when you don't. know what. a libyan peace conference is underway today in berlin the talks will see the warring sides sit down together at the negotiating table in the hope of finding a solution to gears of war in libya. changing of the guard 1 russia sees a new prime minister and constitutional reform proposed by president putin if approved changes would all of the rights of the west sees it as a putin power ground. confirms donald trump. makes if it didn't distance itself from the iran nuclear deal germany you can france this week trickett about it could lead to the collapse.

by the thanks for joining us watching the weekly here on r.t. . a libyan peace conference is underway the warring sides of sat down together at the negotiating table in berlin in the hope of freshening out a way to end years of war auntie speech of all the reports from the german capital . well this conference here in berlin is seen by some as a last chance for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis in the war ravaged country that is libya the heads of both sides in that crisis are here in berlin for talks they're also joined by high profile delegations from russia from turkey from the united states of course from here in germany as well and others we're also it comes against the backdrop of the latest news on the ground in libya that forces loyal to general have top of blockaded ports key ports in the country and cut off oil

exports around 25 percent of the country's oil exports have been affected by this so serious economic impact from that there is cautious optimism here in germany ahead of this meeting and we understand that before all of the delegations have sat together that phase. the leader of the u.n. backed government in tripoli and met with german chancellor angela merkel and the german foreign minister heiko mass mr mass well he was surprisingly upbeat heading into what could be a very crucial conference 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 us grooms to be cautiously optimistic all this talk of these talks here in berlin follow on from a conference earlier just last week in moscow in which both sides in the conflict

agree to a cease fire that was brokered by russia and turkey however following those talks and following the agreement to that cease fire it was only said that put his signature to the deal remember for the this would be the firing. to resume each of the region we are promoting because this is a. knitting good more screwed as a contribution to boot conference of but in moot you go on over the rim at those the situation this think up and them the bust the there will meetin some only be filled with you when you had a more you know pulled the boob poor before this conference gets into full swing turkish president ed to one and blood emir putin of russia of also held talks this is what the russian president tough to say following that it was when me and i'm was get this deal you in my opinion we made very good progress during our meeting in istanbul we cooled on the warring libyan parties to cease

a still ities and while certain incidents still acoa both sides have heard our appeal and large scale hostilities did cease in my opinion this is already a very good results which pave the way for today's multilateral meeting here in berlin well said gay lover of they're saying you won't ova dramatize the situation but really the word is this is pretty much 8 how they set a last chance for a diplomatic solution and actually us i'm talking to you delegations all arriving at the chancellor's office here in berlin but as this develops throughout the day i'll keep you up to date here own r.t. in benghazi people's expectations for the conference range from skepticism to hope i don't think this conference will find a comprehensive approach in libya i think that sooner or later after the berling conference we'll see a return to fighting because the back room for dialogue between both parties is fragile 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 the belief in conference does not express the majority's opinion that this is of words of libyan people in removing the militias along with the carrots and through bully and other libyan cities it will fail. 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 officially divided between rival factions since 2011 when an uprising killed longtime leader moammar gadhafi artie's going underground or spoken with gadhafi former spokesperson about the burning conference and whether it can ease the crisis what's the interview in full at r.t. dot com now here's a 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 chaos into libya and then what it does it's 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 unfoldment all of this is to keep the country under 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 the roles they are assigned roles between different parties

in any conflict because for every single european party political current to come together in the libyan city not in berlin and out of this of our vision of the african union because we are african and without any foreign participation 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 what they call to berlin. a new prime minister this week after the previous cabinet stepped down the resignation for president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution. but it gotten will it should be written as i suggest to do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution they aim at furthering russia's development as a lawful state the goal is also to enhance the effectiveness of the country's institutions to strengthen the role of civil society and to enable the political

parties in our regions to make decisions vital to the country's development. takes a look at the proposed reforms and how they've gone down in the wider world. try explaining this led putin and power as 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 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 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 hooten appointed the problem. 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 leaves only the state duma is consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet he's deputy and all the ministers are supposed shifting this power 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 candidates so 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 the basis of the 1st. time when the president limits his old how this is something in the later controlled country is not known at all then the president limits its own power and once 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 i see some ideas leading to a better modernization of this state very often it happens that.

many media make comments on amendments on laws 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 what luck 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 meacham 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 rule is that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new prime minister because i'll miss in 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 won't run for another term time change so does russia that 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 . as 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. berlin has confirmed donald trump threatened to slap huge tariffs on european carmakers if it didn't distance itself from the iran nuclear deal this week germany the u.k. france triggered the deal's dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the agreements collapse around supreme leader slammed the 3 european states as us pawns sparking a rebuke from president trump boy. i searched for the beginning that after the u.s. withdraw from the j.c. these 3 governments frequently just paying lip service and ranting i did not trust

them and they would carry out anything and they would be of the service of the us it has been cleared up their 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. of the european trio claim iran's noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to trigger the dispute mechanism there are now has 30 days to return to compliance fairly which it will be referred to the un security council that could reinstate the sanctions so let's take a look at what exactly led to this current crisis the nuclear deal signed in 2015 by iran and key world powers designed to limit tehran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief for the 20 team president trample washington out re imposing economic penalties that prompted around to start backing away from

complying with the deal itself something that accelerated in recent weeks after the u.s. killing of to around top general political science professor at the university of to run had most of it believes that when the u.s. withdrew from the deal the you abandoned iran. it's very hypocritical for the europeans to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism now i mean if they were sincerely in 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 she'll do you want 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 treating the this so-called dispute resolution mechanism and this has actually brought a lot of anger in

a lot of brit bitterness in tehran regarding the europeans meanwhile the u.s. sector staters doubled down on washington's assassination of iran's top general earlier in the month by pompei either this is just the start of a far more aggressive deterrence policy or mentioning russia and china a little pain has 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 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 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 deterrence so if the and i. 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 of scum and asked 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 in alex for somebody who is running the state department this is extremely disturbing and i'm very disappointed that that medical

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 really of the mess and i want to . still to come for you a criminal investigation is open to the actions of british police after a report reveals officers ignored the sexual exploitation of children in social care for years more on that after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical if. you sit down and talk. just one magic bullet you could actually come up with some of the top of these baby bonds talking about ways we get access to capital and capitalism cavil's important so we could actually have programs that actually help folks who want to do that but when you give everybody a $1000.00 i'm a poor person i'm going to consume that and if you're rich you're going to invest that. the wealth the spirit is going to grow because you're you're not using your money to consume you're literally buying more crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a $1000.00 and you just go raise my rent so then you get your inflation going on and there.

british police new children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester fails to protect them the findings of a new report in 2004 operational guster was launched to investigate but the probe was shut down a few perpetrators brought to justice. the

official probe was closed due to lack of resources now a criminal investigation has been opened into potential failures by the police the u.k. independent office for police conduct found racial tensions were one of the reasons given the stopping operational guster whistleblower maggie oliver a former police detective 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 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 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 assault and injected with heroin by

a 50 year old man the report says the care is new abuse was going on but didn't turned 15 year old victoria died after being administered a heroin overdose victoria's grandmother wants justice for her relative 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 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 having offices will do everything to get justice for the children a whistleblower maggie oliver again wants senior police and other officials themselves

investigated. this coverup that's the only word there is for it was absolutely deliberate this report this review and 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 their 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 bad kids that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and they all for it 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. running of some of the world headlines for you know. i. i. was fired tear gas rubber bullets at protesters in lebanon on friday more than a 100 people were injured as the authorities broke up the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrators are interested month of protests demanding economic reform an early elections the prime minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. was also used against large pro-democracy protesters in certain hong kong's. they blocked roads and

started fires a significant armed police presence is visible sunday with demonstrators defying an official ban on marching through the area on khan continues to be rocked by violent rallies despite the original reason for their anger an extradition bill having been withdrawn months ago. and elsewhere efforts are underway to rescue wild life from the bushfires that have ravaged south australia's kangaroo island area's home to unique as well as endangered species experts fear the fires have already devastated a 3rd of the island and may have wiped out large numbers of animals. ok it's coming your way at the top of the us either. join me every 1st day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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