crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a $1000.00 you just go raise my rent so then you got your inflation going on in there that. the russian president appoints former tax chief. in the country's prime minister after parliament overwhelmingly votes in favor of his counter the c. . western media. to devolve power to the russian parliament part of the stay in power 2024. also ahead coming up libya's rebel general. reportedly agreed. fact in the war stricken country it comes hours after president said turkey would be sending more troops to libya to support the u.s. government.

just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow friday january 17th a very warm welcome to our to international i mean o'neill. russia has a new prime minister lawmakers approved that come to see me. thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment. as more and day unfolded. well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russia's constitution which by the way didn't automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the.

entries new prime minister that is mikhail so the result was $383.00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the and coming prime minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some of them. usually reproduce them i can do that too i like to ensure you get all members of the new government who carry personal responsibility for achieving national goals i know that some talks in this room can even an intensive and i believe it's very important that the government feels that it would always be questioned him on incident so it means open and constructive critics help us improve and do the members of parliament give us regional feedback you know what they think what people talk about how they sense the situations and whether they think that there are changes needed for the past. just to look at the

background of mr mishra stand a little bit i can tell you that he was in charge of the russian federal tax authority for about a decade he rarely appeared on t.v. so when on wednesday the now former prime minister dmitri medvedev i can tell you that there's really no other way to put it shocked the country shocked the world by saying that his government was stepping down only a few hours after the russian leader delivered his annual state of the nation address pundits were calling out different names and i can tell you that in most cases wasn't even on the list but then again boom the name the helm issues didn't came out of the kremlin so you can't help wondering what are the reasons for this appointment why so much trust well i can tell you that the new prime minister while he was working in the federal tax authority managed to

accomplish a mission that seemed absolutely impossible at one point to get rid of a very painful state of bureaucracy and russia's taxes i can tell you that previously to pay taxes or to deal with some problems russians have to stand in line fill out hundreds of papers they say that at this point now it can all be done through smartphones or tablets p.c.'s you name it. what then a matter of minutes and people say that this is really the achievement of me and in fact spoke to our t. a few years ago about exactly that about the digital izing the paper work in russia and how it's important for the development of the country he was talking about the younger generation that will shape out the future of the nation 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 that research is showing us the young generation now not using p.c. computers so the mobile phones mobile applications and then social networks so basically we should exit the streets. to calm we should come to the such is social networks and make sure that it's a friendly interface for them so basically this is the maybe main reason why we collaborate can be the commissioners to make sure that we saw recent codecs piers because between service and confuse call part of the administration servicing part this not only more and more coming clearly there will be something for 'd of the audience outside this country to point out russia's new pm is fluent in english that is something that we hadn't seen for a very long while now before the vote in the upper chamber of the russian parliament began i managed to catch up with some of russia's most senior lawmakers

and i asked them why they are about to support the candidacy of me which in was thinking about efficiency. if you look at the different ministries in russia the tax collection is one of the biggest it is all. he knows everything about every payment officially made it is a. russian. created the most. useful usable. tronic government it has a ph d. in economics he writes books on economics heroes textbooks he teaches there is a financial university in moscow also hears an intellectual. very more than an intellectual of more than a bureaucrat who can. have a very systematic view on issues because here's the actual fish

elative. which he got at the university was systems and function of the systems so. i think it's a good choice because of it i think a very quick. reminder you know which i think it's also important for a politician. in developed an efficient tax service one of the most efficient departments in the country he's a strong leader tax service management is being done correctly both in terms of leadership i'm cutting edge technology what the spirit we must break for the 1st time the prime minister has proven business capability he's shown that with his work in the tank service and if he polishes our ministries in the same way it's not bush national income and streamline expenditure he is an engineer or somebody bring strong action in the sciences and innovative technology ideas that politically is neither left nor right as your central we really have a specialist coming to

a power over. another major shake up in russian politics this week was the resignation of the government that came up by following blasphemer poking suggesting of amendments to the constitution effectively diminishing the president's powers while boosting those of parliament. but if. the amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the comes to. to sion further in russia's development as a lawful state the goal is also to enhance the effectiveness of the country's institutions to strengthen the role of civil society and to enable the political parties in our regions to make decisions vital to the country's development while our senior correspondent steve explains more now about the long markman sound the reaction they received in the west. try explain this led to boom and power as the office of president the media accuses of of 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 there's a real epidemic. paranoid putin a friendly aside he is what he actually proposed to guaranteed 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 hooten appointed the problem. this ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamp set

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 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 that the german suggestion all the deputy prime ministers and federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president with the right to reject any candidates. 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 and this is something in the later

control the country is not known at all the president limits it's all the more and once you let the people decide on the new constitution. 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 their death 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 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 there's one thing we know about putin it's that we don't. you know him he loves to 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 we heil 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 time change so does russia it is a 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 the stability of russia's leadership and it quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance in the 21st century. the turkish president has announced the deployment

of more troops to libya he ceased to ensure the stability of the un by a government under its capital tripoli the old join a deployment already sent by un crowe earlier this month during a meeting with the german foreign minister general huffed are from libya's rival administration reportedly said he's really to abide by the currency's fire here's artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer. well it certainly seems as if things are heading in the right direction that meeting in moscow was applauded by the international community is a step in the right direction in terms of bringing about a lasting peace agreement in libya as you've mentioned we've just heard from the german foreign minister that highly for have tyler who is the commander of the libyan national army has agreed to a cease fire with the forces of the government of national accord now that is the u.n. backed government that sits in tripoli this followed an earlier an announcement by

the turkish president of the one in which he said he was starting to send turkish troops to libya to assist the government of national accord there there are already turkish forces in libya but they they are primarily to train the forces in tripoli and everyone is saying that this is all part and parcel of a much bigger picture they are agreements between the 2 countries to this effect and that it will help bring the long term stability in libya take a listen we are starting to send our soldiers to ensure religious my government survival and stability in libya starting with the idea that turkey security lies outside of its borders we will continue to mobilize our capabilities now all of this comes just days ahead of a meeting that has been planned in the german capital for this weekend and due to attend that meeting our leaders from turkey from russia as well as from britain italy and germany the focus of the meeting will be a follow on from the summit that was held in moscow again a further step in trying to in train and bring about

a long term security and stability in libya. double trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on european car makers if germany france and the united kingdom didn't accuse tirol of violating the 2015 nuclear deal that's been confirmed by germany's the fence minister those countries complied with the request i'll choose that iran's foreign minister job this to say in response. it's. appeasement confirmed you're a tree or so without remnants of joint comprehensive plan of action to avoid new tram tariffs it won't work my friends you're only what his appetite remember your high school bully if you want to sell your inter gritty go ahead but do not assume high moral legal ground you don't have it. well iran has this mess moves by the european signatories to trigger the so-called dispute mechanism over its alleged noncompliance with the deal they have

a 30 day period to resolve the problem after which it will be referred to the un security council who has the power to reinstate sanctions on tehran here's a quick reminder of what led to such a fragile situation between the parties the nuclear deal officially named the joint comprehensive plan of action was signed in 2015 by iran major world powers the agreement was to see tehran limit its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of sanctions but washington swiftly poll of 2018 imposing economic penalty soon after its iran scaled back its compliance afterthoughts which accelerated after the u.s. assassinated tehran's most powerful general scott ritter a former u.n. weapons inspector sais the european union has no choice but to follow americans and . we've seen that you know over the course of the time that's passed since may

2018 when president trump withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement that the european union has been struggling to to come to grips with what its options are and you know they've tried to come up with you know a trade mechanism that will enable iran to trade with you members to sidestep so-called secondary sanctions that would be imposed by the united states and they've been unable to come up with something the bottom line is the european economy is too closely tied to the american economy and they can't afford to confront the united states they literally have have no option and i think that's why they cave so readily and that's why there's no debate that's why there's no anger they have no choice they've they've proven that they're unfortunate little more than obedient. to the american master. being brought to a standstill again trade unions on public sector workers are piling the pressure on

french president on monday will mark call over his proposed pension reforms mass transportation strikes hit paros and other major cities across the country on thursday unions called on train through church and hospital workers to march in the french camp of them on their total scrap of problems proposals. across the country warts and disrupting electricity production this is the government's decision to reach a compromise last week. the pension reform schools controversial aspects of the press parliament is to debate the bill in february but while the goal sum up on this to find the site. has a story continues in fronts we've brought to the congo we've brought you the discontentment we've even taught you the violence the other thing is quite

interesting about protests like this all the time is that really brings the calm if you just look behind me you going to get a sense of just some of those banners that are out today people spend less hours creating these banners to try and get them for a moment say on t.v. or social networks to try and get their voices of course we're going to speak to balance this out very nice so i'm going to translate things to. basically saying god loves to professors particularly at the age of 64 i wrote the female friends to the fact he married a schoolteacher i. assume bunco. normally teaches retire at 62 like everyone else but if these. for the past they will go up to 64 with a noise from occasionally this is meant as the we are told the president is

a teacher. so it's not just the placards that we see at these protests we also see other flags that are regular currencies like this one for che guevara and the flag of the palestinian territories over there all the sort of color that adds to almost every protest that we come to in front so just spotted what looks like quite a nice cargo placard here in paris it's a train let's have a chat to the person behind this. expect watch. have been on strike for 42 days which you know we really workers are striking against marcos engine room. michel i think we're witnessing some sort of humorous show here we've got some of the huge looks like the son of margaret thatcher and mr mack all that hair style this is really the heart of margaret thatcher

particularly with what will look like to be pearls on the is around her. for me no protest in paris is complete in till we have met this gentleman this is john baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in so many 1st ashore porlock i'm joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians are not performing their duties and i think the whole. blow from the simple message is to the more humorous messages it seems you can pretty much find anything on a placard at a protest in front and from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest. out here in showing is to make sure that they seen it in the crowds so if you can ski. in paris.

a lot of people talking about this next story a new report has revealed that the u.k. failed to notify other e.u. countries about 75000 crimes committed by their nationals in britain according to the guardian newspaper the home office then apparently tried to cover up the mistake which was caused by a computer error due to embarrassment. there is still uncertainty where the historical daily activity files received from the home office are going to be sent out to countries as there is a reputational risk to the u.k. . well we also know of a police computer system or a wall so noticed for 5 years that men from 2012 to 2017 for an e.u. nationals convicted of crimes in the u.k. were able to return home without their own countries being aware of their records the home office has said it is working to rectify the situation and a.p. under incur told us that the scandal will prove to be highly damaging for both the

u.k. on its european partners. law only bats the brits and that change but it is bad for the e.u. bad for all citizens but you can. have these convictions covered up by some symbols of replication why should the 8 you can't share information with the u.k. if the u.k. cannot be relied upon she knew just share information and it promptly and officially it's very serious because it's put us in a very weak position because it's really the 2 year period and once we. leave. we should have been mauled in that time to come to a long term agreement because we have some civil servants that didn't do the job properly and so now we've got the really silly position that endangered many people

by the acts of maybe a few people and it's totally unacceptable both in the u.k. and the e.u. . it's edging towards half past midnight here in moscow so we're cracking on with some more great programs and moments do not stray too far here watching 247 r.t. international.

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