A very warm welcome to you youre watching the weekly here on r. T. International with me. The 1st libya peace conference has wrapped up in berlin yielding an agreement that is hoped will pave the way for a lasting cease fire in the country and also merely an end to years of bloodshed and the countrys civil war were joined live now by arties correspondent peter other who is currently in and then foreigners are peter one does this all mean for libya. Or german chancellor Angela Merkel who seemed reasonably confident that progress is being made as she wrapped up this conference on libya here in the german capital she did acknowledge though that neither. Side or. The heading or both of the opposing sides in the libyan conflict took part in face to face talks that had been expected or really hoped for heading into this summit that didnt happen. The u. N. Secretary general though as he did say that what was of most upmost importance at the moment was making sure that there was a functional ceasefire on the ground in the country. First we need to have a ceasefire you cannot monitor something that doesnt exist so we need to have a ceasefire and we have a truce and one simple question is that all the participants to date to meet it to support the cease fire and committed to put pressure on the parties to the conflict for the full ceasefire to be reached. Also speaking at that press conference the German Foreign minister. Was measured in his confidence following the talks he said that these discussions had led to the a key that could be used in should be used to unlock the situation on the ground. We have achieved objectives that we sent for this conference we now have the e. U. Now hands to solve the conflicts now we have to do is use this key put it in the law and open the door. From the russian side Sergey Lavrov the foreign minister spoke to journalists and said that while the talks had been positive feel also acknowledged that there were still major differences between the 2 sides in libya. So generally we think the conference was useful its clear that the final decision is up to the libyans its also clear that so far stable dialogue between the warring parties is an reachable the differences of approach to great still the suggestions the final document contains contribute to creating appropriate conditions for both sides to sit and talk. While the takeaway from this summit in lane is well there will be more summits there will be more talks the u. N. Secretary general said that hell be meeting. With representatives of both sides in geneva this coming week while it was confirmed by the German Foreign minister that there would be talks by the e. U. Ministers in brussels on monday. But his piece all of us thank you for that. Lets discuss this further now and go to mark allen the director of the Crisis Research institute thank you for joining us on the program at the also assessment of how these talks whens does this proposed cease fire mechanism amount so much in your opinion. What i think the real danger is that the main virtue of these talks has been that the external actors will be able to move to agree but as weve heard the 2 main rivals couldnt speak face to face let alone agree and secondly there are perhaps 30 different subgroups 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 their various cohorts to orders is not has not been easy so far and there is the danger that each side will be looking to move or for Getting International credibility include or spy saying were trying to keep the ceasefire but the others are breaking it and so theres that was the danger that what particularly the trip to govern my want is more foreign intervention to back it up and therefore in some ways having have to be seen or actually doing something breaking the cease fire is good for them equally hafter and some of his backers like egypt and the u. A. E. May say were very close to victory maybe one last push and we can win and therefore people will accept facts on the ground the problem is that creating those facts on the ground is is proving very difficult for both sides and equally the europeans the russians the u. N. Have limited i think limited pull over the players us the big problem its not as though theres a patron in the background whos really giving orders. Yeah this document it contains only suggestions as you said my the u. N. Security council there as well. Behind with a resolution. Well it might but of course as people point out the her beam us u. N. Resolution forbidding people from supplying arms was supposed to be an arms embargo authorized by the Un Security Council but as we can see it has been ignored by quite a number of countries so the risk is a new resolution will turn out to be empty and one of the problems i think were finding is that. The libyans themselves are mercurial and or could theyre not necessarily people who even though those countries are close to the different sides are able to trust or certainly to give orders to what are the main it was that youll sticking points here. Well one is where in fact should the ceasefire line be because for instance for half to one of his problems is some of the people who recently changed sides fear that if a ceasefire line is drawn putting them back under the control of tripoli they will be penalized for having their betrayed as it were tripoli recently on the other hand equally tripoli says unless it can have a clear defensible perimeter then whats the point of a cease fire that could be wrapped up overnight as it were so there is a problem of practices on the ground whos going to buy all those where is the line to be drawn and i think that is really going to be the devil in the detail particularly you dont have a powerful peacekeeping force i dont see anybody wanting to send troops to libya wanting to put soldiers in blue helmets and at risk of being shot at on the ground so the danger is that you are lying upon 2 sides who dont trust each other at all to regulate the ceasefire in practice because there isnt an force a mechanism but maybe a few observers but they wont really be able to lay down the law. Sunday libyas Largest Oil Field began shutting down after forces low to close a pipeline connecting it to the coast now with her star power really on the front so why would he agree to a truce. I think that it is really the issue particulars not only have to be on the front foot but also some of his allies like egypt if you look at the egyptian media theyre very hostile to anything short of victory over the people they regard as a threat to egypt as much as to have to so there is a danger that theres a real pressure for him to try to win it last equally if the oil revenue is cut off one of the few cards that tripoli has is that the revenue passes through the central bank in tripoli if there isnt all being exported then its resources are going to shut down very quickly will it be able then to pay its own troops to pay its own militias and so on so there is a pressure on it from this as it were local oil embargo that have to or is able to impose director of the Crisis Research institute is mark omens thank you for your time. Thank you. 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 delusional believes you amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution the aim of furthering russias development as a lawful state so 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 he ever takes a look at the proposed reforms and how they have gone down in the wider world. Tried splay in this land putin and powers the office of president the media accuses of it seizing more power who control over russia but when putin gives up that power and hands it over 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 friendly aside he is what he actually proposed to guaranteed that no 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 putin appointed the problem. Ministers Parliament Rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamp set with no power object 30 years to use according to the constitution of the Russian Federation the president needs only to state dumas consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet his deputy and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian 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 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 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 wont work talking about what is did reform and nonsense and then maybe we can make some comments now before that to pave the way the government handed in its resignation its worth mentioning it wasnt all that popular that failed on a number of fronts and meacham 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 the surprise and there was no warning not even rumors that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new Prime Minister because 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 and 2024 he will 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. Shows leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of World Governance in the 21st century. French prosecutors opened an inquiry after video images of a Police Officer punching a protester at a demonstration in paris we show you that 1st sit down bring you the story in full after this break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im sure. Ill see you there. Welcome back french prosecutors have opened an inquiry after a video of a riot police among basing up a protest one viral. Good it was not later this year that. Was. The incident occurred as sundays yellow vests protest in paris in the video a man can clearly be seen being punched by a riot officer alleged Police Violence also marred the previous weeks protests with a case opened after claims of rubber bullets being fired at point blank range and the latest march in the french campus or people voiced their 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 there we form has brought chaos to paris almost 2 months now thats despite the governments promise to compromise agreeing to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its plans political analyst Michael America which told is that much of the media ignores the Police Violence. Of the demonstrations that weve had these past years have always been tearing up with violence theres extreme violence and Mainstream Media and 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 little vest 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 using violence or was it french 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. Butlins confirms donald trump threatened 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 trickett the deals dispute resolution mechanism which could lead to the agreements collapse iran super. In leaders slams the 3 european states as u. S. Pawns sparking a rebuke from President Trump. Search for 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 Supreme 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 reinstate sanctions well lets take a look at what led to the Current Crisis the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by iran and key world powers it was designed to limit to rons Nuclear Activities of exchange for sanctions relief but in 2018 President Trump washington out 3 imposing economic penalties targeted iran to stop backing away from complying with the deal itself something this excel of rates did recent weeks after the us killing of 2 rounds top general Political Science professor at the university of 2 ron hummock must solve a believes when 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. Promised that they would shield you on from american sanctions and all those promises turned out to be empty and right now when iran is for its share of the deal its backing away from the deal now they are treating the this socalled dispute resolution mechanism and this has actually brought a lot of anger in a lot of brit bitterness 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 by pompei i did this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy while mentioning russia and china caleb maupin picks up the story. In u. S. Foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their International Actions so 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 turds 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 salam mani was on a Diplomatic Mission he was trying to make peace when he was ruthlessly cut down furthermore reports seem to indicate that the mahdi 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 attempt to coerce American Allies undermine to deter us so if the United States dislikes you it can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate you know this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence the mask is coming off 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 does come in alex from 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 really of the mess and i want to have. 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 levanon over 100 people were injured as officers dispersed the crowd in the capital beirut demonstrators or into a 3rd most of the protests demanding economic reform and early elections the Prime Minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. To gas 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 islands may have wiped out large numbers of animals. But if you have something youd like to say about any of our stories that wed love to hear it so do get in touch by following us on social media were back with the latest headlines in 30 minutes see them. 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