escalation in the power struggle that s been raging since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven. the libyan national army advancing westwards they say they want to liberate the country from what they call terrorists and mercenaries they re making rapid progress since launching their offensive on wednesday they ve already captured a town close to the capital tripoli now the troops are trying to reach their ultimate goal the capital itself the plan was announced in an audio recording posted on the militias facebook page by their leader. heroes the time has come it is time to advance as you have done it with a firm step towards tripoli and so peaceful. u.n. secretary general antonio terrace is calling for a dialogue he is in tripoli trying to mediate between huffed hours administration in the east of the country and the un backed government in tripoli. very strong
the flow of goods to the civilian population and it will improve the living conditions for millions of yemenis we re joining me now is lisa grundy she is resident humanitarian coordinator for the united nations also responsible for the republic of yemen in sanaa is gone it s good to have you back on the show we know that united nations secretary general antonio terrace he s announced the cease fire and has been agreed to for the port city of data how surprised are you at what appears to be sudden progress after four years of war. we re very relieved ceasefire has been agreed by the parties to the conflict after six months of nearly daily bombardment to date it was a sign that he has been brought to the ceasefire changes all of that the two hundred thousand people who are still in the city no longer have to wake up every
as the. rebels. will back again she ations will take a look at the dire famine situation in the country and overcoming all the odds we meet the nigerian taxi driver with no legs who s worked his own way of getting through the notorious city traffic in walkable city. it s good to have you with us we start tonight with a dire warning about climate change and what we are still putting off for tomorrow the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace opened the annual you win climate summit in the polish city. today with a warning a warning that the world is way off course in fighting the. warming now the aim of
our reporter of eco rivers has been following this story and joins me now thank you for being here rebecca. this is the just first day of a sixteen day campaign to raise awareness so how s it going well it s going well yeah as you say it s it s just the launch today it s been this campaign is a u.n. campaign it s been going since ninety nine and the twenty fifth of november mox they pick up nearly a little over two weeks of campaigns and that this year is theme the hash tag is here me to. the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace and the u.n. women there they the u.n. women organization have launched this campaign under that hash tag trying to capitalize off the back of a very successful made two campaign but they want to take it even a bit further and try and build momentum on that encourage people not in the limelight to share their stories and experiences and then the other sort of specific issues it s highlighting well i mean my father s got some is a it s a really important topic
increase its foothold on the african continent knowledge just prime minister warned against a new version of colonialism as he cancelled a series of chinese backed infrastructure projects in his country other similar views among african leaders. definitely not these are not sentiments that echoed by african leaders in fact african union chairman and president of the rwanda paul kagame as said the to china s a friend. who had zero ramaphosa as the president of south africa s alluding to the fact that africa and china share the same vision but during this first day of the summit there was emphasis on transparency especially by the african union commission chairman with fuck you saying that there needs to be transparency with trade between the two parties and also we had a statement by the united nations secretary general antonio terrace who said that there has to be sustainable physical policies in order for africans or in order for