You a round up of the biggest stories from today and the past 7 days youre watching the weekly here on our team to National Thank you for joining us. Libby a peace conference has wrapped up in burlington yielding an agreement that it is hoped will pave the way for a lasting cease fire in the country and ultimately bring an end to years of bloody civil war there are all of the reports. Well the result of these talks here in berlin on libya and the ongoing conflict on the ground there was a documents that has been signed off by those that have taken part in the conference still has to go to the United Nations where it will be seeking their approval it contained in that document are a call for a cease fire also an arms embargo that should be a rekindling of the political process german chancellor Angela Merkel is keen to stress again that there was an far as she was concerned and as far as other leaders were concerned there was no military solution to that conflict in libya that human rights must be respected and that we must also you see security and Economic Reforms on the ground in libya now the german chancellor also said added that there was no direct contact between. And. That would that had been expected realistically it had been hoped for heading into these talks they didnt speak directly that was all done through proxy or in direct conversations passing along messages basically between the 2 sides the u. N. Secretary general also speaking at the Closing Press conferences to gutierrez he said that what was of most importance at the moment was getting a functioning ceasefire in place on the ground 1st we need to have a ceasefire you cannot monitor something that doesnt exist and so we need to have a cease fire. And one simple question is that all the produce the plans to do anything to meet its to support the cease fire and committed to build pressure on the parties to the conflict for the fire to be reached the German Foreign minister heiko must was also speaking at the Closing Press conference he was measured in his confidence about what had been achieved here in the lead he said its well ultimately there. Was a potential for the libyan crisis being resolved that the end was perhaps in sight but that it still needed some work to get it over the line of doing so. 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 diski put it in dialogue and open the door from the russian side of the foreign minister spoke to journalists as well as the last row of well he was saying that he was positive of what had been achieved here however he acknowledged that the situation between the 2 warring sides was extremely difficult right now still 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 unreachable the differences of approach to great still suggestions the final document contains contribute to creating appropriate conditions for both sides to sit and talk ultimately the result of these talks is that theyll be more talks the u. N. Secretary general mr gritty yet is will be meeting with representatives of both sides of the conflict in geneva later this week heiko muss the German Foreign minister also saying that there would be a meeting in brussels on monday of e. U. Ministers in order to discuss further the situation in libya libya though is really coming front and center for International Attention thats been seen by just who was in attendance here in some real heavy hitters from around the world coming here as the world tries to find a solution to the ongoing crisis which has claimed so many lives. Where we discuss these talks a journalist and founder of viewpoint Africa Johnson and director of the Crisis Research institute marc armand. 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 be face to face let alone agree and secondly there are perhaps 30 different subgroups fighting on the ground so that it may be that those conditions fall that holds it could possibly be 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 and cut off by saying were trying to keep the ceasefire but the others are breaking it at the end of the day were looking at a cease fire thats all were hoping for this is not going to bring about peace it is not going to really stop all out war were 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 of the forces disarming nation 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. Now in some of the news that shaped the week here russia got a new Prime Minister after the previous cabinet stepped down their resignations follow president putins proposal to change the countrys constitution. But it delusional if 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 of vital to the countrys development of a murder of takes a look at the proposed reforms and how theyve gone down in the wider world. Try explaining these limp newton and powers 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 a friend he 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 for 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 30 years to use 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 that. 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 what work 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 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 wont run for another term time change so does russia that 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. As leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of World Governance in the 21st century. When hearst confirmed donald trump threatened to slap huge tariffs on european carmakers if you 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 the 3 european states as us poor sparking a rebuke from President Trump. I searched for the beginning but after the u. S. Withdraw from the j. C. These 3 governments were just playing with 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 while the european trio claim irans noncompliance with the nuclear deal is forcing them to trigger the dispute mechanism iran has 30 days to return to compliance failing that it will be referred to the Un Security Council that could reinstate sanctions so lets take a look at what led to this Current Crisis the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by iran and some key world powers it was designed to limit to Irans Nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief bought in 2018 President Trump pulled washington out re imposing economic penalties and that prompted iran to stop backing away from complying with the deal itself something thats accelerated in recent weeks after the u. S. Killing of to irans top general Political Science professor at the university of tehran hammad most of the 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 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 his in tehran regarding the europeans well meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has doubled down on washingtons assassination of irans top general earlier this month mike pompei added this is just the start of a far more aggressive to terence policy while mentioning russia and china killing more picks up this 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 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 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 unite. States dislikes you they can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate hero 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 as take a quick look at what else is making headlines around the world. Police have resorted to water cannon and rubber bullets amid more protests in lebanon over 100. 00 people were injured as officers dispersed the crowd in the capital be wheat demonstrators or into a 3rd month of protests demanding economic reform and early elections and the Prime Minister had been expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. And take as was also used against a large prodemocracy rally in Central Hong Kong as protesters blocked roads and started fires it significant Armed Police Presence was visible on sunday as demonstrators defied an official ban amounting to the area continues to be rocked by violent rallies despite the original reason for their anger an extradition bill been withdrawn months ago. And efforts are underway to rescue wildlife from the bush fires that have ravaged south australias Kangaroo Island the area is home to unique as well as endangered species and experts fear the fires which have already devastated a 3rd of the island may have wiped out large numbers of animals. And some more news from this week British Police knew 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 peroration or guster was launched to investigate the issue but the probe was shut down a few perpetrators were brought to justice. The official probe was closed due to lack of results is now a criminal investigation has been 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 blip maggie all of a former Manchester Police detective says there were many more disturbing reasons. The decision to close down operational cost 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 and because its very labor intensive it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of commitment from an organization to resource a child like this and also and that was a focus on what we call acquisitive crime so burglaries 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 or the initial investigation was triggered by the death of victoria go clear she was in the care of Manchester City council after her mothers death and she was subjected to Sexual Assault and injected with heroin by a 50 year old man the reports say hair is new a piece is going on but did not act 15 year old victoria died after being administered a heroin overdose and her grandmother wants justice 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 as a result very few of the relevant perpetrators were brought to justice and neither were their activities disrupted this is a depressingly familiar picture and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country. Or the chief constable of Manchester Police has offered his condolences to the victims adding the officers will do everything to get justice for the children but whistleblower maggie all of again one Senior Police and other officials investigated. This cover up and 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 acknowledge that it was pakistani men predominantly who were abusing vulnerable young white children and their Young Children that became a political hot potato it was often sad that these kids of 11 and 12 were making a lifestyle choice that they were working as prostitutes that they were kids that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and the all for it is 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. French prosecutors have opened an inquiry after a video of a riot policeman beating up a protester went viral. The good news at least i know this he was. Proud of it no doubt that the incident occurred at saturdays yellow vests protest in paris in the video clearly be seen big punished by iran itself and thats pretty spot its also the previous weeks protest but the case opened off the claims of rubber bullets being fired at point blank range and the latest march in the french capital people voiced the anger at the governments pension reform plans and in some polls the city clashes erupted between police and demonstrators a strike by public transport workers over the reform has book calles to paris for almost 2 months now and thats despite the governments promise to compromise going to drop some of the most controversial aspects of its plans playschool im listening to make of it told us that much of the media ignores police violence. All the different demonstrations that weve had these past years have always been turned up with violence theres extreme violence in the Mainstream Media release you do 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 not using violence it was a french method of controlling demonstrations and then you can even when demonstrations were getting out of hand and this clearly shows that this is part of the past and the new with this mean police using extreme violence against demonstrators. 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Hello and welcome to worlds apart from 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 what if this narrative in itself is a myth and expansive selfserving and highly ineffective 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 welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me now when you talk about Higher Education you always make a distinction between Information Knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what about the rest of the system what do you think its selling well what its selling is not necessarily what its delivering but if you go to any website of almost any university in the world certainly any university in the United States you will see claims such as that this university with you try to think critically it will solve teaches you how to solve problems it will teach you how to communicate well and work well with other people itll teach you to be global in your thinking that all sounds wonderful and in fact i think if anybody thinks a