provision intended to inaugurate a free labor system, created a corrupt system of child abduction. the apprenticeship system in maryland involved a collaboration between former slave owners and local justices committed to the order of the old south. the provost marshal of the district observed that days after the adoption of the new constitution, quote, a rush was made to the orphans court for the purpose of having all children under21 years of age both to their former owners under the apprentice law

harriet truman was no fdr. so, there is a longing for the lost leader.lso he is prone to certain gaffes. his appointments are not always the strongest. there is talk of a missouri gang as there was an ohio gang with warren harding, people who are hangers on, small timers who are put in positions way above their abilities. you see the old new dealers being shoved out of the cabinet, not just henry wallace who was fired by harry truman for being a pro-stalinist really, giving speeches against the truman foreign policy. but you also have where, with harry truman, the country turns against the party and the leader which brings us into war. if you don't believe me, ask either bush. ask lyndon johnson, woodrow wilson, after world war i, what happened to the democratic party. what happens to winston churchill a pretty good war , leader in 1945. he is out the door. so this is a normal thing, the readjustment means a lot of things get thrown out, including parties in power. republicans take the house and the senate in 1946. they are on a roll. harry truman keeps

. >> joining me now is one of my favorite writers and twitter follows, michael harriet of "the root"e should be following. michael, thank you so much for being here. i will note people on the right went crazy over president obama saying that. i don't know if you can see this. this is a july of this year article in which donald trump does a pair of interviews and highlights invite victim hood. trump replies, what about whites? so trump himself says that his movement is about white people being the real victims and then barack obama says it and people lose their minds. your thoughts? >> right. we see this throughout history. we saw it with reconstruction, you know, the violence during reconstruction was because of white people's fear of some kind of blacklash. we saw it during the founding of america. that's why the second amendment exists because they were afraid of an uprising of enslaved people in the south. so the south, southern states, virginia mainly, forced them to include the second amendment in the constitution. we saw it -- look, david dinnickins just passed. we saw after th

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harriet says and she has capital she says delegates are focused on producing a roadmap to holding national elections in libya. so what's happening in tunis is the 1st in paris a meeting of the libyan political dialogue forum these are talks brokered by the united nations and the u.n. has inflated 75 delegates from libya to take part but that number 75 doesn't actually have anything to do with the via the un chose that number because it's the 75th anniversary this year of the signing of the u.n. charter so these 75 people are broadly representative of libya according to the acting u.n. special envoy stephanie williams and she's an american diplomat who's address the conference this morning in arabic saying we are on the very edge of a new libya so what is the aim for this new libya well in a word it's elections these delegates are tasked with devising a road map that's the un's word essentially a blueprint for a specific set of mechanisms to allow elections to. assoon as possible and these elections are to result in a single unified libyan government so fractured is libya that there are 2 r

harriet's in tunis following this for us. i guess this is a good sign.clear that things are being extended because a lot already been achieved and clearly they want to keep going. that's right. i mean, essentially we don't nor why the talks were extended, they were due to finish on saturday, the 14th. but then as you see, there was a mint of elections to take place in december of next year. so what we think is on the agenda to d. is that delegates will be discussing mechanisms in order to implement our select rather a prime minister and other key positions. but the thing to bear in main debate, these key these key positions is that they will be interim reports, interim posts in order to last, until those elections can take place in december of next year. when about point, when the people of libya can vote, can who they want to have compare. so in essence, what is coming out of weeks specht is that one transitional phase. the current one is going to be replaced by another transitional fees. and the logic behind that is that this would be an organized free

the tunisian capital can set the groundwork for elections and bring stability to the region for harriet's reports from tunis. the native nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups they've gathered here in tunis to find a way forward acting un envoy stephanie williams is clear on the aim of the talks in tunis so. we are going to work with the 75 participants on our on the road map going forward the political roadmap going forward with the key objective being the scheduling of national elections. cycles of violence for nearly a decade after the tribes and groups brought don't market afy turn on each other. and it has morphed into a conflict in which regional and global rivalries are being played 8. libya has had 2 rival administrations for years with the un recognizing the government in tripoli and the warlord khalifa haftar are leading his forces in the east last month libya's domestic warning sade's agreed to a permanent ceasefire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting but the un sa

clear harriet's in tunis covering these talks. and you were saying earlier, clear that it wasn't actually known why the talks were extended, but could it be seen as a positive move that they want to keep talking after they've already achieved quite a bit. the kid indeed had to be seen that way. actually, what we are expecting will happen to be is that the united nations sponsors top sponsor talks will wrap up here in tunisia. what we think has been on the agenda today is that these 75 delegates have been discussing mechanisms for selecting a prime minister and 2 deputy prime ministers, as well as some other posts. you know, the elections were announced already by the united nations that, that would take place. one hopes on the 24th of december, 2021. that's the date. it's been in ones. so these interim positions are exactly that interim force that will be in position until that date when the people of libya will choose who they want in those positions. now an interesting thing that has happened today is that the women taking part

clear harriet reports now from tunis, where the rival factions have been meeting a summer of protest in libya after 10 years of war with 2 rival governments actually in for control. basic services aren't being met. corruption is weight spread, and the global pandemic has worsened the situation. the majority in the room do not want the status quo. the un's top diplomat in the fia stephanie williams has a message for the country's political class. and they were put on notice. you have an opportunity now to be relevance. you can rise. or you know, you can go the way of the dinosaurs summit ingenuity has ended with $75.00 libyan delegates going to hold elections in december next year. but failing to decide on who will lead the country until then, the un is focusing on what's been achieved. save the talks, skepticism remains. what is happening now is basically recycling old talk more than giving real guarantees for libyans that the sessions will actually lead to a strong government or one that's able to achieve the real demands of the libyan people . the conflict has left people in this o

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