libya peace talks involving the warning signs and world leaders have wrapped up in burn in he'll bring a new mechanism for ensuring hostilities don't resume. and in the stories that shaped the week that was russia gets a new prime minister while president putin proposes giving parliament greater powers in a move the west sees as a power grab. confirms donald trump threatened tariffs on call make is if it didn't distance itself from the iran nuclear deal germany the u.k. and france this week triggered a motion that could lead to the agreements collapse. bringing

you a round of of the biggest stories from today and the past 7 days you're watching the weekly here on our team to national thank you for joining us. libya peace conference has wrapped up in berlin the yielding an agreement that it 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 peter all of the reports from berlin. well the result of these talks here in berlin on libya in the ongoing conflict on the ground there was a document that has been signed off by those that have taken part in the conference still has to go to the united nations where it will be seeking their approval it contained in that document call for a cease fire also an arms embargo that should be a rekindling of the political process german chancellor angela merkel is 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 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 the other 2. and one simple question is that all the produce the plans to do anything

to meet it's to support the cease fire and committed to build pressure on the parties 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 the lead he said well ultimately there. 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 use diski put it in the log and open the door from the russian side of the foreign minister spoke to journalists as well as the love roll of well he was saying that he was positive of what had been achieved here however he acknowledged that the situation between the

2 warring sides was extremely difficult right now still 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 to great 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 gritty yet is will be meeting with representatives of both sides of the conflict in geneva later this week heiko muss 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. and we discussed the talks with journalist and founder of viewpoint africa johnson and director of the crisis research institute marc all meant. the real danger is that the main virtue of these talks has been that the external actors will be able to move to agree but as we've heard the 2 main rivals couldn't be face to face let alone agree and secondly there are perhaps 30 different subgroups fighting on the ground so that it may be that there is going to cease fire that holds it could possibly be in the interests of both sides but getting their various cohorts to orders is not has not been easy so far and there is the danger that each side will be looking to move or for getting international credibility in cut off by saying we're trying to keep the ceasefire but the others are breaking it at the end of the day we're looking at a ceasefire 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 we can have a road map we can have a process for we have. more of the forces disarming nation let alone some level of governance that the 2 parties can work with so as to be very difficult a long long way ahead we are in the early early stages of potentially what potentially helpful for libya. now to news from the week russia got a new prime minister after the previous cabinet stepped down their resignation followed president putin's proposal to change the country's constitution. but it will if you amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution the aim of furthering russia's development as a lawful 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

a vital to the country's development and more again steve takes a look at the proposed reforms and how they've gone down in the wider world. tried splay in this lead to boom 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. this ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no power object so if you just use 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 old how this is something in the later controlled country is not known at all then the president limits its own power and wants 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 that allen's 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.

many media make comments on amendments on lol song project or reforming 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 medium 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 we heil michoud 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 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 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. lin has confirmed that 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. and france triggered the deals dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the agreements collapse iran's a supremely to slam the 3 european states as u.s. porn's sparking a rebuke from president trump. search for the beginning but after the u.s. withdraw from the j.c. these 3 governments with were just blowing up 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. well the european trio claim iran's noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to trigger the dispute mechanism iran that has 30 days to return to compliance failing which it will be referred to the un security council and that could reinstate sanctions now let's take a look at what led to the current crisis the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by iran and the world powers it was designed to limit to ron's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief but in 2018 president trump pulled washington out re imposing economic penalties and that prompted iran to start backing away from

complying with the deal itself something that's excel rated in recent weeks after the us killing of terrans top general political science professor at the university tehran heard of 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 meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has doubles down on washington's assassination overalls top general earlier this month mike pompei added this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy while mentioning russia and china picks up the story. in u.s. foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their international actions so let's review some of the greatest hits to be ready for preemptive action a reset in relations between the united states and russia might bomb peo seems to be rolling out a new one when defending the actions of the white house in dealing with international adversaries of the united states mike pompei ohs new favorite word seems to be deterrence reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to loose so according to the

white house and its surrogates the killing of top iranian general qassam solomonic was necessary as part of this deterrence strategy but want to lay this out in context of what we've been trying to do there's a bigger strategy a strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know it's not everlasting that risk remains we are determined not to lose that deterrence but the iraqi prime minister has a different version of events according to the iraqi prime minister soleimani was on a diplomatic mission he was trying to make peace when he was ruthlessly cut down furthermore reports seem to indicate that 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 unite. states dislikes you they can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate hero this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence the mask is come and ask this idea of supremacy that we we have you know this is you can call it american supremacy that we can do whatever we want and it's up to us to decide who is a threat or not this is it really really disturbing and very dangerous i think and it's not normal to hear this come an hour to somebody who is running the state department 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 want to have french prosecutors open an inquiry after video emerges of a police officer punching a protester at a demo in paris we'll see that footage and bring the story in full after this short break. you know before george bizarros became. a global market manipulator and election he wrote a lot of interesting books and of course. rogers had the quantum fund which was one

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welcome back to police offices have been shown in honolulu hawaii reports suggest the suspected gunman has been killed the instant happened in the diamondhead area of the city offices were responding to an assault cool when they encountered a man with a firearm he began shooting he was believed to be inside the house which led to fire in the flames that reportedly spread to neighboring homes have closed off the area nearby due to the ongoing investigation. and other news from this week french prosecutors have opened an inquire. a video of a riot policeman beating up a protester went viral. as it was so close out here that i was proud of him and no doubt that. the incident occurred at 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 also involved the previous week's protests

with a case opened after claims of rubber bullets being fired at point blank range that 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 the reform has brought chaos to paris for almost 2 months that and that's despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its plans political analyst nicole america which told us that much of the media ignores the police violence. of different demonstrations that we've had these past years have always been tearing up with violence there's extreme violence in the mainstream media release new 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 it was a french method 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 policing extreme violence against demonstrators . let's take a quick look now at what else is making headlines around the world. he. was. police have resorted to rule to canon and rubber bullets move move protests and leaven on the over a 100 people were injured his office is dispersed crowds in the camp so bay route demonstrate is or into a 3rd month of protests demanding economic reform and early elections the prime minister had put expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but fail to do sick and tear gas was also used against

a lounge pro-democracy rally and central hong kong as protest as bill to roads and stunted 5 is it significant on to police presence is risible on sundays demonstrate does define official bama munching through the area home comb continues to be rolled by violent rallies to spite the original reason for their anger an extradition bill being withdrawn months ago and effets are on the way to rescue wall of life from the bush fires the have ravage south australia's kangaroo island the area is home to unique as well as endangered species and they experts fear the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the island may have wiped out large numbers of animals about is the weekly will be bank here at the top of the hour with another round up of the new store is that shape that week will see them

you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. what politicians to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you're the president. you so want to reach. out to the right person this is what.

people are. interested. in welcome to while it's a part of 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 now when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture off to 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 web. of almost any university in the world certainly any university in the united states you will see claims such as that this university with you try to think critically it will solve teaches you how to solve problems it will teach you how to communicate well and work well with other people it'll teach

you to be global in your thinking and that all sounds wonderful and in fact i think if anybody thinks about what is the role of higher education we all would all agree that though those are things that we want universities to teach but when you actually look at the curriculum. none of those things are taught what is taught courses in departments largely around information sometimes around analysis of that information but very much in a field specific way and the reality is is that in order to teach these broader capacities you cannot deliver it in a disciplinary way you have to deliver it in a cross contextual way so essentially you're saying that the universities are not delivering what they're promised to give you is that an unfortunate happenstance you know a good system in a bad shape or is it actually brought claiming to provide what you know you cannot

provide and charging a fortune for well i think it's volved to be i don't think that was ever the intent and i don't think that it was malicious in its beginnings and in fact if you think about the of the broader concept of a classical education. the goal really was to provide you with the various disciplinary activities that you need in order to be able to think critically and 200 years ago that was possible it's because humanity did didn't know much right and so in one degree you could teach science and math and philosophy and history and basically cover what most of the professors knew and you could impart that to the students and they would get a very broad and systematic education now it had flaws certainly at the beginning but certainly from what professors knew with the time it was effective as information exploded what we know about the world has become so vast universities

have tried to keep up with it and they've devolved into at least in the united states into more of this departmental approach in fact and for the rest of the world than. left the departmental approach and so the education has become spending more and more time learning less and less much like research has been spending more and more time trying to discover more details around specific sub areas and so what we're left with today is this pursuit of the dissemination of information that is very specific as opposed to the usage of tools that you can interrogate and that is it's not only very specific it's also a wide.