Capital since antigovernment protests began there 3 months ago plus on high alert virginie as governor declares a state of emergency out of a massive progun rally daily news looks at why the states fight over gun control has grown so divisive and could sexism be fueling branford wealth inequality as more of the worlds wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands a new report warns its women and developing countries who are paying the highest price. On whale ark thank you so much for your Company Everyone leaders are meeting in brussels to determine how to strengthen a shaky truce in libya the blocs top diplomat Joseph Burrell has said any long term peace. Requires firm support from europe suggesting that the bloc could restart a Naval Mission off this and north african countries coast it comes a day after a summit here in berlin where World Leaders agreed not to interfere in libya and to respect a u. N. Weapons in bargo after 9 years of conflict the leaders of libyas 2 main rival factions are still refusing to meet face to face. The mighty gathered in berlin on a sunday afternoon world powers united in a mission of hope german chancellor Angela Merkel invited representatives of more than 10 countries to press for a solution to the long running conflict in libya it was only a few hours before they announced a breakthrough no more arms shipments to the war torn country. Via. Whom we can confirm that we have all agreed to respect the arms embargo. And well also monitor it more closely than we have in the past you sense enough to file this. However they havent gets built up consequences for breaking the embargo instead the conference pledged not to offer military support to the warring parties much is at stake for the International Players here libya has oil and gas and is a key transit point for refugees there are 2 parties facing each other on the one signed is internationally recognized government leader serrano who now only controls a few regions near the capital of tripoli on the other side is selfproclaimed general how he controls large areas of the country the u. N. No germany and other western countries as well as tricky stand behind serang. Allies are russia egypt and the United Arab Emirates the rival leaders themselves. Refused to sit down at the bargaining table libyan premier. Iraj met with his ally turkish president richard tie affair to one while warlord. Joint talks with frances and manuel mccrone among others the conference insisted that a new political process is necessary to address the countrys crisis. And today in berlin Member States along with regional and international denies asians if sent a strong signal that we are fully committed to supporting a peaceful resolution of the libyan crisis was the real marker of the conference is success or failure wont come until its clear of the promises made here are being kept and that could take several weeks. And gathered in brussels a moment ago were you Foreign Ministers discussing how to help implement a tenuous Peace Process for libya after the talks that took place in berlin over the weekend lets take you now to my colleague Garrick Marcus who has been monitoring these talks for you day or before we get to what has been decided in brussels how have your Foreign Ministers reacted to the outcome of the berlin conference. Overall Foreign Ministers later really welcomed this initiative that a political process has been started everyone said this is where europe is its best that in supporting such a process to make diplomacy work in the interest of the civil population that has been incredibly suffering under those 2 factions of fighting on the ground in libya if you listen very closely to Foreign Ministers of course theres quite a bit of self interest there involved as well the Italian Foreign minister the mile for instance mentioned that terrorism is something that motivates his country to pay to play a particular a role here in this process to stop terrorists who are being trained in libya who use this failed state and also if you listen to the Austrian Foreign minister he made it clear link as as he put it to stopping refugees coming to europe via libya right now garrick in terms of diplomatic tools why does the e. U. Think its necessary to have peacekeepers on the ground to enforce the arms embargo. I would say there is 2 options now for the European Union and that is what many many Foreign Ministers emphasized on the one hand there is an option to revive a Naval Mission that has been in place socalled Mission Operation sophia in the mediterranean and that would be to revive and. An art u. N. Arms embargo that europe has where europe already has a mandate to to keep that in bargain place so that mission that Naval Mission could be revived it was stopped at the time because those boats came back with refugees and thats where italy said we wont have that no longer and the other thing is what chief diplomat Joseph Burrell aired ahead of this meeting and that is a mission to reveal opposite of the cease fire on the ground with boots on the ground from the European Union and that idea was met with caution by Foreign Ministers today right and with reason because how will the e. U. Be able to monitor and implement a cease fire where the peacekeepers going to do if it is breached of the German Foreign minister here said look we have to stay take one step at a time now we have to wait and see whether that cease fire that has been achieved can in a way be turned into a permanent truce and once that is the case we can think about how we can in europe in any way contribute. Not of the Foreign Ministers was keen on mentioning any boots on the ground any form of of a european Peace Mission there and the closest we got to that point was Swedish Foreign minister saying at some point along the way there will be a moment where the European Union can step in and help to supporting from brussels as always thank you for you continue coverage. Now lets tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. 2 protesters were killed in the iraqi capital baghdad after Security Forces used tear gas and live ammunition on antigovernment demonstrations and dozens were injured in clashes with the Security Forces over the weekend protesters are demanding sweeping political reforms and an end to corruption. The 50th World Economic forum is underway in davos switzerland sustainability and Climate Change are the main topics of this years gathering of the worlds economic elite or to sears are also gathering around the upscale swiss the Resort Island activists to a greater tune berg is due to formally address the form on tuesday. China is reporting a sharp rise in the number of pneumonia cases caused by a new strain of corona virus people have died from it and fears of a major outbreak are growing as millions of people are beginning to travel for the Lunar New Year cases have also been detected in thailand japan and south korea. Lebanese authorities have pledged to protect Peaceful Protesters after a weekend of violent demonstrations in the capital beirut on this after the countrys president held an emergency meeting today with the top Security Officials of that country a largely Peaceful Demonstrations broke out 3 months ago with people demanding an overhaul of the political system and a solution to the countrys economic crisis but in recent days the unrest has intensified. I its being called the most violent weekend since lebanons mass protests began in october. Demonstrators threw stones and projectiles at Police Officers fired water cannon rubber bullets and tear gas in response. Sundays clashes brought the total of protesters injured to some 500. 00 this weekend. The one with violence only breeds violence but at the end of the day after all these months the protesters just want to prove they exist i dont blame them not to have a trace like what on earth i met in my time and almost important demands an independence of the tradition an independent government of competent people accountability early elections and returning looted money but he looked good out. Anger at corruption and economic mismanagement have long fueled the protests on sunday demonstrators smashed windows at shops linked to a minister within the outgoing government i was the protest movement helped topple that government in late october and efforts to forge a new one are still stalling. Protesters say they fear their key demands are being ignored as top officials try to recreate a new cabinet i fuck a stance Prime Minister in my heart has told did every news that military conflict between saudi arabia and iran would be disastrous for his country in an exclusive interview with g w news concept pakistan was working to prevent relations between these 2 nations from deteriorating we live in a neighborhood we have issues balancing act because. We have for instance saudi arabia which is one of pakistans great as friends. Always been a friend in need for us then we have iran which is a neighbor and weve always had a Good Relationship with iran so the conflict between saudi arabia and iran is something which. Which for pakistan would be disastrous if it. Went into some sort of military conflict. And you saw her there didnt he is editor in chief freshly back from pakistan where she conducted that interview with the pakistani Prime Minister good to have you here with us now we just heard Prime Minister han talking about having to carry this very carry out this very delicate balancing act between saudi arabia and iran how do you go into details how he is planning on achieving that because then its not an enviable. He sees himself as a Bridge Builder in the world thats how he wants to see himself but indeed i mean its an engine conflict between saudi arabia and iran obviously as you says in this interview of any conflict would be a disaster for Pakistan Saudi Arabia has a big influence in pakistan but in pakistan we also have 20 up to 20 percent. Of the pakistanis who supported iran in 20 percent of the country with 210000000 people means more than 40000000 people so he is really tackling a lot didnt really get given any clear the whole he wants to do that now as he mentioned and rightly so pakistan is in a tough neighborhood i think that is undeniable lets talk about another neighbor afghanistan where pakistan is playing lets say dubious well according to some people what did he say about his countrys role there he wants to step back a little bit i think we all know the. Many people thing and its probably true the there are still some taliban fighters in pakistan on the border. Pakistan help the United States a lot they negotiated the peace talks they made good contacts with the taliban and he tried to kind of you know get the position as we did a deal we did we needed to do and now its up to the americans so he wants to step back a little bit from that so if you deny any kind of leverage that he has over the taliban hed rather say well we helped the american friends ok now last year pakistan and its neighbor india inched so close to war over of course kashmir the closest they have in decades lets take a listen to what mr han told you when you asked him about the disputed region. The best thing is let the people of kashmir decide the people of bugs and then didnt. Let them decide what they want to do but use the un is all ready to give them the right of a referendum or a plebiscite let them decide whether they want to remain with the buggers donald whether they want to be in the independent were all for it is it really that easy and that simple just give them a referendum given that agency they can decide whether to stay with party from independent and it will never happen 1st of all its really not up to prime and succumb to decide that its the military who decides that the military would never ever do that why because that kind of secures the position i mean they got so many from the government they would never do that so that was more political talk than any like really specific announcement were you able to to gauge what he thinks about the Current Party to the nazi regime so he was really really harsh in his critique we also have to say on the indian side its not much better though honestly just coming back from pakistan my hopes are very low that this conflict will be solved sooner. You also try to engage him in terms of the human rights situation in pakistan administered administered kashmir what did he tell you well he also again said you know let the people decide go there and do your reporting thats what we did and what we are going to do again and also stressed to me you know regarding freedom of expression in kashmir so people are not allowed in the customary in the pakistani part of kashmir to protest for example he denied it but its fact pakistani people are not allowed in the customer part in the pakistani part of kashmir to protest against the government i 1st i have to wrap it up but what did you come away with from your visit its a beautiful country its fantastic people very many brave people and i hope that maybe europe and germany can help a little bit to to to help this country to show its potential our editor in chief thank you very much. And you can watch iness interview in full with pakistans Prime Minister right after this program so make sure to stay tuned for that for now were going to turn our attention now to the u. S. State of virginia authorities there are bracing for a massive progun rally on monday the governor has even called a state of emergency amid fears of violence by far right extremists is an annual gathering but this year its particularly important to gun supporters due to newly proposed limits on firearms and publicly as finds out whats behind their resistance to tighter bills. This is old rifle and other guns can currently be purchased by any adult resident of the state of virginia by just presenting a valid id but those days appear to be numbered no makers in the state which recently flipped from republican to democrat are pushing forward with a tightening of the gun laws but there has been fierce opposition. A very well known popular voice among progun advocates this comment when he lives in one of the counties that have become socalled 2nd amendment sanctuaries areas where proposed laws would not be enforced by local authorities these make up the vast majority of crime to use in virginia. Governor Ralph Northam wanted to add 8 new gun control proposals these are really broad d proposals these would turn the vast majority of virginia gun owners into felons for continuing to possess their legally own a firearm as theyre legally on magazines that are legally owned suppressors it would criminalize transferring firearms to family members or friends without going through a background. These are bills that would impact the legal gun owners in the state of virginia not the violent criminals but experts like law professor richard at the university of virginia say the new proposed laws are not as radical as progun lobbyists claim. Lots of states had gun control legislation that looked like this what happened in the last 2025 years is when the republicans came in and gun guns became a big cultural issue is they stripped away a lot of these regulations that have existed in the past and so the current gun regime in virginia is very very permissive along all these dimensions and what the democrats are trying to do is tighten that up virginias proposed gun control has come after figures show 29000 was the worst year on record for Mass Shootings in the United States the overall number of people fight lee shot also increased last year according to data from gun violence archive a nonprofit the tracks of shootings u. S. President donald trump and progun advocates claim the reason for shootings partly comes down to a Mental Health crisis and not because of current gun laws but studies have not supported these claims. For common words in virginia changes coming but he remains defiant i think a lot of gun owners are waiting to see what if anything the Supreme Court does that might set some limits on how far states and localities can go in terms of regulating the right to keep and bear arms we know that they can infringe on that right but how far can they go and terms of regulating that right. Protests by progun activists im sorry virginias Capitol Building in richmond on monday are not expected to deter lawmakers from pushing ahead with tighter firearm with releases. A new study by the Charity Oxfam says the worlds billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 4600000000 people combined and it