you can draw upon tools to learn in other contexts systematically to know what to do. for. a news rich week for russia what with a new prime minister and constitutional reforms proposed by president the changes if approved would best parliament with greater power at their depicted as a put in power play by many western media outlets. deterrence becomes a new buzzword for washington's policy on terror around as trump seemingly abandoned the claim that assassinated iranian money pose an imminent threat to the u.s. . and a criminal investigation is opened in the u.k. police after an independent report reveals a new years of ignoring sexual interest exploitation of children and social care.

welcome to the weekly here on our t.v. where we bring you the top stories from the past week. russia got a new prime minister this week after the previous comment stepped down the resignation fall president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution. but he. just to do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution they bring russia's development as a lawful state. in homes the fixedness of the country's institutions just 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. try explain this lend putin and power as the office of president the media accuses of of seizing more power who control over russia but when putin gives up

that power and hands it over to 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 no 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 hooten appointed the prime. ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no

power object. according to the constitution of the russian federation the prisoner of the state duma is consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet he's deputy and the ministers are supposed shifting this account 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 change country with a very different future russia is changing into a new face of democracy freedom and now the basis of the 1st. time when the president limits his own this is something that later control the country is not known at all then the president limits its own power and once you

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 i see some ideas leading to a better modernization of this state very often it happens that. many media make comments on amendments on noles on projects or reform and constitution we doubt knowing. in detail 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 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 meachem event 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 rumors 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 ahead in 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 won't 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 russia's leadership quality which is not a separate issue it has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance

in the 21st century. a newly obtained recording of a donald trump speech throws into question washington's justification for killing iran's top general in audio tamed by c.n.n. the u.s. president privately told republican donors on friday that kasem samani saying bad things about america however that justification is far weaker and legally questionable than the official white house version that's all money was planning imminent attacks on january the 3rd during a visit to baghdad foam on it was killed by a u.s. drone strike that unleashed a storm of tit for tat actions tehran launched retard terry airstrikes on u.s. bases in iraq injuring a live and pentagon servicemen u.s. defense secretary marc esper said that trump had not presented him with any evidence of the attack supposedly planned the beisel money president didn't say where there was a tangible he didn't cite a specific piece of evidence what he says he probably he believes are you saying that it wasn't one i didn't see one with regard to 4 embassies the fake news media

and the democrat partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future touched by terrorists or money was imminent was my team in agreement the answer to both is a strong yes but it doesn't really matter because of his horrible past it's also been reported the us unsuccessfully targeted another iranian military official on the day it assassinated solomonic middle east experts gave us their response to washington's legally dubious attacks on foreign soil. u.s. administration's policy is not based on fact it's based on lies it's based on the view that the us is an exceptional country it is above international law doesn't have to pay attention to the rules and it's also based on the false notion that the us is the only superpower and a uni polar world us administration still act as if they are the cops of the world they are the bullies on the american sesame to foreign diplomats or foreign

military general in foreign territory because you didn't like to put it very simplistically they didn't like it but was the underlying problem. what is to stop america tomorrow from saying well we don't like for example mr putin we don't like of the chinese foreign minister or the british foreign minister for that matter or the for enjoying even if they don't like someone does that mean that they can turn around and say oh we're going to organize a drone strike on this person and killed him this is the law of the jungle this is not the law of civilized people this is no sane. amid growing questions over the just justification for the death the u.s. house committee has threatened to subpoena secretary of state mike pump ale if he doesn't testify later this month about the situation by pump a also stood by the assassination of soft money he added that washington plans a much more aggressive deterrence policy in the future 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 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 mike pompei ohs new favorite word seems to be deterrence reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to loose 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 a 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 so mahdi 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 watch russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and it's brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deter this so if the. states dislikes you it 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 to hear this come an hour to somebody who is running the state department and this is extremely disturbing and i'm very disappointed that demo ticket 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 i want to. british police new children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester but fail to protect them that's according to a new independent report officers in 2004 launched operation augusta to investigate the issue that the probe was shut down and few perpetrators were ever brought to justice.

the official probe was closed due to lack of resources now i criminal investigation has been opened into potential failures by the police u.k. independent office for police conduct found that racial tensions were one of the reasons given for stopping operation augusta but whistleblower maggie oliver a former manchester police detective who also worked on the operation says there were many more disturbing reasons. the decision to close down operational krista 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 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 that was a focus on what we call acquisitive crime so burglaries theft 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 or go where she was in the care of manchester city council after her mother's death the girl was subjected to sexual assault and injected with her when i have 50 year old male report says that carers knew that abuse was going on but did not act 15 year old victoria died after being in minister to heroin overdose

his grandmother says that since her death she's been battling for justice. she was such a lovely girl she didn't deserve to die i've been fighting all my life for this she told herself with these men. the authorities knew that many victims were being subjected to the most profound abuse and exploitation but did not protect him from the perpetrators 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 with the blower maggie all over again once 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 that they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and the 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 coming up libya's rival governments step up their conflict ahead of an international peace conference details after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development that only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in the united states presidential

candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one topic every week will stacks student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic. and more catch up with what's from drowning this sunday exclusively on our. welcome back to the weekly forces loyal to libya's military strongman khalifa haftar have blocked oil exports from key port stopping more than half of the country's output the move comes at a critical time as later on sunday when host

a conference to bring peace to the country after on his rival the head of the un backed government in tripoli are among the attendees who are all over it 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 force johnson let me have putin and mike pompei o a role 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 huffed 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 for the would be the firing me to do resume future of the region we have been promoting does this. meeting your most as a contribution to the conference of believe you don't overdramatize the situation this think up of the past the there will only be you know. a lot of you know the hope is that these talks will bring an end to an increase in violence that's been brewing since the end of 2019 since general have announced he has his eyes on the libyan capital tripoli. 0 discomfort 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 there . i mean really for legitimate government in libya to remain standing and for stability to be established idioms you get we are now sending our soldiers jewish countrymen the spice all up painting of venice a feat gloomy picture of the situation in libya german foreign minister heiko russ is 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 the cautious optimism for mr last time is running out to find a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict in libya that's why global heavy hits is hitting here to berlin before they saw it in an attempt to stop us going

conflict boiling over into more scenes of right war in the north african country peter all of a rotty building. and paris hundreds gathered on saturday for the latest protest against the government's pension reform plans at least 59 people were arrested as the demonstration turned violent. i don't know it has agreed to compromise and drop some of the most controversial aspects of its reforms that a strike by public transport workers is continuing to bring chaos to the french capital with no end to the unrest in sight.

amid the turmoil members of the paris opera have held another free concert in central paris to express their opposition to the pension reforms. and more than a 1000 doctors and hospital workers have also joined the strike this week they say working conditions in the health sector are getting worse with chronic staff shortages and lack of funding charlotte devinsky reports the moving clued some $600.00 heads of hospital to parliament and $470.00 heads of health services and it comes amidst the country's longest running strike in decades they say that is the doctors that they could no longer watch over service that is in adequate and threatens patient safety to. hospitals have been on strike for several months

hospitals and emergency service unions have been sounding the alarm but politically nothing has been done that's the problem from the point of view of medical ethics doctors must treat patients you but we don't have the necessary resources we've been killing our health care system for the past 20 or 30 years we have completely changed our control system at the moment all decisions are taken not by medics but by administrative staff and manages not have to change i came here from santa go get humanitarian work so i can tell you that in terms of health care france is becoming like the developing country other issues include a lack of hospital beds for patients and a growing unease it reduced stuffing numbers of hospitals across faults now this move will hit some areas of the country more than others in the 2nd largest city must say almost 50 heads of departments are waiting there demanding the government comes up with a plan to fix the system. we want is for patients to be properly

treated at the optimal cost and is efficiently is possible we're being asked to reduce staff numbers to me. so it's a never ending cycle to break the cycle who must give hospitals what they need to continue treating people properly we can make budget cuts but for there we need a centralized national plan health is a national problem and we need to invest money into the system the health minister has though defended the government's position she's previously promised an additional $70000000.00 euros in aid including a monthly risk premium for start of the budget that we have announced a 1500000000 or 3 years will allow hospitals to renovate themselves to engage new projects to recruit staff where they're needed and open baz where there is need but this hasn't done enough to quell the anger felt by some medical just off so what

will this mean for services although they will remain doctors offering medical services what they will no longer be is the backbone of the profession these doctors are resigning from essentially management and did minister to roles roles that often receive no extra pay for it means teacher hospital projects could become friends and complaints could go on the hurt charlotte even ski ati paris. that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week for more on those stories and the latest news head to our website r.t. dot com. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there.

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