that. was. libyan peace conference is underway today in burlington the talks will see the warring sides sit down together at the negotiating table in the hope of finding a solution to the years of war in libya. and changing of the guard russia sees a new prime minister on constitutional reforms proposed by president putin if approved the changes would hung parliament greater power at the west sees it as a 2000 power grab. but it confirms donald trump much interest on carmakers if it didn't distance itself from the wrong nuclear deal germany the u.k. and france this week triggered a motion that could lead to the agreements collapse. to

a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and around the stories that shape the week the 1st day libyan peace conference is underway the warring sides have sat down together at the negotiating table in berlin in the hope of thrashing out a way to end years of war artie's peace all of 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 were also becomes against the backdrop of the latest news on the ground in libya that forces 'd 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 being affected by this so serious economic impact from that there is cautious optimism here in germany ahead of this meeting we understand that before all of the delegations of 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 agreed to a cease fire that was brokered by russia and turkey however following those talks and following the agreement for that cease fire it was only set out to put his signature to the deal or before this conference gets into full swing turkish president is the one and lie to me that putin of russia have also held talks this is what the russian president had to say following up. so i mean it was good. in my opinion we made very good progress during our meeting in istanbul we called on the warring libyan parties to cease a still ities and while certain incidents still occur both sides have heard our appeal and large scale hostilities did cease in my opinion this is already a very good result which paved the way for today's multilateral meeting here in berlin also gay lover of there saying you won't over dramatize the situation but really the word is this is pretty much as i said a last chance for

a diplomatic solution and actually as i'm talking to you delegations are arriving at the chancellor's office here. but as this develops throughout the day i'll keep you up to date here on r.t. . well in benghazi people's expectations for the conference range 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 we'll see a 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 party and you have a belief in conference does not express the majority opinion that this is a voice of libyan people in removing the militias along with the cares and true belief and dug 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 officially divided between rival factions since 2011 when an uprising killed longtime leader muammar gadhafi artie's going underground has spoken with gadhafi former spokes person about the berlin conference and whether it can ease the crisis you can watch the interview in full on 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 afshin art 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 involvement 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 the roles they are assigned roles between different parties in any conflict because for every single libyan part political currents to come together in the libyan city not in berlin and of this of our vision of the african union because we are african and without any foreign participation no one is accepting 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. got a new prime minister this week after the previous cabinet stepped down their resignation followed president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution. but it delusion will if you amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution they might further in russia's development as a lawful state the goal is 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 are vital to the country's development but i gotta take a look at the proposed reforms and how they have gone down in the wider world. try explain this lead 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 friendly 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 putin appointed the prime. ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no power object so according to the constitution of the russian federation the

president needs only the state duma's consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet his deputy and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian government's chairman and at the chairman's suggestion all the deputy ministers and all the federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president without a 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 the basis of the 1st. time when the president limits his oh this is something in the 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 more denies ation of this state very often it happens did. many media make comments on amendments on law project 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 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 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 will run for another term time 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 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. but ns confirmed donald trump threaten to slap huge tariffs on european carmakers if it didn't distance itself from the of our nuclear deal well this week the germany the u.k. and france took it the deals dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the agreements collapse iran's supreme leader slammed the 3 european states as u.s. porn's sparking a rebuke from president. bush. i searched for the beginning that after the us withdraw from the j.c. these 3 governments with were 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 supremely 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. they were a peon trio claim iran's noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to trigger the dispute mechanism iran now has a 30 days to return to compliance failing which it will be referred to the un security council they could reinstate sanctions so let's take a look at what led to the current crisis the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by iran a key world powers it was designed to limit terrans nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief but in 2018 president trump polled washington out re imposing economic penalties well that prompted iran to stop backing away from complying with the dale itself something that 6 celebrates in recent weeks after the u.s. killing of terrans top general political science professor at the university of to run home it was savi believes when the u.s. with drew from the deal the e.u. abound and 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 its 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 brigit or in this in tehran regarding the europeans. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has doubled down on washington's assassination of iran's top general early this month my bump a.o.r. that this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy while mentioning russia and china kellett

more 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 might pompei owes 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 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. it states dislikes you it can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate you know this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence mask scum 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 in alex for somebody 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 really the mess and i want to. still to come a criminal investigation has opened into the actions of british police soft of reports rebels offices ignores the sexual exploitation of children in social care figure is more on that after this short break stay with us. 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 fix student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running

this sunday exclusively on r.t. . wisdom is the application of rock the boat knowledge in a rope or your weight in novel contexts but if you learn a particular scenario being a class could be a dream 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 and learned in other contexts systematically to know what to do. welcome back what is police new children were suffering the most profound sexual

abuse in the northern city of manchester but failed to protect them as the findings of a new report in 28 in 2004 peroration augusta was launched to investigate the issue of the proper set down and few perpetrators were brought to justice. but. but. but. but. but. what.

if fishel 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 for stopping operational guster but was a blow maggie all of a former manchester police detectives theys 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 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 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. 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 carers knew abuse was going on but did not x. 15 year old victoria died after being administered a heroin overdose victoria's grandmother wants justice for her relatives 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 them 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 pitcher and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country where chief constable of manchester police has often his condolences to the victims adding that officers will do everything to get justice for the children but whistleblower maggie all of her game want senior police and other officials investigated this cover up and 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 knowledge that it was pakistani men predominantly who were abusing vulnerable young white children and very young children that became a political hot potato it was often said 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 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. look at what else is happening

in the news around the world now. was accurate police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in lebanon on friday more than a 100 people were injured as of dorothy's broke up the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrators are into a 3rd month of protests demanding economic reform and early elections the prime minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. the gas was also used against a large pro-democracy rally in central hong kong as protesters blocked roads and started fires a significant armed police presence is visible on sunday as demonstrators defy an official ban on marching through the area hong kong continues to be rocked by violent rallies despite the original reason for their anger and extradition bill being withdrawn months ago. efforts are underway to rescue wildlife from the

bushfires that have ravaged south australia's kangaroo island the area is home to unique as well as an endangered species experts fear the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the island may have wiped out large numbers of animals. who would actually love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving comments that we're back at the top of the hour with the latest see there. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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