but the race for tunis and bizerte had not been in vain.ey and gafsa. along the barrier ridge of mountains known as the great dorsal which separated the german occupied coastal plain from the mountainous regions from the west. german expansion was possible only through a series of passes traversing the great dorsal and all through the winter months we held those passes against inses ant german attack. this was the period referred to by the world as one of military inactivity. a period during which we sustained nearly half the total casualties incurred during the whole north african campaign. in, not puffing a cigar, we knew something big was cooking. in a small sea side hotel at casablanca, discussions began at once, their purpose to design the shape of victory in africa and beyond. first, a meeting was arranged between general de gaulle. out of the meet g, the united command for the new tunisian campaign was created. frz the troops were primarily british. general icen hour continued in supreme command. as his deputy commanders three britis

gets acuna's -- tunis -- get to tunis and when. -- win. avoid too much fighting on the part of an unready u.s. force. but that is what is in the offing. by december, the rains came in tunisia. nobody is going anywhere. eisenhower was an untested supreme commander. people know about is he capable of carrying out a large military operation? eisenhower decides to adopt a winter line. not really winter quarters, winter continues but a static line through central tunisia. you have to feel for general eisenhower in this campaign. sometimes george marshall is messaging him and saying you are your headquarters too much get up to the front lines and see what is happening. in the next time would be your at the front lines too much get back to headquarters and make your paperwork get done. so he was the grunt of the frontline and other. the american military is feeling its way forward in its first big campaign. there's essentially two big mountain ridges. they formed the backbone of tunisia. they'll called the eastern dorsal range in the western dors

they form a solid defensive line in front of tunis. so we have the race for tunis, the allies coming in quickly, blasting the way a top speed through algeria, getting to the tunisian border within a few days of landing in europe, but unfortunately not in quite swift enough to get to tunis before the germans managed to put a pretty solid defensive line in front of it. that german force goes by the name of the fifth panzer army. anis certainly not army-sized formation, but it has gone by that designation and we continue to use it. the first blessing is -- lesson is the lending in north africa was supposed to achieve quick victory and get the u.s. forces some practice, bloodless victory over rommel, but within weeks it is evident this campaign will and tell -- entail some hard fighting. the whole part of the campaign was to avoid too much hard fighting on the part of an unready u.s. military force, but that seems to be what is exactly in the offing now. the rains come in tunisia and no one is going anywhere. eisenhower, a relatively untes

when the allies realized they lost the race to tunis. british unit takes the hill on christmas eve and relieved by an american force and gets attacked and loses the hill and same force had to trudge back up the hill on christmas to bail out their friends. that was not a happy moment in the alliance and there's many more like that in the campaign. >> rob, this is the first session. i'm going to be the bad cop. the gentlemen in the green shirt will get the first question for the round table discussion. i promise. martin has to close out and get to the next session. >> great group. thank you very much. [ applause ] >>> here is a look at the prime time programming. "american history tv" tonight starts with the 75th anniversary of the battle of kasserine pass during world war ii. a discussion at the national world war ii museum in new orleans for military his store i don't know robert citino on the pass in tunisia in february, 1943, american histy tv prime time begins at 7:00 eastern. a look at recent fairs and festivals, including a discussi

the americans smashed through to tunis.ound the tip of the cape to prevent any evacuation. the whole axis mass with split into four segments. the end came quickly. by tens, by hundreds, by thousands, they came. on foot. in trucks. and behind their flag. the greatest mass surrender of fully equipped troops in modern history. we had lost nearly 70,000 men, dead, wounded and missing. 35,000 british, 18,000 americans, 15,000 french. . but for every man we had lost, the enemy lost five. and at the end, 15 full divisions, 266,000 of their best men laid down their arms. no bataan this, no crete, no man riddled with disaster and shaken with hunger fighting to the last handed. educated, they were quick to recognize superior power. and when they did, they quit, quit cold. this is the end of the axis african adventure. after all the racket, seems funny, don't it, joe, so quiet. >> yeah. >> what's biting you, joe? >> i don't know. i can't help thinking all the hard work that went into those burned out tanks and half tracks and airplane

and so i'll bring us back now into -- we've talked about the failed race for tunis. what i wanted to do is focus on the opening days of the german offensive against fayette pass and towards kasserine pass. we talked about major general freedenall a bit. he directed the defense of fayette pass. directive and prescriptive. we brought up general ward earlier. he was frustrated. he felt like he was being mc micromanaged. and in this example, so on either side of fayette pass we put two infantry battalions ten miles apart from each other that weren't mutually supporting. we tapped john waters, who was an executives officer at the time, hey, here's a small force with 15 tanks and tank destroyers. go out there and hold that pass. and so, you know, john waters, typical, you know, regular army officer, you know, had those spee experiences i talked about. very up for the task. in fact, he was -- the fact that he was, you know, george patton's son-in-law is interesting. but i would argue that he had his own talents of the day. that was irrelevant to how he would perform. and so

and so, i'll bring us back now into -- we talked about the failed race for tunis. what i wanted to do is focus on the opening days of the german offensive towards faid pass and towards the kasserine pass. we talked about the major general a little bit. he directed the defense of the faid pass. we brought up general ward earlier. he was frustrated because he felt like he was being micromanaged and being told exactly where to put infantry battalions and where to put forces. on either side of faid pass we put two infantry battalions about ten miles from each other that weren't mutually supporting. and we tapped john waters, an executive officer, hey, here's a small force of tank destroyers, and go out there and hold that pass. john waters, typical, you know, regular army officer, you know, had those experiences i talked about, and was very up for the task. the fact he was george patton's son-in-law is interesting, but i would argue that he had his own talents of the day that was irrelevant to how he was going to perform. and so they gave waters this small force, aroun

we had two months between tunis and sicily. that is why solerno is as close as we come to being pushed back into the ocean from our amphibious assaults in the war. >>> very quickly, the sicilyian campaign, the u.s. is kind of the junior varsity, the left flar flank, the vets get the eastern coast of the island towards mussina. paton is supposed to be in flank support keeping the germans off the side of montgomery's forces and then that turns into, as we heard earlier, very contested rivalry. paton actually gets to mussina first which looks like a p.r. success, but in reality the germans have already evacuated because we have failed to block the straits of mussina and prevent two entire german divisions from making it out. and those two divisions oddly enough we'll see again at solerno. the poletsdi rate, we send five groups to try to destroy a complex of refineries producing about a third of the german oil during this time frame. unfortunately what we don't know is refineries only have enough crude to run at about half capacity

and we had almost two months between the fall of tunis and the invasion of sicily. as a result that's one of the reasons that i think that salerno is as close as we come to being sort of pushed back into the ocean. in any of our amphibious assaults of the war. so very quickly, the sicilian campaign, and the u.s. is the junior varsity and we're out in the left flank and the eighth army the vets get the important mission. driving up the eastern coast of the island toward mathena. and patton is just supposed to be in flank support. keeping the germans off of the side of montgomery's forces and that turns into as we heard earlier very contested rivalry. patton gets to mathena first which looks like a p.r. success. but in reality, the germans have already evacuated because we have failed to block the straits of mathena and prevent two entire german divisions from making it out. and those two divisions oddly enough we'll see again at salerno. the ploesti raid, they launch out of benghazi and we send five groups of b-24 to destroy a complex of refineries that are producing

tunis. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted in nigeria last month of been reunited with their families the girls returned to their hometown by what appeared to be a convoy of books around fighters. information minister says one hundred one girls were freed least five girls reportedly died in custody. at least twenty two people mostly children have been killed in a russian air strike in syria as province rescue workers say the children died while leaving a school in kufa village meanwhile further south in eastern russian brokered deal is reportedly been reached to evacuate rebel fighters from the area santa holder has more on the edge of attack yet again civilians children and so are the victims and in this war according to the united nations in two thousand and seventeen one thousand children were killed it was fifty percent higher than the previous year the latest victims killed in a town far but in the province of idlib

in a law office in tunis a mother grieves for her son fatuma says she'd originally sent her two boys to europe because she was worried about what might happen to them in tunisia amid her oldest child had only returned home for a short visit i saw how do you think that. he wanted to stay for two or three months and then the revolution happened the regime of ben ali killed him and the regime that i made my son's escape from my son came back and they killed him lawyer let me out for hani represents fatuma and many others who lost family in tunisia's revolution they accuse members of the security forces for the deaths of their relatives and want to see them held to account let me as brother was also killed during the revolution and it's an honor for me to defend these people because of my belief in this case that before everything else it's personal for me. many tunisians have for years now also demanded the government issue a formal list of those killed in the revolution and while the preliminary list of names was prepared in two thousand and eleven it was never released the issue is a

to build a better future on the foundations of their shared heritage mohammed gentleman does either tunis. hello again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound that has made say u.s. president at the white house donald trump used notch cards to illustrate the number of us being sold to riyadh the bradley vehicles it's the tanks one point two billion dollars and the p eight poseidon one point four billion dollars and what it does is it really means many many jobs we're talking about over forty thousand jobs in the united states that would make the best equipment in the world is nobody even close. to arabia is buying a lot of this equipment. the chief executive of political consultancy cambridge analytical has been suspended after recordings were released of him boasting about the firm's ability to sway elections the london based companies accused of gaining an authorised access to the details of fifty million facebook users more than sixty civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern gotye in syria afte

all-weather airfields in and around tunis. whereas the allies are out in dirt fields out in the desert that as soon as it rains basically turned to mud and shut down operations. the german air crews have the benefit of fixed. the allies are lodged in foxholes and tents. the disparity in terms of logistic capability i think is very significant when we discuss the kasserine battle. i won't go into too much detail. you've seen a variation of this map already. i do want to point out, though, that the airfields, four airfields designed to support the line on the western dorsal are actually just to the left of the screen there and are overrun as we heard this morning in the opening stages. so the flyable aircraft are flown out. even today in our air force 80% availability rate is considered pretty good. at the end of this attenuated lo jestics supply line it was probably close to 50% for the allies. when you have aircraft that are disabled unfortunately they have to be left on the runway and those are the ones the germans overrun an

if we had to continue to dance -- advance past tunis, we would have had to rewrite the structure. -- right onite to your questions we don't get to. we'll have to ask them out the roundtable. colonel, thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the presidential election of 1968 began with eight presidential candidates. by the end, robert kennedy was assassinated and the sitting president was backed out. chicago police clashed with democratic protesters, and richard nixon won a victory. join us on the program. a formal presidential candidate who served under president nixon ad reagan, and the author of book on richard nixon and how he rose to defeat the new majority, and also the president of the oral history program at the university of virginia. "1968 america in turmoil" c-span3, and american history television. the national review institute looks at the life and legacy of william f buckley junior, television personality, political activist, and founder of the national r

and men and men valets in the streets of the capital tunis on saturday demanding an end to the islamic inheritance laws where men receive double the amount given to women. as an argument and woman is that her husband side her entire life and at the end she gets inheritance which is not fair that comes a day when you discriminate among your children she gets a quarter the inheritance and that's not fair and i'm not ok with that a second round of voting that's likely in sierra leone with results from wednesday's presidential election too close to call both the ruling people's congress and opposition sierra leone people's party of around forty three percent but half the votes counted kansas require fifty five percent to run out when outright election itself is largely peaceful but rival supporters clashed on saturday as the results came in a run of poll must take place two weeks after the final results unknown. faces in colombia heading to the polls for the first elections is the sign of a pistol with gravels. political violence. ports many of the facts in common society has not changed.

tunis. you're watching all just their arms the whole robin these are our top story mere miles president inshore has announced he's stepping down in a statement on facebook i'm sure said he wanted to take a rest from his work rumors of his poor health have been circulating for months shaw took office in twenty sixteen and is a close friend of the leader unsung suchi. the president of south korea has hinted at the possibility of a meeting between both careers and the u.s. . is expected to meet north korean leader kim jong un next month to discuss pyongyang's nuclear missile program separately the us president donald trump has said he'll meet kim by may number on your dime or your so you're a north korea u.s. summit would be historic event in itself fallen into korean summit depending on the location it could be even more dramatic and depending on progress it may lead to a three way summit between the self north and the united states now the u.s. senators killed a resolution that would have pre

lead to meet her in tunis for layla there is no place more in chanted when she discovered this house several years ago it was a transformative event the fourth time i walked there. and i know it sounds funny but it felt like the building was talking to me layla who is passionate about preservation worried that not enough was being done to protect tunisia's cultural heritage so she bought the property which was built in the seventeenth century and decided to turn it into a hotel the data been gusen is located in the medina of tunis a unesco world heritage site every corner has a story of an artist. gypsum carving. everything is how. the entrepreneur says the restoration process was extremely difficult but she was determined now she puts money back into her community so that other spaces can also be restored and more jobs can be created. there are thousands. of products. especially with. purchasing power increasing. in the. decreasing a lot. a growing number of tunisians say the medina which is considered the historic heart of the country's capital is falling into disrepair while its n

tunis then israel's president has accused the united states of persecution his country and criticized president donald trump's decision to ban americans from using venezuela's new cryptocurrency called the petro the cash strapped country is the first in the world to launch its own version of that coin. i denounce the persecution illegitimate illegal and absurd of the imperialist government of mr donald trump against the people of venezuela the financial monetary criminal persecution but besides that i denounce it to the world and i ask for the solidarity of the people of the world i also tell the venezuelan people men and women of my country petro won't be stopped by anyone venezuela won't be stopped by anyone and we are going forward with the petro long live the petro of venezuela . spaces of the rhinoceros as well one step closer towards extinction after the last male died in kenya bet's end of the life of the northern white rhino records are dying when his health worsened but there are hopes that d.n.a. samples and develop technology will help revive the species catherine sawyer ha

tunis tunisia. it's good to have you with us a very unforgiving here in doha the top stories this hour here affairs a growing that donald trump is about to fuel a trade war with china the u.s. president is expected to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese products china says that it will act to defend its interests. we resolutely opposed this type of unilateral and protectionist action by the u.s. china will not sit idly by while it legitimate rights and interests are hurt we must take all necessary measures to firmly defend our rights and interests we hope the u.s. can see clearly that the nature of china and u.s. trade relations is to mutual benefit and a win win situation. facebook's chief executive has promised tougher steps to protect the information of the platform's two billion users mark zuckerberg admits that the social media site made mistakes after accusations that the u.k. for misused information from fifty million facebook users. syrian rebels of surrender the town

if we had to continue to dance -- advance past tunis, we would have had to rewrite the structure. >> please write your questions we don't get to. we'll have to ask them at the roundtable. colonel, thank you. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv -- 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span three. follow us on twitter @cspanhistory to keep up with the latest history news. >> american history tv is on c-span three every weekend, featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. here's a clip from a recent program. >> i remember it from the first instance, as i was coming up on the area, it looked like a man with a weapon ring into a hamlet, and a lady had her back turned to me. i didn't want to shoot no lady. you say, i'm giving you the direct order to shoot. i shot her about five or six times, and i went in there and turned over her and a three-month-old baby. i thought it was a gun. >> was the baby daddy? >> yeah. >> the bullets had gone through her? >> yeah. >> what happened after that? >> after th

has a story now from the capital tunis in a law office in tunis a mother grieves for her son fatima says she'd originally sent her two boys to europe because she was worried about what might happen to them in tunisia the hamad her oldest child had only returned home for a short visit. that. he wanted to stay for two or three months and then the revolution happens the regime of ben ali killed him and the regime that i made my son's escape from that my son came back and they killed him i'm a lawyer for hani represents fatuma and many others who lost family in tunisia's revolution they accuse members of the security forces for the deaths of their relatives and want to see them held to account let me as brother was also killed during the revolution and it's an honor for me to defend these people because of my belief in this case before everything else it's personal for me. many tunisians have for years now also demanded the government issue a formal list of those killed in the revolution and while the preliminary list of names was prepared in two thousand and eleven it was never released the

tunis tunisia. the london offices of cambridge analytic being searched as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of private information of millions of facebook users the raid by the u.k.'s data watchdog comes after a high court judge granted a search warrant for the company offices last week a whistleblower claimed the company harvested private data from fifty million facebook profiles information was allegedly used to support donald trump's twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign. some companies are distancing themselves from facebook after revelations of that major leak of user data on musk has deleted the facebook pages for his space x. and tesla companies after he was dead to do that on twitter other companies have followed suit including web giant mozilla and the german bank the comet's bank it is the latest fallout from the scandal that seen facebook stock price tumble i made an online movement to delete personal accounts facebook is planning a closed door staff meeting very soon t

tunis tunisia. now the world is facing a major water crisis as the un marks world water day campaign as a governments must act now to tackle the challenges ahead or to scarcity and back seven hundred million people in forty three countries the un says around two billion people live in areas with inadequate water supply and almost a quarter of the world's population doesn't have the right facilities to make water drinkable by two thousand and twenty five one point eight million people are expected to have no water at all and over the next twelve years up to seven hundred million people in our region semi arid areas could be forced from their homes well it was a crisis is being keenly felt in one of the world's largest capitals mexico city is home to twenty two million people many houses have built over a vast lake that was drained by spanish settlers shortages are getting was an expert say water is being lost within the system john homan explains. it needs to pull up a district on the outskirts of me

demanding equal inheritance rights for women as women and men rallied in the streets of the capital tunis on saturday demanding an end to the islamic inheritance laws where men receive double the amount given to women and. i would is that her husband's side her entire life and at the end she gets inheritance which is not a tool that comes a day when you discriminate among your children she gets a quarter of the inheritance and that's not fair and i'm not ok with that. and colombia headed to the polls for the first election since the signing of the peace deal with fox revels agreement has reduced political violence but as i wasn't around p.s.e. reports many of the issues affecting combat have not changed. as colombians gear up to renovate their congress on sunday there's one issue on everybody's mind. groups are corruption is the biggest worry of voters rich or poor on the right or left of the political spectrum gibeah were as long overshadowed the legal political practices which are only now coming under bigger scrutiny scandals in past months have involved most parties and even tainted p

other side of the mediterranean we still got a few showers affecting coastal parts village here in tunis here with some bruce wins because you come further along the coastline is looking fine and car is looking pretty warm in the moment temperatures there well on into the thirty's as the flow comes up from the desert southwest heading into central parts of africa we've still some heavy showers across parts of east africa through uganda towards gabon d.r. congo much of west africa there looks should be largely dry and fine plenty of sunshine for akra and ghana and highs of thirty two then into southern portions of africa as a tropical cycle and running close to madagascar otherwise fine and south africa twenty three in cape town. forced to be displaced by their governments in nineteen twenty three. it was very bad greek and turkish villagers returning to their own destiny to. reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people shouldn't be forced to move from the land of the born rich or. the great population exchange at this time. welcome back to remind all of the top storie

balkans on the other side of the mediterranean resort a few showers affecting coastal parts volunteer in tunis here with some bruce winds come further along the coastline is looking fine and car is looking pretty warm of the moment temperatures there well on into the thirty's as the flow comes up from the desert southwest heading into central parts of africa we've still some heavy showers across parts of east africa through uganda towards good bond congo much of west africa though looks it should be largely dry and fine plenty of sunshine for i cry and down and highs of thirty two then into southern portions of africa as tropical cyclone running close to madagascar otherwise fine and south africa twenty three in cape town. hard. to take a look at the top stories here at. the poles of a vintage in italy but it could be some time before the country's leadership is decided no single policy appears on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government. the syrian government's reportedly seize ten percent of rebel territory in eastern guta after another night of air strikes and shelling

of gusts but that system clears away quieter weather conditions likely through friday and that is tunis there twenty eight the winds coming from a long way south and across central parts of africa we've got some heavy showers across parts of south sudan away towards the gulf of guinea highs of thirty in the brazil. a fan. politicized. for. a kenyan. and bill to take. action. on. a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera hours after he left china it was finally announced that north korea's leader kim jong un had in fact made his first trip abroad since taking power seven years ago he met president ping in beijing voters in egypt have been given an extra hour of the cast their ballots in the presidential election president. bid for reelection is almost unchallenged is expected to win and funerals have started to be held for some of the sixty four victims who died in a shopping center fire in the same period city of committal of all. on line retailer amazon's stock price has been sliding on wall street after reports emerged that trump wanted to reign in the retail giant there's speculati

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through grassroots activism or technological advances can't come soon enough mama jim drummond zita tunis tunisia. well the world water forum opens in brazil on monday where a growing fears of water security around the world will be discussed lake chad in africa provides water for tens of millions of people in four neighboring countries but it has shrunk to less than a fifth of its original size over a number of years as mohammed valve reports in the second of all series thirst environmentalists are warning of impending disaster if nothing is done to stop the lake disappearing. for the people of get a village and the lake is life but these fishermen say things are changing but i'll get a look at them for another when water was abundant in the lake we could fill our boats with fish on one trip now the water is scarce and we need ten trips to catch half the previous amount. lake chad was one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world it struggles the borders between chad cameroon and nigeria in the mostly dry ice ahead climate the lake remains an exception of necessity for thousands of f

reports from tunis. a march for equality tunisian women demanding parity with men in matters related to life and death for these activists the time has come for the country's inheritance law to change and the country said in our opinion this is quite simply one of the last bastiaan off the patriarchy because we're made to believe that these are issues regarding religion but in fact there are issues at the heart of patriarchy a matter of courtesy that last year president. announced a review of a law that says a woman should receive only half the share of an inheritance that a man does. even in a country known in the region for being progressive when it comes to women's rights the proposal was controversial bush about how tricky that is a member of parliament who heads up the commission of individual freedoms and equality a group that strapping the revised rules and recommendations while she's optimistic future generations will be granted more opportunities and liberties she also explains how the subject o

misha has told al-jazeera he was captured bought and sold while in libya before seeking safety in tunis as knowledge on june reports life may still be hard but at the very least mohammed feel safe here in tunisia. today he's picked up a job cleaning a beachside villa work that helps keep his mind off the horrors he experienced in libya so how do you always welcome it's enough if you run away from diminishes they feel free to shoot you because well it's as cheap mohammed left his home in the air because the people of his town were being terrorized by boko haram he had hoped to cross the mediterranean and settle in europe but after reaching libya he found himself stuck in a vicious cycle of violence repeatedly captured and beaten by militias who would always demand payment for his release. at one point he couldn't afford to buy his freedom from one of the armed groups that had imprisoned him so the fighters found another way to get the money. like it they sold me i was sold to them because forced to work for the man who bought him mohammed was in slave for months before being freed why th

terms of gusts but that system clears away quieter weather conditions likely through friday night is tunis there twenty eight the winds coming from a long way south and across central parts of africa we've got some heavy showers across parts of the down way towards the gulf of guinea highs of thirty in the. you're watching others their arms the whole robin a reminder of our top news story delegates from north and south korea of met to arrange a summit for their leaders kim jong il will meet president mungy in on april the twenty seventh in the demilitarized zone dividing the two countries also at least sixty eight people have been killed in a jail riot at a police station in the venezuelan city of valencia tear gas was fired at family members demanding to know what's happened inside the cells and there's been no official word on what triggered the final and it's. egypt's state newspaper has a battle for that and sisi heading for a second term as president limon the results put sisi in the lead with twenty one of the half a million votes his only rival has seven hundred twenty one thousand

tunis tunisia. where you can find all the so as we're following at our website. cong. top stories here on al-jazeera russian president vladimir putin a started laying out plans for his next six years in office most of us received calls from world leaders congratulating him on a landslide election victory that will make him the longest serving ruler of russia says joseph stalin or as leaders more from moscow on christians message since his when he said on sunday nights after he won to the crowds in the square over that he wanted it was like a big team and he wanted to reach out to his brazil opponents of the candidates whom he beats and he wanted everybody to be working together and and today he sat with all those candidates and made a series of very very conciliatory observations about things to do with russia's relations with the outside world that he didn't have an arms race and they might reduce the number of weapons they have or they wanted normalization and better relations with other countries as long as those other countries respect russia independent experts wh

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