tunisia was full of german troops, 15 full divisions.rance, the balkans, they, together with seven italian divisions, were armed with the most modern types of equipment, including the newest fighters and bombers. the german orders were hold tunisia at all costs. keep control of the mediterranean. standing behind his line, he saw he must soon be faced with an attack as well as an assault by the eighth army. it was an endeavor to remove the menace behind him. on february the 14th, the blow was struck. heavy armored columns burst out of the pass in the mountained area and through into the valley beyond. in the face of their onslaught, allied armor withdrew. by the 21st, the enemy had forced his way through the pass, and his armored columns were advancing in a three-pronged thrust. one main column aimed at tebessa, our supply base in southern tunisia, and another at thala, a key town in our lines of communication. almost within sight of his objective, he was halted. american, british, and french forces all stood immovable against the final i

it's a colonial law that was imposed on tunisia by france when it occupied tunisia, and last year tunisia got it off the book, inspiring lebanon to remove a similar law and jordan. so i look to tunisia, because it also lifted a ban on muslim women marrying non-muslim men and it's also working to make inheritance between muslim men and muslim women equal, which i fully support, is considered very controversial. because the clerics in egypt have all spoken out against it. that's telling you the -- positive things that happened last year. but when we look at syria and libya, where the violence is much more obvious, syrian women are caught between the regime and the russians and the iran and also the so-called rebel groups. and when i look at my country of birth, egypt, where there's an encourage in sinai, that insurgency is usually portrayed as the military forces of abdel fattah el sisi, who himself used to be a general, and the insurgents in sinai. and we never hear about women, we never hear about the women in sisi's prisons, never hear about feminists who has have been prevented from tra

tunisia was brave with troops, 15 divisions. together with seven italian divisions were equipped with the modern equipment, including the newest bombers. german orders were hold tunisia at all costs. keep control of the mediterranean. standing behind his men at the line saw that he must soon be faced in attack by the rear on the allied armys on the great dorsal. he therefore struck first in order to remove the menace behind him. on april 13th it was done. and threw inthrough into the valley beyond. on the face of the on salute allied withdrew. by the 21st army had forced his way through the mountains, one main column aimed at us. almost within side of his objective he was halted. american, british and french forces all stood immovable against the final impact and in counter attack broke it. while air power pummelled the supplies. the threat was ended. advancing past destroyed german armor, we reoccupied caster rin pass. and by march 13 r- 17 the original battle lines had been restored. as soon as he saw westward thrust was doome

when rommel arrives in tunisia with the panzer army, when he arrives in southern tunisia, he gives axis forces their numerical superiority. --the very least the numeral maneuveral superiority. the americans and british, overall british command, the first army, now we have the panzer army and the fifth panzer army, so if only for a brief moment the allies are outnumbered, which is unusual. something else they did not expect to happen when they came to africa. to exploit that temporary advantage rommel will need to launch an attack. he will need to do so as quickly as possible before his pursuer arrives, before montgomery arrives in the theater. so rommel has a good staff at his side and they have all the charts and do the math and look at the distances involved and relies you have about two weeks before montgomery arrives in strength in southern tunisia, two weeks. two weeks to make hay while the takeine, two weeks to advantage of this temporary superiority you have one for yourself. map i hope makes clear who is rommel's closest target of opportunity? the americans. the untested u.s. se

they formed the backbone of tunisia. they'll called the eastern dorsal range in the western dorsal range. the western is bigger and more difficult. eisenhower decided to deploy forward along the eastern dorsal as close as possible to tunis. they had fought their way forward and it is a safer position to occupy than the western dorsal but that would give up territory you party taken and that would have to fight for it all over again once the weather turned better. so we have a forward position as close as possible to tunis. the british in the north, considered themselves the heavy lifter in this campaign. we have the american second core under general lloyd fredendall in the south, and i hate to say a motley collection of light french colonial troops who had thrown in their lot with the allies maybe not motley but under armed and underequipped is a better description of the french at this time. eisenhower's decision has implications. i don't know if they were fully grasps during the planning because it's all done in a rel

they react swiftly, air lift men and supplies into tunisia from the mainland. mainly, flying in from italy and forming a solid defensive line in front of tune minus. so we have the race for tunis and the allies coming in quickly blasting their way top speed through algeria. getting to the border within a few days of landing in europe, but unfortunately, not being swift enough to get to tunis before the germans manage to put a solid defensive line in front so the german force goes by the 5th panzer army. it goes by that designation and we continue to use it. the first lesson is the landing in north africa. the first big point, was supposed to be a quick cheap victory. getting practice and a bloodless victory and within weeks it is evident that this campaign is going to entail hard fighting. so the whole point of the campaign was to avoid hard fighting for an unready military force and that's what is the offing now. so by december, the lanes come in tunisia, nobody is going anywhere and eye szand eisenhow. adopting a wasn't are line, winter quarters and fighting

as these tunisia scientists have been exploring one of the last pristine areas of the antarctic in an effort to bolster their case for creating a huge marine protected area they've been investigating the sea floor as well as trying to discover whether plastic pollution has reached the extremely remote waters and violent at ten o'clock is where the greenpeace expedition in antarctica . the tank the weddell sea spreads over a vost area in winter seventy five percent of its surface is covered in ice it is the realm of the penguin myriad marine species but it is not the realm of man and many well to keep it that way so the more information the team can gather the better the chances of winning protection for these unique waters on board the expedition sub is antarctic specialist says on lockhart keen to find out what this little known zone holds and what she discovered was the stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life it has one hundred percent coverage in the sea floor i'm going to assume it has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if they

. >>> so i move forward to the tunisia campaign. two things i want to my light here. first it's operational talctica campaign. even though we have heavy bomb era sets. we ship from the u.k. down to 12th air force in north africa. but it's a tactical, as it would have been called then or today more of an operational campaign. these heavy bombers are working over ports, they're working over air fields. they're not present on the front lines. that's one of the things, one of the spheres the air force takes in this is that the ground forces don't see them very often. and so become in some cases unaware of the work they're doing behind the lines to restrict the flow in. air superiority is going to be critical and it's going to be difficult to achieve during this time period. i have a few slides that will show you hopefully why that was. this is one of the last times where the ground forces are going to have a very seriously contested air environment and won't operate with the benefit of air supremacy that they've had, almost unbroken since this time. and then the big part,

to news tunisia now it's one of the oldest rail networks in the middle east and it was once also one of the largest but iraq iraq always is now a shadow of its former self after years of war neglect now plans are underway to at least partially restore its former glory and run call reports from the capital baghdad all the challenges ahead. this was once the pride of iraq baghdad central station. home to the realm that work the once reached far and wide across iraq to syria and connecting on to turkey as recently as two thousand and two iraqi railways began in one nine hundred twelve taking over a small local route built in one thousand nine hundred nine the invasion by u.s. troops in two thousand and three and then the occupation and the war against eisel since have all taken a toll. a touch of faded glamour remains but we just two services a week to the southern iraqi city of it's a shadow of its former self. in two thousand and ten foreign investors came in the iraqis bought twelve new chinese trains but i solicit tax put paid to that reinvestment and rebuilding plan now. that what

i have two sons who are legally migrated from tunisia to europe maybe the work i'm doing for the dead helped them in some way maybe the spirits of the dead prayed for them to reach europe safely. in a former fisherman and some time taxi driver has been volunteering with the tunisian red crescent since well before the current migration crisis he says he's buried hundreds of people in the past decade last year alone he dug seventy six graves this small fishing town in southeastern tunisia sits only about eighty kilometers from the country's border with libya which is a major gateway for migrants and refugees from africa and the middle east who are trying to reach europe. of all the things that dean has witnessed on this beach nothing was as bad as what he encountered one day in two thousand and fourteen get through. i saw the body of a lady who was attached to her son with a rope and another who had attached her son to a piece of wood and the waves were playing with them men women children as young as nine and ten that scene is burned in my mind back in the cemetery shum said dean keeps

they were used to bombing ports and bombing airfields in tunisia. in sicily and italy. so finding something out in the middle of the west dorsal was probably a little bit beyond their capability at the time. >> thank you very much, chris. chris: thank you. [applause] announcer: this sunday, on 1968, america in turmoil, the presidential election of 1968 began with eight presidential candidates. by the end the sitting president bowed out, robert kennedy was assassinated, television coverage was dominated by violent clashes between chicago police and protesters at the democratic national convention and richard nixon woo e-won a decisive victory. joining us on the program, former presidential candidate pat buchanan bs, who served under presidents nixon and reagan and also the author of the greatest comeback, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority. and barbara perry, director of presidential studies and co-director of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. watch 1968, america in turmoil, live sunday, at 8:30 a.m. eastern o

they were used to bombing ports and bombing airfields in tunisia, sicily, and italy. finding something out in the middle of the western dorsal was probably a little bit beyond their capability at the time. sir? >> thank you very much, chris. >> thanks. [ applause ] thanks so much zblchbl. >>> here's a look at our primetime programming. american history tv tonight starts with the 75th anniversary of the battle of kasserine pass during world war ii. we'll hear a discussion at the national world war ii museum in new orleans from military historian robert satino at the american defeat in kasserine pass in tunisia in february 1943. american history tv primetime begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-spa c-span3. >>> booktv on c-span2, a discussion on immigration and race relations from the tenth annual tucson festival of books. former senior editor at "foreign affairs," then a discussion on political candidates and elections from the 2018 rancho mirage writer's festival in california. from the savannah book festival, se strategies in her book "we need to talk" and finally from t

we talk about squadrons that are fighting in tunisia, and your logistics base is that far back you can see some of the challenges that the air forces are up against. we haven't talked a lot about the navy today. and i don't think that's intentional. but it was primarily a ground and certainly an air force. but i do want to acknowledge the contribution again without the merchant mariners and i'm encouraged to see that display yesterday. running these convoys through still. very heavily u-boat infested waters and the navy itself actually, sends several carrier loads of planes to the north african campaign. this is one in particular. the u.s.s. cheniga, an escort, and fights off the 33rd during the north african campaign. you have actually -- an advanced attrition for the group. but here, you know, you see army aircraft operating from aircraft carriers which is not a typical scene. in the second world war. but it is certainly a vital contribution in terms of building up allied air power. most of the air cover for the torch landings was provided by the carrier forces, by the u.s.s. ranger

tunis tunisia thanks to restaurants in somalia has become more expensive and customers obviously don't like it they are angry at the government imposing a five percent sales tax the first for nearly thirty is the tax is a kick condition of the international monetary fund to relieve some debts mohammed other reports from addition. we're going to shoes leave the beach is a sign of somalia's growing sense of optimism at its coffers with shaded table sit clients mainly middle mogadishu's welfare elite sipping expensive coffee but these days they're having to pay more for their food and drinks the government has just introduced a five percent sales tax for the first time in almost thirty years many are unhappy that i was any higher i just paid three dollars of tax yet i don't trust the government they have mismanaged revenue from other sources including don't know if china is tax would not be different than the reaction of somali traders to the tax has been more dramatic. shops and stores in mogadishu spalling but car market which is a lifeline for the city and surrounding areas remain clos

when the arab spring kicks off starting in tunisia and people start rising up there are real questions about this twenty eleven war where france with nicolas sarkozy overstepped the mandate of the united nations to the point where a regime was overthrown allowing for a dictator to be assassinated one can wonder if there was not a dimension of private war to destroy the evidence i think last the allegations of overshadowed sarkozy's political career some people in france questioned why just months into his presidency sarkozy and find to get daffy to paris for a lavish state visit at the time gadhafi had been eager to shake off his image as a political pariah and reenter the world stage then in twenty thirteen a french lebanese businessman said it carried millions of dollars from tripoli to paris for sarkozy's campaign. we are the facts yes yes gaddafi pates a cozy it paid for the complain he paid for other things it's not my problem. tacky dean's accusations helped end sarkozy's third presidential bid. some soldier is probably what a disgrace a university shamed to be giving publicity t

tunisia politicians have clashed in a city assembly in georgia as a heated debate turned violence you can see punches were thrown here coming between opposition members one of whom went on the offensive using a telephone as a weapon and the men were arguing over the creation of a new political faction in the city of c.d.t where they were separated by fellow politicians medics sad to be called in to treat their injuries. check out our website al-jazeera keep it or. this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories police in southern france have been searching the home of a gunman who killed three people in a series of attacks the man hijacked a car and shot at police officers before taking hostages at a supermarket in the town of tre he was shot dead by police the second rebel group has agreed to pull out of eastern ghouta in syria the government now controls nearly all of the once rebel controlled territory near damascus rockman is the latest group to withdraw. students from the florida high school where seventeen people were shot dead last month have arrived in washington d.c. to lead

as these tunisia the u.n. this world food program is warning some malia is facing a humanitarian catastrophe along its border with venezuela. the head david beasley visited the colombian town of cook where up to fifty thousand venezuelans cross the border every day looking for food and medicine he says the country's economic crisis has left many of its people starving and he's calling on more international help for colombia. i will deliver this message that i think is an absolute catastrophe it's a humanitarian crisis and. you know the business to bigger goal nations around the world in the hopes it will come to be just absolutely necessary you must know that . scientists have been exploring one of the last pristine areas of the antarctic in an effort to bolster the case for creating a huge marine protected area they've been investigating the sea floor as well as trying to discover whether plastic pollution has reached this extremely these extremely remote waters environment and it's a nick quark is where the

is a disease tunisia. angler merkel has officially started her fourth term as german chancellor almost six months after losing significant support in the two thousand and seventeen election merkel was formally appointed by president from her son meyer before taking the oath of office in the lower house her new coalition has three hundred and ninety nine votes in parliament but she was only reelected to continue as chancellor by three hundred sixty four votes to three hundred and fifteen merkel has been chancellor since two thousand and five and most germans believe that this will be her final term. in the u.s. state of pennsylvania the democratic candidate is claiming victory in a special election despite his republican rival insisting that he is not conceding defeat connor last leads a cone by about six hundred votes but several hundred absentee and provisional ballots are still being counted trump kerry did this trick by twenty points in two thousand and sixteen analysts see this as a sign that the democ

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 a cheap mohammad 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 and i'm. forced to work for the man who bought him mohammed was in slave for months before being freed why the inside exam is if i am a human just like cannot be good and only difference between me and him is that god created m

there are fears tunisia's cultural heritage is in danger of being lost because of a lack of investment but some in the country are trying to stop that happening by taking matters into their own hands and the capital tunis mohamed explains. for layla there is no place more in chanted when she discovered this house several years ago it was a transformative event the first 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 daughter been gusen is located in the medina of tunis a unesco world heritage site every corner has a story of an artist. gypsum carving the world's 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 thousan

they were used to bombing ports and bombing airfields in tunisia. an tunisia. and in sicily and italy. so finding something out in the middle of the west dorsal was probably a little bit beyond their capability at the time. >> thank you very much, chris. chris: thank you. [applause] americansted in history tv? visit our website, c-span.org/history. you can view our tv schedule, preview upcoming programs and watch college lectures, museum tours, archival films and more. american history tv at c-span.org/history. "q&a."ght on c-span's professor talks about her book "political tribes." it calls for overcoming political tribalism. we need to talk to each other as americans again, not to say, you are the evil ones. people on the other side of the political divide used to just be people we disagreed with. now it is people who voted for the other candidate are immoral, they are enemies and not real americans anymore. i studycause democracies around the world, places like libya. livia, what is the difference between libya and the united states? it is a multiethnic coun

is a disease tunisia. at least two people have been killed in anti-government protests in guinea the demonstrators were shot during clashes with police in the capital conakry thousands of people have been protesting for three days against the government's handling of a teacher's team detainees including members of the royal family did hospital treatment following interrogation in the body of a national guard general showed signs of torture after he died in detention saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmon is jew to visit the u.s. next week philippines president order to go to territories being accused of ignoring human rights abuses after withdrawing from the treaty that founded the international criminal court the i.c.c. announced last month it would investigate reports of extrajudicial killings and not to territory is called a war on drugs thousands of people have died in a drugs crackdown in the philippines since he took office in two thousand and sixteen jamila island going to has more from manila. in t

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

of kasserine pass in tunisia. it was the first time the u.s. army fought against german and italian forces in africa during world war ii. next, robert citino talks about the events leading up to and during the six-day battle. thes a senior historian at world war ii museum in new orleans, which hosted the symposium. this is about one hour. robert: good morning. how are you all doing this morning? great. my name is stephen watson. >> i have the privilege of being the president and ceo here at the national world war ii museum and i am delighted to welcome you to our symposium commemorating the 75th anniversary of the battle of kasserine pass. for those of you who come to our programs at the museum, you know we have a tradition and that we like to start by recognizing any of our world war ii veterans or workers in the audience. i would ask any world war ii

i have two sons who are legally migrated from tunisia to europe maybe the work i'm doing for the dead helped them in some way maybe the spirits of the dead prayed for them to reach europe safely. dean a former fisherman and sometime taxi driver has been volunteering with the tunisian red crescent since well before the current migration crisis he says he's buried hundreds of people in the past decade last year alone he dug seventy six graves this small fishing town in southeastern tunisia sits only about eighty kilometers from the country's border with libya which is a major gateway for migrants and refugees from africa and the middle east who are trying to reach europe of all the things that dean has witnessed on this beach nothing was as bad as what he encountered one day in two thousand and fourteen. i saw the body of a lady who was attached to her son with a rope and another who had attached her son to a piece of wood and the waves were playing with them men women children as young as nine and ten that scene is burned in my mind back in the cemetery shum said dean keeps the site as

somewhat in the ward it's like you are seeing the tunisian flat because of how it exists only in tunisia like many other merchants here struggles to get by he also worries an important piece of tunisia's cultural past may be slipping away from. there used to be lots of other shops around here now as you see they are all closed not that many people are active anymore in this field. but not all hope is lost and not all traditions are being forgotten in another part of the medina tunisians come together in a colorful celebration of the past this is an example of our heritage is important to tunisians today is the national day after this terrible dresses well it's a day when men and women young and old gather in the medina they marched through the old city's alleyways and wearing their country's traditional attire. here generations of tunisians are attempting to build a better future on the foundations of their shared heritage mohammed. 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 stateme

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 issue is a huge bone of contention for relatives of those who died in tunisia's revolution they can't believe a

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

is a disease tunisia. you know the european union says it will give another three point seven billion dollars for syrian refugees in turkey but it plans to punish countries that refused to take back people who don't get asylum in europe that measures include targeting diplomats by restricting their visas or increasing their travel costs the e.u. hopes this will further reduce the number of refugees coming from the middle east and africa. now south africa has slammed on australian government minister for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's described as quote horrific circumstances they face at home so africa's president zuma porter has vowed to escalate the pace of redistributing land from wealthy whites to poor blacks almost seventy five percent of south africa's farmland is still owned by whites more than twenty four years after the end of apartheid but robert moses says any chance for it will be done legally. i can say now that we will not allow reps we will

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

is a disease tunisia at least nine people have been killed and twenty seven injured after a bomb blast ripped through a police checkpoint near le horny some pakistan it happened while police were changing guards the checkpoint was outside an annual religious meeting when the eighty thousand people were gathered pakistan's taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. at least six inmates have been killed trying to resist a police raid at a bolivian prison two thousand officers entered the. jail in santa cruz and wednesday looking for contraband contraband sparked a gun battle with inmates which also left more than twenty people injured the university where stephen hawking made his name has been at the forefront of worldwide tributes to the renowned physicist a book of condolences been opened at cambridge university after he died aged seventy six who worked there for almost fifty years he was also an inspiration for people with disabilities after being diagnosed with a form of motor neuron disease in these twenty's that he looks at whole consider life. stephen hawking was a devoted

is a disease tunisia. zimbabwe's business community is calling for all international sanctions to be removed to help the struggling economy president emerson well wants to attract more foreign investors but some are still cautious about doing business with zimbabwe as her with us have reports now from the wire. company produces one thousand eight hundred tonnes of flour a month he thinks he could double production as sanctions imposed on zimbabwe by the waist nearly two decades ago are removed they targeted specific individuals loyal to former president robert mugabe was that his company is not on the sanctions list but he feels being zimbabwean means many others like him are considered guilty by association we could not do with countries. sending money to zimbabwe ultimately just. the funds coming to suburban banks. are frozen. tend to be. affected us. by from the from europe number of companies afflicted with equipment bought from europe and the us can't easily be replaced the state owned railway company

he also worries an important piece of tunisia's cultural past may be slipping away. there used to be lots of other shops around here now as you see they are all closed not that many people are active anymore in this field. but not all hope is lost and not all traditions are being forgotten in another part of the medina tunisians come together in a colorful celebration of the past this is an example of our heritage is working to turn these hands today because the next day after this terrible dresses when it's a day when men and women young and old gather in the medina they marched through the old city's alleyways and wearing their country's traditional attire. here generations of tunisians are attempting to build a better future on the foundations of their shared heritage mohammed. 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 o

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 a cheap mohammad 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 i'm. forced to work for the man who bought him mohammed was in slave for months before being freed why the inside exam is if i am a human just like him to get it and only difference between me and him is that god created me wit

he also worries an important piece of tunisia's cultural past may be slipping away from. there used to be lots of other shops around here now as you see they are all closed not that many people are active anymore in this field. but not all hope is lost and not all traditions are being forgotten in another part of the medina tunisians come together in a colorful celebration of the past this is an example about how our heritage is important to tunisians today is the national day of traditional dresses when it's a day when men and women young and old gather in the medina they march through the old city's alleyways and wearing their country's traditional attire. here generations of tunisians are attempting to build a better future on the foundations of their shared heritage mohammed gentleman dizzee into tunis. time now for the weather here's richard reid news of yet another snowstorm hitting the northeastern u.s. that's right us is being assaulted on both coasts at the moment has some if you take a look at the pictures we've got coming in here in southern california they're

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

they were used to bombing ports and bombing air fields in tunisia and sicily and italy. finding something out in the middle was probably a little beyond their capability at the time. >> thank you very much, chris. [ applause ] >>> here is a look at our primetime programming. american history tv tonight starts with the 75th anniversary of the battle of kasserine pass during world war ii. we will hear a discussion in new orleans from military historian on the american defeat in february 1943. american history tv primetime begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight on book tv a look at recent fairs and festivals including discussion of immigration and race relations from the tucson festival of books. then a discussion on political candidates and elections from the 2018 writers festival in california. from the savannah book festival journalist offers communication strategies in her book. and from the rose glen literally festival katherine smith talks about her book. two photo journalists talk about their experiences covering the battle against isis. you will hear from victor blue

is a disease tunisia. the european union says it will give another three point seven billion dollars for syrian refugees in turkey but it plans to punish countries that refuse to take back people who don't get asylum in europe the measures include targeting diplomats by restricting their visas or increasing travel costs the e.u. hopes this will further reduce the number of refugees coming from the middle east and africa. myanmar says it's willing to work with u.n. agencies on the possible repatriation of range of refugees who fled to bangladesh so far the governments approved the return of fewer than four hundred ranger that's a list of more than eight thousand names that bangladesh provided about seven hundred thousand range of fed me and mass rakhine state since the start of a military crackdown last august senior officials in myanmar say they are in talks with you and agencies on repatriation efforts. we consider that the time is not appropriate to invite u.n.h.c.r. into n.d.p. to invest in the repatria

. - in tunisia, facebook played a huge role during the arab spring in getting people out onto the streetmaking those protests effective. they toppled the dictator. but the followed on construction of a democratic constitution in tunisia, and the prevention of the return of dictatorship, that's much more attributed to social organizing of an old-school kind. - [narrator] social media empowered it's users to spread information and organize gatherings, in country and beyond. (chanting) - it's given more people a voice. and it's given more people a way to be heard. the voices in the aggregate have affected change and have affected what people pay attention to. - clearly, it's much easier to share information that appears digitally but this has a dark downside, as well. it caused a lot of violence. big social upheaval. it's a mixed picture. - in pakistan or bangladesh or egypt or any number of emerging societies, social media platforms are integrated with social, sectarian political conflicts. they're part of the fabric of the country now. they're forms of supra-community that are also forums

is a disease tunisia. the philippines is withdrawing from the treaty that fund its international criminal court the president says it follows what he calls baseless unprecedented and reaches to turn from u.n. officials the i.c.c. who is investigating his campaign against illegal drugs which has left thousands of people dead to tertius accusing the court of violating g process by trying to have jurisdiction over him and the gun has more now from manila in there where a written order coming from the president himself he says that the country is withdrawing its ratification of the rome statute immediately but that's not how it works because based on the rules of the i.c.c. which covers a member states like the philippines it will take a year after the un secretary general receives the letter before there is basically withdrawal while it becomes effective it also cannot and will not have any impact on countries with pending investigations such as the philippines and president would be good to tary it is govern