the plight of the weaker is in china and what our interview with iran kind of really 20th starts 730 u.t.c. on d w. this is deja vu news live from berlin and world leaders say they will hold an arms embargo and a pledge to help end the fighting in libya german chancellor angela merkel hosted key players in the long running conflict at a major summit right here in berlin and they've now agreed to coat the framing in the from interfering in the war but will that change the situation on the ground.

i'm calling assman thanks for joining us world leaders have gathered in berlin for a libya peace conference this evening and they say they've got a result they respect the u.n. weapons in bargo in an effort to choke off fighting which has ravaged the country over the past 9 years the 2 rival libyan factions who have been fighting over control of the country they were also at the summit but they did not need to rectally or speak to the press. is a mighty gathered in berlin on a sunday afternoon world powers united in a mission of hope german chancellor angela merkel invited representatives of more than 10 countries to press for a solution to the long running conflict in libya and it was only a few hours before the amounts to a breakthrough. no more arms shipments to the war torn country.

so. we can confirm that we have all agreed to respect the arms embargo and will also money toit more closely. of. us in the forgotten they had to fight this. however they haven't yet spelled out consequences for breaking the embargo. instead the conference pledged not to offer military support to the warring parties. russia and turkey in particular have long involve themselves in libya's civil war. the rival leaders themselves refused to sit down at the bargaining table libyan premier fi is met with his ally turkish president wretch of type. while warlord

khalifa haftar join talks with france as a manual among others much as its stake for the international players here libya has oil and gas and is a key transit point for refugees the conference insisted that a new political process is necessary to address the country's crisis. and today in but leading member states along with the regional and international denies ations if send a strong signal that we are fully committed to supporting the peaceful resolution of the libyan crisis. the real marker of the conference is success or failure won't come until it's clear if the promises made here are being kept and that could take several weeks. we have team coverage tonight so we are now joined in the studio by christiane high notes and experts on the middle east's with the battlement foundation thank you for being here it's called we also have d.w. chief correspondent chief political correspondent. i'm sorry chief political editor you were at that press conference mikhail i want to start with you what did you

make of it and this outcome is this outcome from the conference satisfied. well the german government in the days leading up to this major conference didn't really want to set out a benchmark what would actually make this a success for international observers getting these kinds of leaders the top level all around one table in itself can be seen as a diplomatic success success at the same time going back a herself so that she was aware that this wouldn't solve the problems on the ground overnight but the very different parties with very different interests in libya in this very rich country seem to have agreed in the same room that they want the fighting to end that they want a ceasefire to take place leaves only the warring parties general police for huffed and the leader of the u.n. backed government to actually sign on the dotted line and implement this we

understand that there will be a process beginning next week to secure exactly that we get it we're hearing that there were a couple of agreements that they came out of these meetings one of them was a weapons in bargo or at least agreements to abide by a previous weapons and bardot how will that work how will they get people to abide by something that essentially hasn't really been holding up. well that's the thing there is a u.n. weapons and bargo in place on paper but it simply wasn't being adhered to by several actors including russia and turkey and i did have the opportunity to put that very question to the german chancellor what tools could be applied to secure that everyone sticks to this let's have a listen. canceling the you have you chancellor merkel you spoke about the weapons in bargo which should already be in place according to

a un resolution how do you intend to monitor that and was there an agreement on sanctions. it wasn't too long ago i did. not know as we did not discuss sanctions instead we said the documents that were agreed on today should be negotiated again at the un security council and approved there. so we are proceeding on the assumption that everyone who committed to them knows what will happen if the embargo is broken again. we did not discuss sanctions as such but we told everyone that if anything should happen and i don't believe it will then we will be much more stringent in naming who committed the violation to. so a clear sign that that anybody violating this sanctions this weapons and bargo would now be named and shamed internationally and that's exactly also what happened in

the room because the u.n. secretary general was sitting right next to a macro basically condemning international actors for continuing the flow of weapons into the region and asking for everybody to adhere to the weapons and bargo having said that as far as troops so ready sent them. but also equipment as a german tons of person that's nothing else than arms that were sent by turkey as well that will all be subject to the cease fire negotiations which we expect to take place next week now and i want to turn over to christian han 1st what do you make of the conference particularly maybe a larger role for the e.u. for european countries in terms of international affairs for the 1st time since 2011 especially since 2014 when more started to civil war started in libya it's for

the 1st time that all really stakeholders and governments involved in the conflict from inside and outside are on the negotiation table the important symbol and sign is with the agreement today that multilateralism can work and the europeans in the last 3 years did make a good picture up about libya which is our direct neighborhood there's always the conflict between the geopolitics and economic interests which are confronting between france and italy and today we've seen that both leaders were there also all the european leadership was there so it seems to me that really on the libyan case there's more unity what's going on with libya and that these are joint european so there is more unity yet as you mentioned coming in we had there there is no obvious left and right according to one leader. tomorrow tomorrow is the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in brussels which is going to follow up on what the decision to be taken on the european side of course is also approved for the next month is if this unity can hold and the italian for prime minister for example he

said after the meeting that he is going to play in leading role in the security workshop which is going to come out of the track there germany will have a special responsibility to follow up because germany has decided we will help united nations to take the task in the bia so we we are in a leading role in the forthcoming month is now europe playing a role but of course this is a conflict happening in libya we heard both gutierrez that the un and merkel emphasizing that they want a political solution here they don't want a military solution how can there be a political solution when you can't even get the 2 warring sides to be in the same room. the basic problem of the libyan civil war is that there are no reliable and the legitimate institutions who distribute the money to the people. we must understand libya is an oil export country and the income of 90 percent of the people is you know they get direct money transfer from the central back to their

accounts so this system was after 2014 injust for a lot of tribes and so did the split between the west and the east of libya has been deepened so the you need to have institutions central institutions which are really reliable and which are independent and would really distribute the wealth to all parts of the country to to reengage inclusiveness and then there are $5000000.00 weapons around to collect all of them this would be a major task and interview because of those comments you know because you know this process is just being laid out but it has to be put into implementation in libya and really if you look at the situation there doesn't seem to be much incentive for general half guards abide by any sort of political agreement. well there probably wasn't in the past it certainly didn't look like it but he is backed he gets direct or indirect backing by several countries and the big

question now is how much pressure will be applied by those very actors who sat around the table behind me in the german chancery to actually lead him to change his mind by next week when this military committee is due to actually map out a cease fire and conditions for a cease fire what happened in the past 2 years since gadhafi was killed since the bombing of libya by nato allies was a constant descent into chaos more and more actors appearing on the scene more and more fingers in the pot so to say with very own interests now if all of these external actors now agree on if not exactly a common position but least a common line to stop the flow of weapons that should be a clear signal as it's hope to this evening to general have that it won't be that

easy in the end that there will in fact be no military solution because those strong actors in the won't tolerate it and the question is where it goes from there whether a political process can successfully be launched as is already mapped out on paper by the united nations but that failed to get enough backing in the past because i want to give you the last question you were actually tweeting about this now some of the other world leaders that were in attendance they seem to leave either early or directly after word we're talking about secretary of state my campaign of the worst president ever to one of turkey what did their kind of absence from the aftermath here what kind of message does that send. well it seems that the timing of the major leaders leaving namely boris johnson who doesn't really have so much of a direct stake in this he was there more as a european representative of the e 3 so to say alongside germany and france also might

pompei oh that's when the major point seemed to have been through we learned that the interest was still being represented at the table by high fish sauce and the bottom line and it wasn't that unusual ok good to know you chief political editor. and sorry question hundreds of the bertelsmann foundation thank you so much you both. for our now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world protesters in lebanon have once again clashed with security forces it follows riots on saturday that left hundreds of people wounded lebanon is currently without a government and its economy is in ruins protesters are calling for a new government that's free from the old guard who they blame for the crisis. more than 70 military personnel have been killed in an attack on a training camp in yemen yemen's internationally recognized government has been

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leaders attending a summit aiming to end the fighting in libya have pledged to uphold a u.n. arms embargo german chancellor angela merkel hopes of the conference in berlin to rival libyan factions fighting over control of the country attended that summit but they did not communicate directly. with you watching the news coming up to meet south africa's all female gamekeeper crew the black mommas that's coming up next in reporter. thanks for watching. the literature invites us to see people in particular. like to see myself as the kids find strength grow. my own objective is to share our work of finding beautiful. books on youtube.