if you believe. in the. 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 shape the week russia gets a new prime minister while president putin proposes giving parliament greater powers in a move the west sees as a power grab. and confirms donald trump threatened tariffs on car makers 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 up of the biggest stories from today and the past 7 days you're watching the weekly here on our to international thank you for joining us. and libya peace conference has 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 there r.t. speech all over reports. well the result of these talks here in berlin on libya and 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 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 gutierrez 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 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 it's 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 doing so. we have achieved objectives that we set for this conference we now have the e.u. now hands to solve the conflicts now we have to do is use disk he put it in dialogue and open the door from the russian side of the foreign minister spoke to journalists as well as the last 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 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. where we discuss the talks with journalist and found viewpoint africa johnson and director of the crisis research institute marc armand. 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 those conditions for 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 help them for libya. now for news that shape 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 was unwilling to do 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 of vital to the country's development of

america takes a look at the proposed reforms and how they've gone down in the wider world. tried splay in this limb to tune 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 at the 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 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 putin appointed the problem. ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no power object. calling to the constitution of the russian federation president needs only to 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 this is 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 modernization of this state very often it happens that. many

media make comments on amendments on the old song project the 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 nonsense 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 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 won't 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 iraq . leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspect of world governance in the 21st century. belin has confirmed donald trump threaten 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 supreme leader slammed the 3 european states as us poor and sparking a rebuke from president trump. i search the beginning that after the u.s. 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. the europeans claim 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 that 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 and key world powers it was designed to limit to iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief but in 20000 president trump pulled washington out 3 imposing economic penalties and that prompted iran to start backing away from complying with the deal something that has been accelerated in recent weeks after

the u.s. killing of terrans top general political science professor at the university of tehran hum and 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 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 are and is in tehran regarding the europeans well meanwhile the

u.s. secretary of state has doubled down on washington's assassination of iran's top general earlier this month my papa i did this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy while mentioning russia and 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 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 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 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. states dislikes you they can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate your own 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 an hour ahead. now let's take a quick look at what else is making headlines around the world. police have resorted to water cannon and rubber bullets amid more protests in lebanon over 100 people were injured as officers dispersed the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrators are into the protests demanding economic reform and elections the prime minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. will tear gas was also used against a large pro-democracy rally in central hong kong as protesters blocked roads and

started fires a significant police presence was visible on sunday as demonstrators defied him official ban on marching through the area hong kong continues to be rocked by violent rallies despite the original reason for the anger and the extradition bill being withdrawn months ago. meanwhile efforts underway to rescue wildlife from the bushfires that have ravaged south australia's kangaroo island the area is homes unique as well as endangered species and experts fear the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the island may have wiped out large numbers about the malls. and other news from this week british police knew that children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester but failed to protect them the findings of a new report in 2004 peroration or guster was norse to investigate the issue but the probe was shut down a few perpetrators were brought to justice. but

. but. but. but. but. was. it. well 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 for stopping operational guster whistleblower maggie all of a former manchester police detective says 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

a. to 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 well the initial investigation was triggered by the death of victoria goglia she was in the care of manchester city council after her mother's death and was subjected to sexual assault and injected with heroin by a 50 year old man their port says carers knew abuse was going on but did not act 15 year old victoria died after being administered a heroin overdose and her grandmother wants justice she was such a lovely girl she didn't deserve to die i've been fighting all my life for this she told me herself what these men had done to her the authorities knew that many victims were being subjected to the most profound abuse and exploitation but did not protect them 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 where the chief constable of manchester police has offered his condolences to the victims adding those officers will do everything to get justice for the children but whistleblower maggie all a very again want senior police and other officials investigate it. this coverup that's the only word there is for it was absolutely deliberate this report this review it's an independent 3 view makes it crystal clear that this was a deliberate cover up there was a reluctance to acknowledge that it was pakistani man predominantly who were abusing vulnerable young white children and very young children that became a political hot potato it was often sad that these kids of 11 and 12 were making

a lifestyle choice that they were working as prostitutes that they were kids that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and they all surratt is failed time and time again to do that this is criminal neglect in my opinion it is misconduct in a public office at the highest level and i want to see accountability criminal charges brought against senior police officers senior social workers and potentially going right up to the government if culpability can be shown there for the neglect of people in public office. french prosecutors have opened an inquiry after a video of a riot policemen beating up a protester went viral. but it was the shotgun shell that he was carrying out of it no doubt that. the incident occurred at saturday's yellow vest protest in

paris in the video a man can clearly be seen punched by a riot officer alleged police violence also marred the previous week's protests but the case opened after claims of rubber bullets being fired at point blank range at the latest march in the french capital people voiced the anger of the government's pension reform plans in some parts of the city clashes erupted between police and demonstrators in the strike by public transport what is over the reform has book sales to paris for almost 2 months now must despite the government's promised compromise agreed to drop some of those controversial aspects of its plans political analyst nicole america vish holders that much of the media ignores the police violence. of different demonstrations that we've had these past years have always been turned up with violence there's extreme violence in the mainstream media in unison the violence of the demonstrators and very rarely the violence of 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 the 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 methods mean police using extreme violence against them traitors. well that is their weekly and that's it from me for now jacqueline vega will be here with you next hour seki to the latest news from around the world why him it's an ash. you know before george soros became 5 and a global market manipulator in the election he wrote

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i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground at the start of britain's last full week with political representation at the european union even though the u.k. will be subject to e.u. regulation coming out of the show with the road to an arguable reunification of the island of ireland to being paved by boris johnson's bricks its border in the irish sea to the british security services lay the groundwork for a united ireland we speak to a self-confessed m i 5 spy. working undercover at the highest levels of shin fein over the mall coming up in today's going underground 1st on saturday's show we spoke to m.p.'s from both the d.p. engine fein about the return of good friday agreement local government to northern ireland we also was the shin fein m.p. from c. malloy about the history of his party during the troubles the subject of

a new book by a self-confessed for m i 5 spy willie calling who confesses to working at the highest levels of sinn fein in the seventy's and eighty's well i said this in response to collins claim that some of the british government secretly wanted a united ireland well i think at different times you act if i know no stature on the british government i do said they would never talk to their aid and yet we find that behind the scenes the war talk and they are it as we're trying to get a political settlement on their terms so i think the british government like any other government walk on a number different tangent at the same time william may have acted over exactly as a thinking oh what a portrait he was could i think in the mind of british intelligence with a car and worse and they keep their we also asked him about whether the ira is still in control shin fein as alleged by government well i think if you look at the our party as a democratic organization a political organization they stand for election our members are that the 1st

minister no was elected democratically and so with all our members.