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if you believe. the. libya peace talks involving the warring sides and world leaders create a new mechanism for a lasting cease fire we'll look at whether the plan can hold. also this hour 3 belgian doctor states criminal charges for approving the euthanasia of a woman with a psychiatric disorder and the 1st such trial in the procedure was legalized at the start of the century. and the u.s. state of virginia declares a state of emergency and bans weapons at the big gun rights rally warning a big part of the threat of violence.
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and very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teachers here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. a berlin conference has raised a glimmer of hope for peace and war torn libya world leaders pledged to respect an arms embargo and block military support to all parties in the conflict the german a foreign minister was cautiously optimistic. we have achieved the objectives that we set for this conference we now have the key in our hands to solve the conflicts now what we have to do is use diski put it in the law and open the door. is the door that moss was talking about may have been eased open by meetings handshakes and smiles between leaders who've not always seen eye to eye the 55 article final agreement calls for a lasting cease fire as well as to rekindle the political process attendees stressed again that there can be no military solution to the conflict the document
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also mentioned the need for security and economic reforms on the ground the u.n. secretary general attending the talks warned nothing would work without a functioning truce. first we need to have a ceasefire you cannot monitor something that doesn't exist so we need clever ceasefire we have a truce and one simple question is that all the producer plans to do commit to. support the ceasefire and committed to pressure the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to be reached the 2 major warring factions the head of the un backed government and military strongman khalifa haftar were both present our there was no direct contact between them and all communication was carried out through proxies and in direct conversations and that didn't escape the attention of russia's top diplomat who was there so 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
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dialogue between the warring parties is an reachable the differences of approach the 2 great still suggestions the final document contains contribute to creating appropriate conditions for both sides to sit and talk also some politicians seem optimistic about the summit experts told us it's too early to guarantee a lasting peace in libya. brutal dangerous 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 speak face to face let alone agree and secondly there are perhaps 30 different sub groups fighting on the ground so that it may be that there is going to be a ceasefire that holds it could possibly be in the interests of both sides but getting the various cohorts to hold us is not has not been easy so far and there is the danger that each side will be looking to maneuver for getting international credibility include or spy saying we're trying to keep the ceasefire but the others are breaking it at the end of the day we're looking at
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a cease fire 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 blandish not the forces 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 we are in the early stages of potentially what potentially help them for libya. a landmark test case for euthanasia rules is unfolding in belgium where for the 1st time since the practice was legalized their doctors face criminal charges prosecutors allege they illegally poisoned a 30 year old woman at the woman's family says they've been broken by her death and she did not have to list her life artist asked taylor looks into the issue. on christmas eve in 2937 year old teenager told her family she wanted to be euthanized
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but wild teen suffering might have ended several months later in a clinic in the flemish city of get and that of her family is still ongoing because the 3 doctors who were involved are now on trial for her mother this will be belgium's fust criminal case concerning euthanasia since the practice was legalized back in 2002 which accounts for an average of 6 deaths of 3 day the doctors insist they acted in good faith and are unfairly being painted as murderous but the harrowing account teen sisters give of that fateful day raises questions over the competence and motives of the medical professionals. who likened her death to that of a patent that is and p. and is having a shot. when
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she died he asked on parents if they wanted to listen through the stones code to check her heart had actually stopped. belgium is only one of 2 countries which allows for euthanasia of psychiatric grounds and sees people suffering from depression gender identity issues and an erect resort to this so-called must see killing 2 months before her death as is required by your teen went to the psychiatry list doctor point who diagnosed her with a mild form of autism teen's family protests this diagnosis adamant she was simply suffering heartbreak and distress after a failed relationship. she knew that if she wasn't diagnosed with autism or
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asperger's she would have no chance of being euthanized as such they say the key legal requirement that a patient be incurably ill was not met and so by injecting her with that lethal dose she was poisoned really confused by the diagnosis and in this particular psychiatrists solution of suicide it just doesn't it doesn't fit together for me i think that there is a dangerous especially from a mental health perspective when people play god is so to speak when we're making decisions now about life and death or when other people are making decisions about when to in their life based on things that can be fixed pretty easily in some cases mental illnesses autism is certainly very treatable one of my child has some mild autistic manifestations and we get through those you know it's certainly not a reason to kill someone or to commit suicide but this was far from the only irregularity they noted and when they launched
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a complaint the doctors allegedly tried to block the investigation with the psychiatry even hitting back at the grieving family we must try to stop these people. it is a seriously dysfunctional one dead traumatized family with very little empathy and respect for others this is not the fast time psychiatry to diagnose teen has come under scrutiny but in 27000 documents revealed the head of belgium's euthanasia review commission was concerned doc to 10 point wasn't fulfilling all necessary legal conditions relation soured so much that he refused to accept and he thought the patients referred by doc to temp aren't her colleagues are also worried that she's allegedly approved around a 3rd of all euthanasia cases for psychiatric reasons in the whole country she is not really a great person to go to in terms of her judgment for this kind of medical procedure
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she has a personal and are for looking at euthanasia as a as a solution for these patients so perhaps patients seek her out when for the like this happens it just happens to be too much of this not by one particular physician and that's why she's being called into question by 9 other psychiatrist in her own field in belgium that she's doing something wrong so clearly there's some more investigation we need to learn more about this particular psychiatrist and this particular event others have said dr 10 point doesn't expel treatment options available before granting euthanasia an allegation backed by teen sistas. instead of trying to go team to a better life team was deliberately led to death and pushed without the reasonable treatment options being exhausted and consequently without suffering being relieved the question is whose interest was paramount in this process the interest of team or the interest of others euthanasia is legal in just 5 countries and is one of the
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most controversial practices globally stories like the teams reveal just how difficult it is to ensure that people's desire for personal freedom isn't tragically misinterpreted and abused we are still pantheists i current are standing trial in the case for a response she told us that she cannot comment at this time all 3 doctors deny the charges. french prosecutors have launched an inquiry after footage of a riot officer beating a protester went viral. good citizens are still going to show you that you. didn't know that that was. psychedelic that they were connected to things that you could give a good i guess if it was a good god. there. are 2 friends also from the aftermath of the incident at a yellow vests rally in paris on saturday police trying to stop protesters getting
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closer as the officer was punching the man on the ground it's the latest in a line of accusations against police at protests with another case already public claims that rubber bullets were fired at point blank range at the latest march in the french capital people expressed fury at the government's pension reform plans of clashes erupting between police and demonstrators that you can see here a strike by public transport workers over the reform has brought chaos to paris for almost 2 months now that's despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its plan the political analyst equipment coverage told us that much of the media ignores the violence by police at those demonstrations. but all the different demonstrations that we've had these past years have always been tearing 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
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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 when 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. tonnes of waste are piling up on the streets of the eternal city as politicians kick up a stink over host like. 6
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we're here in the rather sundra where we are the city but another area is the situation is even worse than paris meant to this waste on the streets in every neighborhood we see every neighborhood devastated by the buzz of rubbish there are animals such as my eyes see ghosts and gross shit read the waste on every street. all i feel sad because such a beautiful city has been ruined for truly absurd reasons. but i think it's useless to vote for our politicians i received a minimum pension and i have to pay a lot of municipal waste tax tell me how can i throw out the garbage if the bins are always full. it's still like solve this problem now it is an old never ending
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problem but periodically turns into an emergency the chance to solve it was missed many years ago. still to come the public debate over the right to bear arms has intensified in the us state of virginia authorities fearing violence from conservative activists that story and more after the break. what hopes is. he put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be pushed. into
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going to cross the sea like that before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the why. should. you know before george 0 became 5 as a. market manipulator and election riggers he wrote a lot of interesting books and of course. jim rogers at the quantum fund which was one of the best performing hedge funds ever kind of invented the modern hedge fund and he's got a lot of things to say if you look at his old work and we're going to get into it.
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welcome back the u.s. state of virginia has announced a state of emergency and firearms ban had a big gun rights rally honors monday's event is seen as a credible threat by the state government thousands of armed people plan to attend him often picks up the story. as the 2020 alexion get closer there's a lot more dividing america than just political personalities in virginia the issue of firearms and state regulation who can buy or own one is a big point of contention. the claim that universal background checks are supposed to stop criminals and get some access to firearms this focus in reality the only restrict you'll feel going to discourage gun ownership and turn otherwise law abiding people into unwitting
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felons. in states that have these laws most of the geishas have resulted in middle of the night rates where gun owners have been killed or have their guns confiscated so on january 20th gun activists are having a rally demanding their right to bear arms under the us constitution and local authorities are cracking down saying that no guns may be present at the rally the prohibition is temporary and it will expire on tuesday after the rally and those who would bring violence into virginia have left and returned to where they came from now local gun activists say this is an absurd restriction after all what is the point of having a gun if you can't have it on your person in order to protect yourself especially at a heated political rally where things might get rough they blame this restriction on the democratic party the governor and leadership of the democratic party have declared war on law abiding gun owners and they're tired of it it's basically
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people saying we're fed up we've had enough governor northam of virginia says it is absolutely necessary that there be no guns at the rally in order to protect public safety he's pointed out that militia groups have made statements about storming the states. capitol and other things that aren't exactly considered to be peaceful rhetoric no one wants another incident like the one we saw in charlottesville in 2017. we will not allow that made him and violence to happen here. now gun activists say that their rights are being taken away they fear that gun
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access restrictions in virginia could soon spread to other states virginia is ground 0 for the 2nd amendment right now anti gunners want to take what they did here in virginia and and replicated in other gun friendly states there are some strong arguments on both sides if democrats oppose owning guns aren't they essentially going against the us constitution and various supreme court rulings that have said that owning a gun is a fundamental right for american citizens however isn't it a bit on reasonable to expect that right wing activists should be allowed to walk around government buildings locked and loaded so sheriffs and virginia or elsewhere in the country have taken states is where they openly publicly said they will not of course what they view to be unconstitutional wall if you can have universal background checks what is the use of having them to get into. you know we need a license to drive a car. we need more safety to drive a car than to own
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a weapon that kills we have people in here there are collectors we have people in here that's just their that's their pastime that's what they do they don't have a criminal background they don't do anything. wrong that is just how they choose to spend their money and their time i made myself i just purchased a gun. you know. i guess the right to bear arms should be for every citizen the found in the business but since since where he stayed on. the will trump has entered the dispute calling the state's response a very serious attack and blame the democratic party former virginia state senator richard black and legal analyst jennifer damasio told us there are skeptical about the reasons given for the ban. i don't think that we should enforce these unconstitutional laws that are being imposed on the people in this country firearms
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are kurmanbek slayed important to americans and so they do become upset i think it is the policy of the democratic party inspire as much conflict as much of racial stroy as much hatred towards chris and people who live in rural areas that's not designed to smooth the waters to find common ground this is deliberately designed to create a sense of panic and perhaps to create a reaction that can don't be used by the media to to portray ordinary citizens as being bad people it's clearly not a security issue it's just another attempt by the liberals and on their own to at this point to confiscate this site and then the protections of american citizens and certainly it has nothing to do with the fee and in fact if you look at some of
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the some of the violence that has occurred it has never occurred at a pro 2nd amendment rallies or the n.r.a. or some of these process going to men and groups in america conservative groups they're never been gun violence there by the very people that support the 2nd amendment it's only happened at unrelated events and generally typically by people who are not authorized to have a gun and who obtained illegally so none of that is going to help and this is just a further act of trying to deny their constitutional right. the u.n. security council will convene on monday after russia's request to discuss the international chemical weapons watchdogs report on the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma the work of the o.p.c. dubey a fact finding mission into the april 2018 incident has been called into question after a series of exposé is published by wiki leaks one of the most damning and recent trove of documents was made public in late december as explains. the
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o.p.c. w. is in crisis the body's image once pristine is now being crippled blow by blow or rather one leak after another and it's this video that could bring the eventual reputational disintegration of the watchdog. was. the o.p.c. w. had been clear that it investigated the 20 team doomer attack analyzed this video 2 and the conclusion was unequivocal the syrian city was the site of a chemical attack but apparently not according to the expertise of a toxicologist a pharmacologist and they by analytical chemist it was agreed among all present that the key takeaway message from the meeting was that the symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate chemical
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causing the symptoms could be identified and there's another technical document that puts into jeopardy the official conclusion that the gas canister was dropped from above something the u.s. and its allies postulated before any investigation even took place and analysis suggested that it didn't which could mean only one thing someone deliberately placed this canister onto this bed someone who had unhindered access to the site in a fully rebel controlled area the o.p.c. w. tried to cover up to expire into this expertise from existence not a wise move in the day and age when everything from nudes to president's conversations leaked online please get this document out of documents registry archives and please remove all traces of the deliberate storage would have been documents registry archives. league documents also mentioned dozens of o.p.c. w.
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employees questioning the professionalism of the investigation in which chemists apparently had less authority than american intelligence agents so much so that even a former director general of the o.p.c. w. felt like writing a letter to the body he used to steer. all of this barely scrapes the surface of just one link one trove of documents casting doubt upon the investigation one out of many to hit the o.p.c. w. over the duma verdict. the consensus really effin scene was that there were indications of serious inconsistency is in the findings the conclusion appears to turn completely in the
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opens it direction in the report. that the report does not reflect the views of the team members but deployed to do not only one f.m. team member a power medic of the so called if i'm called teen was in dumont the effort from the pool boy this school team. whose only evidence of one among chemicals that contain the reactive flooring absolutely such chemicals couldn't prove maging radius of household clover and placed bleach purposely singling out chlorine gas is one of the possibilities is disingenuous. so for sure the watchdogs bosses have plenty to talk about though some might suspect it's not professionalism but rather honing of coverup skills that will top the agenda of this o.p.c. trouble you meeting that's
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a global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. yes. might go onto the kid same compensate oh boy i'm going to deny it nobody. can see them no proof of nothing because. it's not the love going to. get the kind of. move on which i really. can shoot up the movies because of illness and infant who are going to be out to ensure they're still certainly must.
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not so much because i was it was a constant as it was. a 1000000 years. i . chose seemed wrong when all just all. the old beliefs yet to shape our disdain for the conflict as a kid and in games from it it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle russian president vladimir putin has proposed some important political reforms what are they what are their significance and importantly why now and what about the claim of clinging to power. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest he's a political analyst and editor and you know smee internet media project and in london we crossed alexander material he's a writer on legal affairs as well as entertainer in chief of the duran dot com our german cross-like rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i
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always appreciate i want to break up this program into 2 parts i want to talk about what these reforms are their significance and then i want to look at the critique in criticism of them on all sides ok let me 1st go to alexander macarius in london . this is a bombshell it really is what are the most important reforms. mentioned proposed that will be voted on by the electorate maybe sometime later this year what's your most important takeaway go ahead alex there's a whole package of reforms firstly the power to appoint the parliament the government will now be shifted from the president to the parliament so the parliament will decide who the prime minister is and the parliament will be able to hold the government to account and also should appoint the ministers so that is going to be a major shift of power at the same time the. state.

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