but nominates a new prime minister. whose triggered revolutionary changes to russia's tax services in recent years coming up we'll tell you more about the man who's looking to bring tech innovations to the forefront of politics now. it's important that the young generation whose future taxpayers to moral use the finger user interface which is suitable for their workers the entire western media downplaying president putin's proposals to delegate more power to the russian parliament struck me as an evil plot no less true extended this time in the kremlin. and now that. iran's press t.v. gets pulled from you tube in the u.k.

again just hours after an earlier about it being reversed it comes as post supporting the assassinated. money taken down by social media giant. after just 20 pm live for the us international world news center here in moscow as kevin know it with a sigh and welcome to so then a major shake up in russian politics has been set in motion this to be a new prime minister and cabinet after the government resigned on wednesday it's in response to vladimir putin suggesting amendments to the constitution effectively diminishing the president's powers or boosting those of parliament a senior correspondent explains more about the landmark new. try explaining these lead putin and powers the office of president the media accuses of of seizing more power more control over russia but when putin gives up that power and hands it over

to parliament at his own expense it is also because he seizing more control over russia 1st to discover this syndrome i name it paranoid putin a friend here and there's a real epidemic russian government resigns is putting proposes reforms that could extend his grip on power putin engineers surprise russian political shake up that could keep him in power longer russian government resigns as putin plots post presidency power grab paranoid putin a friend he aside he is what he actually proposed to guarantee that no president ever wields as much power as he did including putin himself he's 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 presidential term from 4 years to 6 years or give the president the power to appoint prosecutors and now he turns it all upside down it used to be that putin appointed the prime minister the ministers parliament rubber stamp that now. parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no power object. 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. 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 the federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president with the right to reject any candidates yes 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. and now this 1st. time when the president limits his old power this is something in the lake of control the country is not you know at all the president limits it's all the more and once you let the people decide on the new constitution. well through the prism

of major nation media rusher is considered a one not even a one party state a one man state complete utter autocracy run by vladimir putin the matter what he had said no matter what some of the deputies might say in the coming days and to pave the way the government handed in its resignation it's worth mentioning it wasn't all that popular that failed on a number of fronts and then if the now caretaker prime minister said himself it's 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 were. please and this will be done after the discussions and as was said they will significantly alter a number of parts of the constitution and change the balance of power if there's

one thing we know about putin it's that we don't know him he loves to surprise and there was no warning not even rule is that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new prime minister incoming because i'll michoud in an unknown quantity he's largely stayed out of the spotlight for the past decade head in the federal tax agency and i must say he did wonders teaching russians to pay their taxes fact some would argue he's done too good a job it is now clear putin hangs up the gloves in 2024 he will run for another term times 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 russia's leadership and its quality which is not

a separate issue it has been one of the most positive aspects of the world's governments in the 21st century so that as mentioned president putin nominated the head of the russian tax service for the post of prime minister. is credited with having revolutionized the country's tax system over the past decade into a leaner more efficient operation that's become highly regarded abroad it's led to a dramatic increase in revenue as we've heard as well as described as an effective tech savvy manager and back into the sixty's indeed we talked to him about technology and the government. it's important that the young generation form of course future taxpayers to morrow use the friendly user interface which is suitable for the as we know the last researchers sure the us the young generation now not using p.c. computers so the mobile phones mobile applications and social networks so basically we should accept mistreated new stations to calm we should count to the such

a social networks and make sure that it's a friendly interface for them so basically this is the maybe main reason why we collaborated with the commissioners to make sure that we saw recent college experience because between service and fiscal part of the tax administration servicing part this is now more and more coming so parliament had to consider the president's pick for prime minister later thursday russian lawmakers which is to have the can often chairs the science education committee explained has a bit more detail why he thinks mr putin is putting his faith in a man described as the tax man of the future. was thinking about efficiency. if you look at the different ministries in said russia the tax collection is one of the best it is all. in. a huge everything about every payment officially made it is said russian. created the most

. useful and usable. electronic government it has a ph d. in economics he writes books on economics he writes textbooks he teaches at the financial university in moscow so he is an intellectual. very more than that intellectual and more than a bureaucrat who can. have a very systematic view on issues because he is actual speech shell ety. which he got at the university was systems and functioning of the systems so. i think it's a good choice he has a i think a very quick. mind you know which i think it's also important for a politician. iran's press t.v. u.k. channels been blocked on you tube just hours after an initial ban of been lifted.

press t.v. u.k. youtube account taken down for a 2nd time without explanation after a 1st appeal showed no violations committed so is it a violation of whitey's terms to be an anti war and see racism and anti imperialism outlet one who is way as mentioned it's far from the 1st time press t.v. has faced a ban just last month google blocked access to the outlets main channel on you tube the 5th time that's happened on the video streaming platforms and 2009 at its left press t.v. says it was given no prior notification of what was going to happen meantime the iranian government is calling for a legal action against instagram after the social media group removed posts supporting the assassinated top iranian general money instagram's parent company facebook says its actions are complying with u.s. sanctions against iran. review content against our policies in our obligations to

yes sanctions laws and specifically those related to the us government's decision nation of the i or g c and its leadership as a terrorist organisation in an undemocratic and unashamed action instagram has blocked an innocent nations voice protesting to the assassination of general salim money while the real terrorists have been given an open voice we spoke earlier to press t.v. journalist richard sudan who thinks that the you tube bans part of a wider campaign against freedom of speech uses. respect this is really sort of the malign ongoing and very specific campaign against iran not just the war 'd. in the united states but also the propaganda and the controlling 'd of the information narrative that goes concurrently a lot concurrently alongside that we show the timing of this is quite o.p.'s beyond the question of iran and press t.v. this is a wider question now about free speech about the a but it's spread information fairly and suit disseminate a sack so we see this as

a wide attack and a very dark day potentially dark chapter the full journalism there's certainly it seems political reasons behind this decision but then that would mean that you know political agendas from countries and organizations outweighs the rights of free speech for the public and the media. nexus lunchtime meseems deleted data from a phone is coming back to haunt the new e.u. president vaughan the lens under scrutiny now of claims that she wrongly wiped sensitive evidence from her official phone while she was g.m. the defense secretary now the claims of whining to his paper all of her reports for us from berlin. scandal that won't leave the new e.u. commission president alone did fall into line delete data from mobile devices that could have been crucial evidence in an investigation into whether phones were in appropriately spent on outside contractors while she was german defense minister

it's now emerged that a 2nd phone used by of on the line at that time has had messages deleted from it reportedly according to some by the e.u. commission president herself or position politicians here in germany to banding ounces clarification is urgently required the latest revelations lane back in the center of the contract in scandal and massively under pressure last month it was revealed that fonda lion's mane phone during her time in charge of the german defense ministry that had its data wiped out prompted a green party m.p. here in germany to bring a criminal complaint against the now new e.u. commission boss we have to assume that people in office destroyed evidence such actions could have criminal relevance found a line is set to give evidence to an investigating committee next month expect a lot of focus on her actions and the actions of her aides as we try to get to the

bottom of who did what to those devices from the lion has obviously tided her phone properly or headed tided up the allegations against fonda lying relate to a federal audit office investigation which showed that under her charge the defense ministry was spending around $155000000.00 euros a year on outside advice although the ministry couldn't sufficiently justify why that external advice was needed and in more than a 3rd of the cases looked at normal rules would not follow suit lead to a parliamentary committee looking into whether those deals were above board and just how much. on the line was involved a spokesperson for the e.u. commission president said nothing relevant to the investigation had being deleted but didn't give away much else there were and are no messages on the phone relevant to the parliamentary investigation with neither on the line nor his spokespeople

particularly forthcoming when they have to wait until she appears before the committee on the 13th of february before we get any answers one thing is for certain though if she remains tight lipped until then well the press and opposition lawmakers are going to be ravenous for ounces and a scandal but her silence is only making all the more intriguing picture all of. these quarter past the hour this is us international live from moscow always appreciate it what should what are you going to come of this for a start the david and goliath but cold pitching in these small traders against the world's richest man what a fight that is impossible jeff bezos is in a 0 we hear how that sold and that was one of the stories we're.

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again after a damaging to hear long economic dispute between the u.s. and china it seems that phase one of what's being called in the store a trade deal has been set now announcing this step forward the chinese vice premier reiterated that their countries didn't always see eye to eye while president trump lauded the progress being made. we take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we see in phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china. together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering

a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families . over the past 2 years the 2 sides encountered some difficulties in the economic and trade field at times there were setbacks in our trade talks because in some issues we don't see eye to eye donald trump though will keep tariffs against beijing in place at least until the 2nd round of negotiations meantime china is committed to buy more u.s. goods over a 2 year period while the chinese market will be more open for american companies and look to give us intellectual property more protection host a radio show economic update richard wolfe joined artie's boom bust team stateside then to discuss this phase one deal as it stands at the moment he doesn't see any real benefit from a reset but does that trump is going to revel in what the president feels is a big victory anyway. 95 percent theatrical partly for the trumpet ministration because they initiated all of this the united states used the opposite

side the role of the dominant benevolent global world economic power mr trump whether you like him or not has lost that position for the united states and given it to china given 10 months for a decision about continuing and maybe 2 years for the purchases by the chinese that are being talked about that's more than enough time for china to do and to play and to do many things that can undo the effect of tariffs if the chinese figure out ways to cheapen their goods well then they become competitive again even with a tower earth and they've already been doing that in the last 12 months and that is a long term competitive advantage to them. a poll out to tell you about suggests a 3rd of young americans are more likely to consider other countries to be better

than the very own us of a despite leaders spending years insisting there's no country more exceptional. i believe in american exceptionalism defending american exceptionalism should always be above politics my entire career has been a testimony to american express optional if we don't claim to be perfect but we are exceptional america must always lead on the world stage if we don't. know it well it's well well this pew research center study now suggests the skepticism grows when divided on party lines with almost half the democrats under the age of 30 believing that other countries a better than their own at the same time 48 percent of young democrats believe that the u.s. is one of the greatest countries along with others but the 5 percent places above any other nation the us people in new york well they thought of american exceptionalism that. because we're a generation that's

a pretty educated so we have a lot information resources that we will tap into to kind of come to these conclusions also we've experienced other countries more so than any other generation where they're traveling so we get to get a better sense of what the world has to offer it's pretty new compared to like you're a beige like so many cultures are like deep into the ground and like i think there's a lot to learn and it's developing there's just been a negative just negative narrative about the u.s. and its history and. without that the appreciation for what it actually is not like it was starting off for the generations that have come before us. the world's wealthiest person is less than warm welcome from small traders in india we can report who claim is amazon retail juggernaut unfairly cripples their livelihoods jeff bezos arrives on choose day as expected to meet prime minister narendra modi the. i. the protests are part

of a nationwide movement led by members of the confederation of all india traders small business owners accuse amazon of predatory pricing claiming that heavy discounting gives it one competitive edge in the indian market especially even accusing jeff bezos of being an economic terrorist india's antitrust regulators now launched a probe into try to say they've had enough. you know it's a steep business and you think your sister in law business will be afraid you will want to see them they're never going to know that you have no place in india and you've been on i'm not even on the one i not been a 2nd i read again. a footnote jeff bezos hasn't responded to the allegations earlier though he said his company would invest $1000000000.00 to digitize small and medium sized businesses and hopes to export $10000000000.00 worth of indian make goods by 2020 so. as good as i'm so watching out international it's 22 past the hour more for me in just about 40 minutes and fall on news and so much more so

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