A crowd of hundreds at the white house production is set to resume at libyas Largest Oil Field sharon has been closed for most of the year almost all libyan oil exports were stopped in january by warlords for the for half the forces based in the east. Trying to has more from tripoli this comes as the International Community is trying to bridge the gap between the warring sides in libya and this is a step in the in the right direction of course becomes a little bit late last month in september the u. S. Embassy posted that i have to gave a personal commitment of opening of reopening the Energy Sector by september 12th that deadline passed and the oil fields werent open but this is one of the fields one of the most important fields in terms of revenue coming into libya. Turkish cypriot leader mostafa has cast his vote in the president ial election in the islands breakaway north can jos running for reelection was joined by his wife at a polling station in the divided capital nicosia the self declared republic of Northern Cyprus is only recognized by turkey the internationally recognized Greek Cypriot government is based in the south of the island voters in tajikistan are choosing their next president with the incumbent expected to extend is 28 year rule remember while youre a man as cast his ballot in the capital to be on sunday the european monitors say theres a lack of genuine political competition there. But the russian president Alexander Lukashenko has held an unexpected meeting with opposition activists imprisoned state media says he discussed constitutional reform they were jailed for challenging look at his reelection which triggered weeks of mass protests. Its inside story now stay with us. The World Food Program is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yet while it highlights the agencys work on the prize also draw attention to the use of food as a weapon in conflict zones this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im a homage and joy in this years Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Program a United Nations agency with its headquarters in rome in the public mind the w. S. P. Is often associated with famine relief but its mandate is actually much broader in a moment well bring in our guests and discuss the work the agency does with refugees and in war zones along with the disaster and famine relief its best known for but 1st this report from our diplomatic editor james bass. And so we work with the people in rehabilitating allin with what we call him moves in now the head of the World Food ProgramDavid Beasley was on a trip to west africa hed been in bikini a fast so and then was in 2 countries blighted by conflict and hunger when he heard the news i mean this is the 1st time in my life a bit speechless like. This luckily will talk about the most exciting point in time in your life is the Nobel Peace Prize it is because of the w. T. Family theyre out there in the most difficult complex places on in the world with us war conflict climate extremes it doesnt matter theyre out there and they deserve this award and wow wow wow wow mark it will even before the nobel announcement some of predicted the peace prize might go to the World Health Organization but that would have been controversial the agency and its head dr ted ross are at the center of disputes between the u. S. And china with the trumpet ministration pulling its funding instead another part of the u. N. Firmly deeply impacted by coded 19 was chosen for its assets to call. For its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict affected areas. And for acting as a driving force in to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The World Food Program has had a major logistical challenge the delivering food this year with large parts of the Global Shipping and Aviation Networks closed instead its had to find alternatives one expert told b w f p is currently probably the Largest Airline in africa the award goes to the agency for its work and to wall its 17000. 00 stone. But executive director David Beasley has been a bold and passionate leader repeatedly linking conflict and hunger in his speeches in the u. N. Security council but it is worth the job has since the 1980 s. Always gone to an american mr beazley is a former republican governor of South Carolina who knows President Trump well hes had a difficult year himself contract encoded 19 early in the pandemic but he ends it with the presentation of the award in december recognition of the agencys ever growing workload james aljazeera of the United Nations is all oh. All right lets bring in our guests from juba in south sudan Matthew Hollingworth the World Food Program south sudan country director from Phnom Penh Cambodia emma leslie director of the center for peace and conflict studies and from paris all they solve on director of partnerships and policy for the Norwegian Refugee Council thank you all for joining us matthew let me start with you 1st let me say congratulations on this tremendous honor to you and all your colleagues with the World Food Program what is going to mean for you for the World Food Program and for all the people that you know youre trying to help in places like south sudan. Exactly for all of the Family Welfare program around the world and were thrilled and sort of on it by well this amazing achievement and the recognition of course of the work that weve been doing over the last few years but in particular this year as the world suttons struggles through time and once again and also the recognition of course thats hunger and war and conflict goes hand in hand and the world needs to do everything it can a long side well through programming of the world through problem alongside them to stop that and break that linkage so its a great honor and i believe that it will it will scare us on in our task in our responsibility emma from your perspective how much does the fact that the International Community has of late repeatedly failed to mediate conflicts and disputes around the world how much has that led to this massive increase weve seen around the world in Food Insecurity. Yeah i think mostly got me thinking back to lessons to our friends and colleagues that their partners at the World Food Program but absolutely i think the Nobel Committee is actually reminding us all that we are living in any or out of very complex complicated systemic structural violence conflicts that we actually need to scale up without commitment and results is to prioritizing the resolution of those but actually that somehow weve also failed and that we really need to review our models of mediation and ill invest heavily in preventive diplomacy and we have spent a lot of the last couple of decades looking at preventing violent extremism and so on but we havent really delved deeper into the sort of analysis of where conflicts that coming from and some of those complaints south sudan require me and my career and ensure theyre also getting swept up in geopolitics economic demand and of course led by very real structural violence causes how much has conflict driven hunger and Food Insecurity increased these past few years how bad is the situation. Well what were seeing is that situation is quite bad you know already at the beginning of this year we saw that you know we saw warning signs and we saw or in numbers. That that Food Insecurity wasnt increased in many places in the world east africa is one of the you know the sale is another one and then on top of that we also got colby 19 at the new egypt Refugee Council we did a study recently where we asked people in many other places there where we operate how kobe 19 had and impacted them and we found that many people who were saying that they had lost income because of coke at 19 and about 70 percent of those we interviewed said that they had had they had fewer meals to put on their tables as a result of coffee and 90 so its clear that what weve seen what we saw d earlier than you know the increase increasing or in science around hunger and famine and warns of famine and then you get corroded 19 on top of that you know makes us in a very precarious situation right now to be sitting in that sense a very very tiny award and matthew you heard early there now just talk about how precarious the situation has become because of cove in 1000 lets talk about that for a minute i mean what about coven 1000 how has the pandemic exacerbated a situation that is already so dire for so many people so many vulnerable populations in conflict zones that are already on the brink of starvation. Certainly i mean our greatest. Challenge here in south sudan is the fact that conflict is persistent and that conflict has got gotten us where we are today in terms of the enormity of the through security problem here what code 19 has done has just added an additional layer of complexity to that and made our lives a lot harder because its so much more expensive to do our work in south sudan itself communities are facing very significant shortfalls of of revenue because. Currency is depreciated by 65 percent last year by mary downs or coated but also that the price of oil dropping in the world same time over commodities that come into this country and so many people depend on markets or the fruits are so much more expensive now as well so we now we now face this double challenge of people who are displaced because of conflict rural areas particularly suffering and now a new urban caseload people who because of code 90 im not making the livelihoods they used may not have that dont have the jobs they used to have dont have the revenue to cover their basic needs and of khowst 3 quarters of every everything all the people spend in south sudan is on food so when food prices are high that people really start to suffer and households. Emma you know ive read some of your reporting where you talk about the fact that conversations these days about peace building too often start from the point of covert 19 and that youd like to challenge organizations and groups working toward peace from focusing on it so much and to refocus energy and resources to ending violent conflict how would that be achieved at a time like this. I mean weve seen some really creative and initiatives the secretary generals call for us a cease fire and we say when you discussions around the impact of sanctions in the in the moment of this i mean actually if you took the quran can ensure as an example this would be precisely the time to fast track the end of the war so there are a number of things that we can be doing right now precisely as has been said the cogia it creates these other complication but its not like these conflicts where complicated and protracted for quite some time so i think we need to be very careful that we stay focused on math and that we go back to understanding that conflicts especially at local levels begin by exclusion they begin by policies and constitutions and structures that prohibit paper from access to their land it begins with displacement and thats precisely why organizations like the World Food Program then have to come in and do the work that they do because people i dont have access to the very basic resources and names that they have and thats why groups emerge so on and so forth so our concern is that while we focus on the pandemic which is obviously important that will lose sight of the fact that these conflicts have been bubbling away there for quite some time and that we need a lot more creativity and very simple things we can do we can end the war on the Korean Peninsula we can change the isolation of some countries we can bring out stronger efforts for preventive diplomacy but equally we need to change our models of maybe ation and i think this is something that we havent talked a lot about we have these system of bringing in envoys sort of big men mediation but its really time to review net and think differently about how multitrack diplomacy approaches its time to work collaboratively we need to take out goes out of its time to really not pull down and put some of this to rest because its not good for economy stuff but it has to. Militate not look for the lots of papal and cute us to the bill committee for making that point by supporting that will fit program whos doing their best to me to say that to hold the front but those of us in mediation pace building complete resolution will have to step it up although lets talk for a few moments about yemen yemen of course is the country that is considered to be the site of the worlds worst humanitarian disaster a manmade disaster as it were now the word Norwegian Refugee Council says that yemeni farms have been hit at least 918. 00 times by airstrikes and shelling in less than 3 years which further exacerbates yemens severe food crisis how close is yemen to famine right now. I mean its clear that we are its in the close your area dangerous situation the point here is also that it is not too late yet and this is this is a point where all parties to that conflict really have to step back and and take measures to make sure that that we dont get to that point and there are many different aspects to this conflict and to most caltex right you mentioned all the airstrikes etc thats why im a bit but ringback we also see in many places that we are as humanitarians often faced with obstacles in terms of delivering humanitarian assistance and this is one other you know reason why i think the way the the old war 2 w. If its such a great and timely award what maybe a lot of people dont perhaps know is that in many of these situations i dont know if hes actually that backbone of the humanitarian response in many ways because they provide Logistical Support so when i went to yemen last for example it was by support of it over w. T. F. The peace plan but that has to do with absolutes and it has to do with you know all parties in the open in particular but all of the conflicts as well really have to recognize the humanitarian principles ringback that that humanitarian aid is your troll and objective and really facilitates that in these situations and so there are several aspects to this but its you know i think that in a message on yemen here is that it is a link stream with extremely prepare a situation but its not too late yet to avoid some of the worst consequences there matthew i saw you nodding along to some what all they were saying so let me also talk to you briefly about yemen you know yemen is a country that i used to report to report from quite often i remember doing stories about how bad childhood malnutrition was in 2011 long before this current conflict started when youre hearing ole talk about the difficulties the logistical difficulties of getting aid of getting food of getting support into yemen how tough is it right now especially for the w. S. P. To get much needed support into a place like yemen. I mean whether were talking about yemen or syria or even here in south sudan vost amounts of energy and resources and showing that the logistics were that we have every means possible to meet the challenges of access in incompetent cities in human induced emergencies but of course thats the point theyre all man made and the obstacles that have been thrown up being thrown up by you know individuals by people like governments. Going to have hearings and making our operations honda i mean i think this is why its so important on the advocacy side that we recognize that these cant these things can be made and they can be made in. The heart of it all the more expensive the a systems the more expensive the logistics. And the more difficult it is to Resource Operations that could be spending more of their resources on genuinely saving lives and then changing the lives of people in countries where what we know in most conflicts is that unfortunately conflict you have this conflict trapped in a system long term trapped in areas of crisis and of course theyre part of the reason that happens is because we spend a vast amount of money on the Emergency Response and then when we do in some cases to an absence of conflict or better still some peace. In the Development Money to windows and because of that we go back into conflict so you know if we can you know if we can actually break that back of recognizing that making things harder continuing conflict for political purposes and making the aid. Is really it is really going to make it in the long. Response in those countries and to communities back on their feet im far harder. Again from our side in south sudan i can tell you it. Does nothing else look at. Alices absence negotiation i mean again it things easy we could be spending those resources on more and more assistance at that because thats the same in yemen thats so in syria that all of the complex emergencies but we were and i mean i think its worth saying 0. 18 worth of programs resources globally to human induced crisis. And obviously we would rather be spending that money on the longer term development. Activities resilience Building Activities that help communities become selfreliant selfsustaining and not need humanitarian aid to exist and i look very much to me like you might have wanted to j