always got a nice watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. bill for max you know what money is highly. watched kaiser of course. breaking news the russian government has resigned his surprise announcement has come the last hour or so it's part of the deal or putin suggested changes to the constitution earlier to give parliament greater powers to appoint a prime minister and president putin has asked ministers meantime now to function as a caretaker government until a new one is for. one of the top back her few hours later moved in in his annual presidential address to russian lawmakers suggested shifting the power to appoint the prime minister and the whole government to the lower house of parliament. according to the constitution of the russian federation the president needs only

the state duma's consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet. and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian government's chairman. a lot more to come on and now the news we're covering today after washington's assassination of iran's top general america's top diplomat says it's all part of a new to terrorists strategy with warnings for russia and china to. either live for the r.t. world view center wednesday the 15th of january just turned 6 pm well welcome to the program this update with me kevin i mean you can see on the screens are breaking news as just mentioned russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev has announced that the government has resigned that comes after president vladimir putin earlier suggested changes to the constitution which will give parliament

greater powers for point a prime minister so it's all wills emotional ready very quickly more if not in the studio here it was a surprise announcement for mere mortals like us i suppose but. as we discussed before no doubt long been talked about in the past and the and there is a hand over here if you like the key. take a government will continue until the new one comes in but it takes true for any of us is joining us the 6 o'clock what's happened to the well of course cavities with no doubt a very big news and a question i believe many know is what does that mean for more than russia and i think the most important thing is that whatever this resignation means russia will not find at all itself in air what we know power vacuum because the current government the government that we just now heard step down well remain in full charge until a new cabinet is foreign so no panic mentor made a bit of announced about that at the meeting between like a report in the ministers let's take a look and listen how was. it was

a little unusual when we continue mr putin colleagues 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 we said they will significantly alter a number of parts of the constitution and change the balance of power the executive the judicial and the legislative powers in this context it is obvious that as the government of the russian federation we need to give the president of our country the opportunity to take all the necessary steps and decisions and in this context i believe it would be the right thing to do in accordance with article 117 of the constitution of the russian federation for the government to resign i am grateful to everyone i've worked with in the government for the steps and decisions will be taken by the president. we're going to be to. you mr medvedev

colleagues i would like to thank you for everything that you have done i would also like to express my satisfaction with the results we have achieved yes we haven't done everything but it is impossible to do everything you want i hope that very soon we will see each other again. i'll be meeting every one of you personally please continue carrying out your functions and so a new government is formed. well kevin i don't know if you notice me but it didn't look nervous or anxious a worried at all while blood were put in looks also very relaxed i'm pretty sure that's because although we cannot verify that but i'm pretty sure we only learned learned about this resignation earlier on wednesday but i'm pretty sure it was discussed before put an address to federal a soundly and maybe was of an agreed upon between him and prime minister and maybe with the ministers involved as well so we cannot say for sure but it wasn't as from 10 his decision suggested also i think this is because that's my feeling and bit of

want to send this message to our russian society that there is no reason to panic not worry the government will be in charge and till a new one is there and of course is still a job for 8 years already. and he's already also got a new job lined up yes. first of all i have to say that much of it has quite an impressive political career he indeed served as prime minister for 18 year is since 2012 may with widely reported being the president before that for 4 years and if you remember he was the leader of russia while ludmer porton was prime minister so yes they have been these 2 gentlemen why the team for so many years ago is close could be the change a bit of double team if you look for is going to be different after this is no i'm not sure because now dmitry medvedev will have a new position which is the head of the country's security council which is in charge of presidential security related decisions and i think they are going to

work together for some time more. but more behind the scenes all the what is important to understand right now is that the current government just now. will be in charge no one can say who's going to be the next prime minute minister and it's it's not clear who's going to appoint the new prime minister and how much time is going to take to form a new cabinet but what is important is that all these changes are directly related to what earlier on wednesday said in his speech in his address to federal a sampling that they will be several changes to russia's constitution and as far as i understand the stand the new government will be for him according to these new changes that's widely reported suggested should be accepted by society so we can expect

a referendum kind of like public vote for the madman's is there any surprise that this is so quickly today with president putin speaking we're seeing the 1st wheels in motion to change going on and go. again yes again i'm pretty sure that's because it was discussed some time ago it was all prepare it. like measure it but i think it was in the air you know because if you fall or putin's public appearances in the last let's say at least 3 months you can feel that he was talking a lot a lot a lot about this need for change that he believes is very strong right now in russia's more than society and as a part of this russian society i can sell it this is a truth needs i mean the reason needs to change in russia i think it's just i mean we see this happening now because the time has come finally let me say even the way as well as what's going to happen in 2024 after 2024 hours well yeah oh yeah yeah

so many changes and again it is related to what why report earlier on wednesday in his address to federal assembly my colleague. has been there and he has been following. we were expecting to hear where this country is supposed to head. and 2020 but i can tell you that the russian future it seems way beyond that point was being shaped out here in the monitor exhibit hall just outside the kremlin as mr putin was speaking because we heard some really groundbreaking proposals including proposed changes to the washington maine law the russian constitution in fact one of the proposals suggested that the constitution should limit to mr putin's own powers that have to do with appointing key government ministers and in fact the prime minister as well so here's proof of that. according to the constitution of the russian federation president needs only the state duma's consent to make

official appointments the president appoints the cabinet his deputies and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian government's chairman and the chairman suggestion all the deputy prime ministers and federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president with the right to reject any candidates another proposal that came from the president was taken out the phrase in a row from the sentence from the constitution that one person could only serve to presidential terms in a row which if the amendments are approved would mean that the situation when for instance mr putin himself were turned to the presidential office after a 4 year break won't repeat itself in russia in the future the russian leader among other things proposed that's also something very important putting the russian main

law that's the constitution once again above international law in the sense that russia wouldn't be. a part of any international treaty if it contradicts their washing constitution so all of this is indeed groundbreaking and very important. especially in the context of lattimer putin's expected departure after the end of his term from the presidential office in 2024 so it looks like russia and its system of governance is up for a massive revamp mr putin today made it clear that none of this will happen without the approval of the nation so perhaps we should expect some kind of vote on that. ok let's get a handle on how this is being viewed from abroad surely across to professor william ammons and former british diplomat north hello thanks for being on a short notice so this government some people operate who for less than a year and a half is this maybe being seen as from the outside as

a lack of poor performance on behalf of the government under preventive or is it as we go into a new decade a new way of doing things a new broom sweeps clean fresh way of looking at things doing now in 2024 what do you think really going on here that. from my perspective i see that in a sense it's business as usual i see that this has been very well planned i think that they wish to improve administrative efficiency and security and they're doing it in a very thoughtful session i think above all they wish to prevent institutional coagulation and sclerosis and that's what they've done i think are very effectively it's also going to improve the or rather disprove the ability of foreign insurances which are against russia i think the move to make medvedev a vice president of the security council is very very interesting i think it's very

good that he's accepted i would not be getting understeer tell us a bit more about that given trying to get a bit more detail on what it's going to mean for him or and how important the job is where all the security council is one of the most powerful organizations for for russia and for its security therefore it's a very interesting position because i would not be 100 percent surprised if one day let me put in were not to be the head of it that's only a speculation. i think it's also regular he's actually agreed quite happily obviously to fill that position we don't know for how long he'll fill that position that's another question. that's another thing i should say also he by increasing the powers of parliament he's made the whole system he's adjusted it slightly in savor of what we can broadly call democratic democratic balance between executive legislative and judicial i think it's also intelligent that he's made it

more difficult for let's save people who are too foreign insurance to hold secure positions i mean i myself could never become a diplomat if my i had been born in britain and my dad wasn't in the war in fighting for the brits for example this is perfectly logical i also. see very interesting reference to to to increasing family allowances to create more babies now this actually smacks a little bit of another president who saved his country to go all who did the same thing and also amended the constitution to to make sure the president was elected by everybody so it is undoubtedly has been very well thought out it's obviously some recycling of the pack is necessary and it too much here is an overstatement to say power in russia is moving to the legislative branch is that an overstatement or is it a fair assumption of what's going on here no i think that basically they're. improving the balance so that the legislators. will have

a little more risk more responsibility than they have a president how will be viewed abroad than. well it depends whether you're talking about the neo con fanatics or the natives here this is a dictatorial thing but the normal balanced person will simply say that it's a continuation of this has been that that. president putin brought in. here is relative i know you're not in russia but you think it's going to be viewed positively in russia by the general public. i think generally it should it should be and i think it will be because the they will realize that you still have those of the current government looking after matters the press i'm sure will handle the issue responsibly they'll be some criticism some people will depending on where they stand will say parliament has too much power some will say it has a little car this is what normally happens but what i call

a good tough to democracy like russell. advent of said the president putin needs the space to to do this now but how long is this is not a vacuum because things are really continuing as they are and how long his caretaker government likely to be carrying on doing this caretaker thing and the ideas now you're really asking me to speculate yeah i would i would think that by easter things should be well sorted out. not a betting man who put money on any names coming forward there are so no names. called me minister sergey sugar of course very well known here in russia and. a longstanding high ranking politician again it's very difficult to put a handle on who might be the next prime minister but if you were to guess any names come up. possibly possibly sure go but then they need to find a very good replacement for him wouldn't be. the only. defense minister etc cetera

. to to what extent is this all being done with 2024 in my class the big date is that that's the that's the year that putin's expected to leave power is already said he said about 2 terms back to back for 4 years that shouldn't be extended that basically the constitution shouldn't be fiddled with there's nothing major that needs changing here and as you mentioned just now tough criteria it's a pretty a new president here in russia you've got have lived here for 25 years. quite right quite right because if you haven't then you won't be sufficiently part of what what one would call the russian soul. to put it bluntly for however like the. professor william mallinson we'll leave it there former british diplomat and author thanks for coming on the live an art international of a good. all right well after the president's earlier address to lawmakers we spoke to some very senior russian parliamentary figures to to get their impressions on

the proposed constitutional changes now bear in mind this all happened an hour or 2 before the break you should see your screens now in red. well i think that putin sinks about the optimal way of russian development. also after he leaves. in 2024 and what i think he. has come to is that russia needs some democrats ization of the presidential authority for the enough being the president he still says he's thinks about the bigger role for the postman 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 my wife by the palmer. this is a very 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

presidential poll i'm entering public with such a role of the parliament and a 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 put in proposed 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 to swim a discuss about how we should be called what i would call it is a certain democratization of the presidential authority in russia so that the president is not a manipulator so he depends more on the legislative power and that of the the prime minister also in the cabinet also depends more on the problem and 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 do. saw in the debates about so the evolution of the russian. political system for the coming 23 years. the initiative put forward by the president to amend the constitution is very timely it's long been discussed a number of colossal changes have happened which requires to clarify the constitution to make it more up to date it won't be a new constitution the president said we do not need another across to to sion and these changes will not affect the pillars of the constitution at the same time the president made multiple points 1st the multi-party system that has been well established we have the federal somebody in place electoral reforms have been passed that after all this the president believes it is timely and possible to give parliament a number of functions which the president has it's not just a cosmetic change it is fundamental. here

a secretary of state has again been attempting to justify washington's assassination of that operation in general in the drone strike at the beginning of the year i did a failure a friendly veld warning to russia china to now said his country plans to pursue a much more aggressive deterrence policy in future 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 let's 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 mike pompei ohs new favorite word seems to be deterrence reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to loose 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 we've been trying to do there's a bigger strategy a strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know it's 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 russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in 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 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 it's up to us to decide who is a threat or not this is it really really disturbing and very dangerous i think and it's not normal to hear this come in our to somebody who is running the state department this is extremely disturbing and i'm very disappointed that the american

political class is not speaking out against this. crazy idea that we can go ahead and just kill anyone we don't like it doesn't 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 and i would have. just been revealed that the reuters news agency received the equivalent of millions of pounds back of the 1960 s. and seventy's from british intelligence services to spread anti solvent propaganda seems has also come to light to the britain's national broadcaster was complicit in the subterfuge as he showed you edward daschle reports that deal with simple funding for avoid to services in the middle east and latin america in exchange for well political influence this critics were sure that the british based news agency

could and would provide exactly what had not his government required the nearly 80 classified documents have just been revealed painting a picture right here at the u.k.'s national archives. government's interests 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 it 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 the british government would have paid 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 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 far enough information and research department created in 1988. goal was to create and spread anti soviet material during the cold war but has it damaged the news agencies integrity and reputation well reuters 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 1969 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 of what's supposed to be those at the forefront of objectivity independence and freedom from bias shouted with daschle ought to london. the organization for propaganda studies spoke to us and told us that a clear cold war parallels in today's news media to. governments and states will always make that claim in context the major conflicts and cold war that what we're trying to do is to get the truth to the public and trying to ensure that i would have truth from asian states are not reliable actors in terms of telling the truth which is one of the reasons why you know one is ost out a strong independent media. out one would be absolutely naive to think that very soon work processes that work to do what we see it the moment conflicts syria and iran receive an immense amount of propaganda going on and when you have the kind of propaganda underway what suffers ultimately is public understanding and really did

help with democracy. it's going to 27 minutes past 6 in the evening we're continuing our breaking news rolling coverage here in art international with me kevin because the news that the russian prime minister along with the whole government has resigned as long as it sounds we'll have more live analysis on that and what it's going to mean in just but 90 seconds from now after the break. you know world big partisan life and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the

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because you would never believe it want to go to as a hobby of course for 30 years of both and the birth of it it all seems a lot to offer by you decide to make it. when i get out on the farm saw you. next the place in hope for the bless my heart hurts. i get the results international live from moscow with me it's just a half past 6 no evening moscow time so the breaking news russia's prime minister dmitri medvedev the last 90 minutes or so has announced that he and his government's resigned it comes of president vladimir putin had earlier suggested

changes to the constitution which would give parliament greater powers to appoint a prime minister has told him or if not take us through this is extremely dramatic but this is kind of a bigger plan isn't it and it doesn't mean there's some power vacuum at the moment but for any of you is just shooting in that might be alarmed by that headline on the face of it take us through it it is indeed a big news calving and it could sound indeed alarming for some viewer is. the question many i believe now is what does that mean for more than russia and i think the most important thing here to understand and for me as a russian as well is that there will be no any power vacuum russia will not find itself in the very vulnerable position because the current government that we've just now heard step down will remain in full charge of everything until a new cabinet is formed so no panic actually it happened a couple of hours ago and nothing happened so far so we all call and announce that at the meeting between the.