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 russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building to the south china sea and its brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deterrence 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 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 it's will get back to it later on the story we're going to go back and live now to. a building where president putin has been giving his address what a trend is going to talk to mr until one of the 1st deputy prime minister of russia and get some feedback from him. daniel again will i promise to be back with you with some of the seeing airbrushing officials right here and like you said i'm here with swallow and we're ready to talk to the senior government minister i'm going to switch to russian. don't go to the us this is my city. thank you very much for joining us. what president putin won't has

a lot of figures about numbers in that very beginning of his are drafts and of course everyone is now having this question he talked a lot about his being a large burden for the budget where would we take money poor old responsibility did that were talked about here. all the presidents. that all these initiatives they must be funded. if we have a stable budget so the principles and the rules. that it was being guided by one formulate in the budget they shoot would be as we need to guarantee stability 1st as for what is numbers or says well according to the estimates says between the 40 to 40. 4 i would and 50000000000 this year old the ways to find that money well we can tap into the potential of the

priorities of france which are priorities we have a number of solutions already at hand and these solutions can help us to find that money and allocated for these initiatives that have some money from previously we haven't spent them these are the successes of this budget and these bonney it will go to finance this new initiative set forward by the president today 1st and foremost will be helping the families in need to disadvantage families and demographic issues as a while and i would like to talk about. pension for mation that we don't the problem with was quite often high profile cases there were some problems regarding fees now we're talking about some additional what are the prospects of. sleaze so we're talking about 20 to 20 and it's the 1st address to the federal less soundly in the media kid that did i get this right that we're looking in the future now more. absolutely right. this is the 1st address and these decade and we have very

global tasks ahead so we need to address social policies we need to work with the situation in demography we have a problem and we need to deal with it so we shoot it apply all possible efforts to support our families so that people would like to have more children to give birth to more children and of course we need to address the issue of low income families there's a fever being seen that the real income has been rising but the pace is not sufficient so we need to support the people who need governmental support 81 percent of people of families with children these are disadvantaged families they are living below the minimum wage limit and. that is one of the priorities has set forward by the president. of course there are going to be a lot of conversations and i think that was the main use all the. of the

constitution that were suggested by the president you being as one of the important members of the government so what is your reaction to the as it is of course that after some time. some of these decisions will be perceived differently. my opinion these suggestions these initiatives are for debate. is that how president formulated this. or it is something which is meant to allow for greater connection between different branches of government between the parliament and the government of the russian federation so i think this will only benefit everyone of us that will create great ticket he's in between the parliament and the government and that could he is very important what it comes to implementing these national priorities of ours and these national projects that we have had and question how do you think for the. international business as of today

we have a lot of belt. being traditional prospects for him and the get something from the address that we've heard. the government terms of president are committed to continuing that kind of policy of predictability and my curriculum and stability of debt we've been here in 2 seconds that will being created an additional impetus for investors to work in russia those who would like to have businesses here we are creating a stable atmosphere and conditions with taxation and it was said it was business we're ready to give guarantees for as much as 20 years for major projects so doing business in russia is absolutely possible and you can earn money in russia. mr sloan of think you free time thank you for joining us here. so daniel for now back to you how we were just talking to and one of the 1st you'd see prime minister

of the russian federation and also minister of finance yeah interesting stuff thanks for your we'll leave you to we're trying to. get back to you with some more reaction and analysis through that speech a little bit later thanks for the update. it's been revealed that the reuters news agency received the equivalent of millions of pounds in the 160 s. and seventy's from british intelligence services the spread of propaganda has also come to light britain's national broadcaster was complicit in the subterfuge edwards daschle lifts the lid on the story for. the deal with simple funding for avoid to services in the middle east and latin america in exchange for well political influence this books were sure that the british based news agency could and would provide exactly what had majesty's government required then you need declassified documents have just been revealed painting the picture right here at

the u.k.'s national archives. government's interest should be well served by the new arrangement this influence would flow at the top level from reuters willingness to consult and to listen to views expressed on the results of its work but how do you fund such a mission if you don't want to do in the open nor in the public eye well via the independent public broadcaster the b.b.c. of course and it was easy the b.b.c. paid by and had subscriptions and then later on 7 the british government would repay the b.b.c. via compensation however it didn't come cheap in fact it cost $350000.00 pounds which in today's money is millions you see britain wanted to be big but not that big because if it was to be too profitable well then the propaganda stories would get lost amongst the others in going for profitable service will not be tempted to put in popular items and leave out the political material which is what we want we all know about the icing on the cake argument but if only the icing is sold and the

cake left purposes are not served the most the minds behind this were a shadow a section of the foreign office information research department created in 1988 the covert goal was to create and spread anti soviet material during the cold war but has it damage the news agencies integrity and reputation well royce's is adamant that there's no way it would engage in such activity today and says at the time it was simply the norm and it really wasn't as bad as it seems many news organizations receive some form of state subsidy after world war 2 but the arrangement in 1989 was not in keeping with our trust principles and we would not do this today so you see the truth always comes out and now the national archives under the instruction of the foreign office is gradually releasing historical records that expose dirty deeds of the past but it seems like former deals have left a shadow what's supposed to be those at the forefront of objectivity independence and freedom from bias shouted with daschle ought to london. the co-director of the

organization for propaganda studies told us there are clear cold war parallels in today's news media governments and states will always make that claim in context the major conflicts and cold war what they're trying to do is to get the truth to the public and trying to ensure the public have truth from asian who you know are not reliable actors in terms of telling the truth which is one of the reasons why you know one is posed to have a strong independent media to hold them to account one would be absolutely naive to think that there were very soon work processes that work to do what we see in the moment conflicts which is syria and iran receive an immense amount of propaganda going on and when you have the kind of propaganda coup that is underway what sucked was alternately public understanding and really did help with democracy. all other u.s. election another russian hacking scandal

a cyber security firm in the u.s. with ties to the n.s.a. is claiming that the ukrainian gas company at the center of donald trump's impeachment was hacked by russian intelligence agents it was an awful looks at what lies behind the allegations. meeting old friends there are a few things that feel better not any old friends the ones you have barely heard from for years who then turn up at your front door with drinks food and great memories it's a joy anyone who's followed america's 2016 election and is following this one can now be a part of the ukrainian company barisan russia's hack of bridge made russian military hackers the russians could be searching for a potential embarrassing material on the bidens the same kind of information that mr trump wanted from ukraine russian military hacker successful a targeted or race not russia trump his fancy bare election meddling why invent a time machine when you have american media a new report is suggesting that

a bunch of hackers from russia with ties to the government of course got access to the computers of boris a ukrainian energy firm what they were after and whether the got anything at all such minor details are emitted in the report as is any evidence the president leaves everything out except for a smattering of graphs and conclusions but why would everyone care so much all of a sudden about some company half the world away well because joe biden's son hunter used to sit on the board of directors there as the company was facing a corruption investigation by ukraine's prosecutor general who joe biden eventually had fired donald trump then ask the ukrainian president to look into this so will resume is at the center of the ongoing impeachment scandal in other words essential that thing to the current ethical question lady urged the ukrainians to investigate

joe biden is a journey of scandal involving the president president trump for peanut attempts to get ukraine and now trying to interfere in the 2020 election by investigating job 100 bided. the allegation that the russians hog brás moe comes from a firm called area one a firm with a mission. this is a message to all the houses out there. is up there there is no place for you in fishing it is civil society everyone is the only silicon valley company that has been allowed to work with 2020 presidential candidates which it does big time we have a tiered pricing system with a little to no cost here for non-profits schools small businesses or political candidates and a little more than a year ago some candidates came to us and said we don't want a repeat of 2016 to all of its co-founders have n.s.a.

background and one of them donated to democratic candidates in this presidential race blake walsall used to work for crowd strike the company that led the 2016 russia hiking crusade whatever you mention russian cackling 2060 election 2020 alexion something happens internally where people's brains turn off and you can hear a collective oh not a given not again biden must have said oh no not ukraine oh my god that's us that's what that's what we did so no what better way for joe biden to deflect the information from him and his son to say russia did it excuse me before what russia did is what russia did as you say is a true media promotion in promulgated all of this russia a bad image it's still it's it's everywhere so

i i say here we go again another russian hack story. so it's filed with the 4th of july turkey for the thanksgiving and now russia and hackers for the election season because naturally all dogs aren't good with new tricks. iran's dismissing moves by germany france and britain to trigger the so-called dispute mechanism over iran's failure to abide by the 2050 nuclear deal and start the 30 day period to resolve the problem after which the matter could be referred to the un security council to reinstate sanctions we have therefore been left with no choice given iran's actions but to register today our concerns that iran is not meeting its commitments we do this in good faith with the overarching good jet of preserving the j c p o

a the measure by the 3 european countries is a passive action taken from a position of weakness iran will respond to any infringement ill will and non-constructive measures seriously decisively and in an appropriate manner we don't exclude that you conceived actions of the euro trio will lead to a new escalation around the. although the statement expresses some hope an intention to save the nuclear deal not all leaders are overly concerned the words from minister for one seem to think there is a viable plan b. if we get rid of it let's replace it and let's replace it with the troop deal ok that's what we need to see and i think that would be a great way for that. or the nuclear deal called a joint comprehensive plan of action was signed in 2015 by iran and major world powers agreement was the saeter on limit its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of sanctions washington though pulled out in 2018 imposed economic penalties

iran then began scaling back its compliance which accelerated after us killed her arms most powerful general. we're going back to our top story the south that was mr putin has a new will address to the federal assembly and live back now to who has got another guest for australia over to you. daniel hello again the high promised more guests and i can tell you that right now at the moment to further discuss what was said by the russian president here in central moscow i'm joined by alexei pushkov who is the chairman of the commission for information in media at the russian federation council mr pushkov hello and thank you for talking to us once again you do that every year and that's a great honor for us so let's begin with perhaps what most people are calling the

main news after this event the proposed changes to the russian constitution that's something we don't hear that often from mr putin lately has been talking about it more and more and then finally there you have it the proposals have come out he's talking about giving more powers to the russian parliament what does that mean and why now was the time when he specifically chose to make these proposals. and i see that syncs about the optimal way of russian development. also after he leaves. in 2024 and what i see. he has come to is that russia needs some democrats ization of the presidential authority for the enough being the president his to sit just thinks about the bigger role for the problem and also bigger role for the government because. among

his suggestion is that the chairman of the government will appoint key ministers not the president and the chairman of the government will be appointed by by by the parliament. this is a very. a very important change if the constitutional assembly that will consider those proposals agrees to them then we will be moving to some form of i would say a presidential poll and a republic even though he said that's not the case it is not the case but with such a role of the parliament and the government that will be appointed not by the president. necessarily the parliament will become a focal point for the formation of the government but he didn't propose also still to keep. important. to the president so i see this as a make sure. we we may call it you know as we want we may discuss about how we should be called but i would call it is

a certain democratization of the presidential authority in russia so that the president is not omnipotent so he depends more on the legislative power and that of the the prime minister also in the cabinet also depends more on the parliament elected by the population so that's the the big development i think that has been announced by putting today it's the practical for ns and the proposals will should be formulated by the constitutional assembly that will consider possible changes and i think that will define the debates so the evolution of russian. political system for the coming to us 3 years there was an element of mr putin's speech that . some already took as putting the russian constitution above some of the international legislation so could you please elaborate on what what that element meant there is a debate in russia has been going on for

a while about one of the articles of the russian constitution that says that international obligations and treaties. go. more important. russian legislation. and. there were some some some suggestions to cancel those provisions in the russian constitution which say that international law is more important than domestic law and after all these debates i think that finally we came to the conclusion that international law is very important but the russian law is more important than is a national law and all international obligations will be fulfilled if they do not come into contradiction with the russian constitution or is this something that our partners should worry about or i don't think so it has more to do with how we see in russia our international obligations whether we should give them

a full scale priority oh we should balance them with a russian with a russian law i would i will sing yes there is an element that russia will become more self-sufficient in this field but like by the way like like many many countries you know for instance that the united states have not accepted a huge number of international conventions and do not. then of member of the international court of justice and so on because they refuse. to give international institutions a say over american. american laws and the decisions of the of the of of the of the american the sardis i think that there is some reason to that i think that there should be a right balance between international law and and the constitution of a nation and so i think that on the yeltsin moved a bit too much into dependence on the international international obligations and now i think some balance will be redressed but i don't think it will be dramatic

will not really a concern bilateral issues with other countries mr pushkov when a lot of our program is talking about. being sufficient in terms of how russia has developed its military capabilities when mr putin says that it's not russia that has to do catching up at this point but other international players how does that bind with his words that came just 30 seconds before that when mr putin is saying that nobody should be worried about what russia is dawn and russia does not pose a threat to anyone russia doesn't pose a threat but there is a logic in. international competition among great powers 1st of all in the competition between russia and the united states is that when the united states were ahead of us say in the sixty's in

a number of types of armaments we were trying to get up with them now the united states as they seemed to be behind us in in some consider is of. armaments and i think that was in just described this logic that. they have to catch up with us if they want to be even with us it does not mean that we will use this armaments against those countries but if they sink their defense will be guaranteed by having the same type of weapons that they have to catch up with us so i think he was just paying tribute to the i would say very banal logic of international competition in the field of defense on armaments you know if somebody on the planet has your type of weapons i country like the united states for instance or china will definitely try to work to have the same type of weapon is going to be. in a inferior position so i don't think that. the mentioning that others has have to

catch up with us whether by the stretch direct or indirect in their act i think he was just describing the logic of the competition is fierce and finally my last question will be about the firm. part of the speech we remember that very recently the country went through a rather painful pension reform and there was a i guess it's even fair to say the use it's even fair to use the word outrage among some layers of the society when that happened plus what we're talking about the shares of the budget we know that military spending. was being increased then at the same time there were cuts in the social aspects but then there you have a lot of comes out and talks about. these psalms he's given specific all sums that will be allocated to young families to families that are sending their children to school and i looked at the face of some of the

government officials who are in charge of the economy and it seems even they were somewhat surprised where will russia get this money from i think that. what is important to stress and that was by the way their main stressed of course in this message today is that we have reached 2 sinks 1st we have reached the high level of defense capabilities in the last 56 years so we don't have to spend more money on the 2nd we have reached marker economic stability after this very last a crisis of to so until 2011 look at our gold and currency reserves they are back to the best times i would say of 20072008 more than $550000000000.00 so that's. quite an important sum of money and there was a steady growth of our currency reserves in the last 5 years so on this basis as i understood the president we can afford to spend more on social issues on social lois's on maternity capital on the conditions of the kids in schools on

general education on health care especially in this intrusion and so on so i think that we can. reached some level of defense capability and some level of macroeconomic stability when we can turn the expenses of the government towards the society and to strengthen the social fabric of the russian society and that was i think the main idea of the president's address to to the federal some days of mr bush gov the thank you so much for your time in foreign splaying some of these important elements of mr putin's speech and most of all thanks so much. daniel back to you so i can just remind you that i've just been talking to alexei pushkov who is the chairman of the commission for information and media at the russian federation council yeah thanks a lot the media and then i'll come back to you if you get some more response

reaction and analysis at that speech. going to for a short break now kevin is going to take over in a few minutes to bring you more analysis and reaction and of course the latest global headlines stay with us here on all the international. just one magic bullet you could actually come up with something to the top of these baby bonds talking about ways we get access capital and capitalism is important so we could actually have programs that actually help folks who want to do that but when you give everybody a $1000.00 i'm a poor person i'm going to consume that and if you're rich you're going to invest that equity the wealth disparity is going to grow because you're you're not using your money to do it going so you're literally buy more crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a $1000.00 you just go raise my writ so then you get your flesh and go on and they're. on a space flight you literally leave all your problems behind you fly high and above

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press for survival before 3 in the morning can people get. interested always in the water how. things should. big news today vladimir putin is an annual presidential address to russian lawmakers suggest shifting the power to appoint the prime minister and hold government to the lower house of russia's parliament big news will tell you more. such as the suggestion that the deputy prime minister isn't it true ministers have to be appointed by the president without the right to reject these candidates also in the headlines this one is tough to washington's assassination of iran's top general america's top diplomat says it's all part of a new did terror and strategy with warnings for russia and.