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i. i i. live in peace talks involving the warring sides and world leaders create a new mechanism for a lasting cease fire we look at whether the planned. belgian doctors face criminal charges for approving the euthanasia of a woman with a psychiatric disorder in the 1st such trials the procedure was legalised out of the century. and u.k. antidoping thirty's refused to hand over samples of athletic superstar mode to the world 'd anti-doping agency's probe into the disgraced nyc aurukun project our correspondent joining me in the studio with details sean.
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thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. conferences raise the glimmer of hope for peace in libya world leaders pledged to respect an arms embargo a military support to all parties in the conflict german foreign minister cautiously optimistic. we have achieved objectives that we set for this conference we now have the in our hands to solve the conflicts now we have to do is use disk he put it into law and open the door to. the door that marx was talking about there may have been opened by meetings handshakes and smiles between leaders who have 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
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stressed again that there can be no military solution to the conflict the document also mentioned the need for security and economic reforms on the ground un secretary general attending the talks war nothing would work without a functioning troops. first we need to have a ceasefire you cannot monitor something that doesn't exist so we need to have a ceasefire we have a truce and one simple question is that all the participants to date committed to support the ceasefire and committed to put pressure on the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to be reached. the 2 major warring factions head of the un backed government. and military strongman khalifa haftar were both present however there was no direct contact between them and all communication was carried out through proxies and in direct conversations that didn't escape the attention of russia's top diplomat who was there so generally we think the conference was useful
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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 under reachable the differences of approach to great seal the suggestions the final document contains contribute to creating appropriate conditions for both sides to sit and talk of though some politicians seem optimistic about the summit experts told us it's too early to guarantee a lasting peace in libya at least for now. 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 speak face to face let alone agree and secondly there are perhaps 30 different subgroups fighting on the ground so that maybe there's going to be a few for that holds it could possibly be in the interests of both sides getting their various cohorts to all of us is not has not been easy so far and there is the danger that each side who are looking to move or for getting international
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credibility in could 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 a cease fire that's all we hope for but this is not going to east it's 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 lines in the forces dissemination 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. a landmark test case for euthanasia rules is unfolding in belgium for the 1st time since the practice was legalized 3 doctors face criminal charges prosecutors allege they illegally ended the life of a 38 year old woman the aunt's family says that they've been broken by her death
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saskia taylor looks into the issue. on christmas eve in 2937 year old teenager told her family she wanted to be euthanized but while teen suffering might have ended several months later in a clinic in the flemish city of god 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 heath in asia 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 hiring account teen sisters give of that fateful day raises questions over the competence and motives of the medical professionals. who likened death to that of a pattern that is and p.
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and is having a shot. when she died he asked all parents if they wanted to listen through the stern scope to check her heart had actually stopped beating. belgium is only one of 2 countries which allows for euthanasia on 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 protest this diagnosis adamant she was simply
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suffering heartbreak and distress after a failed relationship she. knew that if she wasn't diagnosed with autism or 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
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a reason to kill someone or to commit suicide but this was far from the only irregularity they noted and when they launched 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 fust time psychiatry to diagnose teen has come under scrutiny but in 27000 documents revealed the head of belgium's euthanasia review commission was concerned dr 10 point wasn't fulfilling all necessary legal conditions relation soured so much that he refused to accept and he thought the patients were fired by dr 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
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not really a great person to go to in terms of her judgment for this kind of medical procedure 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 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 of the 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
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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 most controversial practices globally stories like teens reveal just how difficult it is to ensure that people's desire for personal freedom isn't tragically misinterpreted and abused. or we asked the psychologist standing trial in the euthanasia case for every spawn she told us that she cannot comment at this time or 3 doctors deny the charges. the u.k. anti doping agency. refusing to provide the global doping watchdog water with key samples from british runners requests for the materials came a spot of an ongoing drugs investigation into the night oregon project. has been following this story for us joins me in the studio. why would you call authorities not want to hand over any samples i mean
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a lot of people would just say well if you if there's nothing to hide one interest on the mobile well that is the question which sparks a lot of controversy and suspicion towards u.k. and i don't mean agency in particular one of the biggest athletes in the modern you case history which is more. who is the 4 time olympic gold champion and marathon running and unique athlete in many respects there's all been a lot of suspicion over the years that you know could be something murky about his success you know just the speculation basically in england until one of his former coaches alberto salazar was handed a 4 year ban for using dog being for basically injecting doping interviews athletes particular l. carnitine which is not really outlawed by water but the doses which allegedly gave his athletes are indeed outlawed so here is the new development the world anti-doping agency asked the u.k. anti-doping agency to provide the doping samples which are in their possession of and basically this is what nico sabse that the head of the u.k.
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had said to the water. there has never been any ill feeling a lack of willingness or insistence on our part but when you open a sample up every time you freeze it and thaw it and freeze it again you had agreed in the sample you need to be able to give me credible evidence about what it is you want to look for rather than this just being truly an expedition you know and bizarrely enough after all this new course apps that also said that she was asking basically a question that where the water has the authority to just come in and say give us your docking samples she said all the dropping samples in the possession of u.k. and i'd open agency there's a not for anyone else's to take. you know just repeating for those who don't know most probably being a great success story has always tested clean there's really no evidence against him against him a search just speculation as you said what what do we know about him what's his reaction been to all of the accusations over the years now every time he is being
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asked about doping about these allegations particular after the explosion of the snake organ project story with alberto salazar he's always denied any accusations towards him moreover he's never tested positive for doping as you just rightly said and in this latest reaction here's what he said about this whole story i'm happy to be tested anytime and anywhere and for my samples to be used for whatever they need to do keep it and freeze it there is not much more i can do. this is kind of the thought close to the hearts of the russian. authorities and antidoping authours because they felt the power of water in the recent past they would like to see that other countries are being treated equally to the way they have been treated presumably you know my assumption would be that the heads of the russian anti-doping agencies haven't heard the news they scratch their heads and thought to themselves we actually could have done something like that we could have actually denied water access to the docking samples because this is in
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a way unprecedented especially in the wake of what's going on but there's a big exception i handed over all the samples to the world anti-doping agency before being slapped with a 4 year ban on major competitions on participating and then you've got major competition something which is being tried in the court of arbitration for sports as we speak right now and we already have the reaction from the head of the russian and. agency let's listen. i believe that you can't should not obstruct and you transfer examples and you're positive on either side and this is not just about you can't create a wall of mistrust in the congress anti doping system and acquitted agree its athletes as part of the system you know it's particularly ironic in this case because it was the u.k. anti-doping agency along with the u.s. anti-doping agency which were the biggest critics of which were the vocal critics and they were 'd asking for a complete blanket ban on all participation just a fortnight ago here's what the you cared to said back then. we all have
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a genuine interest in ensuring absolute wealth and family stayed the heart of the sports movement regardless of nationality and on top of that december the 9th when the whole of russian sports were slapped with what looks to be a serious ban until it's obviously confirmed through the court of arbitration there were particularly insistent on them being the dogging police them having the ultimate authority when it comes to doping and then being able to just walk into any door and get any droppings. samples but basically the u.k. anti-doping agency just completely scrapped all notions like that we have to wait and see whether water actually goes hard on the u.-god and whether they will be able to get those samples in the long run yeah if nothing else it's a slap in the face i would say from the water it can be fascinating to see what their reaction is as you said many many thanks alexey. we've gone through the news now french prosecutors have launched an inquiry after footage of a riot officer beating a protester went viral. good news anchors to go show you like i
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was. saying i would. like to get the other 2 next time i get together tonight. i was. in france also filmed the aftermath of the incident at a yellow vests rally in paris on saturday police tried to stop protesters getting closer is the officer was punching the man on the ground that's the latest in the line of accusations against police at the protests with another case already probing claims that rubber bullets were fired at point blank range the latest march in the french capital people there expressed fury at the government's pension reform plans clashes erupting between police and demonstrators a strike by public transport workers over the reform chaos to paris for almost 3 months that despite the government's promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of the plan is this club listening to america which
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told us that much of the media ignores the violence by police at the demonstrations . of different there was regimes that we've had 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 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 using violence it was a french 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. so to come a state of emergency has been declared in virginia in the u.s.
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ahead of a gun rights rally with a warning of a credible threat of violence details after this break. you know world big partisan. 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. who were all destroyed and died shaped person that there is.
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no day or sinks. we tear into ask. the state of emergency and. ahead of a gun rights rally monday's event is seen as a credible threat by the local government thousands of people plan to attend and more pin house details. as the 2020 alexion is get closer there's a lot more dividing america than just political personalities in virginia the issue
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of firearms and state regulations who can buy or own one is a big point of contention. the claim that universal background checks are supposed to stop criminals from getting 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 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
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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 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 stay. 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
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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 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
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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 virginia or elsewhere in the country have taken states is where they openly publicly said they will not force what they view to be unconstitutional wall if you can have universal background checks what is the use of having them to be given. you know we need a license to drive a car. we need more safety to drive a car than to own a weapon that kills we have people in here that 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 not me myself i just purchased a gun. you know. like
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a right to bear arms should be for every citizen of the family business 66 words they say. the u.s. president has entered the dispute calling the state's response a very serious attack and blame the democratic party form of the genius state senator member richard black and legal analyst jennifer demands to told us they are skeptical about the reasons given for the bout it. i don't think that we should enforce these unconstitutional laws that are being imposed on the people in this country firearms are kurmanbek slee 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 racial strife as much hatred towards christians and people who live in rural areas that's not designed to smooth the waters to
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a point 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 in america at this point to confiscate that and then the protections of american citizen certainly it has nothing to do with safety and in fact if you look at some of 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 going to 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
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a further act of trying to deny their constitutional right. the real concerns the violent criminals in the u.k. will be left punished and a new puns for rehabilitation come time offenders with mental health or social problems could avoid jail if they successfully take politan for months rehabilitation programs but critics warn the victims of the crimes could suffer. and important part of recovering from an crime can beat acknowledge men the day are a victim to whom wrong has been done well would expect the feedback a victims involved in the pilots to be taken into account the full ron out the deferred prosecution scheme has already been trialed in turn counties across the country and could now be extended nation wife with the of research indicating significant success participants miscarry op for months of rehab to overcome underlying issues searchers mental health problems or drug addiction and they must not really a found during that period however it different count is included different crimes
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in a skiing so molly chose theft drug possession of 1st time the fences others included though more serious crime such as a saul domestic abuse burglary criminal damage research as claim but the new scheme is not only affected but will also save money based on the people that the west midlands put into this experiment it seems overwhelmingly the case that you were better off not prosecuting if you can get their men to a proper offender management scheme that is a lot cheaper then prosecution end does more good we discuss the shoot with political commentators are under a walker and human rights activists peter tatchell the criminal justice system has 3 main targets to terence punishment and rehabilitation of those 3 the most important is of course rehabilitation when an offense has been committed because we don't want that person coming back into the criminal justice system we want to help enable them to get back as
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a law abiding citizen i do disagree with peter when he says that we have all the taishan has to be the most important part of criminal justice i think punishment needs to be the most important part well i think it's one of those schemes that is very interesting really offending rates but doesn't do a great deal for victims i think there has to be an element of ensuring that people don't we have found the has to be an element of rehabilitation but also there has to be a punishment for the crime looking at from the victim's point of view i think there are serious questions to be are asked and this this kind of scheme deserves consideration it's really sending rate is one 3rd of one 3rd less than the standard rate so i think it shows that these alternative methods do have a better success rate and those obviously good for the victims and for the wider society i think we do get it wrong in the united kingdom in terms of the amount of rehabilitation and education that we give to people convicted of crimes or accused
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of crimes thought we don't do enough for victims and one of the concerns i've got about this scheme is on some occasions it does not involve admitting guilt and can actually make it quite hard for victims to access things like compensation so fine about education fight about rehabilitation but we have to remember the punishment is important for victims as well appreciate you staying with r.t. international throughout this afternoon i'll be back with updates at the top of the hour. banks guys are fine but. this is the central bank support diagram and i don't call them right down so stop to. think is it like figure skating team cars which should trouble sideways at
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