headlines stories this hour the russian president appoints former tax chief. in the country's new prime minister after parliament overwhelmingly votes in favor of his candidacy. as western media suggest that vladimir putin's plans to devolve greater powers to the russian parliament are part of a lot to stay in power 2020. but also coming up on the program libya's rebel general. reportedly agrees to abide by this cease fire currently in effect in the war stricken country comes hours after president obama said turkey we sending more troops to libya to support the u.s.

government. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program. russia has a new prime minister lawmakers approved the candle. on thursday what president putin then signing off on the appointment with more on the day all unfolded. patrik. 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 moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name. aim of the country's new prime minister that is. so the result

was 383 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. used to produce to my can do up to ensure you that all members of the new government carry personal responsibility for achieving national goals i know there's 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 it it remains open and constructive critics help us improve and you the members of parliament give us regional feedback you know what i think what people talk about how this sense the situations and whether they think that there are changes needed for the best. just to look at the background of mr mr

stan 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 had 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 michelle mistrusted 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 whose form of whose future taxpayers to morrow use the

friendly user interface which is suitable for the as we know the last researchers showed us the young generation now not using a p.c. computers so the mobile phones mobile applications and then social networks so basically we should that's a mystery to the stations to com we should come to the such is social networks and make sure that it's friendly interface for them so basically this is the maybe main reason why collaborating with the commissioners to make sure that to be servicing 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. some of russia's most senior lawmakers and i

asked them why they are about to support the candidacy of me. was thinking about official city. if you look at the official so different ministries in said russia their tax collection is one of the best it is also. a huge everything about every payment officially made it is said russians they created the most. useful usable. electronic government it has a ph d. in economics he writes books on economics he writes textbooks he teaches there is a financial university in moscow so it hears an intellectual. very more than that intellectual of more than a bureaucrat who can. have a very systematic view on issues because here's actuals fish

elative. which he got at the university was systems and functional the systems so. i think it's a good choice because of i think a very quick. which you might 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 with the spirit we must but for the 1st time the prime minister has proven business capability he's showing that with his work on the tax service he said he and if you polishes our ministries in the same way it's not bush national income and streamline expenditure he is an engineer awesome you bring strong anchor man in the sciences and innovative technology ideas that politically the left and. right nor centuries we really have

a specialist coming into power. or another major shake up in russian politics this week was the resignation of the government that came about following a lot of more potent suggesting of amendments to the constitution effectively diminishing the president's powers while posting bills of parliament. particularly but it. the amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution further in russia's development as a lot of 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 the regions to make decisions vital to the country's development our senior correspondent explains more now about the landmark moves and the reaction they received in the west. try explaining this limp to boom and power as 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. 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 putin appointed the problem. this ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamps it with no

power object so it was your sister 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 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 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 and this is something in the later

control the country is not known at all the president limits at all and once you let the people decide on the new constitution 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 there diff 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 rule is 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 times 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 quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance in the 21st century. in moving the program on the turkish president has

announced the deployment of more troops to libya he ses to ensure the stability of the un by the government and its capital tripoli they'll join a deployment already sent by career earlier this month during a meeting with the german foreign minister general haftar or from libya's rival administration reportedly said he's ready to abide by the currency speier here's our 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 and by the turkish

president air 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 there 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're 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. donald trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tara on european carmakers if germany france and the u.k. didn't accuse to the role of violating the 2015 nuclear deal that's been confirmed by germany's defense minister those countries complied with the request and choose the iran's foreign minister job as a reef had this to say in response. appeasement confirmed you are a trio small dark remnants joined comprehensive plan of action to avoid new tram tariffs it won't work my friends your only work his appetite remember your high school bully if you want to sell your inter-group to go a hat but do not assume high moral legal ground you don't have it cutting words indeed iran has the smith's moves by the european signatories to trigger this so named this mechanism over its alleged noncompliance with the deal they got 30 days

to resolve the problem after which it will be referred to the un security council who has the power to reinstate sanctions on tehran so what has led to such a fragile situation between the parties while the nuclear deal they officially name that joint comprehensive plan of action was signed in 2015 by iran and major world powers so the agreement was to see tehran limit its nuclear activities in exchange for easing of sanctions but washington poll died in $28.00 dean and swiftly imposed economic penalties iran then began scaling back its compliance which accelerated after the us sussan dated to rounds the most powerful general scott ritter a former u.n. weapons inspector told me the e.u. has little choice but to follow america's lead. we've seen that you know over the course of the time that's passed since may 2018 when president 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 the 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 poodles to the american masters. ok back to europe or france has been brought to a standstill again trade unions and public sector workers are piling the pressure

on french president. proposed pension reforms and mass transportation strikes hit parlous and other major cities across the country and the unions called on train metro hospital workers along with teachers to march in the french capital demanding a total scrap of mccollum's proposals follows ins more rallied across the country blocking ports and disrupting electricity production and that is the spite the government's the season to reach a compromise last weekend agreeing to drop some of the pension reforms most controversial aspects the french parliament to debate the bill in february but while negotiations drago on some mileage define the funny side of this and. i just can't see me using funds we've brought you to get. we've brought you the discontentment we've even poor you have violence the other thing that is quite interesting about protests like this all the fine is that really brings the color

if you just look behind me you can to get a sense of just some of these banners that are out today people are spending tireless 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 the ballot he's got this sad very nice sign of british runs late into nice english basically saying my god loves to professors particularly at the age of 65 i rather think he mailed reference to the fact he married jesus to see why he's a brand. to be fair to say franco. normally teaches retire at 62 like everyone else but if this reform for the past they will go up to 64 or even moving from case this man does the we are told the president who's wife is a teacher. so it's not just the plaque odds that we see at these protests we also

see all the flags that are regular currencies like this one for change the vajra 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 of 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 americans pension reform michael 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. call that hairstyle is indisputably the art of market share particularly with what looked like to be pearls on the is around.

for me no protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in so many 1st. 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 acting to help. both on the simple message is to do more humorous messages it seems you can pretty much find anything on a plaque on 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 band out here in showing is to make sure that they seen in the crowds show that you can ski r.t. in paris. a new report has revealed that the u.k.

failed to notify other 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 computer error due to embarrassment. there is still uncertainty whether 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 the police computer system ira was noticed for 5 years that means that 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 said it is working to rectify the situation and drew england kerr to lift up the scandal will prove to be highly damaging for both the u.k.

and its european partners. law only bats bring something. but it's bad for the e.u. bad for all citizens but if you can only see you have these convictions covered up by some civil servants the replication is why should the e.u. counterparts share information with the u.k. if the u.k. cannot be relied upon to share information promptly and officially it's very serious because their fate has put us in a very weak position it is really the 2 year period and once we notice we could leave e.u. we should have been mauled in that time to come to a long term agreement but because we had some civil servants that didn't do the job properly and so now we've got the really silly position we've endangered many people in. the act so maybe a few people and it's totally unacceptable both in the u.k. and the e.u.

. but a lot for us here at the top of the hour to keep you right up to date with all of today's developments it's been quite a busy one stay close by for us. well it's finally begun the impeachment of donald j. trump the president and his supporters say the process is nothing more than a political witch the democrats in the liberal corporate media say trump is a national security threat and must be removed but in the end it would seem democracy itself being impeached. must lead. to keep the slime due for some years. do. you still.

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the song stephen sondheim i was going to fail or not he's ill but we've got some major folks involved in this project going to hit broadway oh man i'm excited stacy i want to talk about it's a good story that relates to your congress because of course you need the congress for a you know war to beat the war drums of war exactly because what is the old saying on wall street don't fight the fed. i feel the 1st song of our musical company gather. to fit. well many of our guests they're called heterodox economists are heterodox financial analysts because they often fight the fed but my question we're going to look at these headlines and my observations of some of these charts over the past decades or 2 is . what came 1st the chicken or the fed so is it the fed driving markets or is it

panicked investors driving markets if a 4 quarter earnings recession couldn't undercut the equity market why would anyone think a spat with iran could do the job it's all about the fed precisely the new york fed which injected a massive $77000000000.00 into the system to start the week this is david rosenberg who is one of the thing people who tried to fight the fed and the fed keeps winning with markets rising i explain this all in the last show there is only 2 major. reliably predictable unprofitable mismanaged industries in america hollywood and the defense contractor industry the one that takes half of our taxes and for them to keep getting more money from us the taxpayers are going to drop bombs everywhere they do it willy nilly without any thought about what they're doing whatsoever they had a few it commercial airlines i don't care and then the fed prints tons of money and then they go blow it again and that money printing leads to the stock market going

higher which makes everyone think they're geniuses and that the god like and that see our strategy of bombing innocent people makes sense really just a crock and print more money and then the fed accommodates of course because we do so for national security and the stock market hits a new all time on that everyone gets really smart and think oh my genius so much and so much money is gone paul more people go kill more civilians in school submersed olders print more money and then the stock market goes i or that's the cycle that we're in now it's called genocide for profit it's called the america. well of course one thing the fed does and why you shouldn't fight the fed is that it is moral hazard they encourage so imagine when you were a little child and every time you did something wrong instead of getting sent to your bedroom and bouncing your bed across the room or anything like that you know you were given a ice cream cone or you were given some sort of increase in your allowance every time you did something wrong.