in. libya peace talks involving the warring sides and world leaders have wrapped up in berlin yielding a new mechanism for ensuring hostilities don't resume. and in the stories that shapes the week russia gets a new prime minister while president putin proposes giving parliament's greater powers in a move the west sees as a power grab. but then confirms donald trump threatens tariffs on car makers if it doesn't doesn't distance itself from the iran nuclear deal germany the u.k. and france this week triggered a motion that could lead to the agreement collapse.

to a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r.t. international with me becky aaron. now at libya peace conference hours wrapped up in berlin yielding an agreement that is hoped will pave the way for a lasting cease fire in the country and ultimately bring an end to years of bloody civil war artie's peace all of our reporters from berlin. well the result of these talks here in berlin on libya or in the ongoing conflict on the ground there was a document that has been signed off by those that are taking part in the conference still has to go to the united nations where it will be seeking their approval it contained in that document are a call for a cease fire also an arms embargo that should be a rekindling of the political process german chancellor angela merkel was keen to stress again that there was in far as she was concerned and as far as other leaders were concerned there was no military solution to that conflict in libya that human

rights must be respected and that we must also you see security and economic reforms on the ground in libya now the german chancellor also said added that there was no direct contact between. and. now that had been expected realistically there's been hope for heading into these talks they didn't speak directly that was all done through proxy or in direct conversations passing along messages basically between the 2 sides the u.n. secretary general also speaking at the closing press conferences to duty as he said that what was of most importance at the moment was getting a functioning cease fire in place on the ground 1st we need to have a ceasefire you cannot monitor something that doesn't exist and so we need level ceasefire and the other 2. and one simple question is that all the produce the plans to do anything to meet is to support the cease fire and committed to pressure

on the bar to the conflict for the fire to be reached the german foreign minister heiko must was also speaking at the closing press conference he was measured in his confidence about what had been achieved here in berlin he said well ultimately there will. was a potential for the libyan crisis being resolved that the end was perhaps in sight but that it still needed some work to get it over the line of goods that. we have achieved objectives that we sent for this conference we now have the e.u. now hands to solve the conflicts now we have to do is used to ski put it in the log and open the door from the russian side of the foreign minister spoke to journalists as well as the large role of the world he was saying that he was positive awarded been achieved here however he acknowledged that the situation

between the 2 warring sides was extremely difficult right now. generally we think the conference was useful it's clear that the final decision is up to the libyans it's also clear that so far stable dialogue between the warring parties is unreachable the differences of approach the 2 great but still the suggestions the final document contains contribute to creating appropriate conditions for both sides to sit and talk ultimately the result of these talks is that they'll be more talks the u.n. secretary general mr gutierrez will be meeting with representatives of both sides of the conflict in geneva later this week heiko must the german foreign minister also saying that there would be a meeting in brussels on monday of e.u. ministers in order to discuss further the situation in libya libya though is really coming front and center for international attention that's been seen by just who was in attendance here in some real heavy hitters from around the world coming here

as the world tries to find a solution to the ongoing crisis which has claimed so many lives. was heading out to iowa johnson journalist and found point africa welcome to the program at what is your assessment of how these talks went does this proposed ceasefire mechanism and mount so much in your opinion. well it's only present how hot dogs feel about it and i mean they're not prepared to talk facing each other they're going through these 3rd parties but this is as large a conference with a lot of very important countries all under one umbrella all focused on one agenda that's libya so it's been a while since libya's been able to reach local audiences i know i know he's been to step up on the stage for discussions and. at the end of the day we're looking at a cease fire and that's all we're hoping for this is not going to bring about peace it is not going to really stop all out war we're talking about a cease fire a hold to a cease fire which is not happening today the document as you said contains any

suggestions could the u.n. security council throw its weight behind this with a resignation. it's a wishes to hope it's a desire that we can see something that's tangible that could be ultimately a roll of math if the war policies are not willing to talk stop at least the the cease fire if we can establish those we can have a road map we can have a process for. mobilization of the forces and dissemination let alone some level of governance that the 2 parties can work with so it's can be very difficult a long long way ahead and we are in the early stages of potentially what could potentially help them for libya but it's going to be very difficult because i used to have to he's gained too much ground already lost so much be that he is recognized by the un as the legitimate government but mr have to and all the respective people that support him have emboldened him to the extent that sees and

willing to continue funding and does it surprise you as a whole that libya's main warring parties didn't talk directly to one another no it doesn't happen for me didn't surprise me told them bitter enemies there is a lot at stake the world's largest oil and gas reserves on the african continent besides libya it's a pivotal junction for many migrants to reach europe and so libya is. located on and has interest not only internationally but even domestically and it would appear that somehow to and. are willing to fight this to the bitter end it will be very difficult as to how we can find common ground because if they can't meet physically in one room how on earth are we going to have a cease fire how it's going to have leadership. alignment how we're going to have to have a degree of government between the 2 at this quick break and what are the main sticking points when it remaining here. well we're looking at. ceasefire going

back as. mr rogers requested going back to how we were last year. hostage no one except that because he's already taken some more territory we're looking at eve. the could have one on me so that's what both sides could fit into one box we're talking about how can they have a prisoner swap and becomes a nation and we have a station for the whole country to heal before we can alternately have elections which will have to happen at some point if one gets to common ground and again there lies the problem in itself who would accept defeat who would accept success. libya has always been missed messy it was messy with gadhafi messy after him and it continues job today and libya that largest oil field began shutting down on sunday off the forces loyal to close a pipeline connecting it to the coast that would have there apparently having the upper hand as you mentioned why would he agree to

a tree sell well exactly which is why he's involved in which is why he can make the trip to. germany which is why he's more or less calling the shots. or roger only has a few countries around in terms of support but more so the u.n. is not enough i'm afraid this is even at the very start and potentially at the very end. i think that the major losers here are the the. i would say to its neighbors specifically you know the the many people have been. lost their homes many people have been have to move around and the impact on these fragile countries and their economies are going to be pushed to the brink with more people going across the border seeking safety as the fighting between these 2 giants continue i have johnson genest on found a point africa thank you for your time thanks mark. russia got

a new prime minister this week passed after the previous cabinet stepped down the resignation followed president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution. but it delusional if you amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitutions any much furthering russia's development as a rule from state so the goal is to enhance the effectiveness of the country's institutions strengthen the role of civil society and to enable the political parties in our regions to make decisions that vital to the country's development of the audacity have takes a look at the proposed reforms and how they have gone down in the wider world. tried splay in this empowers the office of president the media accuses of it 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 friendly 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 doubt it used to be that putin appointed the prime minister the ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no power object to his use is calling to the constitution of the russian federation the president needs only the state duma's consent to make official appointments the

president appoints the cabinets 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 how this is something in the later controlled country is not known at all that a president limits its own power and once you let the people there side 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 did. 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 vent 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 the discussions and as we 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 schuster. an unknown quantity he's largely

stayed out of the spotlight for the past decade head 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 times 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 russia's leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance in the 21st century. balance confirmed donald trump threaten to slap huge tariffs on european comic has if it didn't distance itself from the iran nuclear

deal this week germany the u.k. and france trickett the deals dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the agreements collapse iran's supreme leader slams the 3 european states of the us porn's sparking a rebuke from president trump. i searched for the beginning but after the u.s. withdrawal from the j.c. these 3 governments were just being rude 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 pin trio came iran's noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to trigger

the dispute mechanism iran now has 30 days to return to compliance failing which it will be referred to the un security council they could reinstate sanctions wes take a look at what led to the current crisis the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by iran and key world powers it was designed to limit to iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief but in 2800 president trumpet pulled washington out reimposing economic sanctions well that prompted iran to start backing away from complying with the deal itself something that 6 elevation in recent weeks after the u.s. killing of 2 wrongs top general political science professor at the university of 2 ron hubbard most of the believes when the u.s. withdrew from the deal the e.u. abandoned iran. it's very hypocritical for the europeans to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism now i mean if they were sincerely and truly committed to the deal they should've triggered this dispute resolution mechanism a year and

a half ago when the trumpet ministration decided to leave the deal when the us left the deal it was actually the europeans that convinced you want to stay in the deal with the promise that they would shield your own from american sanctions and all those promises turned out to be empty and right now when iran is for its share of the deal it's backing away from the deal now they are trading the this so-called dispute resolution mechanism and this has actually brought a lot of anger in a lot of brit bitterness in tehran regarding the europeans i mean while the us secretary of state has doubled down on washington's assassination of iran's top general earlier this month my pump a i did this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy while mentioning russia china caleb maupin 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 strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know it's not everlasting that risk remains we are determined not to lose that deterrence but the iraqi prime minister has a different version of events according to the iraqi prime minister soleimani was

on a diplomatic mission he was trying to make peace when he was ruthlessly cut down furthermore reports seem to indicate that somani was not the only official to be targeted reports now show that a different iranian general was also in their sights but the strike was unsuccessful so who else could now be on the list as the united states claims it has the right to assassinate top iranian general extrajudicial lee and explain later well mike pompei o has thrown not only iran but also russia and china into the mix we saw not just in iran but in other places too where american deterrence was weak we watched russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and its brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deterrence so if the. states dislikes you they can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate your own this is geopolitics in the age of

deterrence 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 damage it can political class is not speaking out against this. crazy idea that we can go ahead and just kill anyone we don't like it doesn't mean people are not guilty of things but if we take this principle and this. approach to every nationality to every country we are going to have a really really mess and i would have. french prosecutors if an inquiry after

video emerges of a police officer punching a protester in a demonstration in paris or say that 1st a tempering it a full story off of this break.

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 the off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back french prosecutors have opened an inquiry as to a video of a riot policeman beating up a protester went viral. but do it really gets you so close notice you it looks like half of it was that. the incident occurred on saturday's yellow vest protest in paris in the video a man can clearly be seen being punished by

a riot officer alleged police violence or the previous week's protests with a case opened after claims of weapons of bullets being fired at point blank range the latest march in the french capital people voice that anger at the government's pension reform plans in some parts of the city clashes erupted between police and demonstrators a strike by public transport workers over there a form has brought chaos to paris for almost 2 months now despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its plans political analysts look at nicole another fish told us that much of the media ignores the police violence. all the different demonstrations that we've had these past years have always been mingled and turned up with violence there's extreme violence in the mainstream media we only see the violence of the demonstrators and very rarely the violence of the police forces and this is has this has become a very big issue in france where people from the left out from the right just don't

understand what's going on we've seen this practically every weekend through the you know best demonstrations this is one of the methods this is one of the main methods police are using today and it's quite paradoxical because french police was known in the past for being one of the police in europe in the world not using violence or was it french meant that of controlling demonstrations and then you can even with demonstrations were getting out of hand and this clearly shows that this is part of the past and the new with this mean police using extreme violence against demonstrators. quick look at what else is making headlines around the world . let it lead to was. police have resorted to water cannon and rubber bullets amid more protests in lebanon. over $100.00 people were injured as officers dispersed the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrations or 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 that failed to do so. the gas was also

used against a large pro-democracy rally in central hong kong because protesters blocked roads and started fires a significant arms police presence is visible on sunday as demonstrators defy an official ban on marching through the area hong kong continues to be rocks by violent rallies despite the original reason for their anger and extradition bill being withdrawn months ago. and efforts underway to rescue wildlife from the bushfires that have ravaged south australia's kangaroo island the ever is home to unique as well as endangered species experts fear the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the island may have wiped out large numbers of animals. although finished this hour with the breaking news story 2 police officers have been killed in honolulu hawaii according to or thora t s a suspect is said to be still at large the f.b.i.

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