oh god. no. a news rich week for rush on what with a new prime minister and constitutional reform proposed by president bush the changes if approved would vest parliament with greater power and there depicted as a political power grab by many western media outlets. berlin confirms that donald trump threatened tariffs on e.u. carmakers if they don't move away from the brand nuclear deal germany has the u.k. and france this week triggered the deals dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the claps. and it could not investigation is opened into the u.k. police after an independent report reveals years of ignoring sexual exploitation of children and social care.

this is the weekly here on our team welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. russia got a new prime minister this week after the previous cabinet stepped down the resignation of all president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution . but it. was just a do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution they move further in russia's development as a lawful state. through homes the effectiveness of the country's institutions to strengthen the role of civil society and to enable the political parties in the regions to make decisions vital to the country's development. takes a look at the proposed reforms and the reaction they've already received from the west. tried splay in this led to boom and powers the office of president the media

accuses of it seizing more power who control over russia but when putin gives up that power and hands it over at the parliament at his own expense it is also because he seizing more control over russia 1st to discover this syndrome i name it paranoid putin a friend here and there's a real epidemic. paranoid putin a for any aside he is what he actually proposed to guaranteed that new president ever wields as much power as he did including putin himself he's got 4 more years in office.

this is unprecedented in a quarter of a century every constitutional amendment was designed to empower the president for example increase the presidential term from 4 years to 6 years or give the president the power to appoint prosecutors and now he turns it all upside down it used to be that putin appointed the problem. ministers parliament rubber stamp that

now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamp set with no power object. according to the constitution of the russian federation the president leads only the state duma is consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet he's deputy and the ministers are supposed shifting this council to the duma and all for the approval of the russian government chairman and the chairman suggestion all the deputy prime ministers and federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president without the right to reject any candidate. this is of course all subject to a popular vote if these passes russia will be a changed country with a very different future russia is changing into a new face of democracy freedom and now this is the 1st. time when president limits his own this is something in the later control the

country is not known at all then the president limits its own power and wants to let the people there cite the new constitution many in the west see president putin is a mental power is the one that wants to remain in power for ever and so on and so forth but if you look at the reforms if you look at the proposals i see myself some reasons to find in these proposals some balance of power between the president power and the parliament power as i see some ideas leading to a better modernization of the state very often it happens that. many media make comments on amendments on noles on projects or reform and constitution we doubt knowing. in details what is the reform or the rules

what are the proposals so i would suggest before putting forward so negative comments to study to understand wild what talking about what is did reform announce it and then maybe we can make some comments now before that to pave the way the government handed in its resignation it's worth mentioning it wasn't all that popular that failed on a number of fronts and then if the now caretaker prime minister said himself it's time for something new you have all heard the address of the russian president vladimir putin as president he outlined the major priorities of our work for the upcoming year but he also outlined a number of fundamental changes to the constitution of the russian federation these changes when they take place and this will be done after discussions and as was said they will significantly alter a number of parts of the constitution and change the balance of power if there's

one thing we know about putin it's that we don't know him he loves the surprise and there was no warning not even rule is that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new prime minister because i'll miss an unknown quantity he's largely stayed out of the spotlight for the past decade heading the federal tax agency and i must say he did wonders teaching russians to pay their taxes fact some would argue he's done too good a job it is now clear putin hangs up the gloves in 2024 he will run for another term time change so does russia it is revolutionary change from this distance i would say that it gives more power to the parliament but it downgrades the importance of the prime ministership of the stability of iraq . leadership quality which is not

a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance in the 21st century. poland has confirmed that donald trump threatened to slap huge tariffs on european carmakers if they didn't move away from iran's nuclear deal this week germany the u.k. and france triggered the deals dispute resolution mechanism what which could lead to the agreements collapse around supreme leader slammed the 3 european states as u.s. pawns sparking a rebuke from donald trump but. i said from the beginning that after the u.s. withdraw from the j.c. these 3 governments frequently just paying lip service and ranting a does not trust them and they would carry out anything and they would be of the service of the us it has been cleared up the us born in the true sense of the word the so-called supreme leader of iran who has not been so supreme lately had some

nasty things to say about the united states and europe their economy is crashing and their people are suffering he should be very careful with his words. the euro trio of berlin london and paris claim iran's noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to target the dispute mechanism iran now has 30 days to return to compliance failing which it will be referred to the un security council could reinstate sanctions now let's take a look at what led to the current crisis the nuclear deal officially called the joint comprehensive plan of action it was signed in 2015 by iran and key world powers the agreement was designed to limit to round nuclear activities and exchange for the easing of sanctions but washington pulled out in 2018 and swiftly imposed economic penalties iran then began scaling back its compliance which they accelerated after the u.s. assassinated tehran's top general. professor of political science at the university of tehran believes that when the u.s. withdrew from the deal the e.u.

abandoned iran. it's very hypocritical for the europeans to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism now i mean if they were sincerely and truly committed to the deal they should've triggered this dispute resolution mechanism a year and a half ago when the trumpet ministration decided to leave the deal when the us left the deal it was actually the europeans that convinced you want to stay in the deal with the promise that they would shield your own from american sanctions and all those promises turned out to be empty and right now when iran is for its share of the deal it's backing away from the deal now they are trading the this so-called dispute resolution mechanism and this has actually brought a lot of anger in a lot of brigit or in his in tehran regarding the europeans meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has doubled down on washington's much criticized assassination of iran's top general custom salmoni earlier this month by compound out of this is

just the start of a far more aggressive deterrence policy on mentioning both russia and china as well and picks up the story. in u.s. foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their international actions so let's review some of the greatest hits showing to be ready for preemptive action a reset in relations between the united states and russia might bomb peo seems to be rolling out a new one when defending the actions of the white house in dealing with international adversaries of the united states might pompei owes new favorite word seems to be deterrence reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to lose so according to the white house and its surrogates the killing of top iranian general qassam solomonic was necessary as part of this deterrence strategy but want to lay this out in

context of what we've been trying to do there's a bigger strategy strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know it's not everlasting that risk remains we are determined not to lose that deterrence but the iraqi prime minister has a different version of events according to the iraqi prime minister soleimani was on a diplomatic mission he was trying to make peace when he was ruthlessly cut down furthermore reports seem to indicate that somani was not the only official to be targeted reports now show that a different iranian general was also in their sights but the strike was unsuccessful so who else could now be on the list as the united states claims it has the right to assassinate top iranian general extrajudicial lee and explain later well mike pompei o has thrown not only iran but also russia and china into the mix we saw not just in iran but in other places too where american deterrence was weak we watched

russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and its brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deterrence so if the unite. states dislikes you they can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate hero this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence the mask is come and ask this idea of supremacy that we we have you know this is you can call it american supremacy that we can do whatever we want and it's up to us to decide who is a threat or not this is it really really disturbing and very dangerous i think and it's not normal here does come an hour to somebody who is running the state department and this is extremely disturbing and i'm very disappointed that damage it can political class is not speaking out against this. crazy idea that we can go ahead and just kill anyone we don't like it doesn't mean people are not

guilty of things but if we take this principle and this. approach to every nationality to every country we are going to have a really really mess and our. british police knew children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester but fail to protect them and according to a new independent report officers in 2004 on operation i got to investigate the issue at the proper shutdown and few perpetrators were ever brought to justice. but. but. but.

but. but. but. it was. the official probe was closed due to lack of resources are criminal investigation has been opened into potential failures by the police the u.k. independent office for police conduct found that racial tensions were one of the reasons given for stopping the operation but what maggie all over a former manchester police detective who also worked on the case says there were many more disturbing reasons the decision to close down operation orchestra was driven by the decision of senior officers to remove the resources from the investigation this was because it was

a very complex investigation but there were other factors involved in the decision to close it down there was definitely an element of concern about the ethnicity of the offenders being pakistani man and the children being very vulnerable white children there was also the resources issue and because it's very labor intensive it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of commitment from an organization to resource a job like this and also and there was a focus on what we call acquisitive crime so burglaries. from motor vehicle robberies if somebody reported that kind of a crime to the police you would get a 1st class response if you were a child being raped it wasn't being reflected in performance indicators hence the police did not respond the initial investigation was triggered by the death of victoria go clear she was in the care of manchester city council after her mother's

death the girl was subjected to sexual assault and injected with heroin by a 50 year old man report says that carers knew that abuse was going on but did not act 15 year old victoria died after being in minister to a heroin overdose or his grandmother says that since her death she's been battling for the troops. she was such a lovely girl she didn't deserve to die i've been fighting all my life for this she told me herself well these men had done to her the authorities knew that many victims were being subjected to the most profound abuse and exploitation but did not protect him from the perpetrators and as a result very few of the relevant perpetrators were brought to justice and neither were their activities disrupted this is a depressingly familiar picture and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country the chief constable of manchester police has offered his condolences to the victims adding that officers will do everything to get justice for the children but whistleblower manky all over again want senior police and

other officials themselves to be investigated. this coverup that's the only word there is for it was absolutely deliberate this report this review it's an independent 3 view makes it crystal clear that this was a deliberate cover up there was a reluctance to acknowledge that it was pakistani man predominantly who were abusing vulnerable young white children and very young children that became a political hot potato it was often sad that these kids of 11 and 12 were making a lifestyle choice that they were working as prostitutes that they were kids that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and they all surratt is failed time and time again to do that this is criminal neglect in my opinion it is misconduct in

a public office at the highest level and i want to see accountability criminal charges brought against senior police officers senior social workers and potentially going right up to the government if culpability can be shown there for the neglect of people in public office. libya's rival governments step up their conflict ahead of an international peace conference after the break. you know world of big partners new laws and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past

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come back forces loyal to libya's military strongman khalifa haftar are blocked oil exports stopping more than half the country's output the move comes at a critical time as on sunday berlin host a conference to bring peace to the country have to are on his rival the head of the un backed government are among the attendees who are already looks at what's at stake. amy a decade of civil war has brought libya to its knees but on sunday world leaders will to send lin in a bid to find a way forward russia china the u.s. and the e.u. will be joined by african and middle eastern nations boris johnson let me have putin and mike pompei o are all on the guest list the reason for the all star lineup is that it looks like it will be here that the head of tripoli's un backed government. will sit down together with military strongman khalifa haftar top these talks follow on from the go see a shin's in moscow in the week and although khalifa haftar refused to sign

a truce following that meeting in the russian capital it's understood that those talks with a catalyst for the summit in berlin remember the would be the firing me to do resume each of the region we have been promoting does this. need to mostly as a contribution to the conference of believe don't overdramatize the situation. think up of the past the there will only be no. one there to. be the hope is that these talks will bring an end to an increase in violence that's been brewing since the end of 2019 sts general have announced he has his eyes on the libyan capital tripoli. 0 scum for the broad and total assault expected by

every 3 and. today we're now it's the decisive battle and advancement towards the heart of the capital to set it free advance now. that so one of the major regional powers turkey getting directly involved in the conflict and curry rushed to the rescue of the tripoli government by sending its troops into the country libya the. i mean in order for the legitimate government in libya to remain standing and for stability to be established it was you that we are now sending our soldiers to this country despite a soul out painting a relatively gloomy picture of the situation in libya german foreign minister heiko russ's relatively upbeat about getting a result from this summit we've been able to reach agreement so many important points for the future political process in libya the mere fact that we've managed to do this in the prison difficult situation gives those grounds to be cautiously optimistic make no mistake though despite that cautious optimism from mr moss time

is running out to find a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict in libya that's why global heavy hitters are heading here to berlin before they saw this in an attempt to stop us going conflict boiling over into more scenes of our right war in the north african country peter all of our r.t. world. libya has been divided since 2011 when a nato backed uprising killed the leader moammar gadhafi artist going underground has spoken with gadhafi his former spokesperson about the berlin conference you can watch the interview in full at r.t. dot com here's a short preview. it's extremely easy to get lost in the details of the libyan crisis and this is really a part of the game the imperialist west has been playing for decades and decades and the reason europe interview since cakes into libya and then what it

does it manages this chaos for years and years to come sometimes by military means sometimes by political means conferences negotiations economic sanctions you end the crees european union informant all of this is to keep the country and the control so they can rock its national wealth and control its political system and prevent more importantly its population from rising up and making sure that their country is sovereign and independent from foreign influence they change their roths they are assigned roles between different parties in any conflict because for every single european party political currents to come together in a debian city not in berlin and it does this of our vision of the african union because we are african and without any foreign that is that they should know what

is accepting this because they know where this would be a genuine libyan decision will eat to something that the west does not want that's why they called to berlin. and paris hundreds gathered on tyra day to protest against the government's pension reform plans at least 59 people were arrested as the demonstration turned violent. i. the government i agreed to drop some of the most controversial aspects of a profound sadness. strike by public transport workers is continuing to bring chaos to the capital with no end in sight.

amid the turmoil members of the purse opera have held another free concert in paris to express their anger out the reforms that's just one of the many unusual a purchase by people to show their opposition to the crown a charlatan if you report. as the strike continues in fronts we've brought you the congo we've brought you discontentment we've even bought you have violets the other thing that is quite interesting about protests like this all the time is that really brings the color if you just look behind me you can to get a sense of just some of these banners that are out today people are spending tireless hours creating these banners to try and get them for a moment say on t.v. or social networks to try and get their voices across going to speak to the balinese don't they sound very nice sounding i'm going to translate into nice

english basically saying not going loves to our professors particularly at the age of 60 point i wrote that he failed reference to the fact he married his students each i ease it down. to be fair to say funk i. know but still could. use to transatlantic i've also said if this influence but i still do will go up to 62 he was in the olympic athlete you'll hear this man and we tell you president a film why is it on the table for us all to hold up so just multi what looks like quite a nice pine cargo. because here in paris it's a train let's have a chat to the person behind this will miss your expect watch. going on strike for the future a city on the way will get us all going to like him against mark or his own michael i think we're witnessing some sort of humorous show here we've got some of the huge

looks like the son of margaret thatcher and mr mack cole that has. been disabused really the heart of margaret thatcher particularly with what looked like to be pearls on the is around. for me you know protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is your baptist and every protest he's out with a new so i need in this distinctive coloring so many 1st ashore pour like orange juice joining the fight for social justice to the environment democracy that democrats everything was going through him out of this is a look at. the politicians this is not who he was he's a nice to watch telly something incredible from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest banishes out here in sharing is to make sure that they seeing in the crowds show that you can ski

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