Well welcome to new york watching the weekly here on r. T. International with me we care and. Now libya a peace conference has wrapped up in berlin yielding an agreement those hopes will pave the way for a lasting cease fire in the country and ultimately an end to years of bloodshed on the countrys civil war which joins live now by our t. V. Correspondent peter all over whos currently in berlin for as a peter what does this all mean for libya. Well this conference the press conference for at the end of this peace conference is just wrapped up just a few short minutes ago the just from it is that these talks will lead hopefully to further talks the message coming from chancellor Angela Merkel is that as far as all of the sides taking part on sunday a concern there is no military solution to the anger. In crisis in libya that a political solution is still there to be found. Short she did say is in terms of things that have tangibly come from this prescott from this air peace conference is that libyan representatives agreed on the formation of whats being called a military commission and put forward their participants that will be taking up parts of that commission she said that all of those involved all of the International Partners were talking about countries like russia like germany the United States the United Kingdom france among many many others who were here in the german capital that they all said that they wouldnt support or back one side or the other in the ongoing conflict what angle merkel said is that they need now to turn what is it troops into a consolidated cease fire and one of the ways to do that is that no new weapons found their way into the libyan conflict she also said that the document thats been agreed on today needs to still go to the United Nations for that to be approved but one key point that she did say is that neither the libyan president. By the United Nations nor general haft are actually took part in the talks that were going on they didnt have direct talks or sit around the table for negotiations as we perhaps quite hopefully thought they may do saying the differences between them remain great also speaking at this press conference with the u. N. Secretary general as he said that he will be meeting with those representatives that the both sides said that put forward for the military commission in geneva in the next few days. The German Foreign minister was also there he was a little bit more upbeat if you will about what had been achieved he said that all what needed to happen now was the key that was in the lock needed to turn to unlock the situation on the ground in libya. He said the e. U. Ministers will meet in brussels on monday to discuss this further and. Its all of that with an update for us thank you for that. Libya has been officially divided between rival faction things 2011 when an uprising led to the brutal murder of the countrys longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi arties going underground spoke with gadhafi from a spokesperson about the burden conference and whether it can ease the crisis you can watch the interview in full on r. T. Dot com heres a taste. Its extremely easy to get lost in the details of the libyan crisis and this is really as art 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 it manages this chaos for years and years to come sometimes by military means sometimes by political means conferences negotiations economic sanctions you end decrees European Union informant all of this is to keep the country and the 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 role its they are assigned roles between different parties in any conflict we call for every single libyan Party Political current to come together in a debian city not in berlin and does this of our vision of the African Union because we are african and without any foreign participation no one is accepting because they know where this would be a genuine. Decision we believe it was something the west does not want thats what they call 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 gotten will if you amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitutions 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 a vital to the countrys Development Mark as they have takes a look at the proposed reforms and how they have gone down in the wider world. Try explain this letter to boom and power as the office of president the media accuses about 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 theres a real epidemic. Paranoid putin of 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 so 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 the basis of the 1st. Time when the president limits his oh 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 balance of 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 did. Many media make comments on amendments on lol song project or reforming constitution we doubt knowing. In details what is the reform or the rules what are the proposals so i would suggest before putting for so negative comments to study to understand wild what talking about what is did reform and nonsense 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 there diff 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 the surprise and there was no warning not even rumors that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new Prime Minister we heil michoud in an unknown quantity 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 times 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 russias leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of World Governance in the 21st century. Bolens confirms donald try to threaten to slap huge tariffs on european carmakers if it didnt 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 irans Supreme Leader slammed to the 3 european states as u. S. Ports sparking a rebuke from president try. The beginning but after the u. S. Withdraw from the j. C. These 3 governments were just being rude 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 the european trio claim irans 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 win states sanctions well lets take a look at what led to the Current Crisis the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by iran and the world powers it was designed to limit to rons Nuclear Activities in exchange for sanctions relief but in 2018 President Trump pulled washington out reimposing economic penalties that prompted around to start backing away from complying with the deal itself something thats excel aerated in recent weeks after the us killing of to irans top general Political Science professor at the university of to run harvard misandry believes when the u. S. Withdrew from the deal the u. 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 trading 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 earlier this month my pump a. O. I did this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terrorists policy while mentioning russia and china picks up the story. In u. S. Foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their International Actions so 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 might pompei owes 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 watched 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 and i. States dislikes you it 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 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 an hour to somebody who is running the state department this is extremely disturbing and im 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 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 a really really mess an hour ahead. Well french prosecutors opened an inquiry off the video images of a Police Officer punching a protester as a demo in paris now story in full after this short break. Max kaiser with more of my guide to financial survival this. Is a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. Thats right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and were just getting more looks to the. Totally destabilize the Global Economy you need to protect yourself and get insurance because your. Wisdom is the output of Practical Knowledge you know group or your wages novel contexts but if you learn a particular scenario. A class could be brilliant and you encounter that exact same scenario knowing what to do is just memory thats not wisdom thats not learning its just memorizing some wisdom comes when you are facing a brain new context and you can draw on tools to learn in other contexts systematically to know what to do. Welcome back french prosecutors have opened an inquiry off to a video of a riot police among beating up a protester went viral. And hes struggling so do you. Know that. The incident occurred at saturdays yellow vests protest in paris in the video among can clearly be seen being punched by a riot officer. Alleged Police Violence also marks the previous weeks protests with a case i pulled off the claims of rubber bullets being fired at a point blank range at the latest martin the french Capitol Police at the papal voice that anger at the governments pension reform plans in some parts of the city clashes erupted between police and demonstrators a strike by public transport workers over the reform has brought chaos to paris for almost 2 months now despite the governments promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its plans for the canal class life political analyst nicolette place to discuss this further welcome to the program its great to have the weather is that what is your reaction to this latest video. And you know unfortunately im not surprised at all to be of different demonstrations that weve had these past years have always been tearing up with violence there is extreme violence and 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 a very big issue in france where people from the left out from the right just dont understand whats going on weve 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 its quite paradoxical because French Police was known in the past for being one of the police in europe in the world not using violence it was a french method of controlling demonstrations and then you can even with demonstrations were getting out of hand and this clearly shows that this is part of the past and the new with this mean policing extreme violence against demonstrators you know why why have things changed to Place Finance is such a regular feature in the protest now why because i think the governments dont care they can go out and have Police Beating of demonstrators they still get elected this is not something new weve seen violence and during the whole office when he was president weve seen bonus please if you use violence or tell it at that time now today police is probably the only way that. Some of the current government is defending itself has been a total failure from a democratic point of view dont forget the 1st best of miss traders were all quite peaceful all around france on the on the roundabouts just asking for more democracy and this is the answer from the government from the peoples request for democracy and they can keep on doing this because the government is still in place but thats very dangerous because a current recent french unionist said that the government is only has to purchase today which are the police and the military and if you take away those protests the government can collapse and this is very very dangerous in a democracy to be able to get the police at the police out beat up people and not be afraid that one moment the people wont get quite i would say exasperated and want even more justice themselves and dont trust you the governments or the elections to get the justice done themselves and how would you add value a the french authorities when it comes to following up on cases of a lead Police Brutality is just as generally theft. Unfortunately not so in some cases it is when its obvious that the in the current case will see that what that policeman is noni you will be sanctioned but in many cases it as and just to give you a couple figures in 2000 the couple in 2003 we had some 30350 cases inquiries against policeman and total in 28000 we had over 1500 before that you know best inquiries against the policeman and in many cases the cases are just dropped theres a special police which is dedicated to investigating Police Brutality and in many cases the cases are just dropped and the government from taking them one interesting anecdote in the court rio Pension Reforms the government wants the same reforms for everybody else it will be no specific reforms except for one category of people in france guess what that is French Policeman. And if an officer is found guilty off or tell us he will sort of consequences will that be well he could be there straight from his badge he can be put out put on the dole and have to look for another another were another job in this happens occasionally most of the cases you just a few. He is just really has to be out on leave for a couple weeks and then and you can come back the sanctions are not tough enough definitely against those who tell you not saying that there is no violence in front of the police but these are professionals they are in there you have training on the way to control demonstration demonstrators for violence and in no case should he be using such an example as the Police Officers connecting that substance or choice have to be banned from the police force definitely this is not something which is acceptable into these police force and its not it is accepted because as i said the government knows that without that police force its going to be very difficult for it to stay in position in place today i think and why is it do you think that some officers do you feel compelled to resort to such an Excessive Force do you think that some of the protesters deep is that such a real danger that that they have to take this action. Well as i mean the that all these demonstrators are not choirboys i know that some of the people going out there just want the violence that actually know that weve got testimonies from the police force saying that they receive orders letting the demonstrators go on ransacking rampages through stores breaking down windows Looting Stores because thats those are the images that Mainstream Media want to show at the at the news they want to show that these demonstrations are violent and the police are not doing anything against those violent demonstrators i myself wasnt demonstration once an ace asked the policeman so why are you not stopping these these are the protesters these violent protesters he said do it yourself so there is windows on one side the government is letting the violent demonstrations because they need those images to get a bad image to the peaceful demonstrators and on the other side when the police intervene of course none of them are very tired as other earthworm forces in france they dont have enough means theyre on 247 or shifts theyre very very very tired and just some of them just cant control himself anymore and i dont and im definitely not giving them a. Way to do whatever they want but some of these people just dont have the physical and mental strength to lose job any longer out of this at this moment and thats one of the explanations whether theyre just doing it and now the fact that theyre protected is different not going to restring them hope they restrain themselves from continuing on being a Peaceful Protesters thats kolesnik limit of each thank you for your time. Lets take a quick look at what else is making headlines around the world now. Police have resorted to water cannon and rubber bullets amid more protests in lebanon every 100. 00 people were injured as officers dispersed the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrator into a 3rd month of protests demanding economic reform and early elections the Prime Minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday for it failed to do so. Take out was also used against a large prodemocracy rally in Central Hong Kong as protesters blocked roads and started fires a 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 that anger and extradition bill being withdrawn months ago. And efforts 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. Joining us here on r. T. International were back in 30 minutes with the latest. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy going from 2 shouldnt let it be an arms race to move his arms off and skeery dramatic devolved into only really engaging resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time to sit down and. Tom. The world is driven by shaped by one person with those. Things. We dare to ask. Hello and welcome to all its a part of Higher Education prides itself on the quipping its seekers with the tools to optimally navigate the reality and at the very least to tell fact from fiction but one of these snapshots of in itself is a myth an expansive selfserving and highly ineffective myth while thats what our guest today argues as he takes on the Ivy League Universities which according to him dont teach what theyre supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project