you know if you change. the law. changing of the guard russia sees a new prime minister. proposed by president putin if approved changes with greater powers and western media see it as a it's in power grab. deterrence becomes a new buzzword for washington's policy and tehran is donald trump seemingly abandons the claim that assassinated to reign in general solomonic posed an imminent threat to the u.s. . and a criminal investigation is opened into u.k. police after an independent report reveals years of ignoring sexual exploitation of children in social care.

less joining us watching the weekly here. russia got a new prime minister this week after the previous cabinet stepped down the resignation followed president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution. but it delusion will it should remain with us just to do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution they aim at furthering russia's development as a lawful state the goal is the 3 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. rank as they have takes a look now they have proposed reforms and the reaction it's already received in the west tried splay in this land putin and powers the office of president the media accuses of of seizing more power more 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 guarantee 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 for 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 minister 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 president leads only the state duma's 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 also 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 how this is something in the later controlled country is not known at all the president limits its own power and once to let the people decide on 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. 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 the state very often it happens that. many media make comments on amendments on lows 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 for so negative

comments to study to understand won't work talking about what is did reform and now instead 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 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 we heil machine in 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 rushed. 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 times change so does russia it is a 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 the stability of russia's leadership and it quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance in

the 21st century. and you know recording of a donald trump speech throws into question washington's justification for killing iran's top general in order of time by c.n.n. the u.s. president privately told republican donors on friday that he was saying bad things about america and whether that just occasions far weaker and legally questionable than the official white house version that sort of only was planning imminent attacks in january surging a visit to baghdad so the money was killed by a u.s. drone strike and unleashed a storm of tit for tat actions around the retaliatory air strikes on u.s. bases in iraq injuring 11 pentagon servicemen u.s. defense secretary barker that had not presented him with any evidence of the attack supposedly planned by solomon. the president didn't say where there was a tangible he didn't say a specific piece of evidence what he says he probably he believes are you saying that why invent one i didn't see one with regard to 4 embassies the freak news

media and their democrat partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorists or mali was imminent or not and was my team in agreement the answer to both is a strong yes but it doesn't really matter because of his horrible past. so so reported the u.s. and successfully targeted another israeli military official on the day it assassinated so the money 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 unique us administration still act as if they are the cops of the world they are the bullies on the american sesame to foreign diplomats and foreign military

generals 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 french or anybody 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 kill them this is the moon of the jungle this is the glue of civilized people this is no sane. growing questions over the justification for the death the u.s. house committee has threatened to subpoena state 16 if he doesn't testify later this month about the situation also stood by the assassination of celeb monny added that washington plans a much more aggressive and terence policy in the future in the more pics of 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 action so let's review some of the greatest hits way to be ready for preemptive action a reset in relations between the united states and russia. 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 owes new favorite word seems to be did . current's 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 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 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 deter this so if the united states dislikes you it can pressure you economically

diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate you know this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence the mask is coming off this idea of supremacy that we we have you know this is you can call it a medic and 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 notable here does come in alex who some. he who is running the state department 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 an hour ahead. british

police knew children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester but failed to protect them according to a new independent report officers in 2004 launched operation ore guster to investigate the issue but the probe was shut down and few perpetrators were brought to justice.

if the probe was closed due to lack of resources now a criminal investigation has been opened into potential failures by the police u.k. independent office of police conduct found racial tensions were one of the reasons given for stopping operation augusta maggie oliver a former munch the police detective who also worked on the operation says that 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. and 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 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 golyer she was in the care of manchester city council after her mother's death the girl was subjected to sexual assaults and injected with heroin by a 50 year old man the report says care is new to the beast was going on but didn't act 15 year old victoria died have to be administered a heroin overdose tori's grandmother says 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 me herself what 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 amongst the police has offered his condolences to the victims hurting officers will do everything to get justice for the children whistleblower mikey oliver again want senior police and other of 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 at 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 rebel government stop at the conflict ahead of an international peace conference details after the break. leo. leo. leo allen. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development that only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. wisdom is the application of practical knowledge in

a group where you have waves in novel contexts but if you learn a particular scenario. in a class could be brilliant and you encounter that exact same scenario knowing what to do is just memory that's not wisdom that's not learning it's just memorizing some wisdom comes when you are facing a brain new context and you can draw upon tools to learn in other contexts systematically to know what to do. with the. military strongman. blocked oil exports from key ports stopping more than half the country's output the move comes at a critical time later on sunday berlin hosts a conference to bring peace to the country after his rival the head of the un backed governments in tripoli are among the attendees 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 berlin 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 oh they're 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 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 each of the reassure we have been promoting because 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 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 hafta 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 leave you

know 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 all our painting of that as a fee 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 and the mere fact that we've managed to do this in the prison difficult situation give 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 and that's why global heavy hitters are heading here to berlin for this summit 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. event girls in libya's 2nd city controlled by general have to our people's necks ectasia as for the conference ranged from skepticism to hope. and that sort of thing this conference will find a comprehensive approach to peace in libya i think that sooner or later after the berling conference will thier return to fighting because the back room for dialogue between both parties is fragile so there's very little that's agreed upon or there are so many. i hope the politicians will do their best in berlin and won't be ignorant libya shouldn't be divided it should unite this but you have a belief in conference does not express the majority opinion that this is of words of libyan people in removing the militias along with the carrots and through billy and doug a libyan cities it will feel. what matters most is removing the weapons which terrorize and kills people looted libyans money and cause the country to be

marvelous in the past decade if that's considered the conference might be successful otherwise it will be unsuccessful just like all the other conferences. libya has been an officially divided between rival factions since 2011 when a nato backed uprising killed a longtime leader moammar gadhafi parties going underground has spoken with gadhafi former spokesperson about the berlin conference and whether it could ease the crisis you can watch the interview in full at r.t. dot com here's a preview. it's extremely easy to get lost in the details of the libyan crisis and this is really as part of the game the imperialist west has been playing for decades and decades and the reason europe interview since chaos 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 we call for every single libyan party political current 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 no one is accepting this because they know where this would be a genuine libyan decision would lead to something that the west does not want

that's why they called to berlin. that's wrap this hour up with some world news in brief for you. police fired tear gas and rubber bullets of protesters in lebanon on friday more than $100.00 people injured as police broke up the crowd and the. capital beirut demonstrators are into the 3rd month of protests demanding economic reform an early elections promise to be an expected to announce a new 18 member cabinets on friday but failed to do so. wanted to take us as a large pro-democracy rally in a central hong kong spills on to the streets with protesters blocking roads and starting fires and significant police presence is visible on the sun does demonstrate just the front and official ban on marching through the area and from

continues throughout rallies despite the original reason for the next edition bill being withdrawn by beijing months ago. and efforts are underway to rescue animals survivors of bush was that of ravish south australia's kangaroo island is home to unique because well is endangered species experts fear that the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the islands may have killed lots numbers of animals. thanks thank you all to me for updates and often. you know before georges our us became vilified as a global market manipulator and electioneering or he wrote a lot of interesting books and of course jim rogers had a quantum find which was one of the best performing hedge funds ever kind of

invented the modern hedge fund and he's got a lot of things to say if you look at his old work and we're going to get into it. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello and welcome to worlds apart higher education prides itself on the quipping it's seekers with the tools to optimally navigate the reality and at the very least

to tell fact from fiction but one of these snapshots of in itself is a myth an expansive self-serving and highly in the fact if myth well that's what our guest today argues as he takes on the ivy league universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what about the rest of the system what do you think it's selling well what it's selling is not necessarily what it's delivering but if you go to any website of almost any would have.