A novel idea a new and strange and i agree with an innovative way of lending. In the coming hours libyas warring sides are expected to attend a peace conference in germany the gathering in berlin is backed by the United Nations world Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive back in april to take tripoli from the internationally recognized government attempts to negotiate a cease fire broke down at a summit in moscow last week and ahead of those talks the turkish president has reaffirmed that they can be no military solution to the conflict while our correspondent without the i had a standing by for us in libyas capital tripoli but 1st lets go to hama who is in berlin house and this is a highly anticipated meeting talk us through what we expect to happen today. This is behalves one of the rare where the International Community where the key players could come together set aside their differences and negotiate a permanent political situation. Political way out of the crisis in libya do they
Question is the word we. How is this counter messaging going to be organized . To what extent is it going to be spontaneous . Does it represent the youth of the region . My friends from the arab world keep insisting to me that as powerful and intimidating as is i. S. Messaging is, what is dominant in arabic is what i call the freedom spirit, the square statement i am connected and i am not going to take it anymore, and i wont take it from an authoritarian leader and i am going to live in my own world. Somehow that message that spirit of connectiveness, i think, of free citizens, which is still there and we get too depressed about the arab winter sometimes, and its still there and that has to become more of the dominant narrative. It probably needs help from governments, but i worry in the post snowden age about swallowing the poison pill. I worry about steps that seem sensible in terms of messaging that end up limiting the message, or undercutting it. I think this is an area where its
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