A very welcome youre watching the weekly here on r. T. International with all the latest News Headlines and a roundup of the weeks top stories but 1st a libyan peace conference is underway the warring sides have sat down together at the negotiating table in berlin in the hope of thrashing out a way to end years of war arties peace all of the reports from the german capital. Well this conference here in berlin is seen by some as a last chance for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis in the war ravaged country that is libya the heads of both sides in that crisis are here in berlin for talks theyre also joined by high profile delegations from russia from turkey from the United States of course from here in germany as well and others were also it comes against the backdrop of the latest news on the ground in libya that forces d loyal to general have ta of blockaded ports key ports in the country and cut off oil exports around 25 percent of the countrys oil exports have been affected by this so serious Economic Impact from that there is cautious optimism here in germany ahead of this meeting we understand that before all of the delegations have sat together that phase. The leader of the u. N. Backed government in tripoli and met with german chancellor Angela Merkel and the German Foreign minister heiko mass mr mass well he was surprisingly upbeat heading into what could be a very crucial conference weve been able to Reach Agreement so many important points for the future political process in libya the mere fact that weve managed to do this in the prison difficult situation gives us grooms to be cautiously optimistic all this talk of these talks here in berlin follow on from a conference earlier just last week in moscow in which both sides in the conflict agree to a cease fire that was brokered by russia and turkey however following those talks and following the agreement to that cease fire it was only said that put his signature to the deal or before this conference gets into full swing turkish president the one and blood amir putin of russia have also held talks this is what the russian president had to say following that. So i mean that. In my opinion we made very Good Progress during our meeting in istanbul we called on the warring libyan parties to cease a still ities and while certain incidents still occur both sides have heard our appeal and large scale hostilities did cease in my opinion this is already a very good result which paved the way for todays multilateral meeting here in berlin also gay lover of there saying you wont over dramatize the situation but really the word is this is pretty much as i said a last chance for a diplomatic solution but actually as im talking to you delegations are arriving at the Chancellors Office here. But as this develops throughout the day ill keep you up to date here on r. T. In thing as the peoples expectations for the conference ranged from skepticism to hope. And that sort of thing this conference will find a comprehensive approach to peace in libya i think that sooner or later after the berling conference well see a return to fighting because the back room for dialogue between both parties is fragile theres very little thats agreed upon or there are so many. I hope the politicians will do their best in berlin and wont be ignorant libya shouldnt be divided it should unite and. You have the belief in conference does not express the majority opinion that this is the voice of libyan people in removing the militias along with the cares and true belief and the other libyan cities it will fail. What matters most is removing the weapons which terrorize and kills people looted libyans money and cause the country to be marvelous in the past decade if thats considered the conference might be successful otherwise it will be unsuccessful just like all the other conferences. Libya has been officially divided between rival factions in the 2011 when uprising killed longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi or hes going underground has spoken with gadhafi is former Spokes Person about the berlin conference and whether it can ease the crisis you can watch the interview in full on r. T. Dot com heres a preview. Its extremely easy to get lost in the details of the libyan crisis and this is really a part of the game the imperialist west has been playing for decades and decades and the reason europe interview since chaos into libya and then what it does its many agents this chaos for years and years to come sometimes by military means sometimes by political means conferences negotiations economic sanctions you end the crees European Union involvement all of this is to keep the country under control so they can rock its National Wealth and control its political system and prevent more importantly its population from rising up and making sure that their country is sovereign and independent from foreign influence they change the roles they are assigned roles between different parties in any conflict because for every single libyan Party Political current to come together in the libyan city not in berlin and does this our vision of the African Union because we are african and without any foreign participation no one is accepting this because they know where this would be a genuine libyan decision would lead to something that the west does not want thats why they called to berlin. Russia got a new Prime Minister this week after the previous cabinet stepped down the resignation followed president putins proposal to change the countrys constitution. But it was when we looked at the amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution the aim of furthering russias development as a lawful state the goal is to enhance the effectiveness of the countrys institutions strengthen the role of Civil Society and to enable the Political Parties in our regions to make decisions are vital to the countrys development but i doubt you have take a look at the proposed reforms and how theyve gone down in the wider world. Try explaining this led to boom and power as the office of president the media accuses of of 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 theres 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 hes 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 president ial 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. According to the constitution of the Russian Federation the president needs only the state dumas consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinets his deputy and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian governments chairman and at the chairmans 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 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 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 that alans 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 law project or reform a 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 what luck 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 its worth mentioning it wasnt all that popular that failed on a number of fronts and meachem event if the now caretaker Prime Minister said himself its 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 theres one thing we know about putin its that we dont know him he loves to 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 ill miss an unknown quantity hes 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 hes done too good a job it is now clear putin hangs up the gloves in 2024 he wont 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 aspects of World Governance in the 21st century. Lens confirmed donald trump threaten to subhuti tariffs on european carmakers if it didnt distances are from the Iran Nuclear Deal this week germany the u. K. And france trickett the deals dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the agreements collapse irans Supreme Leader slams the 3 european state 1000 u. S. Pawns sparking a rebuke of repute from president. Bush. I searched for 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 socalled supremely leader of iran who has not been so supreme lately had some nasty things to say about the United States and europe their economy is crashing and their people are suffering he should be very careful with his words. They were paying trio came irans noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to trigger the disputes mechanism when iran has now has 30 days to return to compliance failing which it will be referred to the Un Security Council and that could reinstate sanctions lets take a look now at what led to the Current Crisis the nuclear deal which was signed in 2015 by iran and key world powers it was designed to limit to Irans Nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief but in 2018 President Trump pulled washington out reimposing economic penalties prompted iran to start backing away from complying with the deal itself something thats excel aerated in recent weeks after the u. S. Killing of terrans top general Political Science professor at the university of toronto 100 must solve a believes where the u. S. Withdrew from the deal the e. U. Abandoned iran its 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 shouldve 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 trying the this socalled dispute resolution mechanism and this has actually brought a lot of anger in a lot of brigit or in this in tehran regarding the europeans meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has doubled down on washingtons assassination of irans top general early this month my pompei i did this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy on mentioning russia china caleb maupin picks up the story. In u. S. Foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their International Actions so lets 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 lose 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 weve been trying to do theres a bigger strategy a strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know its 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 russias 2014 occupation of the crimea chinas island building too in the South China Sea and its brazen attempts to coerce American Allies undermine to deterrence so if the. States dislikes you it can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate you know this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence mask scum 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 its up to us to decide who is a threat or not this is it really really disturbing and very dangerous i think and its not normal to hear this come in alex for somebody who is running the state department this is extremely disturbing and im very disappointed that that medical Political Class is not speaking out against this. Crazy idea that we can go ahead and just kill anyone we dont like it doesnt 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 really the mess and i would have. Still to come a criminal investigation is i think into the actions of British Police stuff out of court the field offices ignores the Sexual Exploitation of children in social cafe here is more on that after this short break. But you should. Put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So you want to be president. Some want to be rich. But youd like to be close this is what the 3 of the 4 people get. Interested always in the water. To. The studs is one magic bullet you could actually come up with some of the top of these baby bonds talking about ways we get Access Capital and capitalism cavils important so we could actually have programs that actually help folks who want to do that but when you give everybody a 1000. 00 im a poor person im going to consume that and if youre rich youre going to invest that equity the wealth the spirit is going to grow because youre not using your money to do it can so youre literally buy more crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a 1000. 00 let me just go raise my writ so then you get your inflation going on and theyre happy. Im back British Police new children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the Northern City of manchester but failed to protect them as the findings of a new report in 2004 offer a tional gusto was launched to investigate the issue but the proper shut down and few perpetrators were brought to justice. But. But. But. But. But. What. If. The official probe was closed due to lack of resources now a criminal investigation is being 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 but it was a blow maggie all of her former Manchester Police detectives say as 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 because its 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 there was a focus on what we call acquisitive crime so burglary with theft from Motor 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 wasnt being reflected in Performance Indicators hence the police did not respond initially investigation was triggered by the death of victoria a goalie or she was in a can of Manchester City council after her mothers death the girl was subjected to sexual assaults and injected with heroin by a 50 year old man there are poor ses carers knew the abuse was going on but did not act 15 year old victoria died after being administered a heroin overdose victorias grandmother wants justice for her relative she was such a lovely girl she didnt deserve to die ive 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 and as a result very few of the relevant perpetrators were brought to justice and neither were their activities disrupted this is a depressingly familiar pitcher and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country well chief constable of Manchester Police as often as condolences to the victims adding that officers will do everything to get justice for the children but whistleblower mikey oliver again wants Senior Police and other officials investigators. This cover up thats the only word there is for it was absolutely deliberate this report this review its an independent 3 view makes it Crystal Clear that this was a deliberate cover up there was a reluctance to knowledge that it was pakistani men predominantly who were abusing vulnerable young white children and very Young Children that became a political hot potato it was often said that these kids of 11 and 12 were making a lifestyle choice that they were working as prostitutes that they were care if that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and the orthorexic 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. If we look at what else is making headlines around the world now. It. Was. Nice to have resorted to water cannon and rubber bullets a minute and more protests in lebanon over 100. 00 people were injured as officers dispersed the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrators are into a 3rd month of protests demanding Economic Reforms and early elections the minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but felt to do so. To gas was also used to going so large prodemocracy rally in Central Hong Kong as protesters blocked roads and started fires and significant Armed Police Presence is visible on sunday as demonstrators defy an official ban on marching through the area hong kong continues to be rocked by violent rallies despite the original reason for their anger an extradition bill being withdrawn months ago. Efforts are underway to rescue wildlife from the bushfires that have ravaged south australias Kangaroo Island the area is home to unique as well as an endangered species experts fear the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the island may have wiped out large numbers of animals. Well there are so you would love to hear your thoughts on our stories though do get in touch by following us on social media join us again at the top of the. Im going to fulfill the repeated promises oh politics to the people i promise to be you know weve all pots be. Pretty. Pretty good. Now you want to 1st. Know. You know before george zorros became vilified in a globalist market manipulator and electioneering or he wrote a lot of interesting books and of course c n jim rogers at the quantum fund which was one of the best performing hedge funds ever kind of invented the modern hedge fund and hes got a lot of things to say if you look at his old work and were going to get into it. 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